Primary Junior Infants History and Geography

SEE for Junior Infants

  • Activity sheets
  • Mapped to the NCCA curriculum

The whole first lesson, as your class sees it. No sign-in needed.

On the interactive whiteboard
Day passing over Ireland
A school morning: look and wonder
A hundred years of our school

What your school gets

Everything a teacher needs to teach SEE for Junior Infants this year.

In class

On paper

The whole books come with the course, in each class's Resources.

The curriculum it covers

Every lesson is mapped to the specification. This course teaches 12 of the 12 outcomes for this class.

NCCA Primary Social and Environmental Education Specification (2025)
My locality 6 of 6 outcomes
The island of Ireland 3 of 3 outcomes
Europe and the wider world 3 of 3 outcomes
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Outcomes
My locality
Identity and heritage
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Environment and sustainable living
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People and places
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The island of Ireland
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Environment and sustainable living
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People and places
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Europe and the wider world
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Tap any outcome to read it. The coloured ones are taught in this course. The curriculum does not include official reference codes for individual learning outcomes, so we have assigned a code scheme to make it easier to identify and track coverage.

The course, module by module

72 lessons in 6 modules. The lesson marked Sample opens in full.

1 Our New School 12 lessons · about 9 hours

The first six weeks start where a four-year-old stands: the milestone of starting school, the classroom, the people who work in the school, the school grounds and what is near the school on its own map. Autumn begins outside the window, so the module also meets one tree, the day's weather, an old painting of harvest and the first Irish legend. Location words start here and come back all year.

  1. Starting School and Finding Our Way
  2. 1 My First Days at School Sample lesson
  3. 2 Where Is It?
  4. 3 The People in Our School
  5. 4 Our School Grounds
  6. Grown, Made, and Near Our School
  7. 5 Grown or Made?
  8. 6 Where Is Our School?
  9. 7 Harvest in an Old Painting
  10. 8 One Tree in Autumn
  11. Stories, Growing Up and the Weather
  12. 9 Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge
  13. 10 From Baby to Big
  14. 11 What Is the Weather Doing?
  15. 12 People Who Work Near Our School
2 Autumn Days and Festival Nights 12 lessons · about 9 hours

Autumn at its height, from the middle of October to the end of November: leaves turning and falling, birds and animals getting ready for winter, puddles and darker evenings. Halloween is met as people in Ireland have kept it for hundreds of years, and Diwali as a made-up family in a town like ours keeps it. A made-up granny's toys, homes on reed islands in Peru, a fable from Greece and the legend of the Giant's Causeway complete it.

  1. Leaves, Animals and Halloween
  2. 13 Leaves on the Ground
  3. 14 Getting Ready for Winter
  4. 15 Halloween Long Ago
  5. 16 The Dark Evenings
  6. Diwali, Birds and a Greek Fable
  7. 17 Diwali
  8. 18 Birds in Our School Grounds
  9. 19 The Ants and the Grasshopper
  10. 20 Puddles
  11. Helpers, Toys, Peru and the Causeway
  12. 21 People Who Help Us
  13. 22 Toys Long Ago
  14. 23 Homes on Islands of Reeds
  15. 24 The Giant's Stones
3 Winter: Dark Days and Bright Lights 12 lessons · about 9 hours

December to the middle of January, the darkest weeks of the year. The class finds out what makes day and night, watches the moon change and meets the shortest day at Newgrange, then the winter festivals of light as what people do. In January the class goes out to the frost and finds out what the cold does to people and animals and to the people who work outside, and the module ends with children in the snow in Norway and the Children of Lir.

  1. Day, Night, Moon and Hanukkah
  2. 25 Day and Night
  3. 26 I See the Moon
  4. 27 Hanukkah
  5. 28 Getting Ready for Christmas
  6. Shortest Day, Wren Boys and the New Year
  7. 29 The Shortest Day
  8. 30 The Wren Boys
  9. 31 A New Year
  10. 32 Frost
  11. Cold Weather, Norway and the Children of Lir
  12. 33 Dressed for the Cold
  13. 34 People Who Work in the Cold and the Dark
  14. 35 Snow Days in Norway
  15. 36 The Children of Lir
4 Spring Is Coming 12 lessons · about 9 hours

The end of January to the middle of March, when winter turns to spring. The class goes out to a tree in winter, the wind, the view from the school gate and the first signs of spring, and meets the lambs. St Brigid's Day, Chinese New Year, Pancake Tuesday and Eid are met as what people do. A story from Norway, a made-up street and carnival in two countries complete it.

  1. Winter Tree, Wind and Spring Festivals
  2. 37 A Tree in Winter
  3. 38 What Can the Wind Move?
  4. 39 St Brigid's Day
  5. 40 Chinese New Year
  6. Pancakes, a Norwegian Tale and Lambs
  7. 41 Pancake Tuesday
  8. 42 Why the Bear Has a Short Tail
  9. 43 Lambs in Spring
  10. 44 From Our School Gate
  11. Signs of Spring, Eid, Neighbours and Carnival
  12. 45 Signs of Spring
  13. 46 Eid
  14. 47 Who Lives on a Street Like Ours?
  15. 48 Carnival
5 Festivals and Growing Things 12 lessons · about 9 hours

The middle of March to the start of May, when spring is everywhere. St Patrick's Day, Easter, Holi and May Day are met as what people do. The class goes out to the minibeasts, a tree in spring and the flowers and bees, looks at nests and April showers, hears a made-up grandad's memories of school, and hears an old story from China.

  1. St Patrick, Easter and Holi
  2. 49 St Patrick's Day
  3. 50 Patrick and the Mountain
  4. 51 Easter
  5. 52 Holi, the Festival of Colours
  6. Minibeasts, Grandad's School and Nests
  7. 53 Minibeasts
  8. 54 Starting School Long Ago
  9. 55 Nests
  10. 56 A Tree in Spring
  11. A Chinese Story, Showers, May Day and Bees
  12. 57 The Magic Pear Tree
  13. 58 April Showers
  14. 59 May Day
  15. 60 Flowers and Bees
6 Summer, Near and Far 12 lessons · about 9 hours

May and June, the long days. The class meets the sun's warmth and its shadows, a tree in summer, the Earth as a planet and the first people on the moon; looks at toys children make by hand, hot and cold places, an old painting of haymaking, a story from Nigeria and the music and dance of Ireland; and marks the longest day with the bonfires of St John's Eve. The year ends on the class's own milestone: a whole year at school.

  1. Sun, Shadows and Children Far Away
  2. 61 Sunny Days
  3. 62 Shadows
  4. 63 Toys Made by Hand
  5. 64 Hot Places and Cold Places
  6. Earth, Moon and Haymaking
  7. 65 Our Planet Earth
  8. 66 The First People on the Moon
  9. 67 Haymaking in an Old Painting
  10. 68 A Tree in Summer
  11. Stories, Music and the Year's End
  12. 69 The Tortoise and the Tug of War
  13. 70 Music and Dance
  14. 71 The Longest Day
  15. 72 Look How We've Grown

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