Curriculum links: Northern Ireland

Find out how the Asthma Education resources contribute to the curriculum in Northern Ireland.

Personal development and mutual understanding - personal understanding and health

Teachers should enable pupils to develop knowledge, understanding and skills in:

• their self esteem, self confidence and how they develop as individuals
• their management of a range of feelings and emotions and the feelings and emotions of others
• how to sustain their health, growth and well being and coping safely and efficiently with their environment.

The world around us

Includes science. 

Language and literacy

Talking and listening

• Participate in group and class discussions for a variety of curricular purposes.
• Know, understand and use the conventions of group discussion.
• Share, respond to and evaluate ideas, arguments and points of view and use evidence or reason to justify opinions, actions or proposals.
  

Reading

• Represent their understanding of texts in a range of ways, including visual, oral, dramatic and digital.
• Consider, interpret and discuss texts, exploring the ways in which language can be manipulated in order to affect the reader or engage attention.

Writing

• Write for a variety of purposes and audiences, selecting, planning and using appropriate style and form.
• Use the skills of planning, revising and redrafting to improve their writing, including that which they have composed digitally.