Guides, tips, and news for Irish primary school teachers navigating the curriculum transition.
The redeveloped curriculum introduces a Modern Foreign Language from third class. What is changing, when most schools will enact it, and how to start planning for MFL in your primary classroom.
Read moreFrom September 2026 every school picks at least one curriculum area to begin enacting. A plain comparison of Wellbeing, STEM, SEE, Arts and Modern Foreign Languages, so you can choose your order with your eyes open.
Read moreThe four strands of the 1999 Science curriculum, the working-scientifically skills your plans should show, and how science planning changes when Science, Technology and Engineering arrives.
Read moreNCCA's free tool, template packs and paid platforms compared for 2026/27: what each does, where each falls short, and how to pick the right one for your school.
Read moreHow History and Geography are structured in the 1999 curriculum, what SESE planning looks like while the transition is underway, and when Social and Environmental Education takes over.
Read moreThe six strands of the 1999 Physical Education curriculum, how they fit into fortnightly planning, and why PE may be one of the first subjects your school moves to the new Wellbeing specification.
Read moreA plain-English guide to the redeveloped primary curriculum from September 2026: the five areas, the school-led rollout, and what it means for your planning.
Read moreFrom September 2026 your school begins enacting the redeveloped curriculum in at least one curriculum area, while other subjects stay on their current curricula. This guide sets out which document to plan from for every subject.
Read moreThe updated 2026 Department of Education guidance explicitly acknowledges monthly short-term preparation for the first time. Here's what changed and what it means in practice.
Read moreA plain-English comparison of the 1999 and redeveloped primary curriculum. What stays, what changes, and what it means for your classroom.
Read moreThe primary curriculum changes in September 2026. A plain-English guide to what it means for your fortnightly plans, Cúntas Míosúil and recorded preparation.
Read moreWith teacher posts suppressed and classes merging in 2026/27, many teachers face larger, more mixed groups. Practical ways to keep your planning fast and useful when the class gets bigger.
Read moreTwo completed long-term plans for Irish primary classes, free to download as PDFs. What a long-term plan needs month by month, and how the whole-school plan flows into it.
Read moreA free, branded fortnightly plan template for Irish primary teachers, laid out for the 2026 curriculum with one subject filled in as a worked example. Print it, or have Pleanáil fill every subject from the curriculum for you.
Read moreA practical, step-by-step way to get your long-term plans done for the new school year: what the 2026 guidance actually requires, what to leave out, and how to keep your summer.
Read moreA step-by-step method for writing your fortnightly recorded preparation fast, for both the 1999 and redeveloped 2026 primary curriculum.
Read moreWhat the Cuntas Míosúil actually requires, what principals and inspectors look for in it, and a routine that gets it done in twenty minutes at the end of each month.
Read moreA free, branded Cúntas Míosúil template for Irish primary teachers, with one subject filled in as a worked example. Print it, or have Pleanáil generate your monthly record from the plans you already taught.
Read moreCircular 0032/2026 supersedes the 2014 circular that introduced the Personal Pupil Plan. Here is the official replacement, the Student Support Plan, and what it means for SET teachers and principals.
Read moreSpecial Education and EAL teachers plan across caseloads, groups and class levels, and most planning advice ignores them. Here is how the pieces fit: support files, targets, timetables and the Cuntas.
Read moreCircular 0018/2026 standardises the main primary school breaks for 2026/27 to 2028/29. What is now fixed nationally, what each school still decides, and what it means for your planning.
Read moreEverything the first fortnight of the 2026/27 year asks of your planning folder, with the guides, samples and templates in one place: curriculum versions, long-term plans, fortnight one, and the first Cúntas.
Read moreEverything to have in place before the first bell, in the first week, and by the end of September. One page, in order, with links to the detail.
Read moreStarting your first class this September? What planning is actually required of an NQT, what Droichead expects, and how to build a routine that survives past Halloween.
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