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A Guide to Buying Chromebooks for Irish Primary School in 2025/26 simonmlewis.substack.com/p/a-guide-to-b…

Another day and another education podcast. The IPPN is getting in on the action and I've really enjoyed this interview with Gemma Maher about being the first principal of a new school. I was nodding along with this. Find it wherever you find your podcasts.

Looking for some Student-Friendly Child Protection Posters? I've made a couple of templates in Canva, Word and HTML for schools to use. Free for SchoolPolicy.ie users. Let me know what template you'd like for a policy and I'll make it for you! schoolpolicy.ie/student-friend…

📌 NEW EPISODE: What's the point of the Primary Ethos Survey simonmlewis.substack.com/p/whats-the-po…

Newsletter #44 has been emailed out to all Substack subscribers. You can read it on simonmlewis.substack.com 🎙 Hildegarde Naughton is the new Minister for Education 💭 What's the point of the Ethos Survey? 🤖 Making videos using VEED.io

Potentially huge news that should have an impact on how we teach religion. In a nutshell, the Supreme Court has defined Religious Education to be the same as indoctrination, as it is taught in Northern Ireland. In the south, we teach it the same way in denominational schools.

Hildegarde in the Hot Seat but will she have the appetite? McEntee arrived with promise, left without warning, and Naughton now inherits a system in knots. simonmlewis.substack.com/p/hildegarde-i…

I thought I'd try and extend the reach of School Policy ( schoolpolicy.ie ) beyond social media and printed a load of flyers, rolled up a banner and made some personalised energy sweets for the IPPN conference.

The Department’s job is not to manage a coherent network of schools but to referee a system built on ‘school choice.’ That means rules must replace reason. simonmlewis.substack.com/p/why-a-growin…

Really happy to have a letter published in the Sunday Independent today. independent.ie/opinion/letter…

Why a Growing School Lost a Teacher and What It (Again) Says About Patronage simonmlewis.substack.com/p/why-a-growin…

A Short Reflection on IPPN 2025 Marking twenty-five years of the IPPN and seventeen conferences of my own simonmlewis.substack.com/p/a-short-refl…

What's the point of the primary ethos survey? simonmlewis.substack.com/p/whats-the-po…

The State does not need another survey; it needs the courage to act on the evidence it already has. simonmlewis.substack.com/p/whats-the-po…

What's the point of the Primary School Ethos survey? simonmlewis.substack.com/p/whats-the-po…

Action Plan for Irish in English-Medium Schools explained (Subscribers Only Podcast) simonmlewis.substack.com/p/action-plan-…

Why a Growing School Lost a Teacher and What It (Again) Says About Patronage simonmlewis.substack.com/p/why-a-growin…

There are some things that don't need to be surveyed. Would we ask parents if we should segregate children by race in school, so why are we asking should be segregate by faith? simonmlewis.substack.com/p/whats-the-po…

Newsletter #43 is now published on my Substack simonmlewis.substack.com . Featuring: 🎙 My first live podcast 💭 Guidance on AI has finally been published 🤖 Creating videos using AI prompts

In an article with a lot of stand out quotes, this was the stand out quote for me. A really interesting analysis of the primary education system. Another highlight is the principal's reaction to a family. Worth a read: rte.ie/news/analysis-…