Offers help to primary teachers in areas of technology and leadership.

Joined April 2008
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28 Nov 2025
A Guide to Buying Chromebooks for Irish Primary School in 2025/26 simonmlewis.substack.com/p/a…
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26 Nov 2025
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.
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25 Nov 2025
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-frie…
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24 Nov 2025
📌 NEW EPISODE: What's the point of the Primary Ethos Survey simonmlewis.substack.com/p/w…
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23 Nov 2025
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
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19 Nov 2025
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.
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19 Nov 2025
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/h…
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19 Nov 2025
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.
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17 Nov 2025
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/w…
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16 Nov 2025
Really happy to have a letter published in the Sunday Independent today. independent.ie/opinion/lette…
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15 Nov 2025
Why a Growing School Lost a Teacher and What It (Again) Says About Patronage simonmlewis.substack.com/p/w…
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15 Nov 2025
A Short Reflection on IPPN 2025 Marking twenty-five years of the IPPN and seventeen conferences of my own simonmlewis.substack.com/p/a…
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14 Nov 2025
What's the point of the primary ethos survey? simonmlewis.substack.com/p/w…
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12 Nov 2025
The State does not need another survey; it needs the courage to act on the evidence it already has. simonmlewis.substack.com/p/w…
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10 Nov 2025
What's the point of the Primary School Ethos survey? simonmlewis.substack.com/p/w…
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7 Nov 2025
Action Plan for Irish in English-Medium Schools explained (Subscribers Only Podcast) simonmlewis.substack.com/p/a…
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6 Nov 2025
Why a Growing School Lost a Teacher and What It (Again) Says About Patronage simonmlewis.substack.com/p/w…
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4 Nov 2025
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/w…
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4 Nov 2025
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
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4 Nov 2025
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-and-com…
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