Annual Report 2025 Entire Book - Flipbook - Page 20
Spotlight on Schools
Action: 1.C.4
3 Resources
Overview:
Spotlight on Schools is a series of teacher-created resources that showcase good practice in Modern Foreign
Language (MFL) departments and classrooms across Ireland. The series supports a professional learning
community where teachers can engage with practical, evidence-based teaching and learning strategies and
adapt them to suit their own contexts.
Main Aims:
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Share and showcase examples of good practice in MFL education across Irish schools.
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Encourage MFL teachers to learn from one another.
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Support and disseminate innovative teaching methodologies across the MFL community.
Activity:
In 2025, three case studies were published as part of the Spotlight on Schools series. Each explored a
diferent theme and highlighted approaches that can be adopted or adapted by other schools.
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Exploring EU Careers and
Student Leadership
A Pathway to Introducing a
New Language in Schools
Using Music and Rhythm in
the MFL Classroom
Students at St Patrick9s Cathedral
Killina Presentation Secondary
This case study
Grammar School explored how
School shared its journey in
demonstrated how rhythm
language learning can support
introducing Polish as a
and music can support
pathways to careers in the
curricular subject. The resource
grammar learning. Students
European Union. Through
documented the school9s
often ond grammatical
interactive activities, students
process from initial planning to
structures abstract; musical
engaged in career exploration,
full implementation, ofering
patterns help embed content
cultural exchange and leadership
practical guidance for including
in memory, making learning
development while strengthening
less commonly taught
active, enjoyable and
their language skills and
languages and inspiring
sustainable.
broadening their understanding
schools to expand their
of European opportunities.
language provision.
- PPLI ANNUAL REPORT 2025 -
