Coding Ireland

🏆 The CODING IRELAND Maths Week Challenge starts Monday 5 October!
Open to 2nd–6th Class across Ireland. Play together as a class for just 3 minutes, twice a day, and compete on national and county leaderboards.
No student logins. Quick to enter. Completely free.
👉 Register your class: codingireland.ie/mathsweek

Register now for Tuesday's free teacher webinars!

Primary, 7pm: https://streamyard.com/watch/uptZMPRjaJBG
Secondary, 8pm: https://streamyard.com/watch/87C6697tdKMA

How to get the most out of 123learn with your class this year: set-up, finding lessons that match what you're teaching, running a lesson on the board, and seeing pupils' work and much more.

35 minutes + live Q&A. Can't make it? Register and we'll send the recording.

Today is the 256th day of the year — which is why it's the Day of the Programmer. 256 is 2⁸: the number of different values one byte (eight bits) can hold, from 0 to 255. Programmers picked the date a byte would pick.

Building the Transition Year timetable? Coding Ireland's TY programme is seven standalone modules — mix and match to build a full TY year around your school day:

- Introduction to Coding
- Advanced Coding
- Exploring Digital Media
- Computer Skills
- Enterprise and Business Basics
- Exploring Artificial Intelligence
- Robotics and Automation

Each module is project-based, ten lessons of 40-60 minutes delivered over 8-10 weeks, built to the NCCA Transition Year Programme Statement, with a certificate awarded on completion and no terminal exam. Combine as many as your timetable needs.

More at https://www.codingireland.ie/IE/SecondarySchool/TY?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-w36-first-week&utm_content=post-62

Tomorrow morning, staffrooms around Ireland fill up again.

To everyone who spent this weekend laminating, backing display boards and rewriting seating plans: happy new school year from all at Coding Ireland. Fáilte ar ais.

And when you're ready for your first digital skills lesson, it's already planned — https://www.codingireland.ie/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-w35-back-to-school&utm_content=post-51

Digital skills shouldn't be one more thing to prepare yourself. Our step-by-step lessons give your school everything it needs — every lesson planned, resourced and ready to teach, no specialist required. codingireland.ie/DigitalSkills

Comhghairdeas, Class of 2026 — a record 70,411 students received Leaving Cert results today!

To every student and every teacher who got them there: well done.

From September, every primary school begins enacting at least one of five redeveloped curriculum areas — Wellbeing, STEM, SEE, Arts or MFL. Choosing STEM? Our Maths & STE courses are designed for the new specification. https://codingireland.ie/STE