World Book Day is celebrated by UNESCO on April 23, every year. April 23 is a symbolic date for world literature because on this date in 1616 that Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. Hence, the…
UNESCO World Book Day 2021
Oliver Murphy’s New Applied Maths Book
We are delighted and proud of our amazing Maths teacher Oliver Murphy and his new Senior Cycle Applied Maths book ‘Fundamental Applied Maths’. This is the third edition of this book, which covers the new modern Applied Maths course which…
DCU Academic Scholarship Award
We are delighted to celebrate 9 of our Leaving Cert 2020 students who not only received a college place in Dublin City University but also received an Academic Scholarship Award from DCU for their performance in the Leaving Certificate, achieving…
F1 In Schools – Team Omega Racing
Earlier in the Academic year we introduced you to the two teams, from The Institute, who are competing in the F1 in Schools competition. They are Team Sirocco and Team Omega Racing. We are delighted to see how they are…
Music and Percussion with 5th Year Students
Music at The Institute has always, by it’s nature, been a very interactive subject. To help students understand music better and to give them a better sense of what is happening in terms of tempo, time signature, other musical concepts,…
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Week 33
Expert Subject Tutorials on RTÉ Learn
Over the last number of weeks we have been hard at work behind the scenes with rte.ie/learn and their Subject Tutorial Series. For this we have created a number of video tutorials for different subjects, in order to help support…
Spotlight: Sreehari Pillai – MIT Summer School
We are delighted to learn that current 5th Year student Sreehari Pillai has been offered a place at the extremely highly regarded college of MIT in the USA this summer for their Summer School Programme. This is a great achievement…
5th Year Student Stop Motion Animations
In March, some of our 5th Year art students were learning more about film making and the film industry. The students then went off to create their own short film using a stop motion technique. Below you can check out…
New Subject Option: Leaving Cert Physical Education
We are delighted to announce that from September 2021 Leaving Cert Physical Education (LCPE) will be available as a subject to students of The Institute of Education. The aim of LCPE is to develop students capacity to become informed, skilled,…
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Week 32
Mandarin Chinese at The Institute with Yun Wu
We are delighted to announce our newest teacher Yun Wu. She will be teaching Mandarin Chinese, a new subject option that we have added for the 2021/22 academic year. Yun Wu joins us with a wealth of experience both in…