When Learning Doesn’t Look Like Learning: Understanding Playful Learning in Today’s Primary Classrooms

What does learning look like in today’s primary school and why might it look different from the school many of us remember?

As Ireland moves through the redeveloped Primary Curriculum, classrooms are changing, with greater emphasis on active, meaningful and engaging learning rather than traditional book work and worksheets. In this one-hour session, Gillian Corbally explores what these changes mean for children and families, including:

What is changing in the redeveloped Primary Curriculum and why.

What playful learning looks like across all class levels.

How play, exploration, creativity, collaboration and talk support meaningful learning and wellbeing.

Why learning doesn’t always need to look like a completed worksheet or busy copybook.

What parents might see in their child’s classroom and the learning happening behind it.

Discover why learning can be playful, purposeful and rigorous at every age.

Sometimes the classroom that looks like it is “just playing” is where some of the most important learning is happening.