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PPMTA National Conference

Dear Music Teacher,

The PPMTA’s annual conference is only three weeks away! The theme of this year’s conference is ‘The Joy of Learning – Fostering Creativity and Expression in Music’, and it will be held in the Mullingar Park Hotel on the weekend of September 12th-14th.  

Registration for the Conference is available at https://www.gr8events.ie/ppmta25.

The full schedule of the weekend’s events can be viewed on the homepage of the PPMTA website.

The fee to attend the conference is €90 for standard delegates and €50 for student delegates. If you have any conference related queries, please contact the Conference Manager, David Moriarty, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

All registration fees (including those covered by Boards of Management and Educational Training Boards) must be paid in full in order to be issued with registration confirmation.

All updates and developments with regard to the conference and all our other activities will be posted on our website www.ppmta.ie. If you are a member of the PPMTA you may sign up to our Forum, where members post queries, discuss challenges, suggest activities and share teaching resources.

Finally, the PPMTA’s Instagram and Facebook pages, and X Feed (@PPMTA), get you closer to the action with picture albums, event calendars and more detailed news items. Why not like and follow us today by clicking on the hyperlinks!

Making Space for Play in Irish Schoolyards Survey

MAKING SPACE FOR PLAY IN IRISH SCHOOLYARDS is evaluating existing provision for play in primary schoolyards across Ireland

About this project

This is the first national research project to examine provision for children’s Right to Play under Article 31, in schoolyards and also aims to;

  • Raise consciousness on play rights provision in schoolyards
  • Develop a novel framework of indicators to support the monitoring and progressive realization of play rights in schoolyards.
  • Develop guidance for schools to create optimum conditions for all children to play relevant to the Irish context.
  • Contribute to cross-sectoral education, health & social policy aims.

This four-phase project will use diverse methods with school communities to gather data on different aspects of play provision and co-design case study exemplars with schools.

Survey Link https://lnkd.in/eeymjaAU  and QR code BELOW.