Gaelscoileanna: must teach 30 minutes of English per day
Until now, at least some Gaelscoileanna (primay schools that teach through the medium of Irish) have adopted a “total immersion” approach. Students are not taught any English for the first two years of school.
They argue that this lies in with international best practice for teaching a language.
Mary Hanafin, the Minister for Education, has now said that all children must be taught 30 minutes of English a day from the second half of their first year of school onwards.
Source: RTÉ
