Region: NI

Registration Now Open: The INTO Principals’ and Deputy Principals’ Conference 2025 will take place on Friday 26^th and Saturday 27^th September in the Clayton Hotel, Galway.

At this time District Secretaries are invited to register their delegates and a pack will be posted to delegates in September. The theme of the conference is “Resilience for school leaders, with a focus on strengthening working relationships”. As the INTO do not centrally book accommodation please advise delegates to make their arrangements early as we understand there will also be a festival in Galway the weekend of our conference.

Further details will be available closer to the event.

The 2025 Education Conference will take place in the Radisson Hotel, Sligo, on Friday 21 and Saturday 22 November 2025. The conference will have a Special Education focus.

Further details will be available closer to the event.

The 2023 Education Consultative Conference took place in the Tullamore Court Hotel on Friday 17 and Saturday 18 November 2023.

The conference theme was Play and Creativity.

Conference Resources

• Keynote: Aideen, Howard, The Ark The Art of Growing Up
• Keynote: Dr Glenda Walsh, Stranmillis University A Pedagogy of Play: Exploring the Power of Playful Teaching and Learning in Practice
• Workshop: Liz Weir, Storytelling and language enrichment
• Workshop: Fighting Words, Maths Madness; Creativity and Mathematics
• Workshop: NCCA Play and Playful Pedagogies in the Redeveloped Primary Curriculum
• Workshop: Global Village, Play and Creativity in Education : A Global Citizenship Education Lens

A conference webcast of the plenary sessions is viewable below.

• Click here to download the conference leaflet
• Click here to view the photo gallery
• Click here to view the webcast.