EPV Summer Course Providers 2026

There are lots of options for primary teachers when choosing a summer Continuous Professional Development course to attend. Many of the courses are available online so attendance is possible from anywhere in Ireland. Sometimes, you may have a specific topic or area in mind that you would like to learn about e.g., to improve your Irish Grammar, or to learn about the Science of Reading, so you may wish to look across all of the providers to see if there are any courses available on this topic.

Below is a list of the main teacher summer course providers in Ireland to assist with searching for your ideal course. 

• Education Centres – You can use the ESCI website to search for summer courses across all of the Education Centres, specifying online or relating to a specific keyword that you are interested in.
• INTO
• OIDE (formerly PDST) – Courses are free of charge
• CPD College
• Flúirse
• Hibernia College – Usually offer summer courses, although none are listed on their website at the time of writing this post (April 2026)
• Marino Institute of Education 
• Mary Immaculate College – Courses are free of charge
• Anokha Learning
• An Taisce – Usually offer summer courses, although none are listed on their website at the time of writing this post (April 2026)
• Rahoo
• EPVdays
• Courses4Summer.ie
• Actualise Academy
• Teachersummercourses.ie
• Schooldays.ie – Usually offer summer courses, although none are listed on their website at the time of writing this post (April 2026)
• SummerCPD.ie
• TeachNet Ireland
• Educate Together
• Irish Mindfulness Academy
• Child Psychology Institute 
• Institute of Child Education and Psychology 
• Child Development Initiative 
• Connected Classroom
• Playful Classroom
• Crafty Little Linguists
• Dublin Zoo
• UNICEF Ireland
• Léargas – Usually offer summer courses, although none are listed on their website at the time of writing this post (April 2026)
• Connected Childhood
• From Tiny Acorns 
• Michelle’s Innovative Ideas
• Múinteoir Valerie
• Dr. Treasa Bowe – Effective Spelling Instruction
• Everyday OT
• Susan Crawford Speech and Language Therapy 
• Inside EU

Drumcondra Education Centre publish an annual booklet listing all course providers and approved summer CPD courses in Ireland. It is available here (usually from mid- June). 

There are also some independent providers/ individual teachers offering DES approved summer courses which can be booked through their own websites. They are often publicised on social media. I have included all that I am aware of here, but if you know of any other DES approved summer courses that I haven’t included in this post, please let me know in the comments!