What is a fortnightly plan?
A fortnightly plan — also called short-term planning or recorded preparation — is a two-week outline of what you intend to teach. It is a requirement under the Department of Education's guidelines for all primary school teachers in Ireland.
Your fortnightly plan typically includes the dates, subjects, curriculum content (content objectives from the 1999 curriculum or Learning Outcomes from redeveloped specifications), learning activities, and assessment approaches.
The NCCA's 2021 guidance on Preparation for Teaching and Learning gave teachers more flexibility in how they format their recorded preparation. Plean Éasca follows this guidance — giving you a clean, practical format that covers everything an inspector expects to see.
How Plean Éasca fortnightly planning works
Select your subjects
Pick the subjects you are teaching this fortnight and use the 1999/2025 curriculum framework guide to organise your planning coverage — see the full subject list, or read the official NCCA curriculum.
Choose curriculum content
For each subject, browse and select the strands, strand units, and content objectives you plan to cover. No more searching through PDF documents.
AI-generated activities
For each subject, the AI generates a structured overview with week-by-week activities, learning outcomes, differentiation, and assessment.
Export to Word
Download your complete fortnightly plan as a formatted Word (.docx) document — one page per subject, ready to print or email to your principal.
What your fortnightly plan includes
- —Dates and class level for the fortnight
- —Subject-by-subject breakdown across the two-week block
- —NCCA content objectives / Learning Outcomes for each subject
- —Week 1 and Week 2 focus areas and activities
- —Differentiation strategies tailored to your class
- —Assessment approaches for each subject
- —Linkage and integration notes
- —Resources needed per subject
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