IPPN

Published: 08 December 2016

This week's e-scéal contains useful information on the following;

• Planning Prompts
• IPPN Leadership Award 2017
• Conference 2017 – The Power of One
• Research - Prevalence of Head Lice in Irish Primary Schools 
• NCSE Call for Written Submissions 

IPPN Leadership Award 2017
Nominations are now welcome for the IPPN Leadership Award 2017. This is the third year the award has been run to honour and recognise a school leader who demonstrates exceptional leadership qualities and influences others through their actions. Current primary school principals and deputy principals are eligible for nomination.
The closing date is Wednesday, 11th January and the award will be presented at IPPN Annual Principals’ Conference on Friday, 27th January.
This year’s award is sponsored by Primary Planning Tool. For further information please click here
To make your nomination now please answer these short questions click here.

Conference 2017 – The Power of One
Book your place now to attend our Conference which will takes place at Citywest Hotel & Convention Centre on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th January 2017.
Choose from our selection of master classes and seminars, which include topics such as Child Protection, Destressing for School Leaders, Redeveloping the primary school curriculum, Moving to ‘Big School’, New SEN Resource Allocation Model, PrincipalMeet, Staff Underperformance and many more – Click here to view full list

Our Keynote speakers with more to be announced soon:
• Clive Byrne, Director, National Association for Principals & Deputy Principals (NAPD)
• Mary Nihill – National Director, Centre for School Leadership
• Rabia Siddique - Humanitarian, Speaker, Author
• Maria Doyle, IPPN President
• Seán Cottrell, IPPN CEO
Make the best of your conference experience - plan your conference schedule and visit our dedicated Annual Principals' Conference pages

Research - Prevalence of Head Lice in Irish Primary Schools
David Costello is a final year student of Environmental Health in Dublin Institute of Technology. He is writing a thesis looking into the Prevalence of Head Lice in Irish Primary Schools and is seeking input from primary teachers and principals. The main aim of the research is parental education and to dispel commonly held myths and stigmas.
If you would like to participate in the 5-10 minute online survey, please click the following link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/22CSMYM.
If you have any queries, David is contactable by email to c13510113@mydit.ie.

NCSE Call for Written Submissions
The NCSE has now published a Call for Written Submissions as part of this SNA review.
The survey can be found at the following link: http://ncse.ie/sna-review.
The closing date for receipt of submissions is 23rd December 2016.