14 September - Formation of Boards of Management & Conference 2023
- Published: 19 September 2023
This week’s e-scéal includes information on the following:
- Planning Prompts
- Formation Of Boards Of Management
- Autumn Meetings 2023
- Leadership+
- New! Pathways To Sustainable Leadership
- ‘Getting Your Ducks In A Row’ Series. Episode 2: Admissions And Enrolment
- Updates & Circulars
- Covid Leave
- HSE
- Allianz
- NCSE Seminar
- CYPSC Resource Pack
- External Research
Every week of the school year brings its own tasks and demands on your time and energy, but none more so than the month of September. This month sets the pattern of your daily schedule for the rest of the year. Very often, having brought in a lunch with you, it remains uneaten.
Formation of Boards of Management
Since launching the Sustainable Leadership report last November, IPPN has engaged extensively with the DE and other education stakeholders to highlight the need for a review of the current governance structure and to explore the possibility of reform.
Next week's IPPN Autumn meetings will take place at 4pm in the following venues:
- Sept 19 - Clare & Kilkenny
- Sept 20 - Carlow
- Sept 21 - Meath
Click here to see the full autumn meeting schedule, agenda and book your place (NB: Principals and deputy principals are both invited to attend)
In this issue
- Cóilín Ó Coigligh - Aoibhinn Beatha an Phríomhoide
- Aoife O’Connor - Gifted learners - Is differentiation enough?
- Professional Guidance: Formation of Boards of Management
- Emotional Intelligence: Sustaining School Leaders
- Working well with your school inspector
New! Pathways to Sustainable Leadership
The Leadership Pathways format has been reimagined. At the Principals’ Conference 2023 Pathways to Sustainable Leadership session, attendees will participate in and contribute to a ‘think tank’ to capture the practical ways in which school leaders are managing to maintain a focus on their core purpose and share leadership effectively. The wisdom of the collective will inform our practice as individuals, which has the potential to be hugely impactful.
Book your place at IPPN Conference 2023 today and sign up for your preferred seminars
‘Getting your ducks in a row’ series. Episode 2: Admissions and Enrolment
Episode 2 in the series addresses enrolment and admissions, including:
- Overview and key elements of the Admissions Policy
- Admissions Notice
- Relationship breakdown
- Appeals & Case studies
Click here to view the second episode
(Please share with members of the Board of Management)
- Circular 0039/2023 Primary Mathematics Curriculum: Curaclam Matamaitice na Bunscoile
- Circular 034/2023 (Delivering Equality of Opportunity In Schools) action planning and grant allocation for all DEIS schools
- Ciorclán 0034/2023 CDSIS (Comhionannas Deiseanna a Sheachadadh i Scoileanna) pleanáil gníomhaíochta agus leithdháileadh deontais do gach scoil CDSI
- Consultation process for the new Traveller and Roma Education Strategy
- DE Statement of Strategy 2023-2025
Please share with members of the school staff and the Board of Management
Circular 38/2022 was updated by the publication of InformationNote TC/IN 0004/2023, which reduced the period of Special Leave with Pay from seven to five days. This change reflects updated HSE guidance on self-isolation.
HSE School Immunisation Programme
Allianz Pupil Personal Accident cover has been a reliable & reassuring mainstay in schools in every part of Ireland.
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For more information and to register
The role of IPPN members on every county CYPSC (Children’s and Young People's Services Committee) is to advocate for initiatives and projects that benefit the children who attend our schools. One of these initiatives has been the development and publication by Wexford CYPSC of the EBSA Resource Pack for children and young people who experience emotionally based school avoidance.
The PLAN'EAT project aims to transform food systems and environments towards healthy and sustainable behaviour. UCD researchers are conducting a study on healthy and sustainable diet initiatives and the needs for improvement within educational settings.
