8th February 2024 - Staffing Schedule and SET Allocations: IPPN Response
- Published: 21 February 2024
In this week's E-scéal:
- Planning Prompts
- SET Allocations – IPPN Response
- SET Clustering Noticeboard
- Queries re. Secretary Leave and Contracts
- Deputy Principals’ Conference 2024
- Leadership+ Issue 131
- Revised Constitution of IPPN
- IPPN Board of Directors
- Ireland’s Education Yearbook 2023
- Updates
- Significant dates in February
At this time of the year, schools are arranging matches and various sporting events, where transport will be required for pupils. The Board will need to discuss and make decisions regarding the following. Do teachers take children in their cars? Do parents provide transport? Does the school hire buses? Does the school have an account with a local taxi firm? These are just some of the questions the BoM may need to consider in formulating a policy in this regard.
Staffing Schedule and SET Allocations – IPPN Response
The unfortunate inadvertent and premature release of the SET allocations appendices on Friday night has led to confusion and upset among school leaders, which is very regrettable. IPPN issued a communication to members via SMS on Saturday afternoon relating to the DE clarification that it had been issued in error.
IPPN has lobbied intensely for an early release of the staffing schedule, given the impact on schools of the much later issuing of the circular in previous years.
The SET Clustering Noticeboard is available on EducationPosts.ie for schools with SET hours. A number of schools have already posted their hours on the noticeboard.
If you would like to use the noticeboard, log in to your EducationPosts.ie account > select Noticeboards > select SET Clustering Notice board > select New SET Cluster to create a notice.
If you do not have an EducationPosts.ie account, please create an account here.
Queries re. Secretary Leave and Contracts
Queries should be brought to the Board of Management, the Patron’s office and the relevant management body in the first instance. The DE has a dedicated email address for such queries, secretaryleave@education.gov.ie.
Deputy Principals’ Conference 2024
As this E-scéal is being issued, more than 400 deputy principals and some of their colleague principals have gathered in Galway for their annual conference. Any materials provided by seminar facilitators and speakers will be uploaded to the IPPN website after the event.
You can follow some of the key points raised on social media @ippn_education on X/Twitter, and @ippn on LinkedIn.
Leadership+ Issue 131
The purpose of the Middle Leadership Action Research (MLAR) project established by the Centre for School Leadership, was to build middle leadership capacity in Irish schools through a programme of collaborative professional learning. Recognition of the contribution of primary middle leadership is growing and its strength is the dual role, with teaching and leading equally important. Through this dual role, middle leaders build connections across a school. However, this dual role is also a challenge, with limited opportunities for leading.
Click here to view/download the article
At the December meeting of the National Council, a revised Constitution was ratified. A number of amendments were made.
IPPN’s Board of Directors has the principal responsibility for the general leadership of the organisation, to achieve its mission and the legal accountability for its operations. As a group, the Board is in charge of establishing a clear organisational mission, forming the strategic plan and of overseeing and evaluating the plan's success.
Click here to view names, photos and bios of current Board members
Ireland’s Education Yearbook 2023
The secret of our success is that education in Ireland is a team effort, with every voice listened to respectfully – from the parent, the student, the teachers and lecturers in our schools and colleges, the civil and public servants who manage the system and its delivery, and the ministers in government with responsibility to decide on future policy. Long may it continue.
Brian Mooney, Editor
Click here to view the Yearbook
To be shared with the Board, staff and parent body as appropriate
Creative Clusters
Individual schools, existing networks of schools and potential clusters of schools must apply using the online Creative Clusters 2024-2026 Application Form only by 5pm on Friday, 10 May 2024.
Circular 0002/2024 - Special Education Teacher (SET) allocation model and the calculation of the SET allocation for each school from the 2024/25 school year
Circular 0011/2024 - Staffing arrangements in Primary Schools for the 2024/25 school year
Circular 0013/2024 - Sick Leave Scheme for Registered Teachers Employed in Recognised Primary and Post Primary Schools
Circular 0014/2024 - Sick Leave Scheme for Special Needs Assistants Employed in Recognised Primary and Post Primary Schools
Department of Children – State of the Nation’s Children Annual Report
- 16th February – Deadline to submit NCSE Form 7 to SENO
- 29th February - Deadline for schools to:
- Notify relevant Panel Operator of any permanent or fixed term vacancy
- Return Main Redeployment Panel Application Form (Appendix E) for surplus permanent/CID holding teachers to the Department’s Primary Teacher Allocations Section
- Return Form SET.Cluster2024/25 (Appendix D) to the Department’s Primary Teacher Allocations Section to notify of new Special Education Teacher cluster arrangements
- Return “CID Declaration Form 23” (Appendix G) in respect of all teachers awarded a CID in or before the 2023/24 school year and a Main Panel Application Form, if applicable, to the Department’s Primary Teacher Allocations Section
- Submit completed Staffing Appeals Form (Appendix F) for the March meeting of the Primary Staffing Appeals Board to the Department’s Primary Teacher Allocations Section
- Submit completed Form Prim-EAL 2024/25 application for pupils with EAL needs
- Creative February – 1st to 29th Arts Council
- Children’s Mental Health Week - Second week of February
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science – 11 Feb
- Random Acts of Kindness Day – 17 Feb
