25th April 2024 – Extended deadline for Health & Wellbeing Survey/ Summer Programme
- Published: 02 May 2024
In this week’s E-scéal:
- Planning Prompts
- Professional Guidance – In-person Summer Programme in Special Schools – Special School Student Teacher Placements
- Extended deadline for Health & Wellbeing Survey
- Closing date to register for the Summer Programme extended
- Leadership+ - The importance of knowing and sharing purpose
- Global Village – School Leadership Symposium
- Webinar - Re-Igniting the Purpose of Education
- NCCA Consultation - Redeveloped Primary School Curriculum
- Updates
- New Resources
To sustain oneself as a school leader, you have to prioritise and stick to those priorities. P-I-E-W is a framework for managing capacity in terms of SSE and SIP. It provides the school with a way to communicate very positively with everyone. The ideas/initiatives from parents, BoM, community, inspectorate and DE are usually very good ideas. However, they cannot be prioritised or implemented, until viewed in the context of the school’s SIP. None is discounted. Rather they are included in the W column of P-I-E-W.
Professional Guidance – In-person Summer Programme in Special Schools – Special School Student Teacher Placements
Special Schools who are running an in-person programme have been given leave to employ graduate teachers and PME student teachers who are in their final year to work as a student teacher in a Special School and on the Summer Programme.
As the guidance indicates – “Schools can recruit up to two student teachers from the 3rd week in May 2024 (or on completion of exams) until the end of the school based summer programme. This will allow student teachers to gain valuable relevant experience in a special education setting and will assist special schools during a very busy period in their school year. It will also assist with familiarisation and preparation leading into a summer programme.”
Extended deadline for Health & Wellbeing Survey
Due to recent high levels of activity with the survey, Deakin University has extended the closing date to Friday 26th.
Participants who registered for the survey or completed the survey in the last 2 years should click on this link.
All new participants should click on this link
A question and answer section is available to participants here.
Closing date to register for the Summer Programme extended
The Department of Education invites all schools to participate in this year’s Summer Programme. To register your interest, visit the DE’s Online Registration Portal. Due to high demand, the Department has extended the closing date for the Online Registration Portal to 17 May.
For further information or to receive the portal link, there is a dedicated phone helpline - 090 64 84292 from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. Queries concerning the school-based Summer Programme can be emailed to schoolsummerprogramme@education.gov.ie.
Leadership+ - The importance of knowing and sharing purpose
Patricia Mannix McNamara, Professor of Education, University of Limerick
Human beings have a natural inclination to seek meaning and purpose in our lives. It can be destabilising when we begin to question why we do, what we do, or reflect upon how we lead, and the influences that shape our leadership approach. Taking the time to gain clarity about our purpose, and how our leadership enhances our purpose, is probably the most important self-development work that we can do as leaders.
Click here to read the article
Global Village – School Leadership Symposium
Exploring whole school approaches to Global Citizenship Education with representatives from IPPN, INTO, Trócaire, DCU, NCCA and Irish Aid - Friday, May 10 · 10am - 2pm, Iveagh House, Dublin.
The cost of substitute cover will be provided for this event. For more information and to register, click here.
Webinar - Re-Igniting the Purpose of Education
This is a Tri Nations Collaboration between Education Scotland, the National Academy for Educational Leadership in Wales and Oide Leadership in Ireland. It is aimed at all school leaders and educational stakeholders. It will take place on Monday 13 May from 4:00pm to 5:15pm.
Santiago will focus on the pedagogical core of our work as educators, on what we mean by learning, and on how we can keep this core purpose to the fore of our work in an ever-changing educational environment.
For more information and to book a place, click here.
https://nael.cymru/en/events/re-igniting-the-purpose-of-education-with-dr-santiago-rincon-gallardo?dm_i=7L5E,36UL,4M87X,CZP2,1
NCCA Consultation - Redeveloped Primary School Curriculum
Consultation on the redeveloped Primary School Curriculum is well underway. It is important that as many teachers and school leaders as possible have their say on the proposals. The feedback gathered from this consultation will be analysed and reported upon, and will ultimately contribute to the finalisation of the five draft curriculum specifications.
There are a number of ways you can have your say including online questionnaires, a written submission form and more. Find out more on NCCA’s consultation webpage.
To be shared with your Board, staff and parent body as appropriate
- Update on Teacher Allocations and Redeployment Panels at Primary level for the 2024/25 school year
- 0029/2024 - Allocation of Assistant Principal Posts 2024/2025 (Primary)
- Summary of Main Panel 22 April 2024
- Allocation of teachers to schools - Appendices
- Circular 0028/2024 - Appointment of Administrative Deputy Principals and Staffing Arrangements in Special Schools to take effect from the 2024/2025 school year
- Circular 0042/2024 Say Yes to Languages – primary languages sampler module
Many of the recent additions to the website relate to recruitment. For sample interview questions for different roles and curriculum planning resources for English and Gaeilge click here.
