23rd May 2024 - Mental Health Pilot / Mentoring for new DPs
- Published: 06 June 2024
In this week’s E-scéal:
- Planning Prompts
- Your Contact Details
- Resource Bundle: Communication – The Lifeblood of Leadership
- Update on Counselling and Wellbeing Practitioner teams pilot
- Consultation on the Primary Curriculum closes on June 7th
- Leadership+ Pilot Group Mentoring Programme for Newly Appointed Deputy Principals
- City/County Network Annual Meetings
- Ciall Ceannaithe
These final weeks of the school year can be hectic. It seems like you cannot find time for anything other than work. However, as the American Charles Buxton wrote “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
You might like to consider the following prompts to make time for yourself to rest and re-create a balance in life during the upcoming holiday period. It is all too easy for this time to slip away. Preparation is key, as is asking for help.
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If you are unsure whether the details we have are accurate, please email info@ippn.ie with the school name, roll number and the names and contact details and ask for the database to be updated.
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Resource Bundle: Communication – The Lifeblood of Leadership
School leaders need to be skilled communicators in countless relationships with many different groups and individuals within the school community. Within the school context, many problems can be directly traced to ineffective or insufficient communication – its content, manner and means. Taking time to review your communications strategies and ideas will be time well spent.
This Resource Bundle looks at key elements of communication, including
• Interpersonal skills
• Difficult conversations
• Communication scenarios
• Written communication
• Social media and video conferencing
• Useful resources.
Update on Counselling and Wellbeing Practitioner teams pilot
NEPS recently held a briefing for the education partners on the work of Strands 1 and 2 of the pilot project. From the initial €5 million announced in the Budget, the pilot was extended into 2024 and further extended into 2025.
It was an initial challenge for Strand 1 to recruit a panel of counsellors to work with schools. NEPS collaborated with the counselling accreditation bodies in Ireland to get as many counsellors as possible onto the panel.
Consultation on the Primary Curriculum closes on June 7th
NCCA is holding a consultation on curriculum in the following areas:
- Arts Education
- Modern Foreign Languages, as part of the Primary Language Curriculum
- Science, Technology and Engineering Education
- Social and Environmental Education
- Wellbeing.
The consultation closes on 7th June at 5pm. You can still have your say by completing the online questionnaires or a written submission. The draft curriculum documents, questionnaires and written submission forms can be found on NCCA’s consultation webpage.
Leadership+ Pilot Group Mentoring Programme for Newly Appointed Deputy Principals
The objective of the pilot is to afford newly appointed deputy principals (DPs) the opportunity to hear and talk about the experience of the practice of leadership in the company of peers.
The pilot will be comprised of four groups of relatively newly-appointed deputy principals who are participating in the Tánaiste programme. The groups are linked to specific education centres where the Tánaiste programme is running.
City/County Network Annual Meetings
IPPN will be visiting your county in September/October 2024.
As well as key updates and a review of the year, there will be an opportunity to become more involved in the work of IPPN by representing your city/county network on the National Council.
Click here to book your place and view the full schedule
Ciall Ceannaithe is IPPN’s dedicated online training course for school leaders both newly appointed and as well as experienced principals who wish to refresh their practice and update their skills.
