A challenging time, and how IPPN are supporting school leaders - IPPN President
- Published: 01 July 2020
Yesterday was the final day of the most challenging and difficult school term any of us will have faced, whether we are an experienced school leader or somebody newly appointed to a leadership position. The challenges you have met and overcome in providing continuity of learning for your pupils, channels of communication for their parents and reassurance for your staff have been ground-breaking. When the story of Covid-19 is finally told, the role played by school leaders and staff in the fight against the dreaded virus will be rightly lauded and commended.
Returning to School in the aftermath of Covid19
- Published: 24 June 2020
IPPN statement on DES Covid-19 School Summer Provision Plan
- Published: 23 June 2020
IPPN welcomes the publication today (June 23rd) of the DES Covid-19 School Summer Provision Plan
IPPN and many of the other primary education partners have been involved in supporting the process to produce these protocols. We will continue to play our part to ensure that primary school communities will experience a return to school with as little disruption as possible.
03. Sustainable Leadership in Challenging Times: Part 3 Re-opening Schools
- Published: 22 June 2020
We hosted our third webinar with Shay Bannon, Deirdre O'Connor, Assistant General Secretary, INTO and Seamus Mulconry General Secretary, CPSMA.
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IPPN call for clear guidance for the delivery of Summer Provision programmes and the re-opening schools
- Published: 12 June 2020
June 12th 2020
IPPN acknowledge the announcement today (June 12th) of a summer provision programme for children with special needs and students in DEIS schoolsand recognise the importance of these programmes for these children. We are now calling for clear guidelines to be published in order for schools to deliver these programmes in a safe and orderly manner. School leaders above all else recognise the level of need for students with special needs or students suffering disadvantage and wish to support them. However, the significant challenges of school leaders and boards of management in managing the roll out of these programmes in the absence of any formal guidelines must be recognised.
