Friday 10 June @ 12 Noon - Recruitment Closing Date
- Published: 27 May 2016
IPPN is recruiting Part-time Support Officers (x2) to join our Principal Advice Team
The closing date for applications is12pm (noon) on Friday 10th June 2016
Clustering arrangements for 2016/2017 School Year
- Published: 19 May 2016
Schools are now engaged in the clustering process following the recent NCSE publication regarding the allocation of resource teaching hours for the 2016/2017 school year. In the first instance, schools are required to engage with the network of full-time resource base posts allocated to their school or neighbouring schools.
Where schools are unable to access the NCSE approved resource hours from the network of full-time resource base posts, schools can submit an application form to the DES for the sanctioning of a part-time/temporary resource teaching post for 2016/2017 school year.
Additionally, where no surplus capacity is available in schools with a base post, schools can make a joint application to the DES to create a full-time (25 hours) resource teaching post. In such circumstances the Department will allocate a full-time shared fixed-term (temporary) resource post to successful applicant schools. This post will automatically cease at the end of the 2016/17 school year. The advertising of hours to arrange a cluster is facilitated on EducationPosts.ie. To advertise your hours, please go to www.EducationPosts.ie, 'Advertise a Post', 'SEN Clustering Notice Board'.
Click here for an updated list of the schools that have been allocated full-time resource base posts
Research on Bullying Among Primary Students
- Published: 29 April 2016
Cathal Duffy, a primary school teacher for nine years, is in his second year of a Doctorate in Educational Psychology in UCD. As part of the course, he is undertaking research on bullying amongst students in primary school. The title of his research study is ‘A Practical, Theoretical, and Evidence-Oriented Anti-Bullying Programme for Irish Primary Schools’.
The research study aims to investigate whether the Irish educational system is equipping schools to counter bullying effectively, and to evaluate the DES Anti-bullying Guidelines (2013), ascertain whether schools are equipped to counter bullying, whether more needs to be done to support schools and whether Ireland needs to take a similar approach to Norway and Finland, and design the framework for an anti-bullying programme for Irish primary schools. Cathal feels that the outcomes of his research could potentially inform bullying prevention and intervention initiatives at primary school level. Cathal is looking for one respondent per school (senior primary schools only). The respondent can be a Principal, Deputy Principal, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th Class teacher. All responses are anonymous.
The survey takes 10-15 minutes and can be completed online here. You can complete a hard copy version of the questionnaire by clicking on the Questionnaire attachment, printing it and posting the completed form to Cathal Duffy, Pinegrove, Mountbellew, Co. Galway. To find out more, please email Cathal at cathal.duffy@ucdconnect.ie.
Children & Young Peoples Services Committee
- Published: 15 April 2016
Tipperary Children & Young People Services Committee (TCYPSC) are requesting your school’s voluntary participation in an online CYPSC survey with the 4th and 5th class children in your school.
Tomás O’ Slatara, former principal of Grange National School, is the current IPPN representative for Tipperary Children & Young People Services Committee (TCYPSC).
As part of the consultation, the committee are conducting an anonymised online survey with children throughout the county. It consists of questions about age, gender identity, name of nearest big town, best & worst things about being a child in Tipperary, any desired changes, and of overall view as to Tipperary being a good place for a child to live in. The responses are tick boxes and completion of the survey would take no more than between 5 and 10 minutes.
TCYPSC are requesting that you would bring the details of the weblink to the survey monkey to the attention of children in 4th & 5th Classes in your school. The children can complete the survey within the school or can do so at home with their parents’ knowledge. A letter to parents is included for distribution to parents. Use of the parental permission slip may depend on your decision whether the child completes the survey at home or in school.
Click here to download the following:
DCYA Consultation with Children on After School Care
- Published: 07 April 2016
The Department Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) has a dedicated Citizen Participation Unit, which has the lead national role in ensuring that children and young people have a voice in the design, delivery and monitoring of services and policies that affect their lives, at national and local level.
The DCYA collaborates with schools, other Government Departments, statutory bodies and non-government organisations. The work of the Citizen Participation Unit is guided by Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which states that children have a right to a voice on decisions that affect their lives. The DCYA Citizen Participation Unit is committed to ensuring the inclusion of seldom-heard children and young people in participation structures and initiatives.
After school care consultations with children
The DCYA is working on the development of standards and policy on after school care services, which are currently unregulated in Ireland. The Department is working with a wide range of stakeholders on this issue and recognises the importance of seeking the views of children themselves, who are the recipients of such care. The DCYA is undertaking consultations with children (aged 5-12 years) to inform the development of standards and future policy in this area.
The aim of the consultations is to identify what children like and dislike about afterschool care and to identify the places where children most like to be cared for after school. Separate consultations will be held with children in the 5-7 years age group and with children in the 8-12 years age group.
Creative and age-appropriate methodologies have been developed by the DCYA, whose expert Participation Support Team will carry out the consultations.
A report of the views of the children will be submitted to the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to inform the development of standards and policy on after school care.
The consultations will take place in the first two weeks of May 2016 in Dublin, Cork and Athlone.
We would like to invite schools to select children to take part in these consultations and would appeal to Principals to ensure a mix of children with regard to social background, ethnicity and geographic location.
We will be looking for 3 children from each school in the 5-7 age range (one from each of Junior Infants, Senior Infants and 1st Class) and 5 children in the 8-12 age range (one from each of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Class).
We will cover all travel costs and the cost of substitute teachers and will feed the children and teachers who come to the consultations.
If you are interested in children from your school taking part in these consultations, please contact Karyn Farrell kfarrell@youthworkireland.ie.
