Supplementary Panel – Advertising Procedures
- Published: 09 June 2016
The DES has given schools the option of using www.EducationPosts.ie to engage with the supplementary panel to fill permanent vacancies in your school. Permission is required from your Diocesan Office prior to the advertising of all vacancies on EducationPosts.ie. DES Circular 58/2015 provides clear guidelines to schools when seeking an expression of interest from teachers on the supplementary panel using EducationPosts.ie. Concerns have been expressed to IPPN that correct advertising procedures are not being followed and schools may compromise themselves unless the procedures are followed.
Schools are required to:
- give teachers a period of 5 calendar days to express an interest in the post
- extend the period of time for seeking an expression of interest by an additional 2 calendar days if no teachers on the relevant supplementary panel express an interest in the post.
Three sample templates have been developed by the DES and are to be used by schools when seeking an expression of interest from teachers on the supplementary panel. Schools that do not follow correct procedures will be notified by the EducationPosts.ie team and will be required to upload their advert again to the site.
Click here to view DES Circular 0058/2015 – Supplementary Panel
Click here to view Circular FAQs – Scroll to Page 7 to view sample templates
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.
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