There's always something new to learn!
The children might think the adults know it all... but here's a secret... We don't!
We are always learning. Learning is a life-long pleasure.
Just as we encourage parents to keep learning, up your game, always try to tweak something or try something or just open your mind to the possibility, our teachers and staff are always looking out for opportunities to expand their knowledge and skillset.
Most of the courses that teachers attend are in their own time - afternoons, evenings, weekend, school holidays. Some, approved by the Department of Education and our Board of Management, are during the school day.
We are always learning. Learning is a life-long pleasure.
Just as we encourage parents to keep learning, up your game, always try to tweak something or try something or just open your mind to the possibility, our teachers and staff are always looking out for opportunities to expand their knowledge and skillset.
Most of the courses that teachers attend are in their own time - afternoons, evenings, weekend, school holidays. Some, approved by the Department of Education and our Board of Management, are during the school day.
Continuous Professional Development - 2018/19 School Year
A sample of what we have been learning over the summer break and so far this year:
- Restorative Practice
- Leadership and Learning
- Children First - Child Protection
- Aistear - Play, Literacy and Numeracy
- Ethical Education in Educate Together Schools
- Visual Arts - Exploring Creative Craft Skills
- Maths for Infants
- 101 Literacy Lifters
- 1st and 2nd Class Education
- 101 Behaviour Transformers
- Jolly Grammar
- Differentiating for Children with Additional Educational Needs
- Stress Management and Mindfulness
- Dyspraxia
- Assessment for Learning
- Time Traveller
- The Exceptional Teacher
- Junior Drama
- Infant Education
- Using Assessment Effectively in Literacy
- Effective Numeracy Assessment
- GDPR
- Relationships and Sexuality Education
Continuous Professional Development - 2017/18 School Year
We undertook a lot of CPD, as always, in the 2017/18 school year. Some examples include:
- Occupational First Aid - we have 10 staff members attending this course over 3 Saturdays in October - what dedication!
- New primary languages curriculum - review of progress on oral language and introduction to reading and writing - all teachers attended this
- Lamh
- Getting active in Physical Education
- Aistear
- The Jolly Phonics Revolution
- Numicon
- Climate Change - Science and Action
- Microsoft Office 365 - basic training
- Microsoft Office 365 - advanced training
- Innovative practices with iPads
- ICT in the primary classroom
- Group mentoring
- Physical Literacy through fundamental movement skills
- ICT and ePortfolios for Assessment
- Making the Grade - Mathematics in the Primary School 2017
- Zippy's Friends - Programme for Mental Health Promotion
- AFLS - Assessment tool
- Early communication
- Gender Matters Educate Together Ethical Education Conference
- eTwinning Annual Conference - turning inclusion into action
- Microsoft Office 365 - basic training
- Microsoft Office 365 - advanced training
- Management of the class for children with autism
Continuous Professional Development - 2016/17 School Year
What a list of courses we attended in the 2016/17 school year!
- Opening a class for children with autism
- Behavioural and Relationship Challenges in School
- Challenging Behaviour and Social Skills for Students with Special Educational Needs
- Mentoring
- Behavioural and Relationship Challenges in Schools
- Forbairt shared leadership programme
- Zippy's Friends - Programme for Mental Health Promotion
- Professional Training in the Applied Use of Mindfulness for 7-11 Year Olds
- Numicon
- Future Learning with iPads and tablets
- Parent-child relationships as the key to success
- World Peace Game
- Educate Together Ethical Education Conference - Raising Student Voices
- Educate Together AGM
- Building blocks of Language
- Talk with Adam Harris
- Adam Harris convention in Tallaght stadium
- Smart but scattered
- Sensory processing and your child
- Visual strategies and self management
- Social and communication skills for children
- Motor development and your child
- Obsessive compulsive disorder
- Sensory Processing
Pep 3 - Assessment Tool
TEACCH
Introduction to Autism - Floortime
- PECS
- ABLLS assessment for children with autism
- Accessing the curriculum for children with autism
- Music and Drama in The Ark
- Practical Irish for Primary School Teachers - Junior and Senior Infants
- First Aid
- ADHD
- Building Language Blocks
- Adam Harris - Asiam (Autism)
- Smart but Scattered
- Sensory Processing
- OCD
- basic first aid & paediatric first aid
- Tánaiste - Deputy Principal leadership course
- Oral Language
- ICT in education
- ICT tutor training
- Excited Power-up 2.0
- Future Classroom Lab – Brussels. Collaboration in Teaching and Learning
- Conflict Resolution in Education
- Friends for Life
- Blue Star Programme Teacher Training Worskhop
- Google CS
- Future Learning with iPads and Tablets. UrAbility
- Professional Training in Mindfulness
- Numeracy Workshop
- Using tablets in the classroom
- Meitheal - principals supporting each other
- Board of Management as corporate entity
- Introduction to the School App
- Board of Management recruitment
- Coding
- Mata sa Rang
- Anti-Bullying
- Relationships and Sexuality Education
- How to support grieving pupils
- The Staged Approach to intervention in the primary school
- Aistear for School Leaders
- Managing the Under-performing Teacher
- Restorative Practice
- Games based learning
Eye of the Artist
Learning Support
New primary languages curriculum - introduction to the oral language curriculum
Irish Learning Support Association's Conference
