INTO Leave App

INTO Leave App

The INTO have produced an app that will be useful for all teachers and principals to have. The app allows users to search for and find out information on their leave entitlements, whether that leave is a brief absence, extended leave or sick leave. Under the “Brief...
Guest Post: Revised Sick Leave Arrangements

Guest Post: Revised Sick Leave Arrangements

On 1st September 2014 a revised sick leave scheme came in to effect for teachers. The Department of Education and Skills (DES) issued Circular 59/2014 which outlines teachers’ sick leave entitlements. There are a number of significant changes in the revised sick leave...
Kidblog in the Classroom

Kidblog in the Classroom

Check out this article I wrote for the April 2014 edition of InTouch, the INTO magazine for primary school teachers, entitled “Get Pupils Blogging With Kidblog”. It charts the progress of a group of 6th class pupils as they blogged their way through their final year...
Póstaeir Foghraíochta Luaite in InTouch

Póstaeir Foghraíochta Luaite in InTouch

 Bhí Póstaeir Foghraíochta ó Seomra Ranga luaite in iris InTouch na míosa seo: “Tá cairteacha balla ar a bhfuil líostaí focal le patrúin éagsúla , m.sh. ú, í, ín, óir, aí, uí agus araile ar fáil le híoslódáil saor in aisce ón suíomh Seomra Ranga. Tá na cairteacha seo...
Handwriting in Schools

Handwriting in Schools

I read a great Blog Post this week written by Tom Hesmondhalgh on his Creative Education Blog where he questions the validity of teaching handwriting in schools at a time when technology is asserting its primacy. He also poses the question as to whether teaching touch...