Transitioning to Secondary School - Invitation ONLY Webinar

Presented by HSE Primary Care Paediatric Occupational Therapy

You may only attend this Webinar if you have already received an invitation by post from HSE Primary Care Paediatric Occupational Therapy, Cork Kerry Community Healthcare.

Full details of this Webinar will have been provided in your postal invitation.

The Webinar will take place on Thursday, June 4^th, starting at 10am. It will be about one hour in duration.

The PDSL is delighted to be running in Tralee Education Centre this September and I was hoping you may bring it to your colleagues attention. The programme is open to those who aspire to leadership positions at both Primary and Post Primary level. It runs part time, 1 evening a week and part funded by the Department of Education and Skills and I believe is unique in having 2 leadership visits so students can shadow senior leaders during the spring and final semesters of the programme.

Registering for our online information session which takes place on May 27^th at 4pm https://pdslinfo.eventbrite.ie This will provide interested parties an opportunity to meet myself and my colleague and ask any questions they may have.

Alternatively interested colleagues can apply for the programme now

• Visiting www.ul.ie/pdsl which contains all the programme information the application links

The PDSL is a partnership programme between the University of Limerick, National University of Ireland Galway and University College Dublin and supported by the Centre for School Leadership and the Department of Education and Skills

Click Hibernia to register

Specifically for Kerry Support Teachers. Continuation of the already established forum. Open to all SET teaching in Kerry schools only.

On the 12th of March, 2020, schools were mandated by Government to close to slow the spread of COVID-19.  Since this date, ‘Home Schooling’ has become a norm.  Anecdotal evidence, reported on social and print media, suggest that school management and all teachers quickly responded to support families in this endeavour and provided their students with ICT platforms to enhance teaching and learning in the home.  However, research suggests that students with additional needs are challenged by independent learning (Westwood 2015).  The lack of structure and routine that school provides to students may increase challenges for all student learning and in particular, for those with additional needs who would be supported by the Special Education Teacher in schools.  The next meeting of our SENCO Forum Primary CoP will discuss how you, the members of the Forum, are negotiating this space. The focus will be on what is working well and how we can support each other to support our students.