Posted April 30, 2008 
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Where I’d like to be ….. a project and a place to get away from it all.
I have internal photos. I will get them up within the next week. Bear with me!!
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Posted April 30, 2008 Comments(3) 
It’s 11.30 p.m here and it’s been a marathon day/evening/night at school.
Today was my deadline for getting all 12 policies completed for presentation at the Board of Management meeting.
Posted April 30, 2008 Comments(3)
Posted April 29, 2008 Comments(0) 
Short answer to a long explanation ….. ‘cos Microsoft Education Ireland shafted me, my pupils and my school!
I genuinely want to advance I.T. in my school. I don’t want to do the usual stuff with the pupils.
Posted April 29, 2008 Comments(4) 
I hate people who don’t approve my comment when I’ve taken the time to comment on their blog!
I wouldn’t mind if I had blasted them out of it but I hadn’t!
Posted April 28, 2008 Comments(3) 
I was listening to ‘Morning Ireland’ on Radio One on my way to work this morning.
I heard Pascal Sheehy, R.T.E.’s Southern Reporter, talking about the terrible burning of a 13 year old boy in Cork.
The boy and his friends had been inhaling petrol vapours from plastic bottles.
Posted April 28, 2008 Comments(5)
Posted April 28, 2008 Comments(5)
An audit by the teachers’ friend, Mary Hanafin, has found that a lot of secondary schools are using selective/restrictive policies to exclude special needs, immigrant children and Traveller children.
Provision for special needs pupils, immigrant children and Traveller children is largely left to vocational and community schools.
Other schools are opting out.
Posted April 28, 2008 Comments(0) 
Bertie will lose out on his Taoiseach’s salary increase of €38,178 when he leaves office next month.
Poor old Bertie will see his annual salary drop by €85,000.
Posted April 27, 2008 Comments(5) 
I got this from an oral language game we have in school.
Given a list of categories, choose one item for each.
In addition a person to accompany you must be chosen and 3 other items.
