I was looking at the calendar/diary today and realised that the summer holidays are only six weeks away.

Lots to do before then:

• Micra-T and Sigma-T standarised tests to be done with all classes from 1st onwards.
• A variety of in-house tests to be done.
• Book lists to be sorted for next year.
• Next year’s school calendar to be finalised.
• End of year reports to be made out.
• School tour to be taken.
• A number of visitors to the school to be sorted.
• The school nurse to call to talk to the senior classes about the ’sensitive’ areas of R.S.E. (Relationships & Sexuality Education).
• School Plan to be worked on.
• I must make out a flyer to advertise the school.

etc.

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How many faces can you see?

Up to my ears here with school work …. of my own making …. trying to see if I can get WordPress to work as a ‘plain’ looking site so I can get the pupils as masters of their own work and get them to post to the net.

Any ideas? All suggestions welcome …. I’m trying to push the boat out …. not sink it!

Been a long night …. a long tiring day ….. a burst appendix (not mine) meant I had to be elsewhere on supervision duty!

All ok now (hopefully) ….. if we could get rid of the HSE and start afresh with the ‘good’ people we’d have a great Health Service.

The people on the ground are the ones that are trying to keep the seams from falling apart.

It’s official!

My posting on child protection services has been further vindicated and I quote from the Irish Independent:

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I have written about School Development Planning Support (Primary) previously.

In their wisdom S.D.P.S. have decided to put a copy of their website on CD …. issue a copy of the CD to all the Primary School teachers in the country and to provide each member of the Board of Management with their own copies as well.

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We’re doing a major project on our local graveyard at the moment.

I have done work on the graveyard over the years but this is the first time I have really done an intensive study with the pupils.

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Normal service will resume tomorrow …

Each school is required to have a Child Protection Policy.

A D.L.P. (Designated Liaison Person) has to be named within the policy …. guess who that eejit is normally?

Yup …. you guessed it … the Principal.

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The map (click to enlarge) shows the current state of the Gaeltachtaí (all-Irish speaking areas) in our country.

The ‘green’ areas will become even smaller if the current report into where Irish is and isn’t being spoken isn’t acted upon.

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I’m a teacher … that’s what I trained for all those years ago.

(Now I’m a 40 year old tired Principal!)

I drifted into teaching.

I could easily have become an accountant, engineer …. whatever.

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