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Attendance reporting often causes confusion and stress for Principals and parents. Here are explainers are the mechanisms for Principals, and a template to share with parents to ensure they also understand the process.

For Principals: Attendance Processes & Legal Requirements

The Legal Requirement...

In my first year as Principal, 2018, a colleague in my IPPN cluster group ask if I was going to the IPPN conference. I was clueless but knew I needed to build a network and said sure! I signed up, it was in City West, and off I went absolutely naive to what I was walking into. Walking in that first ...

Education has not been an election issue for a long time. This reflects a combination of public apathy and the politicians responses to that and school and teachers unwillingness to portray our schools as anything short of wonderful. We get on with it, we do our jobs and we grin and bear it.

Our ch...

Circular 80/2024 was released yesterday. You can read it in full here:https://www.gov.ie/en/circular/f16ca-new-measures-to-support-the-forward-planning-for-special-education-provision/

The focus is on special classes, and particular Autism classes with some significant changes to processes for admi...