Intermediate School, Killorglin - Parents Information
Parent Information
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A Chara,
The National Parents Council Post Primary are currently organising our programme focused on delivering training for Parents/Guardians on Parents’ Associations in all post-primary schools (Community Schools, Community Colleges, Comprehensive Schools, Secondary Schools and Vocational Schools), nationwide. The delivery of such a programme will ensure that the members of each Parent’s Association will know their responsibilities, their rights and where to obtain all the knowledge required to ensure they can advise fellow Parents/Guardians as the need arises.
The venue for Co. Kerry is:
Presentation Secondary School , Milltown
26th October 2011 at 7:30pm
Topics that will be addressed on the night.
· Purpose of Training
· NPCpp assistance/support
· Sectors
· Constitution/Legislation
· Why Parents Associations?
· Meetings and objectives
· Role of Officers
· Areas of involvement
· Rights, responsibilities and conflict
· Curriculum
· Partnership and relationships
· Appeals and Grievances
· Challenges
If you would like to participate ( evening 7.30 – 9.30pm), we would be delighted to provide the training (including light refreshments) free of charge.
Parents Quiz Night
Parents Association Quiz Night Fund Raiser This year we will be running our popular quiz night on the Wednesday 2 March at 8pm in the Tapas Bar, Killorglin. Last year the money raised purchased an AED for the school, this year we are raising funds for Visualisers that cost about €400 each - see below If you would like to take part just turn up on the night, food is provided for all teams and the entry fee is 40 Euro per team of 4. There will be prizes for the winning teams and a number of spot prizes throughout the night. We are looking forward to seeing you there and if you cannot make it but would still like to support our fund raising please leave any contributions at the school office in an envelope marked for the Parents Association. Visualisers are real-time image capture devices for displaying an object to a class. Like an opaque projector, a document camera is able to magnify and project the images of actual, three-dimensional objects, as well as transparencies.They are, in essence, high-resolution web cams, mounted on arms so as to facilitate their placement over a page. This allows a teacher to write on a sheet of paper or to display a two or three-dimensional object while the class watches. Theoretically,all objects can be displayed by a document camera. Most objects are simply placed under the camera. The camera takes the picture which in turn produces a live picture using a projector 
Below is a copy of the latest National parents Council Newsletter
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NPCpp Welcomes the
Publication of a Revealing
ERSI Study
A recent study by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has found that some parents are discouraged from getting involved in school life because they feel the teachers are not very approachable or the school discourages involvement, the study entitled
‘Behind the Scenes? A Study of
Parental Involvement in Post-
Primary Education’ was co-authored by Professor Emer Smyth (ERSI) and Dr. Delma Byrne (NUI Maynooth).
Professor Emer Smyth ( ESRI)
The study found that work and childcare commitments were the most frequently cited potential barriers to parents getting more involved with their child’s school.
However, one in four parents said some teachers discouraged their involvement because they were not very approachable. And one in six said they felt the school did not want parents involved.
Parents’ childhood experiences of school also emerged as a potential barrier. “Thus working-class parents may be more reluctant to approach the school about particular issues because school had been a negative experience for them,” the report said.
The ESRI said the report, which also involved the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment and the Department of Education and Skills,
was “the most comprehensive study to date of Irish parents’ involvement in their children’s education”. It draws on surveys of and in-depth interviews with, parents and teachers and builds on the ongoing Post-Primary Longitudinal Study which is following students in 12 schools.
Professor Smyth and Dr Byrne found that one of the most striking findings was the extent of parental involvement in post-primary education.
The study found that parents were the main source of advice for young people making choices on issues such as picking subjects and third-level options.
Informal parental involvement, through discussing educational decisions, was associated with improved exam performance among young people, it said.
The study found that formal contact with the school, such as involvement in the Parents’ Council, was generally limited to more highly educated, middle-class parents.
“Generally, working-class parents with lower levels of education tend to have less formal contact with the school,” the authors said. “Where they have contact, it is more likely to be in response to difficulties with their child’s behaviour or lack of educational progress.”
The study also found that higher professional parents were more likely to send their child to a school outside the local area. Some middle-class parents planned ahead by taking into account feeder primary schools when picking a post-primary school.
While it found that parents were broadly satisfied with their children’s schooling, levels of dissatisfaction were greater with the junior cycle curriculum than with the senior curriculum.
More than one-third of parents felt their children took too many
subjects at junior cycle level.
To all Parents of Pupils attending Concern was also expressed about
Post Primary Schools.
You are invited to attend the
National Parents Council
Post Primary
Annual Conference 2011
14th – 15th October,
Sheraton Hotel, Athlone,
Co Westmeath
Contact Sandra Boylan @ 01 8302740 or sandra_boylan@npcpp.ie
subjects at junior cycle level. Concern was also expressed about the lack of formal guidance on the long-term implications of taking or dropping subjects at this level.
Concerns about career guidance were highlighted at senior cycle with one in four parents saying they were not satisfied with this aspect of their child’s school.
The importance of providing parents with information to help them assist their children in making choices about their education was highlighted by the study.
It also said most parents were happy with the information they received from the school but there was
“scope to improve the provision of information to parents of post-primary students on the options open to their children”.
Post-primary schools should be encouraged to develop “a clearly defined school policy or plan for productive and effective parental involvement”.
The study goes on to state that many parents would like to see increased academic guidance in the early years of second-level education when children were making decisions about subject choices.
It also noted the request from parents for a greater focus on computer skills, life skills and on
preparing children for the world of work.
NPCpp welcomes the report and said the finding that some teachers and schools discouraged parental involvement tallied with its own findings. It also called on schools to provide better support to students and parents when they were faced with narrowing down subject choices at junior cycle level.
Important 2011 Dates for Parents/Guardians and Examination Students
February 1st: Deadline for CAO applications
April 4th to 15th: Leaving Certificate oral examinations
May 1st: Closing date for receipt of late CAO applications
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