Category Staff experience

Student Psychology Service

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Our student Psychology Service was set up in September 2010. It provides collaborative support to students, staff and parents/guardians in our schools and Further Education and Training (FET) Service. In this blog, our Senior Educational Psychologist Martin Gallen tells us…

Supporting Community Education

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The Community Education Support Programme within our Further Education and Training (FET) Service supports thousands of students around the county and its islands each year but what exactly does it support? In this blog our Community Education Facilitators Catherine Friel…

The Importance of School Musicals

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School musicals play an important role in the lives of our school communities but what are the benefits? Eileen Carr, a teacher in our Donegal Town school, Abbey Vocational School, for over thirty years, has been the Musical Director for…

Supporting LGBTI+ Students

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Supporting our LGBTI+ students in our schools, FET Centres and services is an important aspect of our work. But how do we do this? In this blog, our Moville Community College Art teacher Helen Gallagher tells us what her school…

Piloting the Ethos of an ETB School

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Carmel Mulligan is one of our Deputy Principals in our Raphoe school, Deele College and over the past year has been leading a national pilot project in the school with Dublin City University (DCU) examining the application of the principles…

Explaining the DEIS Scheme

Philip McGuinness is our Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) Coordinator in one of our Buncrana schools, Crana College. This role involves the coordination of the school’s Delivering Equality of Opportunity (DEIS) plan. In this blog he tells us what the…