Kevin Shortall is Principal in St Aidan’s Community School Tallaght, Dublin. He has worked there since 1996. He has been a Home School Community Liaison and a Deputy along the way and is gaining much publicity online for his upbeat, fun approach to leadership which includes doing head over heels in the students PE classes and dancing in the office when the Timetable is completed with

Donnchadh O’Mahony is a qualified Guidance Counsellor and best known for his engaging posts on his hugely popular Instagram page and Tik Tok account Leaving Cert Guidance. He is here today to talk about the launch of his new website www.findmycollegecourse.ie, a website he believes will direct students to the courses that best suit them.

Principal Robbie O'Connell returns for a second podcast and

Key circulars:

Primary:

Circular 0044/2019

Secondary

Circular 003/2018

https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/12523/37c04f862b6a43a888c50296547f4927.pdf#page=null

Paul Crone is the Director of the National Association of

X

https://x.com/paulcrone_napd

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-crone-1748b6a6/?originalSubdomain=ie

Louise has been principal of St. Joseph’s Primary School in Tipperary Town since 2009. She previously worked for a year with School Development Planning as a facilitator, and for a further year with the Primary Development Service for Teachers as an advisor, during which time she completed post-graduate studies in School Planning. Louise worked in Grange NS, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary for 20 years, and was Acting Principal there for 2 years. She has experience as both teaching and administrative principalship.

Louise was the Tipperary representative on the IPPN National Council since 2017 and subsequently served on the Board of Directors for 5 years. Louise has been a very strong advocate for schools in areas of disadvantage, seeking extra resources under the DEIS scheme. Louise is on the DEIS Advisory Group.

She was elected IPPN Deputy President/President-elect in June 2021 and serves as president from September 2023 to August 2025.

Trina Golden joins me to explore the essential areas aspiring and new leaders need to know about and where to find them. Trina reminds us that you won't know everything at the start so let us ease your mind and help you take the first bite of the elephant that is the world of circulars! Trina brings her insights from primary and mine from secondary. We had a few unavoidable gremlins on the line during recording and it might appear I talked over Trina but this was an unforeseen issue and not intentional.

Cineáltas

https://assets.gov.ie/241000/eb57d761-2963-4ab0-9d16-172b2e3be86d.pdf

Children

https://www.tusla.ie/children-first/children-first-e-learning-programme/

Vetting

https://assets.gov.ie/12898/570b30ba5dce467a8249a6733f965507.pdf

Child

https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/268613/39868a39-1de4-4890-97a0-2fa388a8a2a9.pdf#page=null

S and S

https://assets.gov.ie/13371/8d86870803ae4d92bc4363f209ccf13a.pdf

https://circulars.gov.ie/pdf/circular/education/2017/47.pdf

Sample 5 day

https://www.workplacerelations.ie/en/what_you_should_know/employer-obligations/terms-of-employment/sample-statements-of-terms-of-employment.docx

Recruitment:

https://www.into.ie/app/uploads/2019/08/cl0044_2019.pdf

Recruitment

https://circulars.gov.ie/pdf/circular/education/2008/16.pdf

Allocation

Primary https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/134097/ae6ce42b-d7f7-4bd7-b3fb-990bcd70046e.pdf#page=null

Secondary  https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/134111/d162d0be-1db8-451b-bd44-094aae83d752.pdf#page=null

Sick Leave

Primary :

Sick leave

https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/282536/2f7d2b1d-de9c-4be2-b3ac-f0be545a1320.pdf#page=null

Circular

Force

Irish

Primary https://www.gov.ie/en/circular/28b2b-exemptions-from-the-study-of-irish-primary/

Secondary https://www.gov.ie/en/circular/f33d5-exemptions-from-the-study-of-irish-post-primary/

SET allocation.

Primary https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/282686/7944731c-b15e-4a98-b76a-b06d899e4789.pdf#page=null

Post

James Murphy is a secondary school teacher from Newry, Co Down but is now teaching music and religion in Tullamore, Co Offaly. He graduated in the North of Ireland, therefore experiencing their equivalent to Droichead, the three-year EPD or Early Professional Development programme. James wishes to share his knowledge on Retrieval practice which he studied during this period and has continued to develop in his own classroom setting. It as an effective Teaching and learning strategy that challenges some of the more common practices, we all fall into as teachers.

Ann Byrne'a Retrieval Practice padlet

https://padlet.com/annie25ab/revision-using-retrieval-practices-q3y9rk683d06bpeu

James Murphy's email for inquiries or/and resources

[email protected]

Tommy Lyons has been a teacher for 16 years having originally completed a degree in Commerce and then

[email protected]

https://www.instagram.com/interview_ready_ed/?igsh=YncwbmZkOXZsZWk3

Denise Dalton returns for her second podcast. Denise has spent six years as a PDST Health and Wellbeing Advisor, where she played a vital role in shaping and delivering CPD in various educational domains. She is here today to explain about her area of expertise; Junior and Senior SPHE and RSE and clarify the changes that the subject has undergone since 2023. She talks about the support teachers need, the leadership of the subject, the timetabling implications and the need for updating the RSE/SHPE policy.

Twitter

@denisedltn

Link for the new book series:

https://educate.ie/shop/post-primary/?filter_subject=sphe

Denise's email address:

[email protected]