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Trina Golden
@CatrionaGolden
Primary School Principal. She/her. Where Trina talks and blah, blah, blah
Nov 19, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Summary🧵 : Circular 58/2023 - Force Majeure & Illness in Family

Some significant (&possibly confusing) changes to these leaves with the new circular this week. I'll try to summarise key points.

It is necessary for all schools to be up to date with this, fairly immediately

#1 Image Previously, for teachers, Force Majeure was subsumed into Illness in Family & was 5 days a year. This has changed, and application process etc has changed significantly.

Illness in family now only kicks in where force majeure is used up or doesn't apply.

I'll explain each

#2
May 9, 2023 • 10 tweets • 6 min read
Home based Summer programme : Summary🧵

Full details available here : gov.ie/en/publication…

Some positive moves as well as some disappointing bits.

Thread will be long with different bits but first few tweets will cover the key parts.

#1 Basics:

➡️ School gives qualifying parents application
➡️ Parent returns it
➡️ School submits pupil on portal
➡️ Parent receives email with forms
➡️ Parent employs tutor
➡️ Tutor provides provision
➡️ Parent & Tutor sign form & submit
➡️Tutor gets paid (hopefully in 2023)

#2
Feb 9, 2023 • 13 tweets • 8 min read
Summer Programme 2023 : Summary Thread (primary & special schools)

4 programmes this year

➡️Special School programme
➡️Primary Programme (combined special class and mainstream complex needs & ed. disadvantage
➡️ DEIS camps
➡️ Home based

gov.ie/en/publication…

#1 ➡️This year has a theme across the programmes. "Building Confidence and Connections". Programmes are required to be planned to link with this theme. No, I have no idea why they've added this....

#2 Image
Jun 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
New Covid Circular 38/2022: Summary

Big changes from July 2022, for next school year.
assets.gov.ie/226565/d1c911d…

#1 Image ➡️ Special Leave with Pay only to a max of 7 days.
➡️ When employee comes down with symptoms they must test within one day.
➡️ A negative test is normal sick leave. Positive test is special covid leave.
➡️ New Appendix form for recording

#2 ImageImageImageImage
Jun 2, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I asked Principals to share their experiences of Exceptional Reviews.

Please share. I think it's vital that parents and the general public understand the reality in schools in terms of SNA support, not just the headlines. Image Image
Jun 1, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
New Exceptional Review Guidelines. New form for each sna instead of uploading timetables.

ncse.ie/wp-content/upl… Image Criteria for review.

*Actually, our kids moving into first class was definitely anticipated and is not unusual 🙄

#2 Image
Nov 24, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Gaslighting.

A thread.

10 examples of how this is absolute gaslighting. If your communication is so awful that this ISNT the message you wanted repeatedly sent for the last 18 months, you are in the wrong job.

Example #1

Dr Tony Holohan - January 2021 Example #2

"Public Health Authorities"
May 21, 2021 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
Primary Summer Provision - Summary Thread

I'll start with the facts & throw in my opinions at the end.

3 programmes for primary
➡️ Special class & school provision
➡️ Mainstream provision
➡️ DEIS literacy & numeracy camps

Full docs here:
gov.ie/en/publication…

#EdChatIE

#1 There will also be home based provision.

➡️ 40 hrs
➡️ Parent sources tutor
➡️ No details yet, documents to follow.

Home based tuition is only available if the child's school is NOT running the school based programme or if there's isn't space for them

Parent leaflets below

#2
May 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Info and expression of interest forms for school based provision at Post Primary up now.

Nothing yet for primary, special schools or home based tuition

gov.ie/en/publication…

#EdChatIE Some interesting stuff in the documents that may transfer over to primary one as well youd imagine

➡️ Staff (overseer/teacher/sna) paid their personal rate of pay for the time, not the set rate of home based.
➡️ Overseer role has to be permanent member of staff

#1
Feb 15, 2021 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
The implementation of a new SNA model has gotten a bit lost in the madness of the last year.

There seems to be a lot of confusion about what it means and what implications should be.

Here's a thread where I try to dig into the main points.

@SNAsSpeakOut
#edchatie

#1 The new model is based on this review.

It was piloted with a limited amount of schools, and increased resourcing from what will be available (please jump in if you were a pilot school and have info).

#2
ncse.ie/wp-content/upl…
Feb 4, 2021 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
To lighten the mood & give insight into ehat I think perfectly sums up the DES I present a thread on my first (traumatic) experience of

"The Cluster Games"

(sometimes known as the clusterf**k)

* Other principals, please jump in here with your experiences *

#1

#edchatie So, I came home from teaching abroad and got a principalship starting Sept 2018. Great! Busy, full on, a million jobs to get my head around, but all going well.

Then, February comes.

Oh SET allocations are out, great! No. Not great.

So begins "The Cluster Games"

#2
Feb 4, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
Not actually that much in the documents so key points thread.

Supplementary Provision scheme:

➡️ Special school, special class & School support Plus in Mainstream eligible. Schools have flexibility to add to SSP taking into account current circumstances

#1

#edchatie ➡️ 20 hours over 4 weeks
➡️ Outside of school hours
➡️ Flexibility for catch up over Easter/Spring Break
➡️ Can be done by Teacher or SNA, rates in image

#2
Feb 4, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Summary of Information Note on Leave

➡️ Parental Leave
➡️ Unpaid Leave
➡️ High risk
➡️ Pregnant

Only applies for this temporary interim period.

Underpinned by all just be BOM approved and they must ensure safe amount of staff on site.

#1
#edchatie Parental Leave:

➡️ BOM may waive 6 weeks notice
➡️ BOM can approve a pattern of leave, less than one week blocks. E.g where staff are available some days but not others, with childcare.

#2
Feb 4, 2021 • 23 tweets • 8 min read
Long summary of reopening schools docs from 3/02.

5 docs total
➡️ Letter to Principals
➡️ App1 -Framework for return
➡️ App2 -HSPC Guidance
➡️ App3 -Additions to COVID response plan needed
➡️ App4 -COVID response plan doc

All here:

#edchatie
#1

into.ie/2021/02/03/gui… Letter to Principals:

➡️ 2 phases and dates confirmed again.
Special schools - 11th - 50%
Special classes - 22nd - 100%

➡️Circular to follow on staffing, parental leave etc (the parts people want info on 🙈)

➡️ Dicussions ongoing for further reopening

#2
Feb 3, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Guidance on reopening of special schools/classes:

I'll try to do a summary of the different documents tomorrow, but first read through a few things that jumped out immediately.

Most is repeating information shared already. Appendix 1 is most of the new stuff

#edchatie

#1 ➡️ Increased mitigation measures are surgical masks for staff and new guidelines in ventilation (windows open when not in class, partially open when in class)

➡️ No change in vaccination place for any staff currently

#2
Feb 3, 2021 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
PSSA @INTOnews vote, a thread.

So, I'm going to collate my thoughts here as I try to work through the deal & implications.

Please correct me if I have understood anything wrong!

I want to come to a decision myself today, but I haven't finalised it yet.

#edchatie

#1 My context, because this will appeal to different people for different reasons

How this impacts me:
➡️ Old payscale
➡️ New pension
➡️ Teaching Principal (benchmarking/ workload changes)

#2
Jan 26, 2021 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Long one: Live lessons, Equity, Access & Remote Learning

The demands for live learning and claims that it is the best option, or the only real teaching, or the closest to "normal" are getting louder the longer this goes on. Frustrated parents looking for support.

#edchatie

#1 Absolutely understandable. Trying to navigate remote learning, apps, downloads, printables & support your child while working yourself at home, or outside is not just hard, for many it's impossible.

Each family sees this through their own lens, from their own perspective

#2