Child Wellbeing – a collective responsibility.

In the recent past, pupils in RETNS took part in the Growing Up in Ireland survey which looked at children’s well-being from their own point of view. Questions in this wide-ranging survey gave information on how happy children are today, how they feel about school,...

School self-evaluation – our third focus.

The Process so far. For the past two years school self-evaluation has been on-going in RETNS. Our first area of focus was literacy, and after gaining information from questionnaires to staff, parents and pupils, analysing standardised test scores, looking at...

National Flag for Primary Schools Initiative

In order to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Rising and to celebrate 100 years since the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, members of Óglaigh na hÉireann have been delivering a National Flag to every primary school in the country, presented in a special...

The road to digital distinction!

It seems a long time ago now since then Principal Paddie Murphy and myself attended a meeting in Blackrock Education Centre to hear that the Department of Education was beginning to roll out schools broadband and was encouraging schools to invest in networking of...

Green Flag Ceremony – Bio-Diversity

      On Friday, October 9th, we held our flag raising ceremony to celebrate gaining our 5th Green Flag for Bio-Diversity Awareness. Our guest speaker for the ceremony was Ruth Gai-McKeever, from An Taisce, who was also one of the first pupils registered in our...

One Day Together for ET

Educate Together is really on a tipping point from being a small movement of like minded people to a real choice for all families in Ireland. (www.educatetogether.ie) On Sunday September 23rd, The Sunday Business Post published a very interesting and timely article on...