Feb 4, 2016
Safer Internet. A new Irish site, Cybersmarties.com, has recently been launched, endorsed by Pat Courtney, Director of Anti Bullying Services, former National Anti-Bullying Co-ordinator SPHE, Dept of Education. The site aims to allow children to use social...
Jan 20, 2016
Last year, a number of classes in RETNS took part in the Irish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children 2014 (HBSC) survey. The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study tells us what young people think about health and personal behaviours; how they perceive harm...
Jan 14, 2016
March 15th 2016 has been designated ‘Proclamation Day’ for schools in Ireland. A major focus on Proclamation Day will be the unveiling and reading of each school’s own ‘Proclamation for a New Generation’. Using the 1916 Proclamation schools are invited to write a new...
Jan 6, 2016
@lustforlife Wellbeing for teaching and learning , written by Tomás Ó Ruairc ,http://www.alustforlife.com/the-bigger-picture/wellbeing-for-teaching-and-learning … pic.twitter.com/W4ESLmBnWG Retweeted by RETNS
Dec 15, 2015
We held our very own Science Fair in RETNS in November. The fair was organised and hosted by students in 5th and 6th class and attended by children from JI to 4th class, who were amazed at what they discovered. Here are just some of the pictures of the Science Fair. ...
Dec 14, 2015
Published in In Touch magazine, December 2015 Bouncing Away is the first mental health book in Ireland created by children for children. The book, funded by the Mental Health Services HSE Sligo/Leitrim/W Cavan, gives insight into children’s own perspectives on...
Dec 11, 2015
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,...
Nov 26, 2015
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...
Nov 18, 2015
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...
Nov 3, 2015
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...
Oct 13, 2015
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...
Oct 1, 2015
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...
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