first year parents

First Year Parents

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Ms Cadogan

Introductions

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Introductions

Principal Helen Cadogan helen.cadogan@sbc.ie

Deputy Principal Teresa Vaughan Teresa.Vaughan@sbc.ie

Deputy Principal Derry O’Donovan derry.odonovan@sbc.ie

HSCL

School Completion Programme Co-Ordinator

Collette Dinneen colette.dinneen@sbc.ie

Guidance Counsellor Emer O’Riordan Emer.oriordan@sbc.ie

Year Heads:

Colm O’Sullivan Colm.osullivan@sbc.ie

Michelle Crowley Michelle.Crowley@sbc.ie

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Class TutorsRonans 1 Ms L O’Sullivan Leah.osullivan@sbc.ie

Roisins 1 Mr E Ryan Eoin.ryan@sbc.ie

Oscars 1 Ms M O’Neill Megan.oneill@sbc.ie

Oisins 1 Ms Tobin Dearbhla.tobin@sbc.ie

Niamhs 1 Ms Reidy Kristine.reidy@sbc.ie

Eoins 1 Mr Connern Michael.connern@sbc.ie

Aines 1 Ms R Kingston Roisin.Kingston@sbc.ie4

• Colm O’Sullivan – colm.osullivan@sbc.ie – Year head for• Eoins 1 • Ronans 1 • Aines 1 • Oisins 1

• Michelle Crowley – michelle.Crowley@sbc.ie – Year head for• Oscars 1 • Roisins 1• Niamhs 1

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Who to contact

• Step 1 – Class Tutor• Step 2 – Year Head• Step 3 – Deputy Principal• Step 4 – Principal

How to make contact• Email• Phone the office who will ask the relevant person to call you back –

(023)8841120

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Mr O’Sullivan

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Use of School Journal

SUBJECT HOMEWORK/LEARNING INTENTIONS TEACHER COMMENT

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Other Learning Experiences

NOTES TO/FROM PARENTS/GUARDIANS

SIGNATURE

PARENT/GUARDIAN

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TUTOR/YEAR HEAD

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School Day • Please note that on Tuesdays there will be an extra class from 3:20 to 4:00. All other days will finish at 3:20

8:57-9:05 Tutorial9:05-9:45 Class9:45-10:25 Class10:25-10:40 Break

10:40-11:20 Class11:20-12:00 Class12:00-12:40 Class12:40-1:20 Lunch

1:20-2:00 Class2:00-2:40 Class2:40-3:20 Class

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Preparation for the Next Day1. All homework must be written into the journal.2. Homework should show your best effort both in content and in neatness.3. Homework must be handed up in the class on the day it is due.4. Homework is not just written work. Reading, research, preparation of materials and learning must be done.5. Part of homework is preparing for the next day in school. This is done by:

a. Checking that you have your locker keyb. Looking at tomorrow’s timetable.c. Packing all books, copies and equipment (P.E., Home Economics, Art, Technical Graphics etc.) needed for

tomorrow’s classesd. Don’t forget to allow yourself sufficient time in the morning before class and at big lunch to access your locker for

the necessary books for morning and afternoon classes.6. Make sure your journal is checked and signed and all notes from teachers are signed.7. Check if you are to bring any of the following with you:

a. Absentee noteb. Medical notec. Money for some activity. IF SO, PACK IT NOW.

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Mobile Phones Uniform

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Lockers Late, Early or Absent

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Lunch time

• Students stay on the grounds.

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New Junior Cycle

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Structure of our Junior Cycle

• 9 subjects, 3 short courses and well-being• Irish• English• Maths• Science• History• Short Courses in Digital Media Literacy (IT), PE, SPHE, Polish(optional)

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Optional Subjects

Band 1 Art Business Geography Graphics Home Ec Woodwork Woodwork Music

Band 2 Art Business French Home Ec Woodwork Engineering Spanish Graphics

Band 3 Art Business Home Ec Woodwork Engineering Music Spanish Graphics

Band 4 Art Business French Geography Home Ec Woodwork Engineering Spanish

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Non Exam Subjects

• CSPE (Civic, Social and Political Education)• Social Studies• Religion

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Some Basics

• Irish, English and Maths are at Higher and Ordinary Level.

• In the New Junior Cycle all other subjects are not divided into higher or ordinary but are a common level.

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Structure of Subjects and Assessment• Assessment

• Two Classroom Based Assessments – CBAs• one in second year and one in third year

• These are corrected by teachers and results sent to parents – they will be on the Junior Cycle certificate but do not form part of the overall marks for the subject. They will be marked as:

• Exceptional• Above Expectations• In Line with Expectations• Yet to Meet Expectations

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Assessment

• One Assessment Task prepared in school and marked by the Department (minimum of 10%)

• One Final Exam (maximum of 90%)

• The Assessment Task and the Final Exam together make the grade for the subject.

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What will the junior “cert” look like

• Grades will be different

Grade Range

Distinction 90 – 100

Higher Merit 75 – 90

Merit 55 – 75

Achieved 40 - 55

Partially Achieved 20 - 40

Not Graded 0 - 20

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• Provisional Grades will be sent to the school in September just like now

• Then the school will add in the other areas of learning and Classroom Based Assessment Grades and this will be printed by the school to create the JCPA (Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement). This will be printed by the school and issued later in transition year

• The final JCPA will include• Grades for subjects – Distinction, Merit etc.• Classroom Based Assessment results• Other Areas of Learning

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Things to include in Other Areas of Learning

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Co-curricular activitiesrefer to subjects in schoolthat are on your timetablebut that you don’t have to do an exam in. For example

Extra-curricular activities could includesports but also areas like the school quizteam or debating team

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You can also include someachievements that you madein other areas of school life.

Were you a member ofthe student council?

Have you done arefereeing coursein school?

Co curricular activities are thingsthat are done as ‘extras’ to thenormal course of a subject. Here aresome examples:

Doing music is asubject.

But if you domusic and ifyou’re in the school choirthis is a co-curricularactivity.

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You should write a list of these “OtherAreas of Learning” in your copybook.

If you are unsure aboutwhether somethingyou did qualifies as an"Other Area ofLearning” write itdown anyway.

Anotherexample ofco-curricularis this!

In 1st Year you may havedone a class play with yourEnglish teacher for a fewweeks.

This is an ‘Other Area of Learning” because its not something you have to do foryour JC exam but you dolearn from it.

You can also include a subjectyou did in 1st Yr but might not of kept on!!!

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Ms Vaughan

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Detention Monitoring Cards

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Bullying Homework

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Year Planner

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Breakfast Club & School Meals

Homework Club

• Email kristine.reidy@sbc.ie

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After School Study

• Email pat.kenneally@sbc.ie

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Attendance

• Every day counts• Send an explanation on the VSware app

when your child is absent.

• You can put in an absence in advance on the app.

• Parent App - Attendance (vsware.ie)

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Emer O’Riordan

Career Guidance

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First Year Booklet 2021/2022

• Being delivered alongside Tutor and Social Studies teacher.

• Aim: To help students make a good start in their new school.

• Contains Three modules:1. Who is Who 2. First Day Essentials 3. Homework Matters

• Sellotaped into Journal

Delivery

• Tutors distributed the booklet to students on Day 1

• Worked through Module 1 ‘Who is Who?’

• Module 2 ‘First Day Essentials’.

Module 3- Homework Matters

• Every Wednesday for the next three weeks.

• The Tasks in the booklet provide the foundations that will help students get settled:

- Journal signed- Study Space- Homework Survival Kit - Key words and terms

‘Tús maith, leath na hoibre’

Role of parent/guardian

• Please work through the booklet with your son/daughter

• Sign the booklet in the sections indicated

“And each agreed they would have failed If either had worked alone. For behind the parent stood the schoolAnd behind the teacher, the home.”

Two Sculptors

IT

Ms Cadogan

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Information Technology

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Vsware - Guides for Parents - Help Center (vsware.ie)

Facebook and Twitter

Microsoft Teams and Microsoft OneNote

Ms Helen Cadogan

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Learning SupportExtra-Curricular Activities

• Email: mary.foley@sbc.ie

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Cognitive Ability Tests (CAT Tests)

• CAT4 provides a rounded profile of pupil ability so you can target support, provide the right level of challenge and make informed decisions about pupils’ progress. It measures strengths and weaknesses across four batteries:

• Verbal Reasoning – the ability to express ideas and reason through words is essential to subjects with a high language content, and the most obvious skill picked up by traditional assessment.

• Non-verbal Reasoning – problem-solving using pictures and diagrams; skills which are important in a wide range of school subjects, including maths and science-based subjects.

• Spatial Reasoning – the capacity to think and draw conclusions in three dimensions, needed for many STEM subjects, but not easily measured by other datasets.

• Quantitative Reasoning – the ability to use numerical skills to solve problems, applicable well beyond mathematics.

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Questions

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