# pupils - Friday 28 August, 2020
# Schools Reopening
# Schools Reopening
A mixture of excitement and frustration prevailed at one Louth school with classes of 33 pupils as available classrooms lie empty.
# pupils - Friday 7 July, 2017
# Road Collision
# Road Collision
The pupils were on an art trip.
# pupils - Saturday 6 May, 2017
# Patronage
# Patronage
The four new schools will be able to cater for up to 1,728 pupils .
# pupils - Wednesday 8 February, 2017
# Strabane
# Strabane
Police said no serious injuries were reported following the altercation.
# pupils - Friday 30 September, 2016
# ASTI
# ASTI
Students taught by ASTI could end up losing 10% of their overall mark, it is feared.
# pupils - Thursday 29 September, 2016
A national study has found that children who spend more time online and watching TV are scoring worse.
# pupils - Friday 27 February, 2015
# Pupils
# Pupils
Sinn Féin is calling for more transparency in these payments.
# pupils - Saturday 24 January, 2015
# Mol An Oige
# Mol An Oige
Now, the next step for Mol an Óige is to get out of the prefabs…
# pupils - Monday 12 January, 2015
# Edumacashun
# Edumacashun
That’s according to an assessment of 8,000 pupils across 150 schools.
# pupils - Wednesday 25 June, 2014
# Impact
# Impact
The overall number of SNAs are up, but some schools have lost out on hours.
# pupils - Wednesday 4 June, 2014
# Me Nerves
# Me Nerves
This year marks the first time that all students at Leaving Cert level will sit the new Project Maths exam.
# pupils - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
# INTO
# INTO
Primary school teachers say they are taking more notes to do with relationships, behaviour and possible bullying.
# pupils - Tuesday 22 April, 2014
# Your Say
# Your Say
Reforms expected to be announced later today could make it easier for children to opt-out.
# pupils - Thursday 17 April, 2014
# Survey
# Survey
Schools don’t have the capacity to deal with the changes due to be brought in this September, teachers said in a new survey.
# pupils - Tuesday 11 March, 2014
# Exam Concerns
# Exam Concerns
The protests are over the introduction of the new Junior Cycle Student Award.
# pupils - Monday 24 February, 2014
# Sellotape Sex Education
# Sellotape Sex Education
The group were responding after claims that at one of their sex education talks they taped two students together by their wrists.
# Court
# Court
In total last year, there were 175 court summons given to parents over 101 children.
# pupils - Monday 9 September, 2013
# Belfast
# Belfast
The threats were made by the Red Hand Defenders, and concern two primary schools and one secondary school.
# pupils - Monday 26 August, 2013
# Cyber Bullying
# Cyber Bullying
Marion Flanagan has said that there needs to be an approach involving parents, schools and the children themselves to tackle bullying.
# pupils - Friday 21 June, 2013
# Teachers
# Teachers
A Fianna Fáil motion, to be voted upon on next Wednesday, asks for increased teaching staff to meet the workload.
# pupils - Wednesday 19 June, 2013
# Absenteeism
# Absenteeism
The research found that parents, who help out at home with schoolwork and attend parent–teacher meetings, are less likely to have children with bad attendance.
# Schools
# Schools
The levels of resource teacher and special needs assistants have been maintained at 2012/2013 levels.
# pupils - Wednesday 12 June, 2013
# Education
# Education
A new report also found that teachers report pupils often coming to class too tired to concentrate.
# pupils - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
# Education
# Education
The Minister is currently debating the issue with fellow ministers Joan Burton and Frances Fitzgerald.
# pupils - Friday 30 November, 2012
# Cyber Bullying
# Cyber Bullying
Teens feel like it’s the worst kind because they “can’t escape it” and pictures and messages can be spread so quickly.
# pupils - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
# Italy
# Italy
The teacher had ordered delivery of four dead rabbits in order to dissect them, but two arrived alive.
# pupils - Thursday 22 November, 2012
# Kilfinane
# Kilfinane
Parents had blockaded the school after builders began removing fittings from the building. The school principal told TheJournal.ie that the fittings are now being put back.
# pupils - Sunday 11 November, 2012
# Young Talents
# Young Talents
You’re never too young to make a film, as pupils from around Ireland showed at the FÍS Film Festival and awards.
# pupils - Wednesday 5 September, 2012
# Education
# Education
E-books aim to bring cost savings, provide a more interactive learning system in the classroom and – of course – cut down on the weight of school bags.
# pupils - Tuesday 4 September, 2012
# Read Me
# Read Me
People from Inishowen, Co Donegal are now in more than 80 countries. Here’s how we’re bringing them back for The Gathering, writes John Collins.
# pupils - Sunday 2 September, 2012
# You Tell Us
# You Tell Us
Wallpaper-wrapped schoolbooks, the theme tune to Glenroe, a shoe-fitting machine of torture: what were the triggers that let you know it was THAT time of year again?
# pupils - Wednesday 20 June, 2012
# Social Media
# Social Media
The guidelines drawn up by the Teaching Council say teachers should make sure that any interaction on social networks is ‘appropriate’.
# pupils - Thursday 14 June, 2012
# Special Needs
# Special Needs
The association said it welcomes the 211 extra whole-time Special Needs Assistants, but said that the number of Resource and Learning Support teaching posts will not meet demand.
# pupils - Tuesday 5 June, 2012
# Your Say
# Your Say
Is it alright for teachers to interact with their students on Facebook in this digital age – or should they steer clear? You tell us…
# pupils - Wednesday 25 April, 2012
# School Books
# School Books
The ASTI has welcomed the sale of new eBook apps by Folens, but cautioned that the Government must ensure that all students have “equal access to quality educational experiences”.
# pupils - Monday 12 December, 2011
# Education Cuts
# Education Cuts
The teachers’ union has said that disadvantaged schools will lose hundreds of teaching posts – which will instead be reallocated to schools in better off areas.
# pupils - Wednesday 17 August, 2011
# In Numbers
# In Numbers
Which subjects had the best pass rates? Which had the fewest taking higher level? We’ve crunched the numbers to find out.
# Leaving Cert
# Leaving Cert
With 58,000 students picking up their results today, here’s how some of them reacted…
# pupils - Friday 3 June, 2011
# Flying Lunch
From The Daily Edge
# Flying Lunch
Birds of prey swooping in on children’s lunches at English school leads to ban on schoolyard munching.
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