New staff laison teacher: E. Fitzgerald

Principal: V. Slattery

Deputy Principal: M. Hannafin

Our goal is for all new staff to feel supported and our more experienced staff will be happy to help. The mentor for 2024-2025 is Eileen Fitzgerald.

NQTs can also complete Droichead in St.Oliver's. The Droichead team is Valerie Slattery, Morgan O'Connell and Emer Power.

• A day before school opens for pupils on term 1 for a staff meeting and preparation of rooms.

• Morning supervision on duty day.

• Staff meetings.

• Parent-teacher meetings (in addition to the formal 2 and a half hour parent-teacher meeting).

• CPD

• Individual/ small group planning.

Deputy Principal: Michelle Hannafin

Board of Management

John Condon Chairperson, Valerie Slattery, Michelle Hannafin, Sr.Sheila Fox, Alanna O'Regan, Wajid Ahmad, Mary Sullivan, Dermot McCabe

2024-2025

• Class Teachers

Junior Infants: Orla Keating & Fiona Peters

Senior Infants: Laura Guiry & Sarah Lonergan

1st Class: Loraine Kiely & Katie Monaghan

2nd Class: Brid Cullinan & Maeve Ryan

3rd Class: Jack O'Dwyer & Emer Power

4th Class: Eileen Fitzgerald & Anna Whelan

5th Class: Anne Lyons & Morgan O'Connell

6th Class: Emma Hartigan & Amy Quirke

• Sp Ed Teachers

Michelle Hannafin (SENCO), Helen Browne, Ciara Corbett, Julie Fraher/Elaine Hassett, Aidan Gaughran, Fiona Kelly, Mary Mulhern, Sinead O Connor, Nicola O'Keeffe, Sean Slattery, Aine O'Connell

• HSCL Teacher

Fiona Pyke

• SNAs

Susan Kerton, Martina Maher, Geraldine Mc Loughlin

• Administration Staff

Kay Lyons & Rachel O'Donnell

• Caretaker

Willie Cronin

• Teachers on leave

Orla Clohessy,Ciara O'Donoghue, Claire Ryan

Code for main door : please check with Kay as this changes intermittenly.

- Principal's office

- School office

- HSCL office

-3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th classrooms

- Science Resources/ printer Room

- Staff/public Toilet

School Hall:

- PE Equipment room

- Cleaners store room

- Store room

Junior Corridor is located at the infant entrance:

- Junior infants, senior infants, 1st, 2nd classrooms

- SEN/meeting room

- Administration store room

- Staff Toilets

- SCP meeting room/ printer room

- Kitchen for hall

- School hot meals preparation room

Sp Ed Corridor is located across the main yard

- 5 SEN rooms

- "Quiet Room" /sensory room

- "Gym Room" /sensory room

- Staff room

- "Nurture Room"/ parents room/ infant library/ Breakfast Club room/ meeting room

- Staff toilet/ cleaners store room

Microwaves, toaster, toasted sandwich maker are available in the staffroom for staff use.

• 1st/2nd class Ms Ryan's room. Set 16 tablets.

• 3rd/4th class Ms Power's room. Set of 24 IPads.

• 5th/6th class Mr O'Connell's room, Set of 24 IPads.

  
  

  Code to open open box of devices available from these teachers.

  Password for device is: Oliver

Staff are asked to discuss EPV day requests with the principal and to record the day with Kay.

The following circulars provide information on absences:

• Circular 58/2023 Force Majeure & Illness in Family Leave

• Circular 78/2022 Breavement Leave, Wedding Leave

• Circular 13/24 Sick Leave, Medical/ Dental or hospital appointments

• Circular 18/00 Wedding Leave

• Circular 37/1997 EPV days

• Circular 32/2007 Study & Exam Leave

• Circular 54/2019 Unpaid Leave

For short term subbing, substitute teacher uses the class teacher laptop. Passcode for device and all passcodes for websites/apps eg.IXL, Accelerated Reader, DabbleDoo etc. available from class teacher.

Long term substitute teacher laptop is available from Morgan O'Connell.

The school uses Aladdin to record the following:

• Attendance- Roll must be taken at 10:00am

• Money- receipt must be given. Receipt book in classroom.

• Late arrivals

• Parent teacher meetings

• Staff notices

• Parent notices eg explanation for student absence

• End of year Report Cards

• Standardised test results

• "A Class Split List". This is a list of the classrooms and a list of the students that will be sent to those rooms on the days their teacher is absent. Junior Infants pupils are not split. Senior Infants, 1st and 2nd classes are divided between the teachers on the junior corridor. 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes are divided between teachers on the senior corridor.

• Name of "buddy". This person will know where the worksheets are, can access "The Split List" in the room, inform Kay of absent pupils, split the class and cover duty if required.

Preparation for Absence

Teachers are asked to organise the following:

• Unplanned absences- Work sheets. A teacher is asked to have 3 sets/days of worksheets available for photocopying which may be given to children on days they are split.

• Planned absences eg. EPV day - teacher will have worksheets photocopied and ready to be distributed.

• If a pupil is injured in the yard or in the classroom, an "Accident Form" (available from the office) must be completed by the supervising teacher and the class teacher informed. The form is returned to Kay in the office and parents/guardians are informed of all head injuries etc.

• First Aid Kits are available in the following locations;

  (a) Hanging on the wall inside the Main Infant Door

  (b) Hanging on the wall inside the door beside Ms Lyons and Ms Fitzgerald's classrooms

  (d) Hanging on the wall inside the main entrance to the SEN rooms (door at end of covered area between extention and main school building)

• Ice packs (when required) are available in the First Aid Bags and from the staff room

  
  

  Incidents

• Teachers are required to complete an "Incident Form" for incidents which occur and return to Kay in the office

  
  

  Defibulator

• There is a defibutor located in the main hallway outside the principal's office. A team have been trained to use this device.

  
  

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Internal Phone numbers:

• Kay 20

• V Slattery 21

• Meeting Room 22

• Lunch prep room 23

• HSCL 24

• Recovery Room 25

• Meeting Room 26

• Michelle/Nicola 30

• Fiona K/Helen 31

• Orla C/ Aine 32

• Mary/ Elaine/Julie 33

• Sensory Room 34

• Aidan/Sinead 35

• Movement/Fun Room 36

• Staff room 37

• Nurture Room 38

• Brid 40

• Maeve 41

• Loraine 42

• Laura 43

• Orla K 44

• Fiona Peters 45

• Sarah 46

• Katie 47

• Kitchen 48

• Amy 50

• Emma 51

• Morgan 52

• Jack 53

• Anna 54

• Eileen 55

• Anne L 56

• Emer 57

• All pupils and staff must go to the infant yard.

• There is a map in every classroom indicating the exit door, route and location in the yard where the class line up.

• The classroom door must be closed by the last person to exit the room.

• The class teacher must take the class list which is located beside the classroom door. This will be used to take the attendance when the class have lined up in the yard.

• Uploading to the school website

• Changes to lunch order with "Fresh Today"

Heywood Road,

Clonmel,

Co. Tipperary

Eircode E91 NW22

Telephone 0526121016

Email: reception@stoliversclonmel.ie

Roll no: 19645E