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1916 Bursary Fund for going to college
Created : 09 Jun 2020, 4:16 PM
Archived : 09 Aug 2020, 12:00 AM
The 1916 Bursary Fund was established by the Department of Education and Skills. The purpose of the Fund is to encourage participation and success by students who are most socio-economically disadvantaged and who are from groups most under-represented in higher education. All of the higher education institutions are awarding the Bursaries through regional clusters. Please see each HEI website for details to apply. What is the value of a 1916 Bursary? Each student who is awarded the 1916 Bursary Fund will receive a bursary to the amount of €5,000 per annum for the normal duration of a full-time undergraduate programme. A bursary will be awarded for the normal duration of a part-time undergraduate course up to a maximum period of six years.      Applications for the 1916 Bursary for the 2020-2021 academic year will open on 07 May 2020. Who can apply for a 1916 Bursary? (Eligibility Criteria) Applicant is from socio-economically disadvantaged background and can provide evidence of such by demonstrating: Applicant must be from at least one of the following target groups: Applicant would be eligible for the Special Rate level of SUSI grant AND / OR the household / family gross reckonable income was less than €24,500 in 2019 and includes a Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (DEASP) means-tested social welfare payment(s). Socio-economically disadvantaged communities Socio-economic groups that have low participation rates in higher education; Students with a disability;  Lone parents in receipt of a means tested social welfare payment; Irish Travellers; First time, mature student entrants; Students entering on the basis of a QQI Further Education award;
Strava Leaderboard 1st-7th of June
Created : 07 Jun 2020, 8:41 PM
Archived : 07 Aug 2020, 12:00 AM
Great to see some new faces on the leaderboard again this week. Teachers and former teachers of BCS make up 6 of the top 10 places! John O’Dwyer is overall leader again after putting in another epic week of cycling. Absolutely superb John. Sarah Crowley has come from nowhere to be leading female student. Well done Sarah. Keep it up. Miss Dineen has put in a great week of running to be lead teacher for this week. The PE & Irish departments are well represented by both Mr O’Connor and Mr Foley. Great example by you both. We also have two former teachers of BCS in the top ten, Miss Green and Mr Beer. Thank you both for supporting. John Campion is back in the top ten to represent the parents after a quiet week last week. Sam Warren has been busy on the bike this week and great to see him squeeze in at number ten. 1. John O’Dwyer (leading male student) 2. Laura Green 3. Sarah Crowley (leading female student) 4. Claire Dineen (leading teacher) 5. Darragh Ó Conchúir 6. John Campion (leading parent) 7. Seán Murphy 8. Brian Foley 9. PJ Beer 10. Sam Warren
Strava-The Challenge Continues
Created : 06 Jun 2020, 11:05 AM
Archived : 06 Aug 2020, 12:00 AM
The Challenge Continues A huge thank you again to all club members for contributing to the 12,262km that we travelled for the month of May. A great achievement for all involved. Well done to all the leaders in the week 25th-31st of May. The leaderboard was dominated by teachers and students. No parent in the top ten that week! 1.John O’Dwyer (Leading male student) 2.Gary Whelan 3.Emma Barry (Leading Teacher) 4.Izabela Markiewicz (Leading female student) 5.Anne-Marie Lineen 6.PJ Beer 7.Kieran Walsh 8.Conor Murray 9.Sarah Crowley 10.Amy Kenneally We appreciate everyone allowing the admin account to follow you in order for us to keep track of the total km. That account has now been deleted as promised. A number of people have contacted us to ask us to keep the challenge going. What we have decided to do is do a weekly post to highlight the club members that have been most active in that particular week. If you remain in the Blackwater Community School Strava Club we will be able to keep keep track of the hours of activities that you complete. You can still keep your account private but show up on the leaderboard. You also have the option of leaving the club. Either way we would encourage you all to keep active throughout the summer, whether you are using Strava or not to record your activities. Keep active and be safe.
3rd and 6th year Students
Created : 05 Jun 2020, 11:33 AM
Archived : 05 Aug 2020, 12:00 AM
Students are asked to return books and novels that are part of BCS book rental scheme. I apologise for this inconvenience but in order to facilitate orders for next year it is vital to get books back to keep the fee for this scheme as reasonable as possible. Place your books in a bag/box with your name and return at the following times. Any 6th years who wish to sit the LC at a later date will be provided with relevant textbooks. Mon 8th June: 10.30-12.30 and 6-8. Tues 9th June: 10.30-12.30 Wed 10th June: 10.30-12.30 If these times are unsuitable contact annmarielineen@blackwatercs.com to make alternative arrangements. There will be no access to the school building or lockers at this time. Book drop off point will be outside main doors. Please observe social distancing guidelines. 1st Years will be accomodated at a later date.
State exam fees refunding process update
Created : 03 Jun 2020, 9:03 AM
Archived : 03 Aug 2020, 12:00 AM
Dear Principal, I refer to the announcements made by the Minister for Education and Skills, Mr. Joe Mc Hugh T.D., on Friday 10th April and Friday 8th May regarding the postponement and the revised arrangements of the Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate examinations. As a result of these decision I wish to confirm that the State Examinations Commission (SEC) is refunding all candidates who have paid their examination fee for 2020. Refunds were processed on May 26th for all candidates that paid the examination fee online. Refunds will go back to the card/account which was used to pay the fee. The process can take up to 7 days to process. If candidates have not received the refund by June 10th , they should email us at fees@examinations.ie with their exam number. Please bring the contents of this email to the attention of the candidates/parents/guardians. I want to thank you for your continued co-operation and support in this regard, it is very much appreciated. Kind Regards Jackie Wade Higher Executive Officer Fees Section
May the Road Rise to Meet You
Created : 30 May 2020, 10:06 PM
Archived : 30 Jul 2020, 12:00 AM
Day 30 Total 369 km Challenge Total 700km Cumulative Total 11,657km The second last day of the challenge saw us reach Dover early this morning and we hit the road as soon as we docked. We travelled through London to take in some of the sights before heading for Swindon, across the Severn, onto Newport and finally onto our stop for the night, Cardiff. The bodies are tired, but we are asking for one last push from everyone tomorrow. Wouldn’t it be great to have every single one of the 149 club members active tomorrow to finish off a great month on a high, and get us back to Lismore in time for a well deserved Sunday Roast. We have travelled from Lismore to Malin Head, to Mizen, back to Malin and then home to Lismore. We then headed to Rennes via the UK. Next we headed south to Barcelona, before turning around and heading north to Heidelberg. From there we headed to Krakow, Venice, Rome, Paris before settling in Cardiff tonight on route home to Lismore. Last day of the challenge tomorrow. Make the most of it.
Sincere Thanks
Created : 29 May 2020, 10:03 PM
Archived : 29 Jul 2020, 12:00 AM
Sincere thanks to all Students, Parents/ Guardians, Students’Council, Parents’ Council, Staff, Board of Management and Trustees for such an incredible effort by everyone to reach a successful conclusion to a truly unusual and challenging year. On my own behalf , and that of Maurice Geary and Maria O Brien we would like to acknowledge the hard work, commitment and dedication displayed by all stakeholders and members of the BCS community to ensure everyone put their shoulder to the wheel to ensure they our students were well supported and looked after ,particularly, during the uncertainty that followed school closure in early March ! Thanks to Ann Bennett for bringing the curtain down on the school year with a beautiful ceremony for our Leaving Certificate Students last night! At times like this , I feel we are all justified in feeling extremely proud of belonging to such a community of understanding and total unconditional loyalty . We wish everyone a pleasant summer break with good health and happiness. We look forward to embracing the new challenge of the New Normal as we return to a new Academic year of 2020/21. Ní neart go cur le chéile, Denis Ring
Graduation Evening Update
Created : 28 May 2020, 6:51 PM
Archived : 28 Jul 2020, 12:00 AM
Welcome one and all to our Leaving Cert graduation Ceremony The link to the updated ceremony can be found here. youtu.be/PTzj4ei-jhQ Enjoy
Graduation Day
Created : 28 May 2020, 12:10 PM
Archived : 28 Jul 2020, 12:00 AM
Welcome to the Leaving Certificate Graduation Day. You are invited to attend our online Graduation Ceremony this evening. The link for this will be available on our school Facebook page at 7pm this evening. Click the link to attend the ceremony
Latest DES Guide for LC students
Created : 26 May 2020, 3:13 PM
Archived : 26 Jul 2020, 12:00 AM
Calculated Grades – A Guide for Leaving Certificate Students 2020 Introduction It’s not possible to hold normal Leaving Certificate examinations in summer 2020, so students are being offered Calculated Grades instead. Calculated Grades will allow you to go on to further or higher education or the world of work when you leave school. It is the fairest way possible to tackle the effects that lack of schooling and other problems caused by Covid-19 have had on your Leaving Certificate. Calculated grades are offered to you if you are taking Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA) and the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme (LCVP) in 2020. What is a calculated grade? A Calculated Grade is a grade that can be provided to you following a combination of school information about your expected performance in an examination and national data available in relation to students' performance in examinations over a period of time. A national standardisation process will produce a Calculated Grade for each subject by combining the school data with historic examination data. Students in post-primary schools, further education and training centres, private colleges or any other institution through which students have entered for their 2020 Leaving Certificate examination are included in the Calculated Grades process. What do you need to do next? To support the Calculated Grades model, the Department of Education and Skills has developed a Calculated Grades Student Portal for Leaving Certificate students. This is available at gov.ie/leavingcertificate You will need to register on the student portal between 10am on Tuesday 26 May and 10pm on Thursday 28 May. To register you will need your examination number and to know your PPS number. You will also need to provide an email address and phone number which will be used to communicate with you about later stages of the Calculated Grades process. You will be asked to confirm the levels (Higher or Ordinary or Foundation) at which you are taking each subject or you can change to a lower level. If you are a Leaving Certificate Applied student, all you need to do is to complete the registration process. At a later date you will be asked to confirm that you are opting to receive Calculated Grades. You will also have access to your provisional Calculated Grades and to later stages of the process, such as appeal application process, through the portal. How fair is the system of calculated grades? The Calculated Grades model uses the best information available about your achievements by asking your teachers to apply their professional judgement and review several pieces of information about your work over the last two years. The national standardisation process does not favour any type of student or school. If you are a particularly strong student in your class, and the information provided by the school reflects this then you will still emerge as a particularly strong candidate. The process will ensure that the Calculated Grade will be as close as possible to what you would have achieved in the examinations. What will schools do ? Your teachers will provide an estimation of marks and class ranking for each subject that you are taking in the examinations. The teachers' estimates of the percentage marks are those that you are most likely to have achieved had you sat a Leaving Certificate in 2020 as normal. The subject teachers will work together to align the marks for the subject and the school principal will provide oversight of the alignment process. The finalised marks and rankings will be transmitted to the Department of Education and Skills for national standardisation. What informs the estimated marks and rankings? In coming to their judgements, your teachers will use for example, records of your performance over the course of study, previous results in the school in the subject and the level of performance your teachers have observed in this year’s students compared to those in previous years. Teachers have been advised to carefully consider how the results of school-based examinations, as well as other records are used in this process. Your teacher will take into account your performance on course work components even if they have not been completed. Judgements made by the school will be objective and will not take into account perceptions of students’ behaviour. If you are being taught by a substitute teacher, the assistance of the previous teacher can be included in the process. Will I have to do extra assignments or assessments? No. Your teachers will not set additional assessments for the purposes of determining an estimated percentage mark. Your teachers' judgements will be based on evidence of learning and achievement. Where additional work was completed after schools closed on 12 March up to the end of formal tuition on 11 May, your teachers have been advised to exercise due caution where that work suggests a change in performance. However, teachers are not precluded from taking account of the degree to which many students under normal circumstances would intensify their levels of commitment in the run up to examinations. Can I discuss my marks with the school? No. The principal and teachers are not permitted to discuss the estimated marks the school is submitting with you or with your parents or guardians either before or after the estimation process. You must not under any circumstances contact either formally or informally a teacher or other member of the school staff to discuss the estimated marks or rankings to be assigned to you. You must not attempt to influence, pressurise, coerce or provide an inducement (e.g. gift) to a teacher in relation to your mark either before or after it is assigned. The reason for this is to ensure that the fairness and objectivity of the process is kept intact for you and the other students in your school. Can I change level? Yes. As part of the process of Calculated Grades, you will have access to an online portal where you will be required to confirm the subject level at which you initially entered for the examinations or you can change to a lower level. You will need to do this on or before 10 pm on Thursday 28 May. It is essential that students confirm their levels at this time so that their schools can complete their task of providing an estimated percentage mark and rank order for each student. What about reasonable accommodations for students with special educational needs ? Where any reasonable accommodation has been approved for you (such as a reader, scribe or spelling and grammar waiver), your teacher will base the estimate of your likely performance on the assumption that this accommodation would have been available. Will I get 100% for my oral examination(s)? No. The earlier arrangement (communicated in March) that full marks would be awarded for the orals and music performance tests was based on the written examinations taking place this summer. As these examinations will not now take place in the summer, this arrangement will not apply. Will I get a Calculated Grade for a subject studied outside of school? If you are taking a subject outside of school your principal will be asked to work with whomever is teaching you to make every effort to provide an estimated mark. There must be sufficient evidence of your achievement in the subject for the school to make an objective judgement. There will be a separate application process for students studying independently and not attending any school or other centre to apply to receive Calculated Grades. These applications will be dealt with on a case by case basis. Every effort will be made to obtain sufficient evidence to provide students with a Calculated Grade but this may not be possible in all cases. Students will have the opportunity to sit the 2020 Leaving Certificate examination at a later date when it is safe and practicable to do so. When will I get Calculated Grades ? It is intended that the Calculated Grades will be provided to candidates as close as possible to the normal results day. Will the calculated grades be recognised for employment and further study? Yes. Calculated Grades will have the same status as Leaving Certificates awarded to students in previous years. As usually happens, you will receive a provisional statement of results. At a later time a formal final certificate will issue from the Department of Education and Skills confirming the grades. Students’ Calculated Grades will be transferred directly to the Central Applications Office (CAO). The CAO timelines will run as close as possible to normal to allow for students to take up offers and to transition to third level, further education or work etc. Can I also sit a Leaving Certificate examination later? At this point in time all students are being offered Calculated Grades which means that you can progress on to the next stages of study or employment. You can sit a Leaving Certificate later but at this point it is not possible to confirm the date. These examinations will be provided as soon as it is safe and practicable to do so. Can I see the estimated result that the school submitted for them? Yes. After the results are issued by the Department of Education and Skills, you will be able to see a record of your individual percentage mark and ranking that your school has given to you. What if I am unhappy with my Calculated Grade? You can appeal to the Department of Education and Skills and the appeals process has three stages involving: • Stage 1 & 2: Checks will be undertaken to ensure that the data processing was completed correctly by the school and the Department of Education and Skills • Stage 3: If you are still unhappy after stages 1 and 2 then you can seek a review by Appeal Scrutineers, who are independent of the Department of Education and Skills. Finally, if you remain unhappy you have the opportunity to sit an examination later when it is safe and practicable to do so. Additional information in relation to Appeals is available in the Guide to Calculated Grades for Leaving Certificate Students 2020 Due to the nature of the model, the professional judgment of the school will not form part of the appeals process. Further Information: For further information and resources including wellbeing resources see www.gov.ie/leavingcertificate