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Maths Week Tuesdays Puzzle
Created : 13 Oct 2020, 5:22 PM
Archived : 13 Dec 2020, 12:00 AM
Check out todays puzzle.. Solution will be given tomorrow

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Maths Week
Created : 13 Oct 2020, 5:17 PM
Archived : 13 Dec 2020, 12:00 AM
Solution to Yesterday Puzzle one
Happy World Mental Health Day
Created : 09 Oct 2020, 9:27 PM
Archived : 10 Dec 2020, 12:00 AM
Happy World Mental Health Day to all our students and staff. In celebration of World Mental Health Day, Mental Health Ireland are asking the public to reflect on their growth during recent tough times and their hopes for their own wellbeing, and of those around them. We’re asking people to reflect on how far they’ve come in the face of uncertainty and what they hope, not only for their own future but for others facing their own mental health challenges. We want to open up the discussion of how we can live in a world where positive mental health and recovery is possible for everyone. Check out www.mentalhealthireland.ie/your-mental-health/world-mental-health-day-2020/ for more
Support Services for Parents and Students
Created : 09 Oct 2020, 2:34 PM
Archived : 09 Dec 2020, 12:00 AM
There are many support services that can be accessed online and over the phone. Many organisations have additional supports to help people in coping with covid. You will find them attached on the picture and on the school guidance website: careersportal.ie/careerguidance/office.php?school_id=676
School Raffle- Parents Council
Created : 08 Oct 2020, 9:32 PM
Archived : 08 Dec 2020, 12:00 AM
The school raffle organized by the Parents Council planned for Easter 2020 will now take place just before Halloween 2020. Tickets €5 each are available from the office. 1st year students (without older siblings in school) received tickets today. Please return tickets by next Wednesday October 14th. Money raised will go towards Mental health services provided by the school to our students. A donation will also be made to Pieta House. Thank you for supporting your school.
HSE Vaccination forms
Created : 08 Oct 2020, 9:25 PM
Archived : 08 Dec 2020, 12:00 AM
1st year students: Please return vaccination forms to tutors or to yr head room 20 by tomorrow Friday October 9th.
Mobile laptops
Created : 07 Oct 2020, 4:05 PM
Archived : 07 Dec 2020, 12:00 AM
Our students are making great use of our 2 sets of C.0.W.S mobile laptops in classes. They are proving to be a great I. T. learning resource
October is Dyslexia awareness month.
Created : 06 Oct 2020, 8:26 PM
Archived : 06 Dec 2020, 12:00 AM
October is Dyslexia awareness month. Attached please find a document with details on activities that can take place this month and website details to find further information and on dyslexia

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Student Wellbeing Survey
Created : 06 Oct 2020, 10:23 AM
Archived : 06 Dec 2020, 12:00 AM
During first class tomorrow morning, we are asking all our students to fill out a ‘Back to School Wellbeing Survey’. Students will need an electronic device to complete this. The aim of the survey is assess how students have found their return to school and how as a school we can support them in the coming months.
Minister’s Statement. - update re LC Results
Created : 04 Oct 2020, 1:39 PM
Archived : 04 Dec 2020, 12:00 AM
Statement from the Minister for Education Norma Foley TD and the Department of Education and Skills regarding Leaving Certificate 2020 Calculated Grades Process Saturday 3 October 2020 The Minister for Education Norma Foley TD has updated Leaving Certificate 2020 students on matters relating to the corrected, higher Calculated Grades which are to issue to some students. The Department of Education and Skills will re-open the student Calculated Grades portal at 6pm today, Saturday 3 October, and all students who are due to receive corrected, higher grades, will be able to access their results. When the portal is reopening students will receive a text message to say whether their grade is changing to a higher grade or not. The Department will e-mail students whose grades have been corrected. Students who receive improved marks will also be able to see these new marks in the portal. • 5,408 students will receive a higher grade, by one grade band, in one subject. • 621 students will receive a higher grade, by one grade band, in two subjects. • 71 students will receive a higher grade, by one grade band, in three or more subjects. 6,870 grades in total will increase affecting 6,100 students. 614 schools and other centres recognised to hold the Leaving Certificate will have one or more upgraded results. This is out of a total of 741 schools and centres. It is important to note that no student will receive a lower grade as a result of this process. Following the finding of errors in the code used by the Calculated Grades national standardisation process, the Minister for Education commissioned Education Testing Services (ETS) to provide an independent expert opinion on the coding. The ETS statement is now published here: ETS raised two issues in their statement. The first is an error which occurred in the use of data, where a student did not sit all three core subjects at Junior Cycle. s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/govieassets/89698/73e7a5b6- faaa-4bf7-a5e0-cf5f0d461ed1.pdf In those cases, the system was meant to use the average national Junior Cycle score, in the missing subject, of the group of students who took their Leaving Certificate in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. Instead, it chose that student’s next best subject for inclusion in the group computation. The second issue raised by ETS is how the algorithm treated students’ marks at the extreme ends of the scale. ETS noted that the treatment does not exactly match what is described in the national standardisation group’s report, and confirmed that this does not have any meaningful impact on results. Speaking directly to students, Minister Foley said: This issue relates to those students whose marks are 99 per cent and above, and those whose marks are one per cent and below. The ETS statement says that a student could not have received a lower grade as a result of this issue. “Last week I expressed my regret to students for what had happened. I want to reiterate that today. “You have had an exceptionally difficult year. I’m sorry for that. And I’m sorry this last week delivered more uncertainty to you. “When we found errors in the code, I decided to seek independent expert oversight in the interest of certainty, particularly for students. “I am glad that we can now provide students whose grades were lower than they should have been with their corrected results today and that this period of uncertainty is now over for all students. “I wish you all every success in your choices and your journeys.” The full set of student data has been re-run in the corrected model. The Department’s Calculated Grades Executive Office and the Educational Research Centre have each run data checks independently of each other. The results that will now be published on the calculated grades student portal are the correct results under the model. A corrected file of results has been provided to the CAO earlier this afternoon. The CAO will now establish how many students are eligible to receive a new CAO offer. The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science will work with the CAO and the higher education institutions to see how these students can be facilitated to commence the course that they would, in other circumstances, have been offered in an earlier round. Any student who has applied to a higher education institution outside the State who believes their grade change will impact those arrangements should contact the relevant higher education institution in the first instance. The Department’s helpline on 01 8892199 and will be open today until 7pm and tomorrow from 11am-4 pm. The email address is LC2020@education.gov.ie . The National Parents Council Helpline will re-open on Monday at 11 am. Full details of these arrangements are on gov.ie/leavingcertificate. ENDS Notes to editors A decision was taken on 10 April to postpone the Leaving Certificate Examinations until July, which was followed by a further announcement on 8 May to move to Calculated Grades. Online registration for Calculated Grades opened on 26 May. The Leaving Certificate results were issued on 7 September. On 30 September, Minister for Education Norma Foley announced that two errors had been found in the coding used in the Calculated Grades process. The model was designed to take the Junior Cycle results of a group of students and use that group’s results to inform the calculation of their Leaving Certificate Results. It bears re- stating; the system did not take the results of a single student’s Junior Cycle exams and apply it to that specific student’s Leaving Certificate. Rather, the system looked at performance at an aggregate class level in the Junior Cycle examinations, and applied that in calculating students’ Leaving Certificate Results. The model was intended to use the students’ scores in Irish, English, Maths and their two strongest subjects. As you know, the error we discovered meant that the coding drew in the students’ two weakest subjects rather than two strongest scores. A second error concerned the inclusion of Civil Social and Political Education (CSPE), when it should have been disregarded by the system. Following this, the Minister commissioned Education Testing Services (ETS) to provide an independent expert opinion on the coding. This statement has now been published and students are being issued with their corrected grades via the calculated grades student portal at gov.ie/LeavingCertificate. It was announced on 26 August that the postponed examinations will commence on 16 November. Registration for these examinations is open until Wednesday 7 October.