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Mock Exams for 3rd and 6th Years
Created : 18 Jan 2022, 3:29 PM
Archived : 18 Mar 2022, 12:00 AM
Mock Exams will be held during the weeks of February 7th to 18th. This year, Leaving Cert Mock Fees are €133 and Junior Cert Mock Fees are €113. Instalments or full payment can be made on the School App. If your son's exams haven't been paid for, they will not be sent away for correction. The first set of papers to be posted will be on Friday February 11th, so this is an important date to try to have it all paid up. There will be another posting, the following Friday but unless full payment is made, the exam papers will not be sent away. We do not say this lightly and do not mean to sound demanding. However, the full cost of Mock Exams is €35,500, believe it or not. The school cannot support any non payment, as you can understand. We appreciate your support, and if you wish to discuss a payment arrangement with me, please ring the office.
1st/2nd/TY/5th Reports - 1st Year Parent Teacher Meeting
Created : 18 Jan 2022, 2:30 PM
Archived : 18 Mar 2022, 12:00 AM
Your sons' Christmas Reports have been published on VSware this morning. The First Year Online Parent Teacher Meeting has been arranged for Thursday afternoon from 4.15-6.45 pm. The Booking Form went live yesterday. Due to time constraints it will not be possible to facilitate a meeting with all of your son's teachers for this Thursday afternoon. If you have any issues that need discussing with any of your son's teachers, and are unable to book a meeting, please email the school (stmarys@portlaoisecbs.com) with your son's name, class, subject and the teacher 's name whom you wish to hear from. We will pass on those messages to the teachers who will reply to you by phone or email. We have not had any face to face, online or in person, meetings for parents so far this year. We felt that it would be better to facilitate as many as possible of the First Year parents through the booking system and online Teams meetings this time. But there are only 29 time slots per teacher, and obviously that cannot facilitate everyone. We will do our best for all interested parents to receive the feedback they want and deserve over the coming week or two. Thank you very much for your patience and understanding.
Classes end at 3.45 on Thursday 20.1.22
Created : 17 Jan 2022, 2:54 PM
Archived : 17 Mar 2022, 12:00 AM
Due to the First Year Parent Teacher Meeting after school on Thursday, all classes for all year groups will end at 3.45 pm that day. Please arrange for an earlier collection for your son(s). Buses will run at the usual times. Thank you and apologies for any inconvenience which they may cause.
Instructions for 1st Year Online Parent Teacher Meeting this Thursday
Created : 17 Jan 2022, 2:43 PM
Archived : 17 Mar 2022, 12:00 AM
Please read the PDF letter to parents first, then click on this YouTube video which takes you through the booking process on Microsoft Bookings. Have a list of your son's teachers to hand before you begin to make the individual bookings. If you don't know all the names, you will find them on your son's VSware account. Thank you. youtu.be/pAAG5VWxtD4

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Webinar for parents of Autistic Students-5 Steps to Inclusion and Understanding of Autistic Students for Parents
Created : 14 Jan 2022, 2:00 PM
Archived : 14 Mar 2022, 12:00 AM
Please see below information on five-week webinar suitable for parents of Autistic Students, we would appreciate if you would share with relevant parents please. Booking is essential on zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErdeqtrzgiHNA7Jd3ZEy3hE9jtg7U0laXl 5 Steps to Inclusion and Understanding of Autistic Students for Parents with Shaun Greville 25.1.2022 x 5 weeks This webinar series is aimed at parents of autistic students in Primary and Post-primary schools. The series will consist of five sessions on 25th January, 1st, 8th, 15th & 22nd February online with each Session taking 1 -1 1/2 hours. There will be time set aside for Q and A at the end of each session. Facilitator Shaun Greville teaches in the Esker Centre, Ballinamere. Shaun completed 5 years secondment to the SESS and latterly the NCSE. He fulfilled the roles of Advisor and Assistant National Coordinator for the autism team with a focus on in-school support for teachers and both in-school and external CPD regarding autism. It is hoped to form a regular support group for parents at the end of the 5 week Course facilitated by Shaun. The webinar series will cover the following areas: 1) Characteristics of autism; Strengths and Challenges 2) Sensory processing: Pathway to Sensory Inclusion 3) Communication: Social Communication and Interaction 4) Stressful Behaviour 5) Safe Social Story Creation. Dates: Tuesdays: 25th January, 1st, 8th, 15th & 22nd February 2022 Time: 7-8pm Registration: zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErdeqtrzgiHNA7Jd3ZEy3hE9jtg7U0laXl Learning outcomes for the 5 week course: 1) Characteristics of autism; Strengths and challenges: The participants will be introduced to the characteristic strengths and needs of autistic learners, the main psychological theories of autism and the different perspectives of intellectual rather than intuitive learners. This seminar will set the foundation blocks for further, deeper understanding to come. 2) Sensory processing: Pathway to Sensory Inclusion: The participants will follow a 4 step process from Awareness to Understanding to application and Inclusion of Sensory needs of autistic children. It is hoped that the participants will gain a further understanding of the Sensory Differences involved with Neurodiversity. 3) Communication: Social Communication and Interaction: The participants will take a deep look at the areas of Communication and interaction by looking at developmental levels, play skills and social interaction demands. There is a focus on the shared responsibility for social communication. 4) Stressful behaviour: A deep look at behaviours that may occur due stress and distress. The participants will look at the low arousal approach to stressful behaviours, the communication underlying stressors and strategies for helping students achieve a sense of regulation. 5) Safe Social Story Creation. The participants will be brought through the stages of writing Social Narratives for children that are Safe, Expliciat, Accurate and Meaningful(SEAM) focussing on information that informs children of what they are expected to do rather than not do. Yvonne Nolan Local Course Administrator Laois Education Centre, Block Road, Portlaoise, Co. Laois, Phone: 353-057-8672400 Fax: 353-057 8661137 Website: www.laoisedcentre.ie
Important Message to all Parents
Created : 14 Jan 2022, 12:22 PM
Archived : 14 Mar 2022, 12:00 AM
Good morning and best wishes for a happy new year to you and your families, With a new year comes new resolutions and higher expectations. This applies to personal life as well as school life. This notification is to make all parents / guardians fully aware of our expectation on all our students to raise their personal performance in school. This applies to their uniform, homework, the correct use of journals, their attention in class and other aspects of school life which help our students reach their full potential and learn the value of self-discipline, personal responsibility, self- directed learning, and respect. We know that repeatedly reminding students about journals, uniforms, homework does not always work. We also need support from home – your support. Since September we have given warnings and chances yet the same behaviours persist among a certain few. This gives the impression to those who are complying that they can also ignore the rules. It also makes little of the positive efforts which many parents are making to be compliant with us. Covid has provided an excuse for just about everything in the last 2 years. Making excuses for yourself on a regular basis is not a good way to realise your own potential. We are compassionate, empathetic and fair minded. However, allowing standards across all aspects of school to be undermined by such a mindset is not in anyone’s interests. This undermines the excellent efforts of those students and their parents who uphold the values of our school – ‘from each his best’. In a nutshell, beginning Monday, the behaviours listed below in class and around the school will incur an automatic Friday Detention. This was announced to all students present in school yesterday and we are making parents aware today, in order that you can discuss this with your son, to make sure he is aware of the zero tolerance for some behaviours and the consequences which are a Friday afternoon detention – in advance of Monday morning. 1. The wearing of PE gear on a day when the student does not have PE will incur a Friday detention. Those 5th years doing the LC PE course have been told by their LCPE teacher which day per week they are to wear the PE gear and only on that day are they to do so. They also have the ‘normal’ PE on other days, for which they should wear the PE gear as usual. 2. There will be spot checks on students’ journals, uniforms and general classroom behaviour in the coming weeks by the Principal, Deputy Principals and Year Heads. 3. Students should not wear hoodies or hats whilst in the building. 4. No student should be sitting in any class without engaging in the classwork being done, for any reason. 5. The wearing of earrings and other facial piercings in school is, as always, forbidden. They must be removed before entry to school. Wearing them during school will result in them being confiscated and a Friday detention. 6. The full school uniform is standard for each day in school – unless it is a PE day. This includes the tie, black shoes, jumper, grey trousers and shirt and school jacket. For PE they must wear the school’s PE half zip and a plain black track suit bottoms. We have had a school jacket since 2008 and until Covid, all students had to remove other jackets before they entered the front door each morning. They were never allowed to wear a non-uniform jacket until they were gone out the door at 4pm. So this is not new. What is new is that we have a new style jacket, available in Shaws since the summer and last June we asked parents to purchase one for their sons. We appreciate those who have done so. During the 2020-21 school year, we did allow a plain black jacket to be worn, for the very strange year that it was. We are working to get the uniform back to where it was. Hence, this focus for the coming weeks on it. To clarify –If your son has a school jacket, that is the only jacket he is allowed to wear between 9am and 4pm on the school grounds. Thank you for purchasing it. -If he does not have a school jacket he must remove his other jacket before he enters the school and he cannot wear it in class, along the corridor or during lunch time outside. The opportunity was given 7 months ago to have it for the cold/wet weather. Several may have presumed we would then let it slide, but this is not the case at all. This is non-negotiable. -From Monday, if he wears the non-uniform jacket in school he will be given a Friday afternoon detention. There will be no more warnings. As many windows are open, we advise extra layers of t-shirts under the school shirt/jumper for everyone. We are all dressing in extra layers this year. 6. All students must have their School Journal with them each day, in class. Failure to do so will incur a Friday detention. While the use of Microsoft Teams is a great support to students who must miss class due to illness, school activities, etc., parents still wish to see the HW in their son’s journal to know what should be done at home. Writing it down also focuses the student’s mind on what he must do after school. We have asked all teachers to ensure the HW is written into the journals at the end of each class, in addition to putting it up on Teams. We will be carrying out spot checks from Monday. Your sons are gentlemen, sometimes with issues and sometimes needing a bit of guidance and direction. But they are all good lads. We will continue to work together to instil good habits, practices, values and provide good example to our young people. We appreciate your support always. Have a good year ahead. MM
Portlaoise Library holding some internet safety webinars for parents - please read below
Created : 13 Jan 2022, 1:17 PM
Archived : 13 Mar 2022, 12:00 AM
With Safer Internet Day approaching on the 8th of February 2022, Portlaoise Library are holding some internet safety webinars for parents. These webinars are free, and hosted by Cybersafe Kids www.cybersafekids.ie/ Empowering and Protecting Children Online with Cybersafe Kids – A Comprehensive Overview for Parents and Carers of Kids Aged 8-13 Webinar - Tuesday 25th of January at 7.00pm With Safer Internet Day approaching, Cybersafe Kids will hold an information session on empowering and protecting children online. This free webinar will offer a general overview of online safety for children, and the main factors to consider around social media, gaming and the online world. Areas of focus include popular apps and protecting privacy, elements of risk, digital wellbeing and critical thinking. The webinar will offer practical advice and useful resources. Places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Portlaoise Library on 057 86 22333 or portlaoiselibrary@laoiscoco.ie to book your place DIGITAL WELLBEING AND ONLINE SAFETY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE with Cybersafe Kids – A Comprehensive Overview for Parents and Carers of Teenagers Webinar - Tuesday, 1st of February at 7.00pm Whether we like it or not, being online is part of life, particularly for teenagers. This information session aims to raise awareness of what young people are doing online, and the associated risks and safeguards. We provide information and guidance on platforms teenagers are using, digital literacy and wellbeing, and the inherent risks of being online: oversharing and privacy, cyberbullying, sexting, grooming and digital footprint. This webinar is free, but places are limited, so booking is essential. Contact Portlaoise Library on 057 86 22333 or portlaoiselibrary@laoiscoco.ie to book your place Aoife Moore | Executive Librarian Portlaoise Library | Lyster Square, Portlaoise, Co. Laois R32 X702 T - 057 8622333 Laois Libraries l Find us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter Europe Direct Portlaoise | Find us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter
TY trip to Jump Zone
Created : 13 Jan 2022, 12:50 PM
Archived : 13 Mar 2022, 12:00 AM
TY’s jumping into the New Year on a recent trip to Jump Zone Liffey Valley #ty2021 #bounce #fromeachhisbest
CBS Player Profile
Created : 13 Jan 2022, 11:04 AM
Archived : 13 Mar 2022, 12:00 AM
Introducing U19 Soccer player Colin Conroy. Colin also plays for Bohemian FC and has represented Ireland ️ #fromeachhisbest
Green Schools Low Carbon Portlaoise Project
Created : 13 Jan 2022, 10:17 AM
Archived : 13 Mar 2022, 12:00 AM
Yesterday members of the Green School Committee along with Treoirí members took part in a forum hosted by Laois Co. Co. and An Taisce. This forum is part of the Low Carbon Portlaoise project and looked for students to offer their opinions on how to help achieve this goal. @laoiscountycouncil @antaisce @portlaoise_tidy_towns @downtownportlaoise #fromeachhisbest #greenschool ‍️‍️