Collaboration & Networking

• We have a number of subject departments who have links with other schools eg HomeEconomics.

• Our school has links with Borrisokane whereby we organise a meetup with 2nd year coding students where they compete and share their makecode arcade games.  They are also a mentor school for the digital school awards. 

• The DLT coordinator set up a student digital team and they applied to be SID ambassadors with webwise and will attend training in January.  Subsequently, they will run an internet safety campaign in our school on algorithms and how they monitor .  

• We also have successfully applied and received the ICT Grant of €9,600 from the Department of Education.  This grant will be used to buy devices and micro:bits and our student digital team will teach micro:bits to  first years and primary school students on their taster days.

• We have 23 female students who will complete the STEM passport this year.

Feedback from Staff:

• Our deputy principal is the organiser of Tipperary ETB community of practice for digital leaders, we are active participants in this group and are currently leading out on a project to harness student voice in developing an Artificial Intelligence policy.

• The DLT co-ordinator and Deputy principal are active members of the Irish GEG group and have given inservice on induction new staff into google tools. The Deputy Principal attended the google champions symposium in 2023 in Dublin.  Both also presented at Féilte (teaching council).

• The DLT co-ordinator and Deputy principal are active members of CESI and contribute to the online forums regularly.

• Our deputy principal was part of the Irish delegation who developed SELFIE in 2018 (see photo attached) and we have used the Selfie tool on 3 occasions since the initial pilot to guide and refine our vision. 

• Wriggle have asked us to be a show case school for chromebooks and we have spoken at their elevated conference.

• Compass have asked us to speak about how we use Compass at their lunch and learn event. 

• Deputy Principal has led CPD for Kilkenny education centre on using Google Classroom.

• Sharing live working files peer to peer to collaborate. 

• Staff: Shared department drives & subject department google classrooms.

• Staff: Video Collaboration : Department meeting using google meet.

• Staff: Creating a community of learning and a culture of collaboration.

• Students: facilitating students to use digital means (slides/ docs / canva) to work on group projects/ classwork and CBAs.

• Cloud Collaboration between students. For example when completing CBAs in Business or participating in the Student Enterprise county Final. 

• Using google sites collaboratively between department members.

• External Collaboration : for example when sending a google form (survey to parents).

• Peer feedback for students and teacher feedback. 

• We share and link with other subject departments.