Please note the following dates in your diary!
Thursday December 1st
Friday 13th January - Retirees & Meal
Thursday 2nd March
Thursday 11th May
Friday 16th June - Overnight Summer Seminar - Venue TBD
Our AGM was well attended in Langton's Kilkenny on September 19th 2016.
Our Guest Speaker was Mr. Pat McKenna from Childwatch.ie.
Pat's presentation was both excellent and incredibly informative. Pat focussed on how images taken by students/school can be misused and subsumed into the world of pornography. Pat emphasized the importance of creating awareness around the dangers of the the 'virtual world' in which a lot of our students operate. Pat informed the AGM how to delete EXIF DATA and so making it more difficult to misuse photos and reduce their trace ability. All information about booking Pat for Student, Teacher & Parent talks is available on www.childwatch.ie
Election of Officers for 2016/2017 also took place;
Chair: Rachel O' Connor - Principal, Ramsgrange Community School, Wexford
Secretary: TBD
Treasurer: Adrian Finan - Principal, St. Kiernan's College, Kilkenny
Regional Executive Rep: Darius Delahunty, Colaiste Dun Iascaigh, Tipperary
Committee:
C&C Sector: Rachel O' Connor (P) - Ramsgrange Community School, Wexford
Paul Behan, (DP) - Castlecomer Community School, Kilkenny
ETB Sector: Detta Cahill (P) - Abbey Community College, Waterford
Siobhan Landers (DP) - Scoil Ruan, Killenaule, Tipperary
Vol Sector: Brendan Feehan (P) - Cistercian College, Tipperary
Deirdre Phelan (DP) - Ursuline Secondary School, Tipperary
Co-Opt: Adrian Finan (P) - St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny
Darius Delahunty (DP), Colaiste Dun iascaigh, Tipperary
Shay Bannon - LSS/ NAPD Welfare Committee
Reports:
Executive - Darius Delahunty
Included in this report;
Workshops for NAPD Conference can now be booked online at www.napdconference.com
Subteacher.ie is up and running.
Centre for School Leadership is now advertising for new Mentors.
NAPD Twitter a/c is very active.
Billy McLoughlin has been hired to head JCT Well Being.
Results of the NAPD commissioned Amarach Survey on Adolescent Mental Health has been emailed to those on the mailing list.
Teaching Council Creative Engagement will take place 11th October 2016.
The Children's First Act was discussed.
Blog Training will take place at Conference - 3 people from each area to be trained.
Welfare - Shay Bannon
The 'Useful Guide' is now available on the NAPD website - A to Z listing has been created.
New Homework Policy & Guidelines published.
New workshop at conference - Minding Ourselves as Leaders.
Useful Guide on Copyright being developed.
