Summer Courses in Blackrock EC

Our Summer Course programme for Primary School teachers with EPV day approval from DES is now open for booking!

All courses are online or webinar style courses.

For full details click here

Many thanks to Mayo Education Centre for providing our online courses.

Bookings for online courses provided by Mayo EC on www.mayoeducationcentre.ie 

Book for other courses on our own website here

NQTs who have been engaged in Droichead in the 2019/2020 school year will fall into one of three groups. Please read carefully below the instructions which apply to you. Strand A (School based) relates to the in-school support including observations. Strand B (Professional Learning Activities) relates to Cluster Meetings and professional learning activities. If you require any further information, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and don't forget to include your registration number.

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In light of the current situation regarding Covid-19 and the fact that Blackrock Education Centre is currently unable to schedule the delivery of the Induction Workshop Programme (IWP), NIPT has informed us that the following workshops will be made available on a phased basis for NQTs to access online, beginning on Monday, May 11th 2020 with the Numeracy workshop which is sector-specific.

From the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe

Are you a parent trying to support your child’s language development at home? Or a language teacher adapting your pedagogy to online delivery? Perhaps you are a student, who would like to use this opportunity to have some fun while working your language skills? 

Click here for further information.

Following on from our second Zoom Webinar last Friday 1st May, for those of you who could not attend or would like to watch it again, please use this link to find the recording of the webinar: https://youtu.be/EbXCMrrQ1l8 

All information about these webinars and Zoom is available via https://www.ieducate.ie

  In this week's Wellness at Work Newsletter (Issue #7) you will find

• Music to inspire, uplift and connect
• Food to nourish your soul
• Opportunities to move, rest and breathe in new and challenging ways
• Invitations to share and connect with your PDST colleagues 
• Books to lose or find yourself in
• And much, much more...

Remember, you can find all previous editions of the Wellness at Work Newsletter on the PDST Teacher Wellbeing website.

This is the link to the follow-up video by Aine Gaughan relating to her Introduction to GSuite for Education and Google Classroom webinar.

Dear Colleagues,

I hope this email finds you and all of your families safe and well.

In these unprecedented times, at Blackrock EC, we wish to support your work in your schools in any way we can.

We are currently exploring ways of bringing our courses to you online. Now, more than ever, our provision of local courses, specific to your local need, is of utmost importance to us. Therefore, we would ask that you please take a minute to complete the attached ‘Google Form’ to let us know in what ways you would like us to support your work.

Please follow the link below to complete this short form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1l_xmuevo9Nao4Y8VSy9SXetllLCaJA0Db2KBduYERyk/edit

It will take no more than a minute or two to tell us how we can support you. We will do our very best to help in any way we can.

We are pleased to be able to inform you that NurtureUK have made their valuable resource for children who have been bereaved: ‘The Bereavement Box’ freely available to download from their website via the link below.

https://www.nurtureuk.org/what-we-do/news/news/bereavement-support-children-and-young-people

Designed originally by Dr Tina Rae for teachers and professionals, this booklet is accessible to parents and carers too.

We hope that you find this resource useful for children and adults alike.

We have been made aware of a free ‘bootcamp’ being run by Cocoon to support teachers in becoming remote educators, we thought you might be interested to hear about it.