Category Archives: St. Joseph’s Special School

Following the alarming rise in case numbers of Covid 19 the Department of Education extended the Christmas Holiday for students by 3 days. This was to provide time for school staff to work on a plan for what to do from Monday 11th January. The Department has not provided any further supports to ensure safetyContinue reading “School Returns to Remote Learning”

Dear Parent / Guardian, We hope you are all well. As you will be aware we will be re-opening from Monday the 7th September. We have been working on our plan for the safe reopening of the school for some weeks now and have published the DES COVID-19 Response Plan for the safe and sustainableContinue reading “Return to School”

Dear Parents/Guardians Thank you for patience during this difficult time as we work to prepare the school for reopening. As you will be aware the school has an ongoing summer work project to fix the heating and this has meant that we have had to re adjust our planned opening date to ensure that theContinue reading “Reopening School”

This week the Department of Education published a Covid 19 Response Plan for Primary and Special Schools and a Roadmap for School reopening which are aimed at supporting schools to reopen at the beginning of September. These documents outline a number of supports for schools as well as providing guidance on measures to reduce theContinue reading “Moving Towards Reopening School”

This week we will be running our first Virtual Sports Week. So keep an eye on our school’s website (https://sjss.ie/2020/06/21/virtual-sports-week-2020/), Facebook page or ClassDojo to see some of our staff demonstrate a fun sporting exercise to try at home! Every day will have an activity theme and we will post video demonstrating how to doContinue reading “Virtual Sports Week 2020”

Dear Parent/Guardian, It is with great regret that we inform our school community that we will be unable to offer a school-based July Provision this year. Planning for July Provision would, in normal times, take several months, and organising and running a programme at this late stage of the year and recruiting an appropriate number ofContinue reading “Summer Provision”

A little video to the pupils and their families, from all the staff at St. Joseph’s. As you can see, you are never far from our heartshttps://www.facebook.com/catrina.picard/videos/3350233671667094/ The video can also be found at this link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eJqAzEzYdo Hope everybody has an enjoyable bank holiday weekend.

Dear parents/guardians and students. As you will be aware the Minister for Education announced on Friday that the exams for the Leaving Certificate Applied have been postponed. Students in their final year of LCA will be offered the option of receiving Calculated grades in 2020. LCA students will be provided with calculated grades for subjects,Continue reading “Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA) Examinations 2020”