Useful information for Parents

Child Safeguarding Statement for Lisivigeen N.S.

The Board of Management's annual review of the school's Child Safeguarding Statement was completed at the board meeting of 21/10/21.
The review was conducted in accordance with the "Checklist for Review of the Child Safeguarding Statement" published on the Department's website www.education.ie

Anti-Bullying Policy:
The Board of Management’s annual review of the school’s Anti-Bullying Policy was completed at the Board meeting of 26/05/22.
This review was conducted in accordance with the checklist set out in Appendix 4 of the Departments’ Anti-Bullying Procedures for Primary and Post Primary schools. "

Board of Management Lissivigeen National School:

The following were appointed to the Board in December 2019.

Chairperson: Seamus Clifford              Secretary: Conor Gleeson

Fr. Kieran O'Brien
Tadhg O'Sullivan
Sheila Rice
Lynne O'Neill
Joe O'Shea
Jacinta Dineen

All other school policies available for viewing by parents in School Office.

We would like to bring the following Internet Safety websites to your attention:

Internet Safety for Schools Ireland - www.isfsi.ie

Office for Internet safety - provides resources, explanations of technology, publications and tips www.internetsafety.ie

Web wise - provides parents, teachers and children with educational resources, advise and information about potential dangers on-line www.webwise.ie

Watch Your Space - Provides advice on managing children's profiles on social-networking sites www.watchyourspace.ie

Texting acronyms - provides an explanation of net lingo www. netlingo.com/acronyms.php

Urban Dictionary - provides an explanation of everday slang used by children www.urbandictionary.com

Advice on mobile phones and texting - www.ThatsNot Cool.com

Common Sense Media - www.commonsense.org

Tips on protecing your children on the Internet (opens as doc.)

The National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA) has developed Help My Kid Learn - a simple website that brings together relevant information for parents and the wider community to support children’s literacy and numeracy development.

The website’s purpose is to provide fun activities that parents can do with their children to develop their literacy and numeracy. It includes general information, fun activities and useful tips. Help My Kid Learn is a website where people can see that supporting a child’s literacy and numeracy development is a natural, easy and fun activity that can be integrated into any part of their day.

Find out more here

The Department of Education has asked all schools to engage in a process of School Self Evaluation.
It is an evidence based approach which involves gathering evidence from a range of sources and making judgements with a view to bringing about improvements in pupil's learning.
In Lissivigeen N.S. we decided to work on an aspect of literacy 'Speaking and Listening' which we feel is an area we could improve on.

Please click here to see an outline of our plan to improve ‘Speaking and Listening’ during 2013/2014 school year.

The Britannica School website is now available anywhere, anytime in the Republic of Ireland. It contains a comprehensive range of age-appropriate resources that feature factual information, multimedia and interactivity. So, pick the level that best suits you and your students and get started! Just click the link below..

We are now registered with the website carsharing.ie
A group – Lissivigeen N.S. – has been set up for parents who are interested in carpooling to school.
How it Works: 1. Register with the group Lissivigeen N.S. on the CarSharing.ie website.
2. Add a Trip - i.e. Add the details of from where you are travelling, the time you are leaving, space in your car, etc. Only members of the group will be able to see the trips. You do not have to pinpoint your exact address.
3. View trips from other parents, once they have registered their trips.
4. Send requests of interest to start the process.
Only members of the group can see the trips – it is not visible to users who are not members of the group.
CarSharing.ie is managed by the NTS - Lissivigeen N.S. does not have any control over how it works.
Please click here to go to the website carsharing.ie

We have been advised that professional fees for patients attending the Bon Secours Urgent Care Centre can be claimed back on the Allianz Pupil Personal Accident Insurance.
For more details please click the following link

www.bonsecours.ie