An Tionól Teagaisc
Deireadh Fómhair 16, 2012
Tá an dara tionól teagaisc á reáchtáil ag an tSeirbhís Tacaíochta Dara Leibhéal don Ghaeilge in Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh, ar an 9-10 Mí na Samhna 2012.
Is é téama an Tionóil ná ‘An Chumarsáid sa Ghaeilge; Guthanna ón seomra ranga’.
Beidh an Tionól oscailte go hoifigiúil san Óstán Ardilaun tráthnóna Aoine agus leanfaidh sé ar aghaidh maidin Sathairn in Ollscoil na hÉireann Gaillimh. D’fhreastail 440 múinteoir ar an Tionól anuraidh agus tá súil go mbeidh éileamh níos mó ann i mbliana. Arís, beidh réimse leathan ceardlann phraiticiúil ar siúl, beidh siad curtha i láthair ag Múinteoirí Gaeilge agus ag saineolaithe eile. Beidh sé dírithe ar straitéisí agus ar chur chúigí a chothaíonn le labhairt na Gaeilge.
Beidh saineolaithe éagsúla ag cur i láthair ar an Satharn agus beidh deis iontach casadh le múinteoirí agus bhur tuairimí a mhalartú. Is féidir clár an tSathairn a fháil anseo
Tuilleadh eolais: oifig@muinteoirgaeilge.ie
Beidh Comhdháil Oideachais GAELSCOILEANNA TEO. agus Eagraíocht na Scoileanna Gaeltachta Teo. ar siúl in óstán an Ardilaun i nGaillimh ar an 23 Samhain 2012. Tuilleadh eolais: www.gaelscoileanna.ie/comhdhail
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Salomé arna Léiriú ag Splódar
Deireadh Fómhair 15, 2012
Beidh an dráma nua-chumtha Salomé ag cur tús le camchuairt tíre in Ionad na nGleannta, Manorhamilton, Co Liatroma ar 18 Deire Fómhair. Tá an saothar véarsaíochta seo bunaithe ar scríbhinní le Cathal Ó Searcaigh agus is é an stiúrthóir Proin Ó Duigneáin a rinne an t-athchóiriú agus a chuir in oiriúint don stáitse. Is é Splódar, compántas cónaithe Ionad na nGleannta, atá á léiriú. Saothar dúshlánach é seo a éilíonn an-chumas aisteoireachta agus tá sé d’ádh ar an stiúrthóir go bhfuil aisteoirí den chéad scoth aige don léiriú seo. I bpáirt Shalómé tá Elise Ní Bhraonáin agus is é Aindrias de Staic atá i bpáirt Eoin Bhaiste . Céimí de Choláiste na h-Ollscoile, BÁC í Elise áit a ndearna sí Drámaíocht agus Béarla dá céim . Tá clú agus cáil ar Aindrias mar aisteoir, mar cheoltóir agus mar fhear scéalaíochta. Tá role Herod ag John Keane (Ros na Rún) agus Máire Ní Mhuiris atá i bpáirt Herodias. Arna haisteoirí eile tá Finbar Ryan, Patrick McEneaney agus Aodh MacGairbhí a bhfuil cáil air mar aisteoir telefíse don BBC agus TG4 (Rásaí na Gaillimhe).
Tá cuid de radharcanna an tsaothair seo i bhfoirm scannáin agus tá ceol nua-chumtha don léiriú ag Ailie Blunnie. Is é cór Choláiste na Tríonóide faoi stiúir Róisín Blunnie a chanann an ceol téama. Colm Farrell atá i mbun scannánaíochta agus is é Proinn Ó Duigneáin an léiritheoir. Beidh Salomé ar chamchuairt tíre ó 18 Deire Fómhair go 3 Samhain. Is iad na huimhreacha teagmhála ná 0872109060/0862686995. Tuilleadh eolais ar www.splodar.com. Tá Salomé urraithe ag Foras na Gaeilge.
Club Óige Setanta joins Youth in Action Programme
Deireadh Fómhair 15, 2012
Irish language youth club Club Óige Setanta, based in Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin in Derry, has won funding from the European Union to run a joint youth exchange with a youth group from Bilbao, Spain.
Eight young people and three leaders from the club will travel to Bilbao on October 27 and stay until November 3. The young people will be working together on the promotion of understanding between minority language youths; of links between minority language groups to help tackle difficulties experienced, and the promotion of the support provided by the European Union. Club Óige Setanta won the funding through the Youth in Action programme managed in the UK by the British Council and funded by the European Union.
The programme helps young people to become active citizens and better equipped for the world of work, and promotes solidarity, social cohesion and co-operation within Europe and neighbouring countries. Sinéad Warnock, group leader with Club Óige Setanta told the ‘Journal’: “I really think our young people will take a lot away from this trip, not only will they get to experience a new culture but they’ll have an inside view into how local Basque people view their own culture and language. This will in turn heighten their interest and understanding of how they themselves fit into Irish culture and we hope that they will gain a sense of pride as they begin to understand their importance as speakers of their native tongue and what advantages this in turn offers them.” Head of EU Programmes at the British Council, Simon William, added: “Youth in Action aims to prepare young people for life and work in our global society.” “Initiatives like this one help to build trust and understanding between people of different cultures. They also broaden our young peoples’ horizons and equip them with the skills and understanding they need to become global citizens.”
For more information on Club Óige Setanta, please contact Sinéad Warnock on: 71 264132 or 07849394001 or email: sinead@culturlann-doire.ie.
www.derryjournal.com
Up to 5,000 teachers in the firing line for cuts
Deireadh Fómhair 15, 2012
MORE than 5,000 teachers face losing their allowances under a government review.
One of the targets is an allowance of between €532 and €1,572 paid to more than 2,750 primary and post-primary principals. Two in three of the country’s principals are in receipt of the payment for acting as secretary to the school board of management. The payment of a similar allowance to principals acting as secretary to a board of management in an institute of technology is also under scrutiny. Special allowances paid to teachers who teach through Irish, work in the Gaeltacht or who work on an island, are also being targeted for abolition.
The Gaeltacht grant is worth €3,063 to about 780 primary and post-primary teachers, while about 1,800 receive an annual €1,583 for teaching through Irish. About 30 teachers are in receipt of the island allowance, which is worth €1,842 per year. Department of Public expenditure and Reform general secretary Robert Watt has told the Department of Education that these were the priority for elimination. The proposal will now be discussed with the trade unions.
www.independent.ie
Tá eagla orm ahead of Gaelscoil grilling
Deireadh Fómhair 15, 2012
I’ve been summoned to an interview for a primary school.
Not for me — for Miss Almost Nine Months old. Yes, seriously! Apparently, it’s time to secure a place for September 2016. We decided on a Gaelscoil, so a friend advised me to speak as Gaeilge during the interview to create the ‘right’ impression. So … this very bun-leibheal mammy will attempt to caint enough Gaeilge to wedge little missy’s foot firmly in the doras. Oh ta eagla orm! I really didn’t expect this but perhaps it’s to check if I’ll tuig the parent-teacher meetings. Of course, if she’s like mise, I’ll get by on ‘Cailin dana’ agus ‘Ta si ag caint gan stad!’
Now, when it comes to Conas ata tus, I can hold my own and even show off with my Dia is Muire Duit a Iosa. But beyond that, it’s going to be an uphill struggle — which is a disgrace and why we want her to go to a Gaelscoil and acquire more than just a cupla focal. Agus Dadai? He’s suggested that he doesn’t attend as his Irish is limited to “Ta an-athas orm an corn seo a ghlacadh ar foireann Uibh Fhaili”. Mind you, with him being a Biffo, it’s a rare occasion that he gets to say or hear it! So it’s just mise. But I’ve a plan. I’m going to replicate my Irish oral exam; learn and regurgitate a big spiel as soon as I’m asked a question, any question, thus preventing the muinteoir from getting a word in edgeways.
It’s a risky strategy I know, but my only other Irish trick is to do my one, two, threes. They are rather impressive. I think. I could even put my hands behind my back and accompany it with a rendition of Aon Focal Eile. But dadai assures me that whatever damage my Gaeilge or his GAA speech might do, my dancing would be a fait accompli.
Let’s just hope they don’t read this! If they do, gabh mo leithsceal, ta bron orm.
www.independent.ie
Parents to be surveyed on school patronage
Deireadh Fómhair 15, 2012
Another area of Dublin has been included in the list of areas where parents will be surveyed on the possibility of replacing a Catholic primary school with a new patron.
The Department of Education is to begin surveying five of the areas this month and extend it to the other 39 areas next month. However, it is understood issues which have arisen with some parties to the process have delayed the exercise. The announcement of a new primary school to be opened in Dublin 4 in the short-term, means prospective patrons are now being asked instead if they wish to take over a school in the Ballyfermot/Chapelizod/Palmerstown area. The Irish Examiner has also learned at least five groups have expressed interest in becoming patrons of new schools in some or most of the 43 areas already identified, in the event there is parental demand for change.
They include established patrons: City and county VECs in the relevant areas, the multi-denominational schools group Educate Together, and all-Irish schools’ patron An Foras Pátrúnachta. Interest has also been expressed by Nigerian-founded church the Redeemed Christian Church of God, which applied unsuccessfully last year to become patron in three areas of Dublin where new primary schools are planned. The National Learning Network has also sought to become a patron. The applicant patrons will be banned from doing leaflet drops under a Department of Education code aimed at ensuring a level playing field. A spokesperson for the department said details of the survey process and where they will be carried out will be announced later this month. In each area, the parents of all primary pupils and those with children not yet at school will be asked if they are satisfied with current choices of schools and, if not, which of the patrons interested in taking over a school in their area they would prefer. The areas include 12 in the Dublin Catholic archdiocese, and four each in Tuam, Killaloe, and Waterford & Lismore. There are three areas each in the Cloyne and Cork & Ross dioceses.
www.irishexaminer.com
Saturday club – Naíscoil Éadain Mhóir
Deireadh Fómhair 15, 2012
Naíscoil Éadain Mhóir will open a free of charge Saturday Fun Club for nursery school children this weekend.
Naíscoil teacher, Mairéad Mc Daid, will offer Naíscoil children and their parents a chance to learn Irish songs and rhymes, listen to Irish language stories and have fun playing together in a fully equipped nursery school. The one hour long Irish language club, commences at 11am and will initially run for six weeks. Any parent interested in attending can contact Múinteoir Mairéad at Naíscoil and Gaelscoil Éadain Mhóir, Brandywell , Derry on 02871268020 to register.
www.derryjournal.com
Oifigeach Forbartha Ógras
Deireadh Fómhair 15, 2012
Tá Oifigeach Forbartha Laighean/Connacht á lorg ag Óg-eagraíocht Chonradh na Gaeilge, Ógras.
Post Páirt-Aimseartha – 22.5 uair sa tseachtain
Dualgais:
-Clubanna óige, Gaeilge, Ógras a bhunú agus a fhorbairt timeall an dá réigiún.
-Cúrsaí agus imeachtaí a eagrú do chlubanna Ógras agus Óg-Ógras.
-Tacaíocht agus comhairle a chur ar fáil do cheannairí na gclubanna.
Riachtanach:
-Ard-Chaighdeán Gaeilge
-Taithí ar obair óige
-Ard-scileanna cumarsáide & idirphearsanta
-Ábalta obair as a stuaim féin-
-Scileanna maithe ríomhaireachta
-Ceadúnas glan tiomána agus carr féin
Inmhianaithe:
-Cur amach ar Ógras, ar earnáil na Gaeilge agus ar an earnáil óige go ginearálta
-Taithí ar chúrsaí poiblíochta & margaíochta
Iarratas:
Seol litir iarratais chomh maith le C.V. chuig:
Riarthóir, Ógras,
6 Sráid Fhearchair,
B.Á.C. 2
Teil: 01 4751487
R-phost: maedhbh@ogras.ie
Spriocdháta: Dé hAoine 26 Deireadh Fómhair, 2012.
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Póstaeir d’Oíche Shamhna saor in aisce
Deireadh Fómhair 12, 2012
Tá postaer “Oíche Shamhna” le híoslódáil saor in aisce ón Ionad Buail Isteach (íomhá thíos). Tá cóipeanna crua ar fáil tríd an bpost ach ainm agus seoladh a chuir chuig ionadbuailisteach@gmail.com agus a rá an A4 nó A3 atá ag teastáil.
Bíodh Samhain mhaith agaibh go léir!
New Building System for Schools
Deireadh Fómhair 12, 2012
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