Leaving Certificate 2021

Leaving Certificate 2021

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The Candidate Self Service Portal will reopen at 12pm Tuesday 27 April 2021 until 6pm on Friday 30 April for candidates to review and finalise their level selection and their choices of examinations, Accredited Grades or both. All candidates are required to complete this process, even if their choices have not changed since March.
A comprehensive guide to this phase of the portal is published on www.gov.ie/leavingcertificate2021 and www.examinations.ie.
The Department will also support school leaders, teachers and other school personnel, tutors, parents and students by providing a dedicated phone-line service for queries on the Accredited Grades process. The Department can be …

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Out-of-school subjects & learners – LC2021

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For students who are studying a subject outside of school, please watch the following video clip which provides a useful summary of the doc below re: SEC Accredited Grades for Out-of-school subjects and learners. Out-of-School Subjects and Learners – YouTube
This is the full guide document: A Guide to Accredited Grades for Out-of-School Subjects and Learners_fi.._
So what do you need to do now if you are in this category??:
Step 1: Any student who is studying an additional subject for exams and/or SEC Accredited Grades must indicate this in writing and send to angela.mcnamara@lcetb.ie. You will receive acknowledgment on receipt of same.
Step 2: For …

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Key documents re: LC2021

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Thank you to all who attended our Information Session for Parents/Guardians re LC2021.
For your convenience, please click on links below to access key documents as discussed/referred to at Information session. Listed in order of publication.
A Guide to State Examinations and Accredited Grades LC2021
circular S07.21 For completion dates of coursework, please see page 3 of this circular.
circular S08_21 LCVP This is specific to LCVP (Leaving Cert Vocational Programme)
LC 2021 Music practical examinations
2021 LC Accredited Grades Short Info for Students and Parents
The CSSP Before You Start Guide 2021 is specific to the Leaving Certificate Candidate Self Service Portal which will be …

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Leaving Cert 2021 – Information session for Parents/Guardians

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Dear Parents/Guardians – we invite you to an Information session for Parents/Guardians re: LC2021 next Tuesday evening. This session will aim to help you support your son/daughter to navigate LC2021, including the Student Portal, and to understand the new arrangements and choices available this year – Exams and/or Accreditated grades. Registration information for this zoom session has been sent out via vsware message. If you have not received the link to register, please contact us. Thank you, Angela McNamara & Angela Russell For most up-to-date info, please refer to gov.ie – Leaving Certificate 2021 (www.gov.ie)   Read More >

24th of February 2021 – Letter to Parents from Minister Foley

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Dear Parent/Guardian,

Yesterday the Government published the plan for the next phases of return to in-school provision for students at both primary and post-primary level. These further phases have been developed following continuous engagement with unions and other education partners and ongoing engagement with the Department of Health and HSE Public Health.
The Department of Health and the HSE have reaffirmed that schools in themselves are low risk environments and that a gradual phased reopening can occur at this time. Public health has reviewed the measures put in place to ensure safe operation of schools and is satisfied that these infection prevention …

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Remote Learning – notice for parents/guardians

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Dear Parent/ Guardian,
As per the recent government decision, school buildings will remain closed until the end of January and all classes will move online to remote learning.
How we will support your child/children
We appreciate how challenging the Covid-19 crisis has been for families, and particularly students.  Please rest assured that we are working hard to support all students and parents/guardians in our school community as the pandemic evolves.  We have learned a lot since March 2020 and this will stand to us all as we work through the next few weeks.
Everyone in our school community is prepared for Remote Learning in …

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Sparks Film Festival 2020 – SCC Winners (Senior Section)

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Click here to watch SCC’s winning entry for the 2020 Sparks Film Festival (senior section). Well done to all involved.
How to get away with Mooder – YouTube
 
Sparks Film Festival takes place in Scariff. The filmmaking facilitators of the Festival deliver workshops to primary and secondary schools in the East Clare region. All workshop participants develop the confidence to be filmed and learn about storyline creation, camera use and editing. The Festival shows the huge benefits gained when young people are able to become involved in the journey onto the platform of creative expression through digital media. The high quality films produced are shown …

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‘Welcome to our school’

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  ‘Welcome to our school’ – we invite you to watch this video which gives you an insight into our school and provides relevant information for prospective students and parents/guardians. Please note that most of the footage was recorded in pre-covid times. SCC is fully compliant with all current public health measures and protocols regarding the safe and sustainable reopening of schools. Read More >

VSware app & VS-Mail

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As I am sure you can appreciate, the need to get information out quickly and effectively is all the more important in these uncertain times. Text is not always appropriate and has limitations especially when it comes to length of content to be included.  Emails can be problematic where accounts are not accessed or checked routinely and/or where address details are incorrect.
So in an effort to address this, we as a school have signed-up for the VSware Communications Package which includes VS-Mail.
In order to get the best use out of this package for parents/guardians and for our school, I am …

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Communication to Parents/Guardians – November 2020

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Dear Parents and Guardians,
We hope you and your child/children are safe and well and that you had a nice Halloween break.
Key Messages for all students, staff and parents / guardians:
As we return to school after the midterm break and with the onset of the winter months, everyone needs to continue to play his/her part in minimising the risk of COVID-19 for staff, students, families and the wider community while recognising the importance of education for the health and wellbeing of students and society as a whole.

We all must make every effort to minimise the risk of infection – Do not …

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