Student Services & Support

Student Services & Support

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Support for All Students

  • Curriculum that reflects needs of students.
  • Educational programmes such as Junior Cert, JCSP, Transition Year, Leaving Certificate, LCA Programme, Transition Year- these reflect the diverse needs of all students.
  • Quality teaching and learning.
  • Tutor System (Pastoral)
  • Year Head (Discipline & Attendance)
  • NBSS-Behaviour Support Classroom
  • HSCL
  • SCP
  • Transfer Programme for incoming 1st years
  • Belonging Plus Programme for in-coming first years
  • Friends for life programme through SPHE curriculum.
  • Blue Cards (monitoring)
  • Behaviour Challenge & Rewards
  • PE and Sport (Physical well-being)
  • Attendance Challenge and Rewards
  • Standardised Testing (Numeracy and Literacy)
  • After School Study
  • Study Skills
  • Annual European School Trip
  • School Based Counsellor
  • Guidance Counsellor
  • Student peer mentoring
  • Lunch Club
  • Breakfast Club
  • After School Study
  • Holiday Study (Easter)
  • Third Level Access Programmes (UCD, Trinity, Maynooth)
  • Friendship Week
  • Cyber Bullying Awareness
  • Literacy and numeracy strategies.
  • Stop Everything and Read
  • Student Support Team
  • Annual Awards Night
  • Parents Plus
  • Chaplin

Support for Some Students

  • Attendance Tracking
  • Hot Lunch Club
  • One Book One Ballyfermot
  • Resource/Learning Support
  • JCSP (Junior Cycle)
  • LCA (Senior Cycle)
  • Resource/LS
  • Access to SNA
  • NBSS Programmes (Alert, Why Try, Stay Cool, Friends for Life)
  • Guidance Counselling
  • Allianz Mentoring Programme
  • Student Support Team
  • School Based Counsellor (weekly sessions)
  • Profiling incoming 1st year students in 6th class (meetings with primary school teachers)

Support for Individual cases where needed

  • Intensive HSCL Support
  • Attendance tracking and special attendance challenge
  • Intensive SCP Support
  • NBSS-Level 3 Intensive Interventions (Check & Connect, LBC’S and recommendations from teachers etc. Behaviour Plans/strategies.
  • Parents Plus Parenting Courses (Targeted)
  • Working things Out Courses for adolescents
  • Financial support for books etc. (SCP)
  • Guidance Counselling (intensive)
  • Links with community agencies- co-ordinated approach
  • ASD Unit and support including support at break-time/lunch hour
  • Student Support Team