The Local Youth Club Grant Scheme(LYCGS) supports volunteer-led youth club/group activities at a local level. Funding for the Scheme is provided by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) and is administered locally by Education and Training Boards (ETBs) on behalf of DCYA. The ETB is considered to be a co-grantor for this Scheme.
The Scheme supports voluntary youth club/group activities for young people; with priority given to clubs/groups catering for young people aged 10–21. The primary focus of the Scheme is to assist local, volunteer-led youth clubs/groups that provide a programme of youth work activities for young people. In addition, other clubs/groups that work with young people, but are not specifically providing youth work, are also entitled to apply for funding under the Scheme.
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As we go into our second full week since the government took the unprecedented decision to close all schools, colleges and child care facilities, DDLETB would like to say thank you to all of our wonderful staff for continuing their work.
All of our teachers, trainers and instructors are working hard, along with our students and learners to maintain teaching and learning.
In Head Office, the ICT department has been working tirelessly to ensure as many people as possible can work from home. Corporate Services are keeping communications open, HR and Finance are ensuring all financial commitments are running smoothly. All of our departments are doing a wonderful job keeping everything going during this difficult time.
Thank you to all our staff working in our Training Centres, Schools, Youthreach, Further Education Colleges, Adult Education and sports complexes.
Thank you to all our students and learners for continuing with their course work, for getting online each day and for engaging with your teachers and instructors. This is an unusual and difficult time we are living through.
Keep washing your hands. Stay at home. Stay safe!
Staying In Contact
Following Government advice concerning COVID-19 and guidance on Working from Home where possible, we are implementing remote working arrangements to ensure continuation of services as far as possible. We request that all communications are therefore sent to us electronically to info@ddletb.ie so that we will be in a position to receive and respond to same more promptly, as hardcopy post-processing may be impacted during this time. Thank you for your co-operation.
In light of the most recent Government advice regarding COVID-19 the Head Offices of DDLETB will be closed to the general public until further notice.
Ensuring the health and safety of our staff and minimising the risk of spread of infection is our utmost priority.
This is a precautionary measure in the interest of safeguarding public health and we apologise for any inconvenience.
DDLETB Head Office can be contacted by phone on 01-4529600 or by email at info@ddletb.ie
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Autism Awareness Day is 2nd April 2020. It is estimated that over 1 in 100 people in Ireland currently have a diagnosis of autism. There are many individuals who do not have a formal diagnosis and for the most part, their autism does not impact hugely on their daily lives. There are some life experiences that cause more stress and anxiety than others. The autism spectrum is broad, with people affected in a variety of ways, to varying degrees. No two people on the spectrum are affected the same way. However, the areas of difficulty for those on the spectrum can largely be summed up under 4 headings:
• Social Communication
• Social Imagination
• Social Interaction
• Sensory Processing
To mark World Autism Day, DDLETB Youth & Sport Development Service are hosting two workshops with ASIAM on Autism Awareness
These workshops will be held on April 1st in DDLETB Head Office. The first is on from 3.30-5.30pm and the second is on from 6.30 to 8.30 pm.
The workshops will look at understanding the condition and simple ways you can make your environment more autism-friendly for the children & young people you work within your school, youth club, scout hall, sports club etc.
This is a post from Tina Reddin in Dundrum College of Further Education.
EPIC is a two year student and teacher mobility project with European partners in Norway, Estonia and Germany funded by Erasmus+ through our National Agency Leargas
Why we got involved and wrote an application
The rationale was two-fold namely:
1. To enhance the learning experience of students and to provide them with the opportunities that the experience of working in another European jurisdiction can provide, including increased motivation and engagement, societal awareness, multi-culturalism, initiative and relationship management, critical thinking skills and obtaining a heightened awareness of the vocational specialism.
2. To build the capacity of our FET / VET teaching staff to contextualise the European dimension of their vocational specialisms in line with European educational frameworks and best practice.
The aims and objectives of the project include:
The project aims to foster a culture of student peer support within the college, for example, the funding and the mobility aspect of the project enables students from different areas of study to work and travel together in another jurisdiction, something which we could not accommodate in Ireland. The development of these new relationships will create sustainable, supportive student networks for further dissemination of learning across the wider college community on their return.
To provide an opportunity for FET / VET teachers to align themselves with the best international practice. The staff mobility dimension of the project provides an opportunity for our teachers to up-skill and re-skill in both pedagogical and vocational specialisms in a non-formal and supportive learning environment and will we suggest enhance their capacity to deliver quality teaching, learning and assessments within their vocational specialisms.
Dundrum CFE is keen to develop European partnerships across all of our vocational specialisms, this project will build capacity in project management of such initiatives and will lead to the development of sustainable future strategic partnerships by building strong teaching and learning partnerships.
Our experience of this project to February 2020
Three teachers and three students from various business courses travelled to HKHK, Haapsalu in Estonia, teachers for 2 day observations and students for a fortnight placement. The success of the mobility is evident in their evaluations and the video created by one of the teacher participants.
Three teachers and five students across many of our humanity disciplines travelled to KVT, Trondheim in Norway, one of our Norwegian partners for the same duration as the Estonia mobility. Again the learning has been immense and this is evidenced in a video created by a DCFE teacher, a compilation of some of the many photographs our students took during their visit. Our students had the opportunity to engage with each other in a social context, meet students from other nationalities.
In the case of Trondheim our students were joined by students from Sallynoggin CFE and our teachers had the opportunity to collaborate together as ddletb teachers as well as working with Norwegian teachers.
As for Estonia, our students met French and Hungarian students also on Erasmus+ mobilities. This too added to their enjoyment.
I write this as we await the arrival of our Norwegian visitors, both teachers and students on Monday next….
The HPSC (Health Protection Surveillance Centre) has provided information on the Novel Coronavirus.
What is the Cornonavirus?
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that circulate among animals, including camels, cats and bats, with some causing illness in humans e.g. SARS (civet cats) and MERS (dromedary camels). Rarely, animal coronaviruses can change and infect people and then spread between people such as has been seen with MERS and SARS.
Images combined from a 3D medical animation, depicting the shape of coronavirus as well as the cross-sectional view. Image shows the major elements including the Spike S protein, HE protein, viral envelope, and helical RNA. Image from wikimedia.
What are the symptoms?
Common signs of infection include:
respiratory symptoms i.e. cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties,
fever,
in more severe cases, infection can cause pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure and even death.
How to prevent infection
Standard recommendations to prevent infection spread include:
regular hand washing,
covering mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing,
avoid close contact with anyone showing symptoms of respiratory illness such as cough or sneezing
avoid visiting wet or live markets and contact with animals, excretions and droppings
thoroughly cooking meat and eggs.
If you are unwell on return from travel to an affected area, contact your healthcare provider and tell them of recent travel.
Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board have published the Admissions Policy and Application Form for Blanchardstown Community College.
Parents/Guardians applying for places in Citywest & Saggart Community College and Blanchardstown Community College please note that children need to be 12 years of age by 1st January 2021 in order to be eligible to apply
Please refer to the Admissions Notice for information regarding timeframes for the application process.
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Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board have published the Admissions Policy and Application Form for Citywest & Saggart Community College.
Parents/Guardians applying for places in Citywest & Saggart Community College and Blanchardstown Community College please note that children need to be 12 years of age by 1st January 2021 in order to be eligible to apply
Please refer to the Admissions Notice for information regarding timeframes for the application process.
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The Department of Education and Skills has today announced that the communities in Citywest-Saggart and Blanchardstown West have chosen Dublin and Dún Laoghaire ETB to be the patron of their new post-primary schools which are set to open in September 2020. DDLETB expects that the Principals of both schools will be appointed early in 2020 to lead the new schools.
Paddy Lavelle, Chief Executive of DDLETB said, “This is a fantastic development for the communities in Citywest-Saggart and Blanchardstown. The new schools will join the 29 other Community Colleges under our patronage. We see the results of this campaign as a welcome endorsement, from parents and families, for ETB run schools and the Community College model. We are also delighted to see that the ETB sector has been selected as the patron for the new post-primary schools due to open in Enfield, Co. Meath and Greystones. Co. Wicklow.
“Parents clearly supported our vision for child-centred, multidenominational, publicly-accountable schools which strive to provide high-quality education for all learners. They give equal opportunities to all children,” added Mr Lavelle.”
The new schools will be technologically advanced using the latest information and communication technologies. These new schools will further embed our presence on the educational landscape in Dublin,” said Adrian Flynn, Director of Schools with DDLETB.”
“Our vision is to continue to develop teaching and learning communities that lead educational thinking both nationally and internationally. We are now taking this message to Donabate, Newcastle-Rathcoole-Saggart and Sallynoggin-Killiney-Cherrywood for our 2020 primary patronage campaign” added Flynn.
Dublin and Dún Laoghaire ETB has more than 100 years’ experience as an educational patron in Ireland. Our schools form an essential part of life and living throughout their local communities. They are inclusive and enable young people to meet their full potential in society.
Notes:
We are now accepting expressions of interest from parents/ guardians interested in enrolling their child in the new schools. Email oguiry@ddletb.ie
More information can be received by calling Emer Roy in DDLETB on (01) 452 9600 or email eroy@ddletb.ie
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