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St. Nessan’s Community College,Moylish Park, Limerick.Phone: 061 - 452422Email: in o@stnessans.com

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St. Nessan’sCommunity College

JCSP Library Initiative

Mr. Gale (Librarian)

Ms. Ayers Ms. O’Connor

Ms. Toomey (JCSP Coordinator)

Ms. Beaumont

Ms. Johnston Ms. Kelly Mr. Doody

Ms. Creedon Mr. O’Connor

Mr. O’Brien (Principal)

Parental Involvement

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela

A writer once remarked that, “children are made readers on thelaps o their parents”. There is no d oubt that parents have a hugerole to play in helping their children with Literacy and Numeracy.As a parent you are the single most important infuence on yourchildren’s education. Helping your child to read,write and do mathsdoes not require a degree or ancy educational toys. In act, byspending just seven minutes a day reading with your child you canreally give him/her a head start with the development o reading. The good news is that it is also great un and a wonder ul way toshare in the joy o your child’s discovery o books.Here at St. Nessan’s parents are actively encouraged to getinvolved and we host various events to encourage parents to visitus and see our school in action - Parents Mornings, Open Night,JCSP Awards, Parent/Teacher Meetings, Library Visits, Quiz Night,and other extra curricular activities.

Ms Marie Toomey (JCSP Coordinator)

“Spend just seven minutes a day reading with your child and you will vastly improve their reading”. Therese McPhillips, Lecturer in Literacy Education,

“Jody got a certifcate or read ing, he was delighted”. Parent

“I didn’t like reading to other people be ore. I eel alright now. I eel more confdent to read to other people”. 1st Year student

Layout and Design: Michael O’Connor (SMILE SCP)

JCSP was introduced to St. Nessan’s Community College over10 years ago. The ocus o JCSP has always been on a WholeSchool Approach to Literacy & Numeracy.

In 2011, the Minister or Education & Skills launched “The Na-tional Strategy to Improve Literacy & Numeracy – 2011-2020”.Also in 2011, St. Nessan’s Community College, decided to takea closer examination o our provision o Literacy & Numeracy,throughout the whole school. Following this examination, itwas decided to ocus on early intervention and we introducedthe JCSP Library Initiative, or 1st Year students. I am delightedto report that due to the hard work and dedication o the JCSP

Library Teachers and the JCSP Co-ordinator, Ms Marie Toomey,this initiative has been a great success.

We are now entering the 4th week o the initiative and alreadywe can see the bene ts o the programme and the positiveefect that it is having on the students who are ortunate to beparticipating in this initiative. We will continue to evaluate theprogramme, over the next ew months, with a view to rollingout all o the excellent aspects o this initiative, throughout thewhole school.

Eugene O’BrienPrincipal

7/30/2019 Libary Initiative Combined

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Station 1 Busy Bees

As our name suggests we are very busy on our station, we puteverything we learn into written practice. Already we havecompleted Personal Reading Pro les and this week completed our

rst short story which we wrote ourselves. It was great un we gotto choose our own titles and characters, we let our imaginationsrun wild, we have stories about girly things like angels, teddies,rainbows while the boys took over with sports, guns and sci- !!What a mix we busy busy bees are!!!

Station 2 Vocabers

This is where word power really begins. Students build on theirvocabulary day by day, building up a JCSP key wordnotebook bursting with new words and phrases. Dictionary work,keywords, key spellings and spelling challenges are an integralpart o this station.“One orgets words as one orgets names. One’s vocabulary needsconstant ertilizing or it will die”

Station 3 Super Readers

We are currently reading “The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas “ atthe moment. All groups are doing very well and we have alreadyreached chapter ve. As well as reading rom the books we arenow also using the kindles and the students are reallyenjoying using these. On Friday the 14th o September, I awarded

ve certi cates to the best readers so ar and I am sure that manymore students will be getting awards in the uture.

Station 4 Cool Writings

At Station 4 we concentrate on grammar, punctuation and writingskills. At the moment we’re ocusing on capital letters and ullstops. We’re also practicing our writing so it will be neat and tidyand everyone will be able to read the work we do.

Literacy NumeracyStation 1: Numeracy

Station 1 is an interactive learning environment, catering or thedi erent student learning styles. Formative assessment andsummative assessment used to investigate students priorknowledge and understanding o new material. Sel -directedlearning, peer assessment and group work is used to acilitatestudent learning and con dence in the area o numeracy.

Understanding Stations

Station 2:

Students work individually on the topic o the day. Each studentworks on a set o di erentiated questions, allowing each studentto work at their own level. Assessment o student learning can beachieved through questioning, and observation o each studentswork. This station also sets and corrects the homework and will beresponsible or setting end o unit assessments.

Station 4: Kinaesthetic hands on station.

This station approaches teaching and learning rom a morepractical perspective through a hands on approach to maths. Thisin turn osters the new project maths course; here we explore thecollaboration o the use o resources rom worksheets to mathsgames. Here the pupils will explore more practical leaning stylesand in doing so they will develop their knowledge and skills andsel -con dence in the particular area.

Station 3

My station is station number 3 - Computer based sel -directedlearning. There are a total o 5 targets to be completed on eachmaths topic, with various di erent tasks o di erent levels o difculty. Students also undergo “time trials” and can check theiranswers as they work

The use of ICT plays a major role in the library initiative.Students are rewarded throughout the year.

Students move rom one station to another every 30 minutes. The layout o the library ensures that each station has its ownseparate learning environment.

Welcome to the JCSP Library Initiative.

This brochure will hope ully give you an insight into and aavour o the workings o the Literacy and Numeracy

Programme or 1st Years timetabled in the Library w hichsupports the syllabi o the Junior Certi cate.The students take part in extensive Literacy and NumeracyClasses every morning rom 9 - 11am. They work in our groupso 8 students at our diferent stations and receive extrasupport/resources in teaching and learning. The groups moverom station to station at th irty minute intervals. Topics are

presented employing a number o learning/teachingmethodologies and students bene t greatly rom the intensive

ocused presentation o topics. When this initiative has beenemployed in other schools, the J unior Certi cate Results haveimproved on previous years and Library usage statistics havealso improved.

Students use JCSP Reading Pro le Folders and JCSP StudentPort olio Folders to record and keep all their classwork.Students are assigned homework and both students andparents are updated on a regular basis regarding progress andachievements. Achievement is acknowledged and rewardedat each stage. Every opportunity is taken to send positive

eedback home- JCSP awards morning, JCSP Library OpenMorning, JCSP Postcards, Newsletter, GoodNotes in Journal,monthly exam/assessment results.

This Programme continues or the year. Literacy is timetabledor Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. Numeracy istimetabled or Tuesday and Thursday mornings.Best regards or the year ahead,

Ms. Marie Toomey, JCSP Coordinator.

TIMES PER STATIONStation 1 : 9:00-9:30 Station 2: 9:30-10:00Station 3 : 10:00-10:30 Station 4: 10:30-11:00