May 2020

I am a teaching principal of a rural DEIS Primary school. I have found the position extremely difficult and stressful over the past few years. I teach a multigrade classroom with 3 different class levels of 32 pupils. Looking after their educational and pastoral needs, managing & leading teachers & SNAs, parental requests, Board of […]

I have been a teaching principal since 2009. I work in a rural school with a diminishing student population and therefore a decreasing staff also. In the past 4 years we have lost 1 teaching post and 2 full-time SNA posts. These adults were crucial to ensuring the ongoing provision of a high standard of

I began my position of teaching principal in 2014, with 56 staff and three class teachers. In 2017 we opened a special class for children with autism. This has been a very tough year, trying to coordinate both temporary and permanent accommodation, recruiting staff and running a mainstream school as well as the special class.

I am in this position since 1995 taking it on as a young enthusiastic 30 year old teacher. I qualified from Mary I in 1986 with an honours degree but spent 4 years subbing until I got a permanent job in 1990. Then in 1995 my principal retired due to bad health and as I

I have been a teaching principal for 10 years. Our school has 5 mainstream class teachers, 1 fulltime SET and 1 part time SET, no caretaker, part time secretary. The workload has become progressively worse each year. I began this journey teaching 5th/6th class and without a secretary. Towards the end of my 2nd year

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