Teachers at St. Joseph’s Girls National School in Clonakilty share some of the highs and lows of ‘school in Covid times’ How has Covid impacted on the way you teach now? We have incorporated some online homework once a week since we returned to school – for example the children […]
Life Less Ordinary
Pádraig Ó hEachthairn, Principal at Gaelscoil Mhichíl Uí Choileáin in Clonakilty reflects on how the pandemic has affected school life. It would be very difficult to start any piece about the start of the current school year without first reflecting on the six months, which preceded it. Despite all the […]
With Christmas approaching and the current restrictions making life so difficult for so many, Rector of the Kilgariffe Union of Parishes, the Reverend Kingsley Sutton says we need to find and focus on what gives us hope. As the winter evenings draw deepening darkness around us, what helps to give […]
Upheaval, pause, stressful, loneliness, isolated, chilled, normal, surviving, mindful-paradox are some of the words used to describe life in the midst of the pandemic by people in five different European countries. As we are past the six-month mark of living with SARS-CoV-2, better known as Covid-19, freelance journalist Tania Presutti […]
Siobhán O’Sullivan is a teacher at Colaiste Pobail Bheanntrai (Bantry Community College). She teaches second year Science, fifth and sixth year Physics and sixth year Maths and is also the school’s IT coordinator. Siobhan discusses life in today’s classroom and how online learning is no longer the way of the future; […]
The múinteoirí of Naíonáin Bheaga to Rang 6 at Gaelscoil Dr. Uí Shúilleabháin in Skibbereen, share with West Cork People, how school life has changed under the current restrictions. Although the changes have proved challenging for everyone, children and staff have adapted well and are all on board with the […]