INTO is advising all members currently involved in distance learning with their pupils to follow their normal practice and take a break over Easter. Pupils, parents and teachers all need to take a break from distance learning and relax over Easter.
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- Thousands of striking workers arrived at Belfast City Hall for a mass rally during the unions’ day of action. The mass rally heard calls for money for striking public sector workers to be released by Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris.
- The Education Minister Peter Weir has decreed that schools will open as normal in January 2021. The Minister waited until 8pm on Friday 18th December 2020 when the majority of schools have already closed to announce this decision.
- Gerry Murphy Northern Secretary - "So they have moved the transfer test to January 2021, I suggest they move it further to the dust bin of history where it belongs."
- INTO President, Dorothy McGinley, has arrived at the picket line outside St Eugene's PS, Derry.
00:00 - Teachers, not politicians, should decide pupils' futures. Professor Tony Gallagher's article, reinforces INTO belief that our education system requires proper long term funding & a complete review of the education system from top to bottom with teachers input essential.
- Member's at All Saint's College, Belfast, along with their children took to the picket line outside the school gates today.
- Homework debate with educational professionals around the world suggest that the amount of time spent on homework per week has little relevance to an education system’s performance. League tables show that those countries that spend less time on homework actually rank higher.
- Replying to @INTO_NIINTO will communicate in strong terms members frustration at this last minute decision. The Minister clearly fails to appreciate the value of the teaching workforce. INTO calls upon the Minister to reconsider this decision in consultation with the CMO, CSO and Minister of Health
- INTO considers that, in the middle of a covid-19 pandemic, the Department of Education would be better served focusing on preserving the health and well-being of the children in their care than safe guarding the profit margins of private businesses.
