The Learning School Project has been a very successful collaborative project for the past number of years between Cork Education Support Centre and Limerick Education Centre.  Many schools have benefitted from participation in this project and we would again like to invite schools to get involved in the latest LSP project - LSP 13.  Schools will be supported by a number of webinars/hub meetings which will take place in person in CESC and LEC but will also be available via Zoom.  

We invite you to participate in this year’s cycle of the Learning School Project - LSP-13.  The framework for this project is the development of the school as a self-evaluating school, which is a key element of current national policy with particular reference to Looking at Our School (LAOS) and School Self-Evaluation (SSE).  Participation in LSP-13 will offer your school an opportunity to explore LAOS and decide on an aspect of the Teaching and Learning Dimension to focus on in terms of SSE, school development and school improvement.  Schools that have participated in the Learning School Project over the years have benefitted hugely from their own individual, context-based innovation and development and from their participation in the LSP Community of Practice.

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1st Hub meeting on September 19th 2022

Dr Joe O’Connell will facilitate our first session 

The BLAST residency in St. Marys School in Rochestown was led by artist, Carol Healy.

The theme of this project was Visual Art with a particular focus on Land Art.

All of the artwork was created outdoors and then documented and preserved using photography.

Each photo was mounted on foam board to give a floating effect. The centre photo represents growth which is something the students were learning about at the time of this project.

The students also used watercolours and Chinese ink to create artwork which was then incorporated into a stack of mounted circular drawings to be displayed in the school.

Nathalia de Azevedo Marques was the artist-in-residence for the BLAST project in Scoil Íosagáin Infant School, Mallow.

Nathalia worked alongside Ms. Guerin and the girls and boys of Junior and Senior Infants.

The theme of the residency was drama.

Nathalia introduced many fun games for the children to play where they interacted with each other in a creative manner with the support of the adults around them.

The children also created stories and performed them for each other.

Artist Nathalia de Azevedo Marques led the BLAST residency in Bishopstown Community School where she worked with the Transition Year students and their teacher, Leanne Ryan.

The students participated in a host of drama workshops to get their creativity moving.

As a group, they worked on projects in the name of ‘Diversity and Inclusivity'.

These themes were explored through the workshops.

Nathalia engaged the students in acting, scripting and confidence boosting activities.