School Self Evaluation Summary - Self Evaluation Period: 2023-2026
Dominican College, Griffith Avenue
SSE Community Report 2024 - 2025
Differentiated
Learning
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Develop a school-wide understanding of differentiated learning & increase the number of students who experience differentiation in the classroom through:
- Content
- Process
- Product
- Environment
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Wellbeing
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Relationships & Partnerships (Key Area 4)
- Develop and support formal and informal systems whereby more senior student are supported in mentoring younger students
- Train Senior Year students as LIFT facilitators to mentor 2nd Year students
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Literacy & Numeracy
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Literacy Targets
- Increase student comprehension of material in all of their academic work and particularly in the content areas in First Year and in other years where the text bookshelf been updated
- To reduce punctuation errors per class by explicit instruction of the style guide
- Book in the Bag to be re-incentivized by regular participation in D.E.A.R.
Numeracy Targets
- All staff use the SALT technique when teaching graph
- Exam cover pages to allow students calculate their own percentage
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Digital
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Digital Learning Plan 23/24
CPD on differentiation and how digital tools can be used to differentiate through:
SELFIE Survey
- Repeat whole school SELFIE survey in 23/34 to assess developments in Digital Learning and guide future goals
Digital Schools Criteria
- Continue to develop and progress digital learning under the five criteria for Digital School Awards
- leadership and vision
- digital technology integration in the curriculum
- school digital technology culture
- continuing professional development
- resources and infrastructure
SELFIE Digital Schools Academy
- Continue our work as a mentor school providing advice and support to schools who have signed up to the Digital School Awards as part of the peer support programme.
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Sustainability
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As we continue to develop our Sustainability Plan during the school year 2022/23 we will continue to focus on monitoring and improving our use of water in the school. Our Student & teacherGreen Schools Committee will lead this process.
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‘Small actions done consistently can lead to big changes!’ - LIFT Ireland