Please use the links below if you have any difficulty accessing or using Microsoft Teams for your school work. If you have any significant difficulty you must contact the school by phone 021-4307730 or one of your teachers by email and ask for their support. 

Distance learning with Microsoft 365: Guidance for parents and guardians
Explore how your kids can use Office 365 and Microsoft Teams as an online classroom to communicate with teachers and complete their classwork remotely.
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Remote learning with Office 365 for students - Office Support
Work together as a class or group. Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, and apps together in one place. If your classes are using Teams, you’ll be able to connect with your classmates, ask your teacher questions, work on your homework, and track the work you've got coming up.
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Use Teams for schoolwork when bandwidth is low - Office Support
Suggestions for effectively using Microsoft Teams for Education and other Office 365 apps in low-bandwidth situations.
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Student help center - Sway - support.microsoft.com
Check it out. We’ve pulled together support that can help spark your creativity and launch your best work yet. Whether you use these Microsoft tools already, or it’s your first time diving in, we hope to see you – and your bright ideas – around again soon.
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St. Vincent's Secondary School is proud to launch a new weekly student recognition awards programme. The aim of the programme is to help the our school recognise the vast array of student achievement within the school. The awards will be distributed each Friday to deserving students from all year groups and Ms. Fitzgerald (HSCL) will also contact home to relay our thanks to parents/guardians. 

 
                St Vincent's Secondary School
 
Guideline Procedure for the safe return to school for the academic year 2020/2021.
 
These guideline procedures will be updated regularly and the most recent version will be available on the school website at www.stvincentscork.com
 
 
Procedures in School 2020/21
In accordance with Reopening Our Schools. The Roadmap for the full return to School as published on 7th August 2020.
 
On return to school, students are advised to have the following:
●      Face mask or Clear Visor (disposable masks or clean cloth reusable mask(s), Visors).
●      Zip-lock plastic bag to hold mask when not wearing
●      Packet of Tissues and sanitising wipes
●      Small bottle of hand sanitiser
●      Bottle of water
 
Entering school
●      On arrival at school students will enter the building using one of three regular entrance points.
●      Students will wear their face coverings and sanitise their hands upon entry using gel dispensers.
●      Students will go directly to their classroom and practice social distancing.
 
Uniform

• Students are expected to wear their full school uniform each day in school. Guidance on PE gear will be provided when the students return to school.

 
In Class
●      On entering each classroom students will again sanitise their hands and sit in seats where physical distancing measures have been applied.
●      Classroom doors have been pinned back to avoid the need for students to touch door surfaces.
●      Each student will clean their desk at the end of each class before moving onto the next classroom. Teachers will supervise this at the end of each lesson.
●      Students are advised not to share paper, pens or other materials with each other.
●      If students must use the bathroom during class, they must get permission from their teacher.
●      Students should remain in their seats until the end of class.
 
Break time
●      Students will remain with their respective year group at each break time.
●      This will be supervised by the teacher(s) on duty and it is also vital that social distancing is maintained during the course of the break.
 
General hygiene
 
●      Hand sanitising stations will be located around the school and upon entrance to each classroom
●      Students should ensure that they hand sanitise on entering the classroom
●      Students should ensure that they wash their hands thoroughly with soap and water after using the toilet facilities and also before and after each break time.
 
Returning from abroad
●      Students returning from abroad (excluding those countries currently on the Green List) must complete a two-week isolation period and should not attend school.  This protocol will remain in place until the D.E.S./H.S.E. advises otherwise.
 
Parents/ Guardians visiting the school
●      A visit to St Vincent’s Secondary school by a Parent/Guardian should only occur when absolutely essential and contact must be made with reception (021-4307730) prior to your arrival.  
●      For example: to collect an unwell student; to collect & bring a student to an appointment or to drop in a lunch.  If a student forgets a schoolbook or copy these items do not need to be brought to school by a parent or guardian.
 
Unwell students
●      Students who display symptoms of COVID 19 should not attend school and their parents/guardians must inform the school in advance.