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Organisational Planning: Roles and Responsibilities

Board of Management

It is the responsibility of the Board of Management to support and facilitate the school approach to the teaching of science, and to approve this approach within the context of the overall school plan.

Parents

The emphasis that the science curriculum places on the exploration of the environment will mean that the children’s families may help to enrich and support the programme in many ways. Parents and local people may contribute to science activities in the following ways:

  • Participating in school review and planning of the programme
  • Sharing knowledge and expertise
  • Discussing the learning that takes places in the school
  • Reviewing resources for specific aspects of the programme
  • Helping to organise visits to places of  interest such as farms, factories, museums and science centres

Principal

  • Oversees the development of the school plan
  • Consults with the Board of Management and parents with regard to the provision of resources
  • Ensures that sufficient time is made available for the teaching of science
  • Identifies a teacher with particular expertise and interest in science to lead staff discussion and to draw up a policy document on the place, purpose and content of science

Special Duties Teacher

  • Encourages teachers to participate in the formulation of the science plan
  • Devises a written plan in consultation with the school staff
  • Organises the necessary resources to implement the plan
  • Presents draft documents to the staff at meetings
  • Supports colleagues as they prepare schemes of work and implement the plan
  • Informs new members of the teaching staff about the school plan
  • Provides information for parents with regard to the implementation of the school plan in science

Other teachers

Children are more likely to gain from a curriculum when there is consistency in the approach taken by all teachers in the school.

  • Devise balanced programmes in line with the school plan which cater for the needs of each child
  • Provide information for parents about the class programme in science

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