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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Paul Kehoe: No apologies have been received. I ask members to ensure their mobile phones are switched off because they interfere with the broadcasting equipment, even if they are on silent mode. Are the minutes of the meeting of 28 May agreed? Agreed. We will have two sessions, the first of which will be a round-table discussion on climate action and sustainable development in primary and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I thank the witnesses for coming in this morning. They are, as always, most welcome. I want to follow up on a point made by Ms Rush on the background paper. She said that the council had visited four schools. What is the profile of those schools? I am not looking for their location or anything that would make them identifiable but for a profile of the schools involved in that development...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: Can Ms Doyle give us an idea of the top three requests from schools? What have they identified as needs that must be met?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: The four specific schools that Ms Rush mentioned-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: That would be useful information to have. Reference was made to continuing professional development. I acknowledge that the subject is available now but I am interested in how connectivity is developed between the most junior learners in the education system right up into third level. Connections need to be made by the Department and by the schools. How do we make it relevant for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: TUS Athlone is one of my local third level institutions. It had a transition year programme this year, part of which was a module on sustainability in engineering, which was really welcome to see. This is my final question. In terms of primary school, will Ms O'Connor talk about the hours per week that will be spent under the redesign model?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I thank Ms O'Connor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: The reason I ask is that primary schools only have a set number of hours per week. It is in that context that I ask the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: This is an area where teachers have been particularly to the fore over the last ten or 15 years. The nature table is almost a thing of the past. Pupils now go out into nature and see it for themselves. I am very fortunate to live in an area where we have good biodiversity. There are many bogs around the area. These are wonderful places. It is good to see the younger children in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Paul Kehoe: I thank Ms Rush. I have a number of questions. On the issue of agri-education that Deputy Nolan has spoken about, agriculture has come in for a lot of criticism over the past while. Some of the secondary schools and two vocational colleges in my constituency offer the opportunity for students to study the green cert, which I very much welcome. An awful lot of young students do not want to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Paul Kehoe: With specific reference to primary schools, and the huge number of local primary schools based in parishes and villages, we have seen a huge number of local environmental groups that are all around sustainable energy goals in their own local communities. Can the witnesses see primary schools playing a part with their own local community leaders in that, and, if so, how do they see that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Paul Kehoe: That was the one I was about to mention.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Before Ms De Khors comes in, I can only speak of my local authority and am not sure if it is the same with others across the country. We have the environmental awards once per year and primary schools are part of that with art competitions and everything like that. I am big into litter-picking and so on. Not all, but many, young people still do not get the importance of using bins....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Paul Kehoe: The report on STEM by this committee recommended STEM subjects should be commenced as early as preschool, getting children talking about STEM and its importance. There are huge challenges in secondary school getting teachers for physics and subjects like that. What are the witnesses' thoughts on that recommendation? Some primary schools are really good, and witnesses who have previously...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Paul Kehoe: Ms O'Connor might send a list to the clerk and we will send it to the members.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I want to go back to the STEM implementation plan. When is the next review of that due?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: I refer just to the implementation plan. When is the next review due?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: When will the next one be published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: That is the next progress report, but what about the annual review of the plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Climate Action and Sustainable Development Education: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2024)
Sorca Clarke: But Ms O'Connor said there was an annual -----