What Parents Want! What Children Need! A parenting course for parents of children - from babies to 12 years of age - will be taking place in Taney Parish Centre, Dundrum, Dublin, commencing today, September 23rd at 8 p.m.
Course Tutor: Helen Sholdice, Parent/Child Coach. For further information, telephone: (01) 283 2141
Music in the Classroom
There are still a number of places available for the 2003-2004 Irish Times/RTÉ Music in the Classroom series of schools' concerts. For further information please contact Janet Stafford or Yvonne Lynch on (01) 675 8000 or email mitc@irish-times.ie
Irish Hospice Foundation - Children and Loss Training Course. The course has special relevance for those involved with children and young people experiencing loss through death or separation. Presentations on younger children and bereavement, adolescents, the dying child, children and other losses and therapeutic interventions with children will be included.
Contact: Iris Murray at the Irish Hospice Foundation. Telephone: (01) 679 3188. Email: iris@hospice-foundation.ie Website: www.hospice-foundation.ie
Primary school course Modular inservice certificate /diploma courses in science, visual arts and drama for primary teachers commencing in October. For details contact: Regina Murphy at (01) 884 2048. Email: inservice@spd.dcu.ie. Website: or www.spd.dcu.ie/inservice
Mercy Secondary School, Mounthawk, Tralee, Co Kerry, has its official opening ceremony tomorrow. Minister John O'Donoghue will do the honours. Mercy Mounthawk has almost 1,200 students and 87 teachers and is an amalgamation of two existing Mercy schools, St Mary's Moyderwell and St John's Balloonagh. It is the biggest voluntary secondary school in the State under the auspices of a Religious Order and is built on a 16-acre greenfield site. The principal is Mr Tony Behan. Telephone: (066) 710 2550.
