Today is #MayDay , which heralds the beginning of Summer and the month when the countryside bursts into bloom.
In his poem 'Summer Home', Seamus Heaney employs the floral bounty of the May countryside as a peace offering following a domestic falling out.

'To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.'
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Spring Sunshine on the Loing
🎨 Alfred Sisley (1892)

'Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.'

Joseph Heller, author of #Catch22 , was born on this day in 1923!

'Let everything happen to you: Beauty and Terror. And just keep going. No feeling is final.'
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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Storm Clouds⁣ (1884⁣)
🎨 Vladimir Orlovsky

We can't control what happens around us, but we can choose how we respond. Join us for Meaningful May and focus on the things that matter ❤️
actionforhappiness.org/meaningful-may #MeaningfulMay

'No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.'

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

'🙌 Huge thank you to Damien Cloney Principal, and Joe Rolston Vice Principal, of Glenart College, Arklow Arklow. We're thrilled to have installed two Arcadia Pergolas with retractable roofs creating incredible outdoor dining and learning spaces. 🌟 Seating on the way
Thank you Kildare Wicklow ETB

'... the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.'
~ D. H. Lawrence

Reflections of Spring (1908)
🎨 Peder Mørk Mønsted

'Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.'

Emily Dickinson

My book, ‘Teaching One-Pagers: Evidence-Informed Summaries for Busy Educational Professionals’ is out via John Catt Educational from Hodder Education in a few weeks. It contains over 55 summaries that do ALL of the above. ☝️

This poster explains what’s inside.

'All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.']

J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

In careless patches through the wood
The clumps of yellow primrose stood,
And sheets of white anemones,
Like driven snow against the trees,
Had covered up the violet,
But left the blue-bell bluer yet.
~A.A.Milne
#SaturdayMotivation #SpringFlowers

The first literary-inspired piece to adorn the walls of my office, it had to be some of my favourite lines from the Bard himself. Words of wisdom (and warning) to seize every opportunity that comes your way. Salient words for any school leader! INOTE NAPD #Shakespeare

A few more book characters we met today. A special thanks to all our librarians in 6th class for organising the day.

'Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?'

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

'King Lear' - Free webinar at 7.00pm on Tuesday 7th May, of particular interest to Leaving Certificate teachers.

Part of the English Community of Practice series with Joe Rolston via Wexford Education Support Centre.

Register:
ecwexford.ie/cpd-courses/po…
#edchatie

Details of Oide Post-primary School Subject Cluster Days 2024/2025 can be found at this link #oide
oide.ie/details-of-oid…

'Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and give thanks continuously.'
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morning Light (1916)
🎨 Elioth Gruner

Wexford Education Support Centre INOTE TeamEnglish Ireland Brilliant to have the wonderful SCC English as guest presenter for the final English #CommunityofPractice , for this academic year, who will provide a textual analysis of the concepts of light & dark in Shakespeare’s King Lear. Not to be missed! Register: bit.ly/4ap2hg6

Congrats to Cian, Tyler, Tom & Joe, who represented the school brilliantly in winning the Wicklow Schools Golf Invitational tournament in Woodenbridge Golf Club on Monday. Thanks to Mr McDonald for his guidance. A great achievement, very well done! Wicklow People Kildare Wicklow ETB