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THE INTENDED ACTIVITY AND OUTPUTS ESTABLISHED BY THE
NORFOLK - DUN LAOGHAIRE COMENIUS PARTNERSHIP 2010-12
Evidence from reports furnished for the evaluation
In the beginning of the current year, the Comenius Regio (EU) Project (21st October 2010)
was envisaged as offering:
OUTPUTS: Training and Support through:
• The introduction of restorative practices in school communities, in partnership with Norfolk schools;
• School communities as a whole, to enable the parents to bring issues to the fore and reflect on their response to
conflict building on a base of a number of existing parent groups already in existence;
• Development of Post Primary as well as primary level initiatives
Teacher training:
• School-based courses on school planning days and summer courses.
• Consideration given to offering a longer course at a later date.
• Guidance counsellors and Home School teachers support.
Interagency training involving youth agencies, community groups and gardai.
Resources
It was intended to create short video resources.
The ‘virtues’ programme (a New Zealand Programme) in one partner school might be useful to promote to other
schools.
Peer mediation training was also being offered by Norfolk.
Parental training was developed in a specific and very valuable course element.
OUTCOMES:
The emergence of the partnership
A restorative practices network was solidified and sustained.
There were developments in some very positive Garda contact. Parental confidence in the Garda had
developed noticeably.
The levels of reach in terms of the changes sought in:
• School Practice
• School Culture
• Parental Engagement
• Wider Civic interest
• Wider Inter professional Engagements
DÚN LAOGHAIRE / RATHDOWN COMENIUS REGIO ‘RESTORATIVE APPROACHES’ PROGRAMME
Practitioner visits were established with an exchange to Norfolk in December.
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