Barry Morrissey

Key Responsibilities

• Taught mainstream classes from 2nd class to 6th Class and worked in a whole school support teacher role
• Developing as part of Senior Management team a new school with inclusive vision and values to grow from 100 to over 600 students.
• Building partnerships with local community groups and external stakeholders to promote school vision and values for Physical Education and Intercultural ethos.
• Sourcing, compiling and allocating resources effectively for initial and revised school plan.
• Creating a culture of continuous learning improvement using SSE format reviews to manage and transition new PE curriculum change and EAL Teaching

Key Achievements

• Provision and planning for PE curriculum in school was commended by PDST as model for teaching and learning in schools in 2017.
• Founded the first school Diversity Committee linking with student and green school councils to promote active teacher and student voices
• Collaborated with subject leaders in the development of whole school cross-curricular programme Think Talk Thursday focusing on oral language and critical thinking skills
• Established and mentored successful in-school and after-school program's Aquatics, Gaelic Games, Athletics, Basketball

Scoil Iosagáin Coolgreany Co. Wexford

• Multi-Grade Teacher 2nd and 3rd with key responsbility for sacrament preparation 5 years

St. Saviours National School Waterford

• Learning Support Teacher 4th-6th with key responsibiltiy for teaching Traveller Students 1 Year

Supply Teacher South East Ireland

• Developed innovative teaching skills,methodologies and experience in a wide range of school settings from Rural to Urban, Junior Infants to 6th Class, Gaelscoil Bilingual Schools, EAL Teaching, ASD Classes 2years