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Children from Fane Street Primary School pictured with Conor Kennedy, Lindsey Farrell, Hilary Cunningham, Pat Carville and Karen Turner.

EA launches good practice guide for schools working with newcomer families

15 March 2024

The Education Authority (EA) has launched a good practice guide today (Friday, 15th March 2024) for schools with newcomer children and young people enrolled, to best support principals, teachers, and support staff.

Shared Education Schools Programme Image 1: Pictured L-R is Chris Gardner, Director of Good Relations at the Executive Office; David Robinson, Good Relations Officer at Belfast City Council; Nicola Abernethy, Stena Line Communications Manager; Paul Close, EA Head of Shared Education & Sectoral Support and Dong Jin Kim, Associate Director, Peace Education Centre, Okedongmu Children in Korea at the Stena Line Shared Education Schools Programme celebration event at W5 Belfast.

NI Schools participate in Shared Education event at W5

1st March 2024

The Education Authority (EA) in partnership with Belfast City Council and Stena Line have hosted a shared Education celebration event at W5, Belfast.

• Official Opening of Limavady Shared Campus - Image 1: Pictured is Mark Baker, Chief Executive of Controlled Schools’ Support Council (CSSC); Donal McKeown, Bishop; Chief Executive of Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS), Eve Bremner; Chief Executive of the Education Authority, Sara Long and Chairperson of the Board of the Education Authority, Barry Mulholland at the official opening of Limavady Shared Campus on Thursday 21 February.

Official opening of Limavady Shared Education Campus

22nd February 2024

An £11million shared education campus in Limavady was officially opened today by the First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly.

EdIS Newsletter Winter 2024

Welcome to the latest EdIS Programme Newsletter. Join the EdIS journey, dive into this newsletter which shares inspiring updates and progress from our teams driving positive change.

Carl Frampton with pupils from St. Patrick's Academy, Lisnagarvey High School, St. Colm's High School and Malone Integrated College.

Carl Frampton supports launch of suicide awareness video, created by schools, during Children’s Mental Health Week

7th February 2024

NI Former Professional Boxer Carl Frampton attended and spoke at the launch event for a suicide awareness video, to be used as a learning resource to support schools, at St Patrick’s Academy on Wednesday 7th February.

Teachers’ Negotiating Committee (TNC) Joint Statement

17 January 2024

Education services face unprecedented widespread disruption.

Statement from the Education Authority Chairperson

Chief Executive Sara Long will be leaving the Education Authority (EA) in April to take up a new post with the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland as Regional Executive Officer for one of the newly established health regions.

EA Welcomes Publication of Independent Review of Education

13 December 2023

Chief Executive of the Education Authority (EA) Sara Long today welcomed the publication of the Independent Review of Education.

Recent winners from East Belfast's Got Talent Competition

East Belfast Youth Project hold a celebration evening to highlight their learning and achievements on recent trip to USA

12th December 2023

Young people from YWIC (Young people in the Community) East Belfast Programme arranged an evening of celebration at Clarawood Youth Centre, Belfast, to highlight to the local community the valuable learning and achievements made during their recent trip to Apopka High School in Central Florida.

Pictured is Kurtis Irvine Alliance, Chair of the Education Authority (EA) Barry Mulholland, Mencap NI Director Grainne Close, Diane Forsythe DUP, Danny Baker Sinn Fein, Santa, Malakai O’Halloran who attends the centre with his mum Lee-anne O’Halloran and Interim Assistant Director of SEND Statutory Services Shauna Collinson.

EA attend Non-statutory Specialist Nursery Provision Christmas event at Mencap Centre

12th December 2023

Children from the newly formed Non-statutory Specialist Pre-school Provision at Mencap Belfast had a wonderfully festive Sensory Santa event on Tuesday, 12th December 2023.

John Anderson, Frances Meehan, Andrew Caffrey, Mairead Pratschke, Damian Harvey, Kevin Marshall

Artificial Intelligence in Education Conference

7 December 2023

Northern Ireland’s school leaders and education professionals have come together for the first time to discuss the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in classrooms and learning environments.

Primary 1 Book Project with Paul Howard who visited Currie PS

Northern Ireland P1 Project

8th December 2023

The Northern Ireland P1 Project is a joint initiative between the Education Authority and BookTrust Northern Ireland.

Education Chief Executives issue joint letter to Northern Ireland Secretary of State

7 December 2023

Chief Executives of the seven main education bodies in Northern Ireland have issued a joint letter to the Northern Ireland Secretary of State.

Pictured is Blue Peter presenter, Joel Mawhinney presenting St Oliver Plunkett Primary School with their award for Making a Difference - Primary School of the Year in the 2023 Pearson National Teaching Awards.

St Oliver Plunkett Primary School Announced as Winner of Prestigious National Teaching Award on BBC's One Show

24 November 2023

St Oliver Plunkett Primary School has been announced as the gold winner of the Award for Making a Difference - Primary School of the Year in the 2023 Pearson National Teaching Awards on BBC’s The One Show.

Education Authority commits to continuing collaborative approach in delivering EdIS Programme

21st November 2023

The Education Authority’s Education Information Solutions (EdIS) Programme Director Frances Meehan has pledged to continue working closely with schools and other education stakeholders as a successful series of ‘Walk the Walls’ engagement events draws to a close.

Pupils in the classroom displaying the school governor campaign hashtag sign - #SchoolGovNI

Call for School Governors across Northern Ireland

14th November 2023

A campaign has been launched by the Department of Education and the Education Authority to encourage applications for the role of school governor.

Barry Mulholland, EA Chairperson; Sara Long, EA Chief Executive are picture with Mark Brown, Permanent Secretary of the Department of Education (DE)

Education leaders discuss major challenges facing the Education sector

27 October 2023

Permanent Secretary of the Department of Education (DE), Dr Mark Browne and Chair of the Board of the Education Authority (EA), Barry Mulholland met yesterday to discuss current pressures on the education sector.

Jenny McKinstry, Unit Catering Supervisor, Banbridge Academy, Sara Long, Chief Executive Education Authority, Robin McLoughlin, OBE, with Banbridge Academy students, Lucy Gilmore and Matthew Morrow.

School meals get a fresh look

5th October 2023

It’s an exciting time in the world of school catering as the Education Authority (EA) introduces fresh new branding, alongside a range of new dishes to its menus.

EdIS Newsletter Autumn 2023

Welcome to the latest EdIS Programme Newsletter. Our project teams have kept busy during the summer period to bring further developments in our transformational journey.

EA welcomes DE decision to approve the amalgamation of three schools in the Causeway area

20th September 2023

The Education Authority has welcomed the Department of Education Permanent Secretary’s decision to approve the amalgamation of Coleraine College, Dunluce School, and North Coast Integrated College to establish one controlled integrated post-primary school.