Digital School Status
Rathoe N.S is the first school in Carlow to receive Digital Schools Status – an award conferred on 55 other schools nationally since 2006, for achieving excellence in integrating ICT in learning and teaching. For more details see www.digitalschools.ie
ICT plays a pivotal role in Learning and Teaching in our school. The school has invested significant resources in ICT in recent years. There is an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) in every classroom, and much of the learning and teaching makes use of these boards and related software. The use of ICT runs right across the whole curriculum including music, PE and language and there is a sense of freshness among the staff in their enthusiasm for using ICT and they are conscious of the need to continually update their skills and to further develop the school website.
There are plans to fundraise to increase the number of computers in the school. The Board of Management and an active Parents Association are enthusiastic about the use of ICT and keen to allocate whatever funding they can manage to increase the amount of hardware available to the school.
The whole staff deserves great praise and credit for their great enthusiasm and hard work in getting our school to an award winning level and in developing ICT resources to enhance the learning and teaching process in the school.
