CASE Collaboration and Sharing in Education

Shared Education enables schools from different sectors to work in partnership to provide opportunities for pupils, staff and community to engage in collaborative and meaningful learning experiences. The Education Authority (EA) has been working with its partner Léargas since September 2017 to deliver the Collaboration and Sharing in Education Project, funded under the PEACE IV programme to the amount of €28.9 million. This project is supported by the European Union's PEACE Programme, managed by the Special EU Programme Body.

Teacher Professional Learning (TPL) programme

  • This consists of a suite of short courses covering a range of strategic areas to help develop collaborative working practices and support school improvement. The provision of a Teacher Professional Learning (TPL) programme for school-based staff is a specific element of the CASE Project. Its aim is to provide teachers and school leaders with a clear learning framework that will enhance the skills, capacity and confidence needed to embed effective practice in Shared Education.

    All teachers in schools involved in the CASE Project are eligible to participate in the TPL programme.

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About CASE

CASE aims to build a culture of good relations amongst children and young people in a school based setting. Delivery is through the provision of direct, sustained, curricular-based contact between children and teachers from all backgrounds.

Through working in partnership, the participating schools will promote community cohesion, enhance educational outcomes for all pupils and provide shared professional development. CASE is open to all schools in the six Border Counties of Ireland and schools in Northern Ireland which are not currently involved in the DSC Signature Project for Shared Education.

This project is supported by the European Union's PEACE Programme, managed by the Special EU Programme Body.

News from around the partnerships

  • Churning Day

    ‘And in the house we moved with gravid ease’

    Seamus Heaney’s line ‘And in the house we moved with gravid ease’ from his poem ‘The Churning’ possibly now rings true in many of the homes of pupils and teachers who until recently were actively sharing classes and experiences through CASE.  A partnership between St Joseph’s Rathdonnell and Trentagh NS, Co. Donegal brought this to the fore. Part of their shared work explored historical documents from ‘The Schools’ Collection’ [i] and used this as the basis for an experiment -butter-making. This was one way they were integrating their curriculum, covering science, history, literacy and research. 

  • COVID 19

    COVID 19 Update

    As the COVID-19 crisis continues, it is vital that we continue to follow best practice guidelines, especially physical distancing and practice good hand-washing hygiene. Most of all we can come together to support each other by staying home and staying safe.

    If you have a specific query regarding your partnership, please contact your Development Officer for guidance.

    We are currently working with our funders to approve a mechanism for signing off on this year’s shared activity and we will send out further information about this in due course.

    Please remember we are here to help and support you however we can in relation to your school charting a way through this extremely difficult and challenging time.

     

What Shared Education Means

  • Shared education means the education together of -

    those of different religious belief, including reasonable numbers of both Protestant and Roman Catholic children or young persons; and
    those who are experiencing socio-economic deprivation and those who are not, which is secured by the working together and co-operation of two or more relevant providers.

    A “relevant provider” means a person providing education at a grant-aided school, or services of any kind (including youth services) which provide educational benefit to children or young persons.

Who's involved in CASE

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    About Education Authority

    The Education Authority (EA) was established under the Education Act Northern Ireland 2014 and became operational on 01 April 2015. 

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    About Léargas

    Léargas is a not-for-profit organisation (CHY 8317), wholly owned by the Department of Education and Skills. Léargas manages international and national exchange programmes in education, youth and community work, and vocational education and training.

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    About SEUPB

    SEUPB's role is to help facilitate the positive impact that European Regional Development Funding will have on the lives of people living across Northern Ireland, the Border Region of Ireland and Western Scotland.