NOTICE OF INDUSTRIAL ACTION – INTO (HALF DAY STRIKE) – WEDNESDAY 18 JANUARY 2017

RE: NOTICE OF INDUSTRIAL ACTION – INTO (HALF DAY STRIKE) – WEDNESDAY 18 JANUARY 2017

The Department of Education and CCMS have received notice from INTO of the Industrial Action (Half Day Strike) which will take place on Wednesday 18 January 2017 commencing 8.50am and ending at 12.30pm on Wednesday 18 January 2017.

As a result, pupils are to remain at home on Wednesday 18 January 2017 from 8.50am to 12.30pm and school will then open as normal at 12.30pm.

As this is a HALF DAY STRIKE, those staff taking industrial action will be back in school to teach at 12.30pm. The normal timetable will resume for all pupils at 12.30pm, therefore Parents/Guardians may  return their children to school at 12.30pm to start classes.

Regrettably, we will not be able to provide transport to school for this 12.30 start but a normal bus service will run at the end of the school day to take pupils home.  If pupils are unable to come to school at 12.30pm because of the morning of industrial action, their attendance figures will not be affected.

Should the strike action be called off by the INTO, then I will communicate this through text message, our school web site, Twitter and Facebook accounts to parent/guardians and the school will open for all pupils as normal.

Please check our website in the days leading up to the 18 January 2017 for regular updates.