Primary Online Database POD

The Department of Education and Skills is developing an electronic database of primary school pupils called the Primary Online Database (POD) which will involve schools maintaining and returning data on pupils to the Department at individual pupil level on a live system. The database will allow the Department to evaluate progress and outcomes of pupils at primary level, to validate school enrolment returns for grant payment and teacher allocation purposes, to follow up on pupils who do not make the transfer from primary to post primary level and for statistical reporting.

The database will hold data on all primary school pupils including their PPSN, First Name, Surname, Name as per Birth Certificate, Mother’s Maiden Name, Address, Date of Birth, Gender, Nationality, whether one of the pupil’s mother tongues is English or Irish, whether the pupil is in receipt of an Exemption from Irish and if so the reason for same, whether the pupil is in receipt of Learning Support and if so the type of learning support, whether the pupil is in a Mainstream or Special Class. The database will record the class grouping and standard the pupil is enrolled in. The database will also contain, on an optional basis, information on the pupil’s religion and on their ethnic or cultural background.

Parents in Scoil Mhuire have submitted the following data when they applied to the school. We have it on the school database already

Teacher/Class Name                                                                          Current Standard  Junior Infants   Senior Infants    First Class    Second Class    

Pupil Forename:                                             Pupil Surname:                                            

PPSN of Pupil      ____________________     

Pupil’s Date of Birth _________________     Pupil’s Gender:    Male                     Female           

Birth Cert Forename (if different from name above)    Birth Cert Surname (if different from name above) __________________________________________                                                                                        

Pupil Address                                               

                                                            ______ 

                                           _____ _____                                                   

County                                                                       

Nationality                                                                 (In the case of dual citizenship where Irish is one, please choose Irish)

This is information now required by the DES. We propose to upload it to the DES website by June 5th unless we hear from parents who do not want their information uploaded.