Summer courses organised by ficheall.ie

Dear teachers and principals,
Practice chess as your summer course this July and earn 3 EPV days!
Chess for Social Skills Summer Course 2021
We are pleased to inform you that a chess summer course is available this July. The course, Chess for Social Skills, is sanctioned by the DES for 3 EPV days. 

• The course will be delivered online through Zoom and the Lichess.org chess platform with the majority of the 20-hour course being spent playing chess and chess mini-games with other interested teachers and principals. 
• The course will be hosted over five days on Thurs 1st July, Fri 2nd July, Mon 5th July, Tues 6th July and Wed 7th July from 9.30am to 2pm similar to a traditional face-to-face course. 
• All courses are delivered by practicing primary school teachers and principals with experience of leading chess in their school through the Ficheall network of primary school teachers promoting chess.
• The course will include a series of chess mini games to teach chess which also addresses explicit objectives of the SPHE curriculum from 1st to 6th class. 
• The course will also deal with the practicalities of organising chess leagues and tournaments in schools. 
• Crucially, the course will give teachers hours of chess practice and will even include a fun team-based chess tournament among all teachers on Day 5 of the course. 
• Each course has a limit of 16 participants to ensure more individual support.
• The course is available through 22 education centres with 360 places available but are filling up fast! 
• It’s best to book with your local education centre so that you can network with other interested teachers in your region but, as the course is online, teachers and principals are welcome to sign up for any course they wish.

For more information on the course and links to register, click on the link below:Chess for Social Skills Summer Course 2021

622 students played in this years online school chess finals. And below is a list of the winners (prizes will be posted to their schools). We will email winners to confirm their school postal address & their choice of chess equipment.

• National Schools – Advanced players Section. In 1st place .. JasonLiu02 , 2nd Mountbellew , 3rd aiChess2011.

• National Schools – Intermediate players Section. In 1st place .. JojoCrispyBacon , 2nd MaxMurphy , 3rd PawnMasterChess.

• National Schools – Novice players Section. In 1st place .. Luke1305 , 2nd vivaanverlekar , 3rd KD2021sixthclass.

• Secondary Schools – Advanced players Section. In 1st place .. Adamc2005 , 2nd Oisinc , 3rd Grandmasterjunior.

• Secondary Schools – Intermediate players Section. In 1st place .. evoman , 2nd Ernest326 , 3rd maxis29.

• National Schools – lichess rating under 700 = Diyarajeev2021.
• National Schools – lichess rating under 800 = sivani09.
• National Schools – lichess rating under 900 = TadhgR.
• National Schools – lichess rating under 1000 = LukeGKNS.
• National Schools – lichess rating under 1100 = RoryHeffernan.
• National Schools – lichess rating under 1200 = Thomas_Lowry.
• National Schools – lichess rating under 1300 = Buyantur1.
• National Schools – lichess rating under 1400 = Eoin_Schmidt.
• National Schools – lichess rating under 1600 = Elias_Faustino.
• National Schools – lichess rating under 1700 = MilnerMane.
• National Schools – lichess rating under 1800 = PikaMcC.
• National Schools – lichess rating under 1900 = Ninja5000.
• National Schools – lichess rating under 2000 = JediKnight8.

• Secondary School: lichess rating under 700 = masterunitato.
• Secondary School: lichess rating under 800 = EmmaNevin.
• Secondary School: lichess rating under 900 = Geniusshy.
• Secondary School: lichess rating under 1000 = murtaza007.
• Secondary School: lichess rating under 1100 = Eoin_Kelly.
• Secondary School: lichess rating under 1200 = GinnMcPartlin.
• Secondary School: lichess rating under 1400 = GlenMoore0.
• Secondary School: lichess rating under 1500 = SeanB45.
• Secondary School: lichess rating under 1600 = clynch4.
• Secondary School: lichess rating under 1700 = cathal05.
• Secondary School: lichess rating under 1800 = the_blu_knight.
• Secondary School: lichess rating under 1900 = p2munster.

We will update this post later with players names and their school .. for now all we have are the lichess usernames !

Thanks to everyone who make this happen and to the players .. we hope you enjoyed the chess games.

Dear Teachers, Parents & Players,

We will hold a zoom call starting at 6.15pm.  Join us at 6.15pm if you need any help joining the right event.

Join Zoom Meeting here & use passcode: 502689

Then, after the games (around 8.15pm) have finished we’ll announce the winners of each section and the grading prizes.

Best of luck !

The webinar is on at 8.00 pm, Monday the 19th of April, 2021. For anyone who can’t attend here is a video link with all the key info. below:

The “how to” Video for parents, teachers and students interested in playing in this years Online school chess championships !