Vivien McEvoy

My name is Vivien McEvoy. I am 30 years old and I am a primary school teacher from Ireland. I have subbed in various schools around Sydney and have been living here since June 2022.

I graduated from the National University of Ireland Galway with a BA in History and Geography in 2014 and then went on to study my Professional Masters in Primary Education with Hibernia College Dublin where I graduated in 2018. I completed three Teaching Placement blocks which altogether were 22 weeks (including 4 evaluation weeks) in total over a two-year period. During this time, I taught children in multi-class settings aswell as in single-class settings.

I have worked both in Mainstream classrooms that have been multi-class settings and single-class settings, as well as Special Education classrooms and ASD units too. I have collaborated with children’s parents, class teachers and various healthcare professionals such as; Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists and Psychologists during my teaching career thus far in order to meet each child’s individual learning needs and to ensure child-centred learning is achieved in my teaching.

I enjoy integrating a lot of active learning and group-work projects (collaborative learning) in my teaching as I believe when the children become active learning agents in their education that it enables them to acquire important learning skills that embed in their memory long-term and gives the children enjoyable learning experiences.

My most recent post was as a Mainstream Class Teacher in St. Brendan’s N.S Clonfert in a multi-class setting for 2nd, 3rd and 4th class children. I have gained invaluable skills and knowledge from working in this classroom in relation to my classroom management and time management to ensure the children’s needs were met. I had to teach 2 different curriculums while also ensuring that each class level was covered as well as being mindful of the diverse nature within a classroom where I had to ensure each child’s individual ability and learning needs were met within their own class levels also. I thoroughly enjoyed integrating whole-class group-work projects into lessons for the children to enable them to collaborate together and to support each other in learning new skills as well as scaffolding one another’s learning too. I also prepared two classes for the Holy Sacrament for the First Holy Communion due to Covid-19 delaying Communion times over the past 2 years.

I also worked as a Special Education Teacher in St. Augustine’s N.S from September 2018 until November 27th 2020. I have gained invaluable experience developing both my skills and knowledge as a teacher in this school from the teachers, children and all of the staff there. I have experience using various teaching methods and strategies in literacy and numeracy such as; station teaching, team/peer teaching, active learning and blended learning using technology in the mainstream classrooms as well as teaching children that need individual support depending on their learning needs in small groups and in a 1:1 capacity also.

I am a very active person and enjoy school sociable events and especially sporting events. I have organised my own as well as having assisted teachers and children with sports events along with other events in the school such as; First Holy Communion preparation in order to receive the Sacrament, school masses, Grandparent’s day, Green Flag Committees and projects.

• Lumcloon N.S, Special Education Teacher, May 2021, Offaly
• St. Brendan’s N.S, Mainstream Class Teacher, February 2021 – April 2022, Galway
• St. Augustine’s N.S., Special Education Teaching, September 2018 – November 2020, Galway
• Scoil Mhuire, Special Education Teacher, December 2020, Oranmore
• St. Joseph’s N.S., Mainstream Class Teacher, December 2020, Kinvara
• Kilrickle N.S., Mainstream Class Teacher, December 2020, Galway
• Mullagh N.S., Mainstream Class Teacher, November 2020, Glaway
• Lumcloon N.S., Special Education Teaching, May 2019, Offaly
• Killeen N.S., Mainstream class teacher, May 2019, Galway
• Iomair N.S., Special Education Teaching, May 2019, Galway
• St. Mary’s N.S., Mainstream class teacher, April/May/June 2019, Offaly
• St. Augustine’s N.S., Special Education Teaching, October 2018 – April 2019, Galway
• St. Augustine’s N.S., Special Education Teacher, September 2018, Galway
• Castlesampson N.S., Special Education Teaching, October 2018, Roscommon
• Killasolan N.S., Mainstream class teacher, October 2018, Galway
• St. Mary’s N.S., Mainstream class teacher, September 2018, Offaly
• St. Brendan’s N.S. Clonfert, Mainstream class teacher, May/June 2018, Galway
• Crinkill N.S., Mainstream class teacher, February 2018, Offaly
• St. Brendan’s N.S. Eyrecourt, Mainstream class teacher, January 2018, Galway

• Mainstream Class teacher in St. Brendan’s National School Clonfert from 22/02/2021 – 08/04/2022 in a multi-class setting for 2nd, 3rd and 4th class children teaching the curriculum as well as managing the diversity and different class levels and individual abilities within this classroom also.
• Special Education Teacher in St. Augustine’s National School Clontuskert from 13/09/2018 – 27/11/2020: I taught children in a 1:1 cpacity as well as teaching children in a group setting. I also taught mainstream classes daily during my post in this school in both the Junior and Senior Rooms using an array of different teaching methodologies such as; station teaching, team teaching and alternate teaching.
• Completed my Droichead on the 29/06/2020 which means I am a fully probated primary teacher.
• Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (MIEE) Award 2020/2021
• 2018 Qualifications to Teach Catholic Religious Education in Catholic Primary Schools (Awarded by the Bishops Council of Ireland).
• July Provision 2018: I tutored a child who had Autism. I was personally asked by the child’s parent to continue to tutor their child for the remainder of the year and this child has now re-integrated into a mainstream classroom.

• Niall Kelly, School Principal & Mainstream Class Teacher, Clonfert, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, 0909675008, +353 860726989, +353 860726989
• Ann Marie Hyland, School Vice Principal & Mainstream Class Teacher, Clonfert, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, 0909675008, +353 863042112, +353 863042112
• Eimíl Scott, Mainstream Class Teacher, Clontuskert, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, 0909643762, +353 863301096, +353 863301096
• Kate Murray, School Principal & Mainstream Class Teacher, Clontuskert, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway, 0909643762, +353 874150320, +353 874150320

• NESA Accreditation - expiry August 2027
• Working With Children's Check - expiry July 2027
• Religious Certificate - Awarded by the Bishops Council of Ireland
• Sydney Catholic Schools Registration ID: 91134100
• First Aid & CPR Certificate awarded on March 2024
• Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert (MIEE) 2020/2021

I am a very active person who loves the outdoors and sports. I am also very creative and like to draw and paint. I love animals also.