Coláiste Ghlór na Mara prepares for 2014
September 30, 2013
Coláiste Ghlór na Mara is going full steam ahead. The school will open its doors to First Year students for the 2014/15 academic year.
The uniform has been chosen and at present a supplier is being sourced. We will reveal it here when we have it ready!
The Board is also actively looking into the possibility of pupils having an ‘electronic schoolbag’ as pupils of Coláiste Ghlór na Mara and again we will release that information as soon as we have a definite plan.
During the month of October the position of Príomhoide for Coláiste Ghlór na Mara will be advertised with a view to filling that post and having the Príomhoide appointed from February 2014.
In November the Board will make contact with those who have registered an interest in attending Coláiste Ghlór na Mara for the academic year 2014/15 with a view to registering the pupils that are currently in Rang 6.
http://colaisteghlornamara.com
Dea-scéal do Gaelscoil Shliabh Rua
September 30, 2013
Tá suíomh buan faighte againn i mBaile Uí Ógáin sa Chéim. Táimid ag súil le bheith ag bogadh isteach i Mí na Samhna 2014!!
We now have a permanent site in Ballyogan Lands, Stepaside. We expect to move in in November 2014!!
BEO 2013 – Comórtas d’amhráin nuachumtha as Gaeilge
September 30, 2013
Coláiste Íde Boarding School
September 30, 2013
Coláiste Íde is an all-Irish 7 day boarding school for girls situated in the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry. The college a very high standard of post-Primary education to students. Dedicated teachers and staff along with daily supervised study ensures consistently high academic results.
Coláiste Íde has a strong focus on personal development and each student reaches her potential in an environment that fosters self-confidence, independence and self-esteem. Students leave Coláiste Íde confident, capable, well-educated and are well prepared to enter third level education and take their place in society.
Contact Siobhán on 066 915 1211
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Dhá phost le líonadh ag Comhairle na Gaelscolaíochta
September 26, 2013
Minister Quinn announces patronage of new primary schools to open in 2014
September 26, 2013
Educate Together appointed patron of new schools in Sandymount/Ringsend and Knocknacarra, Galway
The Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairí Quinn T.D., today announced the outcome of the patronage determination process for new primary schools due to open in 2014.
This is a further step in the process that began in June 2011 when the Minister announced that 20 new primary schools are to be established up to 2015 in a number of locations to cater for increasing pupil numbers.
At that time the Minister also announced new criteria and arrangements for the recognition of the new schools. The arrangements included the establishment of a New Schools Establishment Group (NESG), an independent advisory group, to advise the Minister on the patronage of the new schools following its consideration of a report prepared by Department officials.
Announcing the patronage of the new schools, Minister Quinn said: “In making the decisions on the patronage of these schools, I was particularly conscious of taking into account the clear parental demand for plurality and diversity of patronage.
“The new schools getting the go-ahead will optimise parental choice and strengthen diversity of provision in the areas where they are being established”.
Educate Together has been appointed as the patron of a new 16-classroom school for the Sandymount/Ringsend area in Dublin and of an 8-classroom school for the Knocknacarra area in Galway.
The Minister said that consideration is to be given to the establishment of a further 8-classroom school for the Knocknacarra area in 2015 under the patronage of Lifeways Ireland Limited. This will be subject to further prior confirmation that parental demand will support this model and size of school adequately at this time.
The Minister has agreed to defer the establishment of new primary schools for Swords in Dublin and for Middleton/Carrigtohill in Cork pending further reviews of these areas by the Department.
In assessing the applications received in all cases, all of the published criteria as set out were considered, including the extent of diversity in existing schools and the scale of diversity to be provided by the new school or schools. This was considered in conjunction with the level of parental demand for each of the patron applicants.
The Minister expressed his thanks to the members of the NSEG for their valuable input to the process.
He said: “I initiated the revised system for the establishment of new schools and the appointment of the school patron so that it would be an objective and transparent process. The role of the NESG is critical to achieving these aims and I want to thank them for their work in this area.”
Department officials will be in contact with Educate Together shortly in regard to the logistics of establishing the new schools that are going-ahead.
The Report of the New Schools Advisory Group is available online at: http://www.education.ie/en/Schools-Colleges/Information/Establishing-a-New-School/New-Primary-Schools/Report-of-the-New-Schools-Establishment-Group-on-the-Patronage-of-Primary-Schools-Scheduled-to-Commence-in-September-2014.pdf
Lifeways Ireland Ltd. is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status. It is currently the patron body for two Steiner National Schools both of which have provisional recognition from the Department.
€3,000 don chomórtas BEO
September 26, 2013
Foirgneamh nua Ghaelscoil Phort Laoise
September 25, 2013
Government failing children as schools ‘starved of resources’
September 25, 2013
The government is starving schools of resources, implementing cuts “by stealth” and depriving this generation of “cutback kids” of an adequate education, the organisation representing managers of almost 400 secondary schools said today.
Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn and the government are failing to prioritise the young, the vulnerable and the nation’s future in their allocation of resources, it added.
In a pre-budget submission, the Joint Managerial Body representing managers of Catholic and Protestant secondary schools said hard-pressed schools are “at breaking point” and can take no more cuts to frontline services.
“The Budget must prioritise and protect frontline services,” JMB General Secretary Ferdia Kelly said, urging the government to recapture the vision of Donogh O’Malley, the Minister for Education who announced free post-primary education in 1967.
Mr Kelly said schools have lost guidance counsellors and suffered cuts in the numbers of language and special needs teachers as well as year heads and other supports.
The 2011 programme for government declared education was at the heart of sustainable economic growth and said it would prioritise frontline services but that hadn’t happened, he said.
“The government is spinning to the public that things are still the same but they are not,” he said. There had been a decrease “by stealth” of almost one percent in the pupil teacher ratio, class sizes were at a maximum and subjects were being dropped from senior cycle.
Michael Redmond, JMB research and development officer, said this generation has suffered education cuts worse than any in the State’s history. Every other generation had a better education experience than their parents but not this generation who will be known as the “cutback kids”, he said.
The submissions said services to students in need including travellers were being eroded, capitation grants had been cut by 11 per cent and the moratorium on appointment of posts of responsibility in schools was forcing principals to take on the tasks of key posts such as year heads and special needs organisers with consequent impact on the principals’ ability to fulfil their own responsibilities.
The “catastrophic” cuts in guidance counselling particularly exposed the lack of vision as a lot of counselling work was about stopping problems at source, it said.
Immediate restoration of guidance provision was a “no brainer”as the axing of this service affected the most vulnerable and it made no sense to have government educational policy add to the problem of high youth unemployment.
www.irishtimes.com
Afterschool Chat Group for Teenagers
September 25, 2013
This is a weekly chat group for teenagers in first and second year of secondary school … homework will serve as a guide to the sessions but talking, listening and hearing Irish spoken is to be the main focus … for €2 per week, from Wed., 2 Oct., 16:15 – 17:15.
The group meets in the only centre in East Galway for Irish, Gaeilge Locha Riach, 3 Old Galway Road, Loughrea. Tea and coffee is provided for parents while they wait.
Info: 091-870718 / oifig@lochariach.com
