Drop in numbers blamed as leading school set to close
Feabhra 22, 2017
The closure after 112 years of Cistercian College, Roscrea, one of Ireland’s best known boarding schools, has been blamed on a significant fall in student numbers.
The school, located at Mount St Joseph Abbey in Co Offaly, has been a top-ten performer in the annual Sunday Independent school league tables for the past two years, sending a high level of its intake to third level.
But the school has confirmed there had been a 45pc drop in enrolment in the past decade, with only nine first-year students enrolled for September of this year.
Dom Richard Purcell, Abbot of Mount St Joseph Abbey, said: “This is a very sad day for the staff, the students and their families, the many thousands of past pupils and of course the monks of Mount St Joseph Abbey. The decision to close was an extremely difficult one for the community to make.”
He added: “The school has witnessed a 45pc drop in enrolment in the past 10 years, with just nine first-year students enrolled for September 2017. Clearly this is unsustainable and the school is simply no longer financially viable.
“We were sadly left with no option but to conduct what we anticipate will be a phased closure of the school over the next 16 months,” Dom Richard added.
Meanwhile another well-known school, Synge Street in Dublin, is going gaelscoil – because all-Irish schools are what parents of children in the city centre want most.
Currently, Synge Street primary is an all-boys school that accepts children from second class up to sixth class.
But from September, it will introduce a new stream of pupils, starting at junior infants level, learning only through Irish.
This gaelscoil stream – or “sruth” – will run alongside, but separate from, the boys learning through English.
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Feabhra 21, 2017
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Feabhra 20, 2017
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New building for Gaelscoil de hÍde in Fermoy after long wait
Feabhra 20, 2017
Students and staff of Gaelscoil de hÍde in Fermoy have closed the doors of their old building and entered their new school today.
The new school was sanctioned almost six years ago, when the Department of Education accepted that the school was not suitable for the number of children attending.
The Gaelscoil de hÍde New School Action Group said: “Some storage rooms and play areas had to be converted into classrooms. Children were not allowed run in the playground for fear of injury, toilet facilities were totally inadequate and our 410 children were cramped into a school built to cater for roughly half that amount.
Parents of children in the school formed the New School Action Group in June 2014 after “an unwieldy, vague and error-strewn process”.
In January 2016 planning permission was granted for the new 24-classroom complex on the Duntahane road in Fermoy.
Students were today accompanied by the local Fermoy Concert Band as they walked from their old school to their new building.
“It’s hard to believe that we’ve come this far. When we started our campaign the new Gaelscoil Project in Fermoy had all but stagnated. There were lots of empty promises and misleading headlines from politicians, and so many unanswered questions,” says Vivienne Dempsey, Chairperson of the New School Action Group.
Sean Mac Gearailt, Principal at Gaelscoil de hÍde, couldn’t wait to show the children their new school: “We always said that we wouldn’t believe the school would be ours until we turned the key in the door. Our hopes had been dashed too many times. Well now we have the keys and we’re delighted.”
The Irish question for the new secondary school in Portlaoise
Feabhra 20, 2017
Dunamase College – the new secondary school that will open in Portlaoise in September – will offer students the opportunity to learn through Irish as well as English. And it was the Irish-language element that created most of the questions at last Thursday’s information night.
The meeting was told that for the first year that staff recruited in the first year “will have to be fluent in both languages.”
Those present were also told that students who enter the school without having attended an Irish-speaking primary school will be able to adapt very quickly.
An Irish-speaking secondary school in Kilkenny was used as an example.
“In Kilkenny, only 40% of the students came into the school from an Irish medium primary school. And they ‘caught up’ very quickly,” said Paul Fields who is the Laois-Offaly Eductation and Training Board (LEOTB) Director of Schools.
“A lot of the time in secondary school are picking up new terminology anyway.”
It was also suggested that a course be run during the summer to allow the new students bridge the gap and possibly one for parents also “so they can have all the basic phrases”.
A school in Kildare was also used as an example where it started with only nine students but offered 18 subjects and some of those students are now “doctors, engineers and one is back as a teacher in the school”.
“Teachers will be specialists in their own subjects and fluent in Irish,” added Aoife Elster, the school’s principal. “For the first year, all staff will have to be fluent in Irish. Plenty of teachers out there. “Part of teacher skill set. Not negotiable.”
Joe Cunningham, CEO of the LOETB, added “”I have no doubt we will get the necessary staff and the standard we require.”
It was also confirmed that teachers in the new school will be referred to by their first name, such as ‘Muinteoir Aoife’.
http://www.laoistoday.ie/2017/02/20/irish-question-new-secondary-school-portlaoise/
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Feabhra 16, 2017
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Feabhra 16, 2017
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Feabhra 16, 2017
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