We are awaiting a further update from the Department of Education at the moment to formally appoint our Main Contractor. This will allow work to being on site hopefully later this year. It will be approximately a 3 year project.
Yes, we make the results of your child's assessment available to you at some stage during their 1st year.
While the Department has announced funding for books for second level, there is no plan announced yet for how this is to be organised. We will hopefully know more before we publish booklists and will keep you up to date with developments.
While there is an official exemption process for Irish if students satisfy certain conditions, there is no such process for a modern foreign language exemption. However, you can meet with our Additional Needs Team and find out more about the circumstances when students do not need to take a language.
There are two assessment dates. 7th Feb is for Scoil Áine students and 21st Feb is for all other primary school students. Your child should be brought to our school at the time we will confirm with you shortly. Some schools will walk the students over from the primary school. But you may have to bring your student here if smaller numbers are coming to us from that school. We will communicate more about this closer to the date. Both tests will be on in the morning time. Students will use our school computers and need to have a set of wired headphones with them.
We will issue a special VSware link for your incoming child’s options process and then once your child starts with us, you will be able to see all of your children on the same VSware page.
We don’t operate a taster programme for options but listen carefully to parents and students if they feel that they have selected a subject that they are finding challenging and try to change options if resources allow.
At the moment we offer Digital Literacy and Wellbeing to 1st year students to ensure that they have the skills to use the MS Office package that they have access to in the school and the attitudes and knowledge to deal with some of the challenges that can arise from living in a digital media world. This does not include a coding element. We also offer Computer Science as an option for Leaving Certificate students and we run a TY coding module as an option also.
Junior students (1st to 3rd) can either stay in school for lunch and use the school canteen or bring a packed lunch. Junior students are not allowed to access any local shops or restaurants during lunch time. Senior students (TY to 6th year) can use local shops and restaurants. Our school canteen can accept electronic payments if you want to provide your child with a card that they can use.
Yes, an assistive technology grant will need to be applied for. Please phone the school and make an appointment to meet with our Additional Needs post holder.
Our additional needs team and SNAs will organise a special focussed tour for students with additional needs if needed before they start with us. They will also receive additional help during the student induction days at the start of the school year.
Once we have finalised the structure of the Junior Cycle course on offer for the incoming 1st years, we will send on all of the relevant information to you. Current 1st years study Maths, English, Irish (unless exemption is in place), either French or German and 3 options subjects from a list of 9 as well as wellbeing subjects such as SPHE, PE, CSPE and Digital Wellbeing. Science is not compulsory in our school but as a lot of students wish to take it, we put on many classes of science to facilitate this. If there are changes in the programme, we will let you know in good time before you have to make your subject choice. Please look at our recorded Open Day video from a few years ago with your child to help you to get more information about each subject on offer.
