Schools in Ireland

What school will I be teaching in?
Convent Primary School!  

A few facts about it…

• 240 children girls from age 6-13
• Girls only catholic school
• Mission:
  • To create a community for learning where students, parents and staff are joined in the pursuit of academic excellence and personal growth in a caring environment.
  • to develop each student’s full potential through a challenging and diversified curriculum and a commitment to intellectual freedom. We will teach basic skills, foster creative and critical thinking and provide a foundation for life long learning.
  • to nourish our student’s emotional and spiritual lives and guide their social development, instilling in them an appreciation of self worth of individual difference, and of global interdependence.
  • to help them to learn to manage freedom and to act ethically so that each may be become a responsible, contributing member of society
• Motto
  • A girl in Scoil an Chlochair is ready to help and share in the responsibility of the school
  • Scoil An Chlochair National School is a mainstream, co-educational, primary school under the patronage of the Catholic bishop of Meath. It caters for children from Kilbeggan and its hinterland.

Here is their blog/website if you want to check it out for yourself!
http://conventprimarylistowel.scoilnet.ie/blog/ 

In terms of the general curriculum for primary schools in Ireland:

• The Primary School Curriculum is designed to nurture the child in all dimensions of his or her life – spiritual, moral, cognitive, emotional, imaginative, aesthetic, social and physical (DES 1999, Primary School Curriculum, Introduction p.6). The curriculum’s vision of education is expressed in the form of three general aims:
• 1. to enable the child to live as a child and to realize his or her potential as a unique individual;
• 2. to enable the child to develop as a social being through living and co-operating with others and so contribute to the good of society;
• 3. to prepare the child for further education and lifelong learning.
• For more information: http://www.into.ie/ROI/Publications/ApproachesTeachingandLearning.pdf

In terms of general curriculum, check out the Northern Ireland Standards and overall Educational information at: http://www.nicurriculum.org.uk/docs/key_stages_1_and_2/northern_ireland_curriculum_primary.pdf