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New School Groups
Educate Together is currently engaging with groups in a number of areas around the country.
To see information on the 12 new schools opening September 2008 click here
If you are interested in finding out more about setting up an Educate Together school in your area please contact:
Please click on the start up group near you. If there is no group listed in your area please contact a New Schools Officer as above.
Athy Start-Up Group
Carpenterstown- Dublin 15 Educate Together Start-Up Group
Tallaght
Start-Up Group
Athy Start-Up Group
It is the intention that an Educate Together school will open in Athy in 2009. A successful pre-enrolment was held in June and children can now be pre-enrolled for the proposed school. For further information, please contact Athy Educate Together Association at athyeducatetogether@gmail.com, or Tommy Lavelle on 0877710536.
Amy Mulvihill is the New Schools Officer working with this group. Tel: 01 429 2500, Email: amy.mulvihill@educatetogether.ie
Carpenterstown- Dublin 15 Educate Together Start up group
The start-up group is still actively working towards opening in 2009 and welcome other interested parents and supporters to join their group
Educate Together is disappointed to have to announce that its efforts to open a school in Carpenterstown, Dublin 15, this September have been unsuccessful. This school received more applications for places from parents than any school proposal in Educate Together's history. Within two hours of the launch of the pre-enrolment list on January 20 this year, 203 children had been registered. At the time of writing, the current figure of pre-enrolments stands at 263 children, 85 of whom are seeking places in the current year. The figures cover the next five years and show irrefutable evidence of sustained demand for this school from parents in this local area.
It is regrettable that the Minister for Education and Science at the time, Mary Hanafin, did not follow the recommendation of the independent body set up to review applications for new schools, the New School's Advisory Committee. This committee advised that the school should be recognized.
It is also regrettable that the board which heard Educate Together's appeal against this decision took a very narrow interpretation of the regulations and did not balance these regulations against the rights of parents involved or the fact that the Department was in the process of building extensive accommodation in the area which could house the school.
It is unfortunate that the final initiative of Educate Together, to propose that the school could be temporarily housed for the coming year in vacant classrooms in the new Castaheany Educate Together National School has not yet been responded to by the Department of Education and Science.
As a result of this and other Departmental delays, Educate Together does not consider that it will be able to open a school in Carpenterstown for this September and is reluctantly advising those parents seeking places this year to make other arrangements for their children's education.
However, we would like to stress that Educate Together and the local start-up group are fully committed to ensuring that parents in the Carpenterstown area have the option of an Educate Together school as soon as possible.
In the past week, Educate Together has lodged a formal notification of intent to apply to open the school in 2009 with the relevant departmental authority.
Please download the Pre-enrolment form here and return to the address on the form
Maggie Hyland is the local contact and can be reached on 085 1291687. Please check out the groups new website available at http://www.carpenterstown-et.com
Amy Mulvihill is the New Schools Officer working with this group. Tel: 01 429 2500, Email: amy.mulvihill@educatetogether.ie
Tallaght Start-Up Group
Due to the high level of demand in the Tallaght area, we are currently assessing the possibility of opening schools in the Tallaght and/or Saggart areas. A well attended public meeting was held on the 23rd July. The Tallaght Area Educate Together Association is currently working with Educate Together to assess where there is most demand. If you are interested in this project, please contact Sinéad Harrington at 086 3234750.
Amy Mulvihill is the New Schools Officer working with this group. Tel: 01 429 2500, Email: amy.mulvihill@educatetogether.ie
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