Educate Together News Release 12 February 2008

Educate Together invites parents to pre-enroll for a New Educate Together school in Swords/ Applewood

Pre-enrolment: 8th March 2008
Time: 10am – 2pm
Venue: Assembley hall, Swords Educate Together National School

Educate Together are holding a public launch of their Pre-enrolment List, for the proposed new Educate Together School in Swords.

Educate Together has recently submitted a formal application of its intention to open a new school in September 2008, to the New Schools Advisory Commmittee.

A spokesman for Educate Together added, “If the application is successful, Educate Together will only proceed to open the school if the Department of Education and Science provides a reasonable level of funding to support the professional services necessary to allow the school to open in a responsible and efficient manner and where there is a realistic and credible guarantee that permanent buildings are being provided for the proposed school.”

Educate Together is the representative organisation of the Educate Together schools and associations throughout the Republic of Ireland. It owes its origins to the movement to establish new multi-denominational primary schools, which emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Today there are 44 Educate Together schools, 22 of which are in the greater Dublin area. Educate Together aims to meet a growing need in Irish society for schools that recognise the developing diversity of Irish life and the modern need for democratic management structures. In particular, Educate Together guarantees children and parents of all faiths and none equal respect in the operation and governing of education.

Educate Together Schools are fully recognised by the Irish Department of Education and Science and work under the same regulations and funding structures as other national schools. However, they have a distinct ethos or governing spirit.

For more information please contact:
Jarlath Munnelly, New Schools Officer Educate Together,
T: 01 4292500,
E: jarlath.munnelly@educatetogether.ie