Re: Educate Together School for Sandyford/Ballinteer Date: August 30, 2010 03:42AM |
Hi Margaret,
Great that you are also interested in the school. To answer your questions: When the school opens depends on the Department of Education. Personally, I have a 3 1/2 year old so my preference (which has no bearing on reality!) is for the school to open September 2011. Other ET schools have managed to get running in that timeframe (and shorter) but only where the Department readily agreed to the opening of the school. The more parents we have involved and adding their children to the pre-enrolment list, the better the chances we have of getting permission for the school. As for the location, if we get permission to open the school, the next step would be to find facilities. For other ET schools, this has involved finding premises to rent or building a new school. At the moment, we are concentrating on getting permission rather than searching for premises. As for secondary schools, I have my daughter down for Newpark but enrolment policy favours Church of Ireland first I think and then Educate Together schools - that's what I heard - not sure if it's accurate. Again, if we are successful with opening the primary school it would be nice to campaign for an ET secondary school - there is no secondary school anywhere in the area. So a lot of work to do! Hope to see you at the pre-enrolment event or at a meeting soon.
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