Already the county with the first ever award of a Library of Sanctuary, Co. Laois now has its first Champion School of Sanctuary- Dunamase College in Portlaoise. 🎉🙌🥳🎈 A Schools of Sanctuary Ireland monitoring team visited the school on Wednesday December 13th, a team comprising Andy Pollak (Places of Sanctuary Ireland board member), Homayoon […]
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The great county of Cork has its first Champion School of Sanctuary! Millstreet Community School became the third school in Cork to receive the award but it is the first such awarded school outside of the city. On Friday November 24th, a large monitoring team representing Schools of Sanctuary Ireland visited Millstreet Community School. Each
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Coláiste Chiaráin, a KWETB school in Leixlip, became County Kildare’s second Champion School of Sanctuary on Thursday Nov 23rd, following the visit of a SoSI monitoring team. The Sanctuary lead in the school, Ms. Mairéad McDonnell had, with the support of colleagues, arranged for us to meet principal Mark Neville, DP Louise Doran and
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Presentation Secondary School, Wexford became the newest Champion of School of Sanctuary and the sixth in Co. Wexford on Monday 13th November, following a monitoring day which made a deep impact on the team and visitors. The monitoring day coincided with an intercultural celebration, graced by parents, students and teachers from neighbouring schools and the
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A School of Sanctuary Monitoring visit was conducted at Kilkenny City Vocational School (KCVS) on Thursday, 5th October 2023, and the members of the team unanimously recommended the school to be awarded the Champion School of Sanctuary status. The team was led by Homayoon Shirzad, and included Ashlee Hally, Mark Kelly & Liz Murphy (Champion
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To mark World Teacher’s Day 2023, we asked some of our wonderful Sanctuary Ambassadors to share their gratitude for teachers in Ireland. Enjoy the video below! Thank you to Homayoon, Fahmeda, Tika, Khatira, Kinda, Manizha and Hashem for sharing these beautiful personal sentiments and touching words. 🥰❤️🫶🤝😊 The team of Schools of Sanctuary Ireland echoes
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Schools of Sanctuary Ireland was thrilled to start the new school year with an award ceremony for two new Champion Schools. Large groups of wonderful students from Mercy Secondary School (Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath) and St Nathy’s College (Ballaghadereen, Co. Roscommon) enjoyed a visit to Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), Athlone Campus on Friday September
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We were delighted to present two information clinics for teachers in September, one for primary school and the second for post-primary schools. Many thanks to all of the teachers who registered and attended the clinics. It has made us so excited for the new school year and we can’t wait to help all of these
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On August 21st 2023, Brónagh Hogan featured on RTÉ 1’s coverage of The International Rose of Tralee 2023, representing Wexford as the Wexford Rose. Brónagh is a teacher in Kilrane National School, Rosslare, Co. Wexford, a Champion School of Sanctuary. We were blown away when Brónagh took the opportunity on this huge international platform to
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We warmly welcome all schools back and wish all the very best for the 2023/2024 school year ahead. We can’t wait to connect with our schools and to share our new look resources. And we look forward to welcoming new schools to the Schools of Sanctuary network!
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