Educate Together is today celebrating the formal recognition of its second-level patronage status by the Minister of Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn. The multi-denominational school patron body and its supporters have been campaigning to open its first second-level school for many years. It opened its first primary school in 1978. Chief Executive Paul Rowe stated today ‘This decision is a very important landmark for our organization. It is a vindication of the huge effort parents around … [Read more...]

Make your submissions to the Forum for Patronage and Pluralism by 7th June. All submissions welcome. Take this opportunity to make your voice heard! See http://www.educatetogether.ie/press-releases/2011/05/national-forum-on-patronage-and-pluralism-make-your-voice-heard-now/ for more info. … [Read more...]

Please see directions and draft agenda attached for our AGM being held in Gorey Educate Together NS. The updated agenda will be circulated on Monday with details of the workshops included. Ruarí Quinn TD, Minister for Education and Skills, will be addressing attendees at this year's event. Please RSVP to agm@educatetogether.ie by 5pm on 25th May. Please advise us of any special dietary requirements so they may be catered for. If members are bringing children with them, we must be advised in … [Read more...]

The March edition of the Educate Together newsletter for schools is available in full at the following link: http://www.educatetogether.ie/press-releases/2011/04/etsn-march-2011/ … [Read more...]

Please take note that the upcoming National Forum is on 5th March in Lucan ETNS. As we are a 'bottom up' organisation we would like to encourage Members (Parents, Principals, Teachers, Boards of Management) to attend, and also send their comments and ideas for future National Forums to NationalForum@EducateTogether.ie An agenda will be circulated next week. We look forward to seeing you on 5th March! Kind regards, Seonaid Dunne Administration Assistant 20110305_LB_Invite to … [Read more...]

Next Stop Educate Together Second-level! Educate Together second-level schools will nurture critical and creative thinkers, problem solvers, effective communicators and innovators. Our schools will operate as truly democratic learning communities, empowering students, teachers and parents to work together towards educational aims in an atmosphere of equality and respect. To keep up with the latest developments, sign up to the second-level mailing list by … [Read more...]

Fundraising Superheroes – mark October 22nd in your diaries! It is the day when Educate Together schools all around the country will be fundraising to help us with our work in supporting Principals and BOMs nationwide! The plan for the National Fundraising Day is simple. One member or small group of a school’s community (well known person/people) does a sponsored run, swim, knit, silence(!) or some other challenge activity. Do the challenge and become an Educate Together Fundraising … [Read more...]

Educate Together will be holding a General Meeting of Members at Mullingar Educate Together National School on Saturday 2nd October. The agenda proposed for this meeting is as follows: 10:00 – 10:30 Registration 10:30 – 10:45 Introduction 10:45 – 11:30 National office structure – presentation of new departments and services for members and schools 11:30 – 12:15 Second-level project update – Tánaiste’s decisions on Lucan and Gorey – How far have we got? and – Where to … [Read more...]

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