Dublin "Educate Together" schools

mambo

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Our school is Catholic and we do not give preference to Catholics, it's siblings and first come,first served.

That's good to know - do many Catholic schools not give preference to Catholics?

But since we don't know where we will be living in a few years time, it would be a lot of work do put them down for every Catholic school in Dublin, just in case. :-(

lazygal

Mambo, we are expecting our first child and will be putting the name down as soon as we're home from the hospital for the local ET school. It's first come, first served and always oversubscribed. We are both not Catholic (raised but extremely lapsed!) and didn't have a religious wedding. We don't intend baptising either as we don't think its right just to get a child into school.

That said we have to be pragmatic and will also be putting our child's name down for the local Catholic school. This is with great reluctance. It's an excellent school and I attended it myself. The only thing niggling us is that our child will be left out of communion and confirmation preparation in second and sixth class which will be very annoying for us. We'll deal with the questions on God etc as best we can but the time devoted to preparation for sacraments is annoying, but as its a Catholic school what can you do.

I'm also not holding my breath on a large transfer of patronage any time soon.

I went to Dalkey School Project back when it really was a project!!

It is an absolutely fantastic school, I know quite a few people who have their kids there and they just love it. The admissions list is a long one though, my daughter didn't get a place despite being born at the end of July and her name going on the list the first week back in September. So you really do need to get your baby's name down pretty much the minute they are born!

I can't speak for other schools as I don't have direct experience but I have only heard good things about Monkstown ET.