Primary School recomendation in Dun Laoghaire

s10n

Hi folks,

I was hoping that someone would be able to make some recommendations on primary schools in the Dun Laoghaire catchment area.
I have a looked for recent posts but see nothing less than about 2 years old on the boards.

Any help greatly appreciated.

marley123

Highly recommend the Harold School in Glasthule!

byhookorbycrook

Do you want single sex or mixed? What ethos -Gaelscoil/Multidenom/COI/ RC ?Fee paying or public?
Don't forget -and it sounds mad to even think about it now- but some primary schools feed into particular secondary schools ,so that needs to be considered too.

s10n

marley123 wrote: »

Highly recommend the Harold School in Glasthule!

Many thanks

s10n

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Do you want single sex or mixed? What ethos -Gaelscoil/Multidenom/COI/ RC ?Fee paying or public?
Don't forget -and it sounds mad to even think about it now- but some primary schools feed into particular secondary schools ,so that needs to be considered too.

That's where the problem lies, as both my wife and I are not from the area we do not know which primary schools we need to be trying for, to get the better secondary schools . We do not have a major preference in the type of school, but would prefer it to be multi cultural.

Thanks for your reply

byhookorbycrook

Most schools in urban areas and indeed throughout the country are multicultural -in that there may be children of all nationalities, different religions or none . Some religious ethos school choose to prioritise entrants by their religion, e.g. a Catholic school might give first preference to Catholics, a Church of Ireland school to Church of Ireland children and so on. I work in a Catholic school but we do not use religion as part of our enrolment criteria,