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Primary Schools in Shankill to Killiney

  • 18-11-2013 12:06AM
    #1
    josip
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    Hi,

    Does anyone have any opinion, good or bad, on primary schools in the Shankill to Killiney area? We're considering
    • Rathmichael (Shankill)
    • St. Annes (Shankill)
    • Dalkey School Project (Glenageary)
    • Johnstown (Killiney)
    • Glenageary and Killiney National School (Killiney)

    Religious elligibility will obviously be a factor, but leaving that aside does anyone have any recent, first hand experience of any of these schools?

    Thanks.

    (Mods, I wasn't sure whether this should go here or in the Schools forum, please move it if you see fit)
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  • #2
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    josip wrote: »
    Hi,

    Does anyone have any opinion, good or bad, on primary schools in the Shankill to Killiney area? We're considering
    • Rathmichael (Shankill)
    • St. Annes (Shankill)
    • Dalkey School Project (Glenageary)
    • Johnstown (Killiney)
    • Glenageary and Killiney National School (Killiney)

    Religious elligibility will obviously be a factor, but leaving that aside does anyone have any recent, first hand experience of any of these schools?

    Thanks.

    (Mods, I wasn't sure whether this should go here or in the Schools forum, please move it if you see fit)

    Not first hand, but I have friends with children in the last three on your list and they all speak highly of the schools.

    All three are difficult to get in to though unless you are local.


  • #3
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭uch


    I'd recommend Scoil Phádraig in Ballybrack, great little school. If you search the forum there have been several of these threads in the last year or so that will give you opinions on most schools.

    21/25



  • #4
    LordSutch
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    Kill O'the Grange National School, Deansgrange.
    Highly recommended by friends (3 kids there).

    next door to the NCT test centre.

    Slight off the route alright, but maybe within range?


  • #5
    josip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,010 ✭✭✭✭josip


    Within range, but more of a Big Bertha off tee rather than a pitching wedge up close. Would include it as a plan B in case we don't get anything closer.

    The 2008-2010 baby boom is making things a bit more competitive than a few years ago.


  • #6
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    josip wrote: »
    Within range, but more of a Big Bertha off tee rather than a pitching wedge up close. Would include it as a plan B in case we don't get anything closer.

    The 2008-2010 baby boom is making things a bit more competitive than a few years ago.

    My daughter is at a church of Ireland school. This is the first year in recent memory that they have taken only CofI children in. It has been a difficult decision, but it had become so competitive for places they stuck to the entrance criteria strictly and didn't get past the first tier.


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