There is an active campaign ongoing and you will see all key milestones noted here.
To read about the group’s last meeting on November 26th please click here. Our next meeting will be in March 2012. If you are on the mailing list you will be sent details closer to the date. To join the mailing list, email portobellomds@gmail.com
Educate Together selected our group to be a pilot for the ‘transformation’ process, whereby we would work with an existing Catholic school to achieve transformation of patronage and become an Educate Together school. The Department of Education & Skills will support us in a transformation project when a potential school is identified. Key to this is the report of the Forum on Patronage. Read our final submission for consideration to the National Forum on Patronage and Pluralism here. The Forum will be publishing its report in early 2012.
To read about our activity regarding the Forum on Patronage in October and November click here.
To see our submission click here.
Second Level Educate Together School
On a different but related campaign that is just starting up, many of you have probably heard that a campaign has started for a second level Educate Together school in Dublin 2, 4, 6, 8, 12. There was an initial public meeting on last Thursday 12th Janary at 8pm in Griffith Barracks multi-denominational school. Also there is a Facebook page up and running. The need for such a school in our area is very clear so many of us may be interested in getting involved in this campaign, although it may seem very far off for many of us with pre-school children. If you did not get a chance to attend but would like to be involved please email us.
Please see all other activities linked off this page.
