Welcome to this digital window through which you can see a little of daily life inside the Assumption Junior School.
If this your first visit as a prospective parent, I encourage you to look, not just at the various learning activities on display, but to look also at the smiling faces of the children involved in those activities. The learning is important, of course it is, but enjoyment of learning will ensure that it goes on, and on, throughout life. That is what we want to foster in the children enrolled here.
The school officially came into being on August 28th, 2014 when the most recent reorganisation took place, but the story goes back much further, beginning in 1958 when the Religious Sisters of Charity opened 5 schools in our building and began providing education for some 2,500 pupils.
Those five schools have by now been reduced to two; the overall enrolment stands at approx 820, a little more than a third of the number of pupils in attendance on the first day. Sr. Anne sits on our Board of Management and Sr Lorraine is with us 3 days a week but the Sisters are no longer as visible as they once were. The classes are mixed, of course, boys and girls happily sharing the classrooms and the playground. The mixture goes further in that every class has pupils from a variety of countries and cultures, each bringing their own heritage into the school. Classes are smaller, technology is very sophisticated and the range of support available to pupils is vastly different than it was fifty years ago.
Yet despite all these changes, ‘The Assumption’ essentially continues to do what it has always done – take in the timid and sometimes tearful four year olds, from their sometimes tearful parents each September and, after three or four years of working with and for them, we watch those timid little infants, now bigger, hopefully more confident, tear away across the road to the more exciting prospect of ‘The Castle’ or upstairs to the Senior Girls’ School, blissfully unaware of the strides they have taken since they started school.
This is a wonderful school to work in; the children we work with are at an age when eagerness, enthusiasm and cheerfulness is the default setting, and the children in this school seem to have a stronger version of these traits than many others. Their parents are supportive, co-operative and ambitious for their children. The staff are dedicated and enthusiastic, as can be seen by glancing at other parts of this website.
We are here because you send your children to us. We want your experience of the school, as parents and as pupils, to be as positive as ours is as staff. We will always be glad to hear your praise but we also need to hear your suggestions for improvement and, yes, your criticisms and complaints as well. Let us know if we are doing well, let us know if we are falling down, and if we are, you can help us up again.
To the staff members who have given up their time, expertise and energy to build this site, I want to say a sincere thank you; you make a very positive contribution to the school and the community it serves.
If this your first visit as a prospective parent, I encourage you to look, not just at the various learning activities on display, but to look also at the smiling faces of the children involved in those activities. The learning is important, of course it is, but enjoyment of learning will ensure that it goes on, and on, throughout life. That is what we want to foster in the children enrolled here.
The school officially came into being on August 28th, 2014 when the most recent reorganisation took place, but the story goes back much further, beginning in 1958 when the Religious Sisters of Charity opened 5 schools in our building and began providing education for some 2,500 pupils.
Those five schools have by now been reduced to two; the overall enrolment stands at approx 820, a little more than a third of the number of pupils in attendance on the first day. Sr. Anne sits on our Board of Management and Sr Lorraine is with us 3 days a week but the Sisters are no longer as visible as they once were. The classes are mixed, of course, boys and girls happily sharing the classrooms and the playground. The mixture goes further in that every class has pupils from a variety of countries and cultures, each bringing their own heritage into the school. Classes are smaller, technology is very sophisticated and the range of support available to pupils is vastly different than it was fifty years ago.
Yet despite all these changes, ‘The Assumption’ essentially continues to do what it has always done – take in the timid and sometimes tearful four year olds, from their sometimes tearful parents each September and, after three or four years of working with and for them, we watch those timid little infants, now bigger, hopefully more confident, tear away across the road to the more exciting prospect of ‘The Castle’ or upstairs to the Senior Girls’ School, blissfully unaware of the strides they have taken since they started school.
This is a wonderful school to work in; the children we work with are at an age when eagerness, enthusiasm and cheerfulness is the default setting, and the children in this school seem to have a stronger version of these traits than many others. Their parents are supportive, co-operative and ambitious for their children. The staff are dedicated and enthusiastic, as can be seen by glancing at other parts of this website.
We are here because you send your children to us. We want your experience of the school, as parents and as pupils, to be as positive as ours is as staff. We will always be glad to hear your praise but we also need to hear your suggestions for improvement and, yes, your criticisms and complaints as well. Let us know if we are doing well, let us know if we are falling down, and if we are, you can help us up again.
To the staff members who have given up their time, expertise and energy to build this site, I want to say a sincere thank you; you make a very positive contribution to the school and the community it serves.
