Gaelscoil Philib Barún

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Class Teachers for 2024-2025

We are pleased to announce that the class teachers and special assistants for the 2024-2025 school year have been finalised. We are especially proud to open our newly established special class for pupils with autism this year. The list is included (along with lists from previous years) on the School Staff page of our website, or directly from the School Staff (2024-2025) section therein. We look forward to the school reopening for all pupils on Wednesday, 28 August 2024, which

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Autism Special Class

We are delighted to announce that an autism special class has been sanctioned by the Department of Education to open in Gaelscoil Philib Barún in September 2024. The class will cater for a maximum of six pupils. Applications can be made by submitting an email seeking enrolment, to be accompanied by a birth certificate and any relevant professional reports. The Application for Enrolment form is available from our Policies & Forms page of our website (where the school’s enrolment policy

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Christmas Concerts 2023

The schedule below outlines the times and dates for this year’s Christmas concerts at Gaelscoil Philib Barún. Admission is free but raffle tickets will be on sale each evening with proceeds going toward various school initiatives. Date Time Class Tuesday, 19 December 2023 6:00pm Junior Infants 6:30pm First Class 7:00pm Fifth Class 7:30pm Sixth Class Wednesday, 20 December 2023 6:00pm Senior Infants 6:30pm Second Class 7:00pm Third Class 7:30pm Fourth Class

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School Opening due to Storm Debi

We can confirm Gaelscoil Philib Barún will open at the normal time on Monday, 13 November 2023. As Waterford will be under a status Yellow weather warning tomorrow, we urge parents and pupils to take extra care when dropping and collecting their children under the circumstances.

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Admissions Policy Update

Gaelscoil Philib Barún is accepting applications for enrolments for the 2024/25 Junior Infant class from the 1 October 2023 until 29 February 2024. Interested families can fill out the enrolment form which is now available from the Policies & Forms section of the school website. The form can be posted to the school or emailed directly to the school office at oifig@pilibbarun.com. The school’s updated Annual Admissions notice is also available from the same page on the website. If you

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Retirement of Múinteoir Kathryn

Múinteoir Kathryn has announced that she will be retiring next month (October 2023). Kathryn has given the school great service as a class teacher and recently as a special education teacher and special education coordinator. She is currently the vice-principal and has been a member of the school staff and management from the time the school was based in Star of the Sea House, Pond Road, to our time in prefabs and on to the current modern building on our

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Welcoming our Class of 2023-2024

We are very much looking forward to meeting all classes and teachers again for the new 2023-2024 school year and we can confirm that Gaelscoil Philib Barún will reopen on Thursday, 31 August 2023, as follows: We can also confirm that there will be a full day on the first day back, with the exception of Junior Infants who will have a shortened day for the first two weeks, finishing at 12pm (midday). The school office will be open from

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