St. Killian's School, Telephone: 021 450 5168

St. Killian’s School, OLD YOUGHAL ROAD, MAYFIELD, CORK. T23 NV96

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Telephone: 021 450 5168

Principal’s Message

Dear Parents and Guardians,

As the new school year begins, we are excited to welcome you back to St Killian’s School, a place where creativity, curiosity, and pupils thrive! We hope you are ready to embark on another year of growth and discovery.

At St Killian’s, we pride ourselves on fostering a unique environment tailored to each student’s strengths and interests. This year, we will continue to provide; Forest School Experiences, Relaxation in the Hot Tub, Construction of a Rain Garden and the building up of our sensory resources to name but a few. We look forward to kitting out our OT room with a Sensory Cabin Frame, which will provide vital OT opportunities for some of our children. 

The School Council continues to grow and flourish providing an important voice for all our pupils.

We believe that education is a partnership between home, school and other agencies. Part of our role in our school is to ensure that our pupils have the best education we can provide. To enable all our pupils to grow and reach their potential we need therapists returned to our school. As many of you are aware huge work has gone into highlighting the importance of Therapeutic Interventions and access for all pupils in our school. There has been wide and detailed media coverage on the matter and huge support from the local community, TD’s and parents. We call on you all to support this in whatever way you can via the Parent’s Unite Group in order to ensure that therapies are returned to our school as soon as possible.

We are proud to have our first ever Post-Primary Class for pupils with Autism and Complex Needs. They have already chosen the Post-Primary Uniform and many are now wearing it and they look fantastic.

We look forward to offering Junior Cycle Level 1 and Level 2 programmes to our new Junior Cycle pupils to be followed by a newly developed Leaving Cert Cycle for our pupils.

All pupils in all classes are participating in a new phonics and language programme, called Fundations, a lively and fun way to learn to read. 

The new Primary Maths Curriculum has begun and all classes are working from the new curriculum in a whole school initiative to provide linkage and movement between classes to allow pupils to fully access this curriculum in their own way.

We now have 104 pupils on roll and are proud to be the largest Special School of it’s type in Munster. We are currently listed for an expansion programme to provide a further six classrooms and associated facilities. We hope that this project starts as soon as possible to allow us to continue to grow and provide our unique Special Education programmes to more pupils.

Regards,

Sue Lenihan