NEED adv.for primary school

ihope

hi! am looking for advice between ET ongar and mary mother of hope for next year, have even heard of good reviews for scoile grainne am willing to move well in advance to be near the school it will be easy to drop the kid in winters, am clueless about which one would be best. Am looking for a school with good focus on maths and english and a few extra curricular acitivities (if at all schools undertake them) like drama, sports, martial arts (paid / unpaid does not matter). it may sound a bit too demanding for a small JI child but we may relocate to a diff. country after 2/3 years and do not want the child to get too pressurised to cover up a tiny load later on.


cud anyone familiar with these schools suggest what will be a good option of these ?



thanks for reading

byhookorbycrook

All primary schools do sport ,drama and music as part of ther primary currciculum.

I don't know any of these schools, but I do know that some schools take names from birth, so the popular schools may well be full years in advance. I'd suggest you make an appt to meet the principal of each school, you will get a good idea what a school is like through that.

ihope

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

All primary schools do sport ,drama and music as part of ther primary currciculum.

I don't know any of these schools, but I do know that some schools take names from birth, so the popular schools may well be full years in advance. I'd suggest you make an appt to meet the principal of each school, you will get a good idea what a school is like through that.

thanks for the reply am not getting any feedback I have done the needful already and need to know what is the best option for my child, but am not getting any usable response, ET parents say that that wud be best but have read on this forum and RC that generally ET kids are a tad behind in academics compared to RC/ Gaelscoil schools, however am not a christian forget about the issue of being a RC, I don't mind my child going to a church once in a while, even I liked doing that as a child (I see nothing wrong in that). Can anybody tell me how much time does a JI/SI spend in RELIGION studies cause I feel that will lessen the child's academic, PE, music etc time and whether prep. for communion, conformation etc is done during school hours.

if anyone has their non RC / christian child in a good RC school I would appreciate their opinion too as to how does your child feel not being able to participate in all the RC events. How does your child feel in older classes when he / she understands that they can't dress up and go for all the church occasions.

Thanks Hookorbycrook i will meet with the principal too.

The bottom line for me is a good school but I don't want my child to feel odd.

byhookorbycrook

It's hard to say any particular kind of school is better than another.We have a no. of children who are not Catholic and there is no issue.

ihope

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

It's hard to say any particular kind of school is better than another.We have a no. of children who are not Catholic and there is no issue.

thanks for the opinion