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Primary Schools - City East

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  • 23-02-2013 8:48pm
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    Folander
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    Hi!

    I'm looking for some advice, I currently live in the UK and am planning to move back to Galway later this year. I have 2 boys (aged 4 & 7) and I would really appreciate some advice on primary schools in the Galway city area. My sister lives in Roscam and I'll probably live round there. I want to send my boys to a good school but have no knowledge on schools in the area.

    So any advice on primary schools would be great

    Many thanks in advance,

    Sharon


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    2rkehij30qtza5
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    If you are planning on living in Roscam then you are going to be looking at schools in that area I'd imagine and not trekking to Salthill etc every morning so I won't mention schools on the west side of the city.

    Scoil Dara (Gaelscoil) is probably the best from what I am told in that area. Renmore also gets good reviews. Oranmore would be close but I don't know anything about it. Briarhill is meant to be a good school too. Be careful when choosing the primary school and ensure it feeds into the secondary you want them to get in to ad Galway is notoriously hard to get into secondary schools unless the child is either in the feeder school or his/her name down on the list from birth practically!!


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    biko
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    Some suggestions in this older thread
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81591434


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    Mrs OBumble
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    Emma Crashing Birthday wrote: »
    Scoil Dara (Gaelscoil) is probably the best from what I am told in that area. Renmore also gets good reviews. Oranmore would be close but I don't know anything about it. Briarhill is meant to be a good school too. Be careful when choosing the primary school and ensure it feeds into the secondary you want them to get in to ad Galway is notoriously hard to get into secondary schools unless the child is either in the feeder school or his/her name down on the list from birth practically!!

    All good.

    But there's another option, too.

    Merlin Woods primary opened in temp premises in 2011, and will be going into its permanent buildings in 2013 or 14. The associated Merlin College will be alongside.

    Brand new school, no staff inherited from elsewhere (in the primary school anyway), so all hand-picked. I've heard lots of good things about it.

    Yes, the neighbourhood is about 1/3 immigrants. But a lot of them are professionaly educated, hard-working people with serious aspirations for their kids: it's no ghetto.


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    aoife09
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    Folander wrote: »
    Hi!

    I'm looking for some advice, I currently live in the UK and am planning to move back to Galway later this year. I have 2 boys (aged 4 & 7) and I would really appreciate some advice on primary schools in the Galway city area. My sister lives in Roscam and I'll probably live round there. I want to send my boys to a good school but have no knowledge on schools in the area.

    So any advice on primary schools would be great

    Many thanks in advance,

    Sharon






    Hi Sharon,
    I'm in the same boat. I'm moving to around the same area but I'm finding it very hard to find a primary school that has spaces left for September? Did you have any luck?


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