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Donabate Girls National School vs Swords St Comcilles GNS

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  • 23-02-2016 10:02pm
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    p4ddyh1
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭


    Hi,
    We are looking to buy in the next couple of years & have narrowed our search to Swords where we are currently renting or Donabate. We really like Swords & being a Swords native I have a great knowledge of the town.
    We have 3 young daughters under 3 & are looking to buy in an area where they will recieve the best schooling.
    We are looking for opinions on Donabate Girls National School(we have the girls pre enrolled here in case we buy in Donabate) or St Colmcilles GNS, enrollment takes place the Jan before they are due to start so just looking on opinions on both & which would be the better of the two schools.
    Also do many from St Colmcilles go onto Loreto in Swords & what would be the good secondary options for Donabate?
    Thanks for reading.


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    Dizzyblonde
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    St. Colmcilles is one of the primary schools within the Loreto catchment area, there's a link on their admissions page:http://www.loretoswords.ie/policies/admissions-policy/

    When my daughters were in Loreto College there were certainly a good number of girls from St. Colmcille's, which is a very good school although my daughters didn't go there, they went to the Holy Family school in Rivervalley. One reservation I would have about St. Colmcille's: if, like me, you have only daughters then bear in mind that the classes are not mixed there. I preferred my daughters not to be segregated from boys in primary school and it worked well, they had lots of friends who were boys when they were growing up.


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    p4ddyh1
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    Cheers for the reply, my wife wants them going to an all girls school but I don't particularly mind myself.


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