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OANA Seems Rehm GcusaITMAYcapnt Ennistymon’s Mol an Oige Steiner School on Friday to officiate over one of the last events ever to take place at its current location.
After years of campaigning, the school finally received Department of Education status this year and will move into a new premises on the grounds of the Falls Hotel from September.
Griffin warmed up for Clare’s clash against Limerick by putting the chil- dren of Mol an Oige threw their pac- es on the school’s annual sports day.
“We are delighted at how things have turned out. A lot of us have
been in the school since the very start. When we started off first with eleven students and one teacher we would have been very happy to thing that after three years we would have almost 80 students, department rec- ognition, four full-time teachers and a full-time learning support teacher,” said teacher Una Ni Ghairbhith.
“We didn’t know that this would happen. We are very happy that the school has taken root in the com- munity and is fulfilling a need that is there in the community for this type of education.”
This Wednesday the school will have it’s final day of classes in Data Display before they move to their new school next September.
“There is a lot of work to be done over the summer in getting the new school ready. We will be spending a lot of time making the whole place homely for the students,’ continued Una.
“We will have four classroom and a staff/resource room down in the Falls. We will be starting the moving work in the next coupe of weeks.
“At the moment we have 78 stu- dents pre-enrolled in the school for next year.
“It’s great to move on but it will be sad too to leave our home here be- hind. We really would like to thank all the people who have helped us over the last three years. We have been here in Data Display the whole
time and they have been wonderful. We have had a great space and have been able to decorate and use it ex- actly to our own needs.
“The school that is opening up in September will be a continuation of this school but it will be at a new premises and things will be that bit different. We probably wont have to do as much fundraising, but of course the fundraising was a great social occasion for the locals here. I’ve already had a few people saying please don’t stop the concerts.”