I just wanted to post my congratulations to the staff, teachers and students of Castleknock Educate Together National School, who this morning held a parade to celebrate the opening of their new school on Beechpark Avenue. The school, which has been in existence for almost eight years, has had two temporary locations and has been in prefabs on the current site since 2002.
I’ve been to school openings before, both as a pupil and as a guest, but I have to say I’ve never seen such a fantastic atmosphere of celebration. The parade was led around Castleknock by a group of the students on the back of a truck drumming, with each of the classes following on behind. There was a great crowd of parents there, all waving Educate Together flags.
On a somewhat more serious note, all the prefabs in which the students were being taught up to now have been removed from the site and will be relocated to house new classes at Tyrrelstown Educate Together, pending planning permission. While it’s good to see the prefabs being reused, it draws attention to yet another school which is still in temporary accommodation. Work on the Tyrrelstown estate began early this decade, but there still isn’t a permanent site for the national school, and soon second level places will be a major issue. Yet another example of the failure to plan adequately for communities. If we are in government after the next election, the Green Party will implement aspects of our Urban Development and Education Policies to ensure that school places crises become a thing of the past.
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