Scoil Oilibhéir Mission Statement

Scoil Oilibhéir aims to nurture responsible, capable, resourceful and caring people who live their lives in a Christian way, respecting and valuing difference. The whole school experience will foster both a love of learning and an awareness of our culture and traditions, thus enabling all who learn and work here to live good and wholesome lives

 

Scoil Oilibhéir  is a co-educational mainstream primary school that first opened on September 1st, 1983 with a teaching staff of eleven teachers and a pupil enrolment of 345 pupils in classes from infants to fourth class. It is situated in the Ballyvolane/Dublin Hill area of the parish of Blackpool/The Glen in the northern suburbs of Cork City. It serves a new and growing population and caters for boys and girls from infants to sixth class. Our pupil enrolment peaked at 951 in the early nineties – the biggest school in Cork at the time. Our present staffing consists of Principal, Administrative Deputy Principal, 43 teachers, 16 Special Needs Assistants, 2 caretakers, a secretary and a general assistant.

Since its official opening in 1984, we have experienced a systematic increase in enrolment. Within three years our first extension was added and this was followed by the provision of further units of accommodation in 1992 and 1996 and 2000. The celebration of twenty-one years was marked by the opening of further prefabricated structures, and the board of management is now hopeful that its application for permanent structures to replace the ageing prefabricated teaching bases will be approved by the Department of Education and Science. As a catholic school under the patronage of the Catholic Bishop of Cork and Ross, Dr. John Buckley, our school ethos is based on the principles of inclusiveness, equality and democracy.

We like to think that we have a safe and secure environment which is conducive to the spiritual, moral, intellectual, social and physical development of our current enrolment of 818. This is reflected in a considerable demand for places and it is unfortunate that we have had to limit our infant intake in recent times because of a lack of accommodation. Our school site is well maintained with attractive grasses spaces on which trees have been planted. In addition, the children have access to the adjoining sports field which is the property of St. Aidan’s Community College, a second level V.E.C. college situated next door, also opened on the same day. Scoil Oilibhéir was officially opened in April 1984.