{"id":16,"date":"2011-07-30T21:11:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T21:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2024-06-14T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:55:41","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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PRINCIPAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ms Helen Tobin – Liason Person<\/p>\n

DEPUTY PRINCIPALS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr David Clarke – Dep Liason Person<\/p>\n

Ms. Orla Molamphy<\/p>\n

Ms. Elaine Moran<\/p>\n

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Portmarnock Community School is a co-educational school that caters for student secondary education.\u00a0 The school, built by the Department of Education and Science, was opened in 1979.\u00a0 It provides a fully comprehensive education which is designed to ensure equality of educational opportunity for all its students.<\/p>\n

Portmarnock Community School is committed to an educational policy that fosters the development of the whole person.\u00a0 It provides a structure that facilitates religious, social, physical and intellectual growth in an integrated manner.<\/p>\n

Educational Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Portmarnock Community School is a co-educational school established under the Deed of Trust for Community Schools.\u00a0 Under the terms of the Deed of Trust – Articles of Management par 2 – the school serves the community of Portmarnock and the surrounding area.\u00a0 The Joint Patrons of the school are the Archbishop of Dublin, the Loreto Sisters and County Dublin Vocational Education Committee.<\/p>\n

The purpose of this document is to give an overview of each of the trustees’ own charter\/mission which will, in turn, inform future discussion on ethos and culture, and will serve to describe the Characteristic Spirit of Portmarnock Community School.<\/p>\n

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Dublin and D\u00fan Laoghaire Education and Training Board<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dublin and D\u00fan Laoghaire ETB is an education provider and the largest of the 16 ETB\u2019s (Education and Training Boards) through-out Ireland www.ddletb.ie<\/a><\/p>\n

It has a corporate structure which is made up of a democratically appointed board and a management (executive) team. The administrative area covered by DDLETB reaches from Balbriggan in North County Dublin, to D\u00fan Laoghaire in South County Dublin and Lucan in West County Dublin.<\/p>\n

The vision of DDLETB is to actively lead the provision of high quality education and training. The mission is to provide a wide range of education and training programmes, services and supports to children, young people and adults across the County Dublin and D\u00fan Laoghaire region.<\/p>\n

DDLETB put the learner at the heart of everything they do and believe that lifelong learning is key to personal development and wellbeing, social inclusion and economic prosperity.<\/p>\n

ETB schools and centres are state, co-educational, multi- denominational, inclusive, learner- centred and community-focused and are underpinned by our five ETB core values of, Excellence in Education, Care, Equality, Community and Respect.<\/p>\n

What Is An Education And Training Board?<\/p>\n

On 1st July 2013, the\u00a033 Vocational Education Committees (VECs)\u00a0were dissolved and replaced by\u00a016 Education and Training Boards\u00a0<\/strong>(ETBs).\u00a0 The Education and Training Boards are established under and governed according to the\u00a0Education and Training Boards Act 2013<\/a>. Each\u00a0Education and Training Board is a statutory body with its own corporate status.<\/p>\n

Education and Training Boards<\/a>\u00a0are statutory education authorities with responsibility for\u00a0education and training, youth work and a range of other statutory functions.\u00a0\u00a0Education and Training Boards manage and operate Community National Schools, Community College Schools, Further Education (FE) Colleges, and a range of adult and further education centres delivering education and training programmes.<\/p>\n

The 16 ETB\u2019s are under the umbrella of ETB Ireland www.etbi.ie<\/a><\/p>\n

Loreto Sisters<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sisters of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, popularly known as Loreto have as their founder Mary Ward.\u00a0 In a male dominated society and church, she believed that women in time to come would do much.\u00a0 She established foundations in six European countries but what she desired at the time was considered ‘outrageous’ and her houses were suppressed.<\/p>\n

While Mary Ward died with few followers, she did inspire these to remain loyal to the church.\u00a0 Her spirituality is centered on Jesus and in the Gospel values.\u00a0 She attempted to initiate an apostolic way of life and active ministry based on the spirituality and constitutions of St. Ignatius.<\/p>\n

How does this relate to the educational philosophy of the Loreto Order?<\/p>\n

In recent years the IBVM drew up the Kolkata guidelines which challenge us all, as educators, to deliver an excellent educational experience worthy of its recipients.<\/p>\n

Key challenges<\/p>\n

To enable the fullest possible personal growth, Loreto \/IBVM education gives priority to the integration of the spiritual, intellectual, moral, physical and emotional development of the individual student.\u00a0 Relationships within Loreto\/IBVM education are characterised by respect, justice, honesty, courage and compassion.<\/p>\n

Informed by the Loreto\/IBVM priority ‘to stand with those on the margin of society’ a Loreto\/IBVM school must actively respond to the needs of those excluded from full participation in society on the basis of economic and\/or social deprivation.\u00a0 When such a response, based on gospel values, is integral to the school experience it is prophetic and makes the message of the order credible in society.<\/p>\n

Loreto Educational Communities aim to make their centres where<\/p>\n