Schools

On September 20, Homayoon Shirzad, SoS Coordinator, Tetiana Murphy, SoS Project and Communications Manager, and Hashem Badran, SoS Dublin Ambassador, attended the Award Ceremony for Schools of Sanctuary in Belfast and Derry/Londonderry. The event was organized by the Education Authority of Northern Ireland and City of Sanctuary Belfast. The Award Ceremony took place at Belfast […]

September is a really busy month, with a fresh start for every teacher and pupil in our schools, especially those starting in new schools. We want to wish all our schools the very best for the year ahead. For Schools of Sanctuary, this promises to be the most exciting school year yet! In June, the school year ended on a high,

Congratulations to the  Scoil Bhríde, Shantalla SOS Ambassadors. Alan Kania, Tudor Fatima, Artur Fedosov, Onome Brownly-Otiede and Farida Aliyu who were presented with their SOS Ambassador Certs on the 27th of June for the wonderful work they did helping children who came to their school seeking sanctuary this year. Some of their accomplishments included, translating,

22 June 2022 In the final monitoring visit of the year, St Mary’s NS Limerick was awarded the accolade of becoming Limerick’s first nationally recognised School of Sanctuary on Wednesday 22nd June. The team was thrilled by the commitment of the whole staff and student body, and we look forward to the many ways they will undoubtedly spread the message

Schools of Sanctuary Ireland in the House of the Oireachtas A special thank you and a big well done to Senator Malcolm Byrne for flying the flag for schools of Sanctuary Ireland in the House of the Oireachtas after Creagh College in County Wexford was nationally awarded as the Schools of Sanctuary. Here’s the link

Massive Congratulations to Bunscoil McAuley Rice Kilkenny Rd, Callan North, Co. Kilkenny for becoming a nationally awarded School of Sanctuary!  This School has become the First School in Kilkenny to be accredited as a School of Sanctuary after engaging for almost two years with the Schools of Sanctuary Network. The Monitoring Visit to Bunscoil McAuley

SCOIL BHRIDE – SANCTUARY FOR UKRAINIAN CHILDREN Scoil Bhride is a school located on the Westside of Galway city. We are very proud to be a School of Sanctuary. Our school moto is ‘We Care’ and we are determined to live up to this. When the crisis began in the Ukraine earlier this year our

STEPASIDE ETSS : DUBLIN’S FIRST SCHOOL OF SANCTUARY On behalf of our school community, we would like to announce that we are now officially recognised as a School of Sanctuary, the first in Dublin, after our successful monitoring visit on Friday, the 29th of April. This monitoring visit was overseen by a panel of five

On Wednesday the 18th of May 2022 Kilrane National School officially became a School of Sanctuary It was a great honour for the staff and students of the school to be bestowed such a prestigious award. Kilrane is now only the 8th school in the Republic of Ireland to have received this status. This was

Andy Pollak was on the monitoring team at Creagh College and contributed this article to the Irish Times. Education Inspirational, cacophonous and joyful: Ireland’s newest ‘school of sanctuary’ Anybody who doubts the richness of a multicultural student body should visit this extraordinary school By Andy Pollak Tue May 31 2022 – 00:00 On Friday, May