Page 18 - Welcome to CEIST

For all students the CEIST education experience will help your child to
engage positively with people of all religions and none. It will prepare your child to have a strong sense of social justice. It will foster a sense of positive self worth and support your child to be a young person who values respect, tolerance, integrity and justice.
What about Special Education Needs?
Individual education needs can occur at any stage in a students path through education. We collaborate with parents to provide the optimum resources for our students. An individual learning plan can be developed for a student with diverse learning needs or disability. Where necessary we assist in the identification of needs or continue a support which might have already been established at Primary level. Subsequently we implement a learning plan which helps students to identify their learning goals. We facilitate referrals to education psychologists and other agencies and we also complete applications for reasonable accommodations in State exams, where this is considered necessary and beneficial for our students.
What about parents who want to continue to educate their children through the medium of Irish?
We are conscious that this is an important consideration for parents choosing their children’s second level education. With this in mind, our school in Dunshaughlin/Gorey will have an Ionad Gaelach. This means that children educated in primary schools through Irish can continue to be educated through Irish, if they wish, for the duration of their post primary education.
In addition, in all of our CEIST schools, we pride ourselves in the rich and varied ways we celebrate our Irish language, traditions and heritage. We do this through History, Irish, Geography, Music, Art, PE and RE classes. But we also do this through so many of our extra-curricular activities and clubs as well for example sport, drama, debating and competitions or comortais.
For those parents and students who opt for the Ionad Gaelach we will support you in that decision and encourage your child to stay committed to this choice.