EAST WEST SCHOOLS PROGRAMME

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Following the Good Friday Agreement, Micheál Martin, Irish Minister for Education & Science, announced a new initiative to strengthen school partnerships and to encourage friendship and understanding between young people in Ireland and Great Britain.

AIMS

  • To promote school partnerships and opportunities for transnational co-operation and mobility
  • To focus on young people and their teachers
  • To contribute to the professional development of teachers
  • To bring added value to the learning experience
  • To target the school in the widest sense
  • In August 2001 St Tiernan's Community School was awarded a grant under the East West Schools Programme to undertake a project with Peterhead Academy, Scotland, and were later joined by De Aston School from England as the third partner.
The staff and students involved in the exchange would like to acknowledge the financial assistance afforded by Léargas and appreciate their support for events such as our Evening of Irish-Scottish-English Traditional Music, Song and Dance on 14 March 2002.

 EUROPEAN SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION

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St Tiernans hosted the AGM of the European Schools Association.  We welcomed colleagues from eight countries across Europe.  As part of the AGM, training was provided in the use of the Moodle platform by the Education Department in Maynooth University. Nigel Metcalfe and Angela Rickard gave a very informative three hour workshop. This platform will form the main means of communication between the partner schools in the many projects that will be undertaken in the next two years.

As part of the activities organised, the group visited Belfast and got an excellent tour of all quarters of the city. This visit tied in with the overall theme of the ESA projects which is „”Removing barriers through multi-cultural education‟.