Scoil Chaitríona

Welcome to our school. We hope that it demonstrates our school's ethos by showing our warm, caring and inclusive environment.

Founded in 1827, we are the parish primary school of St. Andrew's, Westland Row. Our school has been here on Lower Baggot Street for nearly 200 years and we teach boys and girls from Junior Infants to 6th class and also younger children in our ECCE-funded preschool. We continue our proud history of education by working with children and families from the local area, other parts of Dublin city and all over the world.

Our school crest represents that all of our children grow and work together. 'Respect' is a keyword in our school and this is reflected in how all members of our school community treat each other. Our core goal of developing independence in all children plays the central role in our teaching and learning as we deliver the primary school curriculum every day. Our school motto, Le Chéile, (Together), shows the high value we place on developing meaningful home-school relationship as we help each child reach his or her potential.

Scoil Chaitríona Baggot Street is a Catholic school and in accordance with our ethos, we work together to create a nurturing and Christian school community. Our school also welcomes and embraces children of all faiths and none. We operate under the Patronage of the Archdiocese of Dublin and we are the mainstream school of the historic parish of St. Andrew’s in Westland Row.

We promote our ethos through encouraging respect for self and for others. All members of our school community – children, families, staff and visitors alike – are encouraged to display tolerance, inclusiveness and care towards one and other at all times.

We want every one of our children to reach his or her full potential and we hope to instill a love of life-long learning in every child we are privileged to teach. We are also highly respectful of the role of every parent as the primary educator of the child.

We work with each child to make sure that he or she is supported where necessary and to extend and challenged as well. With this differentiation, we aim to keep raising and maintaining standards in the three core subjects of Numeracy, Literacy and Irish while at the same time keeping all the other subjects of our curriculum alive and enjoyable.

For us, primary school is not purely about getting our children ready for secondary school. As well as learning the academic side of the curriculum and achieving results, we also want our children to develop all parts of themselves - socially, emotionally, physically, imaginatively, spiritually and morally. It’s also hugely important to us that every child is given the chance to develop strong thinking skills and the ability to understand the world around them.

Each child is different. They all have their own individual strengths, abilities, interests and personalities. In our school, we recognize, support and celebrate these differences and we work with each child with this in mind.

To ensure that all children are encouraged to always do their best in all ways, we promote and focus on positive behavior throughout our school. We also celebrate and reward individual and group achievements at our End-of-Year Prize Giving. Respect, best effort, independent work, attendance, punctuality and uniform are some of the criteria by which we choose our award winners each year.

At the end of their time with us in Scoil Chaitríona Baggot Street, we hope that each child leaves us with a sense of respect for self and for others, that they are independent, that they are motivated to always do their best and that they have developed the perseverance needed to face all challenges, big and small.

Our school’s teaching and learning is determined by the Revised 1999 Primary School Curriculum as laid down by the Department of Education and Skills. In our Junior and Senior Infant classes, we are also committed to delivering Aistear, the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework.