Principal's Welcome
Welcome to Cork Educate Together Secondary School, the first school of its kind outside the Greater Dublin area.
CETSS, is fully resourced by the Department of Education and Skills and is developing the model of 21st century education in Cork. This school is a significant and long-awaited development in the educational history of the Cork region. Like all Educate Together schools, the culture of the school will be based on four pillars
Co-educational
Multi-denominational & equality-based
Democratic
Student-centred
Our school is an alternative, grounded not in only in the richness of Irish society and culture, but also in the insights of the best contemporary educational systems world-wide. As such, CETSS will be technology-based, virtually text-book free, genuinely academic by emphasising critical-thinking, as well as being a leader in the promotion of ethical and development education, collaborative-learning, inter-disciplinary learning and the student voice.
The designated catchment area for CETSS runs from Frankfield to Rochestown, in which the Department of Education have bought a large site, on which to build in the coming years. Buses run from the catchment daily.
Crucially, we value students' individuality and see student voice as fundamental to their personal and academic development, as well as the basis for their active citizenship.
In short, we will offer students problems to solve instead of solutions to learn off.
Enrolment for the coming year begins on the 1st October of the previous year. Updates can be found both on this site and on Twitter and Facebook.
Colm O'Connor, Principal.
