Our School...
A national school has operated at Gortnamona for over 150 years. Prior to that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries hedge schools provided opportunities for those who wished to learn. A copybook dated 1787, which was used in a local hedgeschool, shows us what children of that time learned. Maths seemed very complicated in those times!

In 1854 the local landlord, O'Connor Morris agreed to build a school for the education of his tenant's children. This school opened in 1857 and catered for the children of the area until 1965. The building can still be seen to this day.
In 1965 the present school was built as a two classroom school about one hundred metres down the road from the old school. In 2001, a portacabin containing another classroom and a Learning Support Room were added to the original two classrooms. In 2008 an extension was added to the school - two new classrooms, a learning support room and an office; also staff car park, new playground and a set down area.

The school register dates back to 1870 and provides great information for our pupils when they are studying local history and completing their family tree.

old Gortnamona school

STAFF...
There are four classroom teachers teaching our 93 pupils:
Mr. Tom Daly is the Principal and teaches 5th and 6th classes.
Mrs. Mary Egan is the Deputy Principal and teaches 1st and 2nd classes.
Ms. Suzanne Donaldson teaches Junior and Senior Infants.
Ms. Alison Quinn teaches 3rd and 4th classes
Mrs. Anne Lambe is our S.E. T./Resource Teacher and teaches children from all classes.
Mrs. Marie Conroy and Ms Aishling Twohill visit the school each day as Learning Support Teachers.
Ms. Fleur Morris is based in our school and provides cover for principals in a cluster of schools so that they can tend to administration duties.
Linda Lee teaches singing to the senior classes.
Other valued members of staff are Hazel Keyes, our secretary, Frances Keating, S.N.A. and Bridget Tierney, who keeps the school neat and tidy.

BOARD OF MANAGEMENT...
Chairman: Danny Owens; Secretary: Tom Daly, Treasurer: John McCann, Fr. Michael Meade, Anne Lambe, Fidelma Casey, Tommy Phelan, Janet Cogley.

 
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