St. Kieran's NS, Broughall 2.29

St. Kieran's NS is a small rural primary school with two mainstream classroom teachers, a shared learning support teacher and a resource teacher. It is located on the outskirts of Kilcormac. The school aims to provide a caring, happy and secure environment to help all its pupils achieve their full potential. The pupils of St. Kierans NS benefit from the low pupil teacher ratio within the school (projection is one class teacher for every ten pupils for the 2015/16 school year). The school possesses ten hours of learning support teaching time and twelve and a half hours resource teaching time. This enables children with learning difficulties to receive much needed one to one time.St. Kierans NS also strives to develop the talents of boys and girls in various learning fields. Children experience the opportunity to engage in sporting, artistic, dramatical and musical activities within the school. The school also holds a proud tradition in preparing boys and girls to make the transition to secondary school. Pupils who have attended St. Kierans NS possesses a high standard in the areas of English, Irish and Maths when they enter secondary school. St. Kierans NS is also well equipped in the area of IT and has an interactive whiteboard in each classroom.