The recipe for success in Gaelcholaiste Ui Chonba is individual attention, small classes, a caring family atmosphere and dedicated staff. Gaelcholaiste Ui Chonba certainly encompasses all of these things. The result is a rewarding and successful bi-lingual educational environment in which all students develop and prosper.
The school has a very broad curriculum base catering for the individual needs of each student. It caters for languages, business, science, art and practical subjects, as well as extra curricular activities encompassing football, hurling, basketball, soccer, camogie, athletics, debating, young enterprise competition, fish cookery competition and many more too numerous to mention.
Bilingualism
The advantages of bilingualism:
1. International research shows that being bilingual helps intellectual and cognitive development.
2. Students who are bilingual can often have enhanced self esteem.
3. Students who speak Irish understand their own cultural identity as Irish citizens and as Europeans. There is a better chance that they will understand and respect people of other races and cultures who speak different languages.
4. Being bilingual will help the student learn a third and fourth language.
5. Being bilingual means that there are enhanced employment prospects for students.
The Múinteoir i bhFeighil is Siobhan Ni Chonchuir.
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