Search Results for 'second teacher'

A small national school in Co Galway is offering a €2,000 bursary to attract families from outside the area in an effort to retain its second teacher. Scoil Naomh Pádraig, located in An Chloch Bhreac—a scenic Gaeltacht area nestled between Lough Corrib and Lough Mask in north Connemara—is facing a decline in pupil numbers that could see it fall below the threshold required to maintain two teachers.

Over the past seven years, small schools across County Galway, and in rural Ireland generally, have seen their teacher numbers "reduced significantly" under the two Fine Gael led Governments.

A Galway school has come up with a novel initiative to finance a much-needed teacher.