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Communal Links
Parents’ Association Links with the wider community
St. Mogue’s College has an active Parents’ Association. Links between St .Mogue’s College and the wider
The function of the council is to link with parents, pupils community have always been important and have been
and teachers. The Council is open to all parents who strengthened over recent years with reciprocal working
have students in the college. It meets regularly and visits and coffee mornings between the students and
contributes to many aspects of school life. the Active Age Group who convene each Wednesday in
Templeport Resource Centre.
Board of Management
Initially, it marked the celebration of Positive and Active
St. Mogue’s College is a Co. Cavan Vocational Ageing Weeks but has now resulted in two publications
Educational Committee school. The Board of which is the culmination of the work undertaken by groups of
Management consists of 12 members, representing the students in Transition Years since its inception in 2008.
VEC, staff, parents and the community. The Board of
Management meets 4/5 times per year. The first of these was the Population Census of
Templeport Parish where TY students visited the homes
in the area to gather and correlate the information.
The second publication, entitled “Myths and Mixes” was
endorsed as “a great little enterprise” by Sean
Gallagher of Dragon’s Den and founder and CEO of
Smarthomes, when he launched the book in the Slieve
Russell Hotel in March 2010.
Further initiatives are being planned for the current
school year combining the learning and vibrancy of
youth with the maturity and skills of the community
members.
Facilities
Since 2007 the college has been successful in securing
funding in excess of €1.3 million from the Department
of Education and Skills.
As a result the building was completely upgraded with
new classrooms, school canteen, reception areas, social
area, car park, technical graphics room, heating system,
communication system, rewiring and networking.
Our state of the art ICT facilities reflect Co.Cavan VEC
and the CEO’s vision for the future of education:
4 computer suites
Multimedia Language lab
Video conferencing facilities
All classrooms fully networked
Data projectors throughout
Interactive Whiteboards
Laptops for TYP students and incoming first years
School website
E-portal
Text messaging service for parents
Electronic noticeboard
Student and Parental access to class materials, teachers’
notes and all relevant information via school website
