Ireland

St. Sylvester's Infant School (Ireland)

St. Sylvester's Infant School is a co-ed primary school that caters for junior infants to first class (four years to seven years old). Due to the young age of our pupils, we consider ourselves to be experts in early education and we recruit staff with the ability to present the primary school curriculum in an age-appropriate way. We encourage the cross-curricular integration of all subjects, particularly through the use of play and tehnology.

We have fifteen classes of approximately thirty pupils in each (total 450 pupils in the school). We have mainstream teachers for each of these classes. Additionally, we have resource teachers for children with special needs, learning support teachers for children with literacy and numeracy difficulties, and a language support teacher for our international pupils.

St. Sylvester's is located in Malahide, Co. Dublin. Malahide is a middle-class area, and the vast majority of our pupils come from a middle-class background. Thus, parents are actively involved in the running of our school and in the successful promotion of initiatives such as Erasmus+. Pupil attainments in literacy and numeracy tend to be high, and overall interest in education is high also.