What is The Executive Committee?

The Executive is the Patron Body of the school. In the Irish National School system, every school has a patron body, which is the legal owner of the school on behalf of the school community. Traditionally it has been one of the churches that fulfilled that role.

This school is different. It is owned – through the Executive – by the school community. The parents effectively own the school! This means that we are independent in a way that few other schools are. It also means that it’s especially important that parents get involved in some way with the daily life of the school; that you make the most of your child’s time here. This isn’t the kind of school where you drop your kids in the morning, pick them up at 2.30 and forget about the place apart from that.

The Members of the Executive are:

• Chairperson –  Orla Murphy/Monica Dineen

• Secretary –  Jesús Ramírez Checa

• Member –  Sabine Kriebel

• Rob Flannaghan

• Robbie Harrington

• Teacher Rep – Sinéad Farrell

The Executive is made up of the Board of Directors of CETNS, who are elected each year at the CETNS AGM or are co-opted throughout the year. We are the legal owners of the school building and are constituted as a non-profit company, limited by guarantee. Membership of the Executive is open to any parent/teacher who wishes to get involved.

There are currently a number of vacancies and we would be very pleased to hear from anyone who would consider joining the Executive.

What does the Executive do?

1. The promotion and preservation of the Educate-Together ethos of the school

The ethos of the school is:

• multidenominational,

• co-educational,

• child-centred and

• democratically-run

More information about the concept of Educate Together is available at www.educatetogether.ie

The chairperson can be contacted at chair.exec@corkeducatetogether.ie