Trim Educate Together National School opened on 1st September 2014, with a Junior Infant class. Today, the school has classes from Junior Infants to Sixth Class. In September 2018, the school moved from their temporary accommodation in the former golf club at the Glebe, Kildalkey Road, Trim to The Maudlins, Trim.
Trim ETNS is a multi-denominational, co-educational, child-centred and democratically-run Primary School. We are one of eighty four Educate Together primary schools located throughout the country. The school operates under and is funded by the Department of Education and Skills, follows the National Primary School Curriculum and is subject to the same level of inspection from the State Inspectorate as all other Primary Schools in the country. Our patron body is Educate Together.
Educate Together is the patron body of the growing network of schools in Ireland that are run according to the Educate Together Charter. It is an independent NGO that runs schools that guarantee equality of access and esteem to children “irrespective of their social, cultural or religious background”, are learner centred in their approach to education and are run as participatory democracies, with respectful partnership between parents, pupils and teachers.
Equality and justice are important to us and it is our aim to ensure, to the best of our ability and resources, that no child is an outsider, nurturing the individuality of each child regardless of race, religion, gender, age, educational ability or disability.
We work to give equal opportunity to all children in our school, so that they may reach their full potential, at their own rate academically, socially, emotionally, physically and spiritually.
We celebrate the talents of all members of our community. We actively encourage participation and partnership with our parents.
As well as delivering the National School Primary Curriculum subjects, we teach the Learn Together ethical education programme which studies and discusses different religions beliefs and non belief systems values and ethical and environmental issues.
The four main strands of the Learn Together programme are: Moral and Spiritual, Equality & Justice, Belief Systems, Ethics and the Environment.
