{"id":1797,"date":"2011-07-14T19:45:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T19:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmarysnscloghan.ie\/about\/"},"modified":"2022-10-15T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T16:25:18","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/stmarysnscloghan.ie\/?page_id=1797","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Welcome to St. Mary's National School.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>We are a<\/strong><strong>\u00a0rural national school located in Cloghan, Co. Offaly. It is in the heart of the midlands, close to Lough Boora. \u00a0Cloghan is approximately 15 km from Birr along the N62. \u00a0The school is situated in the village, on Castle Street and is close to the park and church.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> It is a mixed school and the current enrolment is 104 pupils. There are 4\u00a0mainstream teachers, 1 Special Education Teacher based in our school, 1 shared Special Education Teacher and 1 Special Needs Assistant.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>History<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>St. Mary's National School was built in 1964. \u00a0The new school was divided in two,\u00a0boys and girls were taught at opposite ends with different teaching staff.In 1969, Gallen National School closed and the pupils attended school in Cloghan.\u00a01997, the boys and girls schools amalgamated to form a co-educational national school. In 2007, the school was recognised for inclusion in the DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) programme.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to St. Mary's National School. We are a\u00a0rural national school located in Cloghan, Co. Offaly. It is in the heart of the midlands, close to Lough Boora. \u00a0Cloghan is approximately 15 km from Birr along the N62. \u00a0The school is situated in the village, on Castle Street and is close to the park and church. It is a mixed&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/stmarysnscloghan.ie\/?page_id=1797\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stmarysnscloghan.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1797"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stmarysnscloghan.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stmarysnscloghan.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stmarysnscloghan.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stmarysnscloghan.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/stmarysnscloghan.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6706,"href":"http:\/\/stmarysnscloghan.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1797\/revisions\/6706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stmarysnscloghan.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}