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Donegal ETB’s Abbey Vocational School (VS) in Donegal Town officially opened its new computer suite for its Leaving Certificate students on Wednesday last. The computer suite has been fully kitted out with state of the art computers, 20 PCs and 10 laptops, which have been funded by Letterkenny based company Pramerica. The school is one […]
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Staff from four Donegal ETB schools, who are participating in the Junior Cycle Coding in Action initiative, recently attended an intensive training workshop in the Intel Ireland Campus in Leixlip, Co. Kildare on 27 January. The Junior Cycle Coding in Action initiative is a collaboration between Intel Ireland, Lero (the Irish Software Research Centre) and […]
Donegal ETB is pleased to announce that three of its schools, the Abbey Vocational School, Donegal Town, Deele College, Raphoe and Moville Community College, have been successful in their applications to the Department of Education and Skills to be included in the first phase of schools to offer Leaving Certificate Physical Education (LCPE) as an […]
The Abbey Vocational School, Donegal Town, under the management of Donegal Education and Training Board are pleased to announce that from September 2018 they are establishing an Aonad Gaeilge within the school. The Aonad Gaeilge will cater for students who wish to be educated in an Irish medium environment, instilling a love of Irish language […]
Donegal ETB’s Donegal Town school, the Abbey Vocational School, will introduce Computer Science as a Leaving Certificate subject in September 2018, one of forty schools in Ireland chosen by the Department of Education and Skills to do so as part of the Government’s overall commitment to embedding digital technology in teaching and learning. Computer Science […]
Donegal ETB’s Abbey Vocational School in partnership with the Donegal Bay Rowing Club has been awarded funding of €18,605 for new gymnasium equipment under the 2017 Sports Capital Grant programme. The new equipment will greatly enhance the teaching and learning of Physical Education to the whole student body and the wider community. The Abbey Vocational […]
Students from Donegal ETB’s Abbey Vocational School in Donegal Town have received numerous scholarships in recent weeks following their outstanding Leaving Certificate results in June, giving the school cause for celebration. Hollie Roper was recently awarded a UCD Entrance Scholarship, based on excellent Leaving Certificate results and is now studying veterinary medicine in UCD. Hollie has […]
Our school, the Abbey Vocational School, has been awarded the Amber Flag in recognition of the effort and commitment they have put into generating greater understanding and awareness of mental health issues. The school has introduced many programmes and incentives such as Mental Health Week and health promoting school, Senior Prefects and TY mentoring, Tree […]
Next Wednesday, ahead of EU Code Week 2017, Donegal ETB will host a Coding Initiative cluster day for staff from four of its schools to support them in rolling out cutting edge teaching in the area of coding. In 2016, two of Donegal ETB’s schools, the Abbey Vocational School in Donegal Town and Crana College […]
Tune in to RTE One at 9.35pm tonight night to watch ‘The Classroom Divide’ in which Joe Duffy explores how where you went to school impacts your life – our school the Abbey Vocational School features in it. This is part of a series of documentaries tackling inequality in Ireland as part of RTÉ One’s […]