Thank you to our parents for their newsletters. Hard copies will be distributed to all students to bring home.
Click on the relevant Newsletter for information from the Parents Council.
For further information on our Parents’ Council click here
Thank you to our parents for their newsletters. Hard copies will be distributed to all students to bring home.
Click on the relevant Newsletter for information from the Parents Council.
For further information on our Parents’ Council click here
NEWSLETTERS – Click on the month for relevant newsletter: To be updated throughout 2022/23
The Parents Council aims to represent the views of parents and to provide a channel of communication between the school and the parents. It organises talks of interest and social events for parents. It also fund raises for “once off” projects to contribute towards improvements to the College for the benefit of the students. The Constitution of the Parents’ Council is regularly amended.
Over the past few years the Parents Council has organised talks by well known specialists on a variety of topics and other activities of interest to parents and students. Speakers have included the national figures DJ Carey, Seán Og O Halpin, Gareth O Callaghan and John Lonergan. Some of the topics and areas of interest covered in the past have been:
The Parents Council organises fund raising events which are used for specific projects. In 2005 an auction of gifts and promises raised in the region €24,000. Previously the Council also funded the conversion of the first boarding house into the Fr. Jackie Power Pastoral Care Centre costing in the region of €25,000. Other projects supported through funding from the Parents Council have been:
Most recently a wonderfully entertaining and informative cookery demonstration by the renowned chef and past pupil Edward Hayden of TV3 fame raised €vital funds.
In addition each year the Parents Council funds two bursaries for third level students who are past pupils to the value of €650 each.
Recently enthusiastic parents of the hurling and football players have been raising funds specifically to contribute to costs incurred for travelling to matches representing the school.
Parents are encouraged to join the ‘Friends of Good Counsel’ through which they can make a valuable contribution to the developments in the school. By joining the ‘Friends’ parents can make a monthly donation of €7 which is used in conjunction with the other fund raising activities for the projects identified. Please contact the school for further information related to the “Friends” of Good Counsel.
CONSTITUTION OF THE PARENTS’ COUNCIL OF GOOD COUNSEL COLLEGE, NEW ROSS.