THE Salesian Sisters have announced the amalgamation of the order’s Primary and Infant Schools on Limerick’s Shelbourne Road “to copper-fasten and streamline the delivery of primary education at Fernbank into the future”.
The move will see Croí Ró Naofa Íosa Infant School and Maria Auxiliatrix all-girls Primary School, which share the same campus at Fernbank, formally come together in September 2016.
The amalgamation is in keeping with consolidation across the city in the primary school sector.
The new school will cater for boys from junior infants to first class and girls from junior infants to sixth class.
Provincial of the Salesian Sisters Sr Mary Doran said: “We have given this matter great consideration and have concluded that the best interest of the pupils will be served in an amalgamated school.”
She added that the school will maintain its “excellent teaching levels” and that the amalgamation will allow the school to “maximise the use of space and other resources”.
