Shimna Sharing Education Programme

Shimna Integrated College - school site
Castlewellan PS, St Patrick’s PS
Cumran PS, Annsborough PS
Annalong PS
St Mary’s PS
Kilkeel PS
St Joseph’s PS

The Shimna project has been built around some of the partnerships already formed by their Specialism in Languages, the bid contains 2 strands.  Local Primary Schools from different management types are paired together so that mixed classes within each pair can receive language teaching from Shimna staff, the venue changes on alternate weeks, in total eight primary schools are involved in this.

The second strand entails the provision of daytime/evening classes in languages for parents and the wider community.  A number of short courses are held at alternating venues throughout the geographical area.

  What they said....

 ...a whole new future for Northern Ireland that we might not otherwise have had....

- Teacher


 We have been so divided as a community that anything that allows our schools to operate at an integrated level...really has enormous potential to develop community links....

- Teacher