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It was a historic week for St Anthony’s special school in Castlebar which this week saw its biggest ever graduating class leave the school. Ten students, three of whom have been in the school for 12 years and the others also there for long periods of time, were rewarded with a special graduation Mass and presentation. Fiona Byrne, principal of St Anthony’s, was delighted with the achievement of her graduating class. “It is the biggest class we have ever had leave the school,” she said. “Most of them have been with us since we were very young. It was very emotional, because of the emotional ties and attachments they build up between the students and the teachers through the years who work together for years.”

Fifty seven Mayo schools require some form of building works, it has been revealed this week. Fifty two of those schools are in pre-architectural planning and only five schools are at the stage of architectural planning.

A customised school bus operating as a mini-cinema is to visit County Mayo in August to spread the school transport safety message to local children.

The 2009 Higher Education Grants Scheme has just been announced by the Department of Education, and Westmeath County Council is currently sending out application forms and details to all those who requested same.

The long awaited Davitt College sports hall has finally been given the green light.

The waiting ended for the almost 2,000 students in Mayo who sat their Leaving Cert in June. Wednesday saw the results released to those who had sat the exams and next week will see the first round of CAO offers drop through letter boxes around the county.

Scoil Mhuire agus Padraig, Swinford, has been given approval by the Department of Education to lease property from the Sisters of Mercy to develop an autism spectrum disorder unit from September.

Just think, in a couple of weeks your little darlings will be packing their bags and heading off into the big, bad, scary world of third level education.

As children headed back to school this week, parents in the west are becoming increasingly concerned about the threat of swine flu.

In January 1893 the board of guardians of Galway Poor Law Union decided to establish a technical school, but the plan ran into immediate difficulties. The Local Government Board objected because they had not been consulted, and it took a year for the matter to be sorted out. The moving spirit behind the project was Father PJ Lally, who succeeded in getting money from the Government and secured a premises in Dominick Street (where Áras na nGael is today).