About Our School:
St. Conleth & Mary’s is located on the Naas Road in Newbridge, Co. Kildare. The school is a co-educational senior primary school, which caters for pupils from 2nd to 6th class. St. Conleth & Mary’s operates proudly under a Catholic ethos. The school has a staff of twenty four teachers, nine special needs assistants, our secretary Anne and our caretaker Bernard; all led by our Principal, Ms. Romano. School starts at 9.10am and finishes at 2.50pm with breaktime at 11am and lunchtime at 1pm. Our school offers a wide range of extra-curricular activities for pupils including boys and girls football, debating, a quiz team and a school choir.
Our Staff:
Principal: Aisling Romano
Deputy Principal: Sinead Dooley
Secretary: Anne O’Connor
Caretaker: Bernard Fitzpatrick and Gerry Fallon
Second Class Teachers: Niamh McLaughlin, Rachel Burke
Third Class Teachers: Caoimhe McKenna, Aifric Nugent, Cian Dowling
Fourth Class Teachers: Keith O’Reilly, Sarah Downey, Leona Bowe
Fifth Class Teachers: Stephen O Brien, Damien Harrington, Kevin Barry, Eilish O’Mahony
Sixth Class Teachers: Ian Collins, Alannah Hilliard, Demi Casey
Learning Support/Resource Teachers: Melissa Leahy/Yvonne Elliffe, Sinéad Dooley, Róisín Byrne, Ciarán Farrell, Sarah Barron,
Special Classes: Lorraine Bolton, John Merrins
SNA’s: Úna Walsh, Josie Lane, Jill Keogh,, Bridie Hillery, Miriam Ryan, Elaine Boyle, Dale Farrell, Karen Nolan, Rachael Dowling.
Our School History
In 1875 The Holy Family Sisters took over the state funded girls’ school in Newbridge, which had been opened in 1842. Fifty years later in 1892 an Infant School was opened on Station Road, in a building currently known as the Parish Centre. This school moved in 1915 to a new building on the banks of the Liffey in the grounds of the Patrician Primary school. In 1952 the present school site was procured and work began on the school on the 1st of June 1952.
The new schools, St. Conleth’s Infant School and St. Conleth’s Girls School were blessed on the 4th October 1953 by Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, Dr. Keogh and were formally opened by Minister for Education, Mr. Seán Moylan. They cost £65,000 to build.
In 1989/1990 St. Conleth’s Girls’ School became co-educational and changed its name to St. Conleth & Mary’s Primary School.The school was run by the Holy Family Sisters until 1988 when the last Holy Family principal, Sr. Elizabeth Murphy, retired and the first lay principal, Mrs. Teresa Doyle was appointed. Sr. Máiréad Behan, our last Holy Family teaching sister retired in 2007.
This statue of our Lady at the front of our school was presented to the Holy Family Sisters by the people of Newbridge in 1960.