Muckross Park College
| Muckross Park College Páirc Mhucrois |
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| Location | |
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Donnybrook, Dublin 4 Ireland |
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| Coordinates | 53°19′21″N 6°14′30″W / 53.3224°N 6.2416°WCoordinates: 53°19′21″N 6°14′30″W / 53.3224°N 6.2416°W |
| Information | |
| Motto |
Veritas (Latin for 'Truth') |
| Established | 1901 |
| Principal | Anne Marie Mee |
| Number of students | 700 |
| Religious order | Dominicans |
Muckross Park College is a private Catholic all-girls secondary school located in Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 1901, the curriculum is traditional, with a broad general programme of subjects and a compulsory Transition year programme. Muckross is one of a number of Dominican schools in Ireland. It has a student body of approx 700.
It has a strong reputation as a sporting school, especially in hockey, tennis and basketball. Many former students have gone on to play for Ireland at the international level.
Likewise, academically the school achieves exceptionally high results with regular high rankings in The Irish Times list of feeder schools for 3rd level education in Ireland.
The college was founded in 1900 as St. Mary's University College, initially a third-level college for women studying for degrees awarded by the Royal University of Ireland.
In previous years the transition year students of Muckross collaborated with the Transition year students of St.Michaels College in a charity fashion show. Each year the show had a different theme and was a substantial fund-raiser for that year's chosen charity.
The fashion show is no longer in action.
First, second and third years work hard towards achieving good results in their Junior Certificate Examination. Each year brings something new however it is the senior years that bring more activity and not just simply work.
Transition year consists of organising work placements several times throughout the year (some of which include the filming of an RTÉ documentary in China and working at Milan Fashion Week) as well as much more such as a school trip abroad for roughly a week. Past destinations have included Munich, Italy and Spain. Every week the students walk down to the nearby Independent Theatre Workshop studios (renowned for being one of the best in Ireland) for an hour of dance and drama classes. This is just one of many class modules (there is also cooking, horticulture, yearbook, film making, fitness and many more).
Fifth year is a year for preparing for the Leaving Certificate Examinations. However, there is also the ski trip as well as the musical with Gonzaga College.
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