Maynooth Post Primary School is a

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Maynooth, County Kildare Maynooth (; ga, Maigh Nuad) is a university town in north County Kildare, Ireland. It is home to Maynooth University (part of the National University of Ireland and also known as the National University of Ireland, Maynooth) and St Patrick's ...

, Ireland.

Academic

Maynooth PPS offers

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Transition Year Transition Year (TY) ( ga, Idirbhliain) is an optional one-year school programme that can be taken in the year after the Junior Certificate in Ireland. However, depending on school population and funding it may not be available, and in other sch ...

Leaving Certificate Applied The Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA) is a self-contained two-year programme of the Irish Department of Education. It was first introduced in 1995 as an alternative or variant of the established Leaving Certificate programme. According to the ...

and

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courses. Students wear a navy blue jumper, blue shirt, navy and blue striped tie, navy trousers. Girls have the choice of wearing the school's kilt or navy trousers.

History

Maynooth Post Primary opened in 1971 as a

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in the grounds of the Presentation Convent and moved to its present location in 1972 under the auspices of Kildare Vocational Educational Committee (now

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). The school buildings were extended in 1983 and again in 2007. Maynooth is currently looking to build a new education campus, comprising a VEC and a Community College, on a greenfield site further up the Moyglare Road. The new buildings were originally intended to be opened by 2016. Complications in planning permission caused the development to be delayed: construction began in mid-2017. The new buildings opened in 2020.

Musical program

As a part of the Transition Year Program, Maynooth Post Primary includes an optional musical production. The students take part as cast and crew and perform the production along with the help of teachers. The 2017 performance was ''

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''.

Notable alumni

Paul Mescal Paul Mescal (; born 2 February 1996) is an Irish actor. Born in Maynooth, he studied acting at The Lir Academy and subsequently performed in plays in Dublin theatres. Mescal rose to fame with his role in the miniseries '' Normal People'' (2020), ...

, actor

References

External links

Official site
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