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MEITHEAL
MEITHEAL GROUP: St.Paul's was one of the first schools in Kildare to introduce this system. A specially chosen group of fifth-year students are sent away on a week-long residential course where they get special training in looking after the needs of younger students. They meet the first-year students on their first day in school and work closely with them, guiding them through the transition from Primary to Secondary School. Each student is assigned a Meitheal leader who will assist them right through their first year in St.Paul's. Meitheal Youth training is run by the Kildare & Leighlin Diocesan Youth Ministry. Meitheal works on the basic idea that everybody is special and unique. St Paul’s is one of the fifteen schools in the Diocese which run the Meitheal programme. In each school interviews are held to choose the best leaders possible. These interviews take place in May, and then in June the leaders go for a week's training down to the De la Salle Pastoral Centre, Castletown, Co. Laois. After an exhaustive week spent making new friends and training the students return to Monasterevin. In the past some have described the week training as the best week of their lives. We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Meitheal leaders on receiving such a great honour and we wish them well in their work. |
