Sligo Sudbury School

Welcome to Sligo Sudbury School, a place where young people aged 5-18 can learn through play and experience at their own pace, in their own time and in their own way.

Founded on the principles of freedom and responsibility, our school is a vibrant environment where children direct their own education with the support of caring adults.

We trust in children’s innate capacity to learn through their own natural drives and we respect their choices and rights as whole individuals.

Through exercising their rights to choose and to go about their day how they prefer, children stay connected to themselves and they learn how to negotiate the delicate balance between an individual’s freedoms and their responsibilities to the community, between their rights and the rights of others.

If we wish to see our young people grow into respectful, resourceful, resilient, healthy, compassionate, responsible and passionate adults we must create a rich environment that is imbued with these values and gives ample opportunity to practise these life skills.

Our very own school podcast Self-Directed Life is now live

LISTEN HERE

Our Legal Context

Article 42 of the Constitution of Ireland

“1: The State acknowledges that the primary and natural educator of the child is the Family and guarantees to respect the inalienable right and duty of parents to provide, according to their means, for the religious and moral, intellectual, physical and social education of their children.”