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We are very pleased to continue our Film Nights at Sligo Sudbury School this year with a screening of Self-Taught, Life Stories from Self-Directed Learners.

“Through the stories of six extraordinary individuals, Self-Taught explores what self-directed education means to them and the impact it has had on their lives, ambitions, work, and beliefs.
Whether Artist, Scientist, or Entrepreneur, they all have one thing in common: their belief that a true education is the capacity […]

Come down to Quayside Shopping Centre this Saturday, Oct 26th, to support the Sligo Sudbury School Cyclothon, our first fundraising event of this year. Our challenge is to reach 200km over the course of the day.

Staff, parents, and students will pedal hard all day on Turbo Trainers to raise much needed funds for our school. All donations will go towards the general running costs of our school.

We hope to see many of […]

Listen here to Gayle’s interview with Dermot and Dave on TodayFM…

Celebrating the end of our first year at Sligo Sudbury School we would like to express our gratitude to all of our students and their families, our board of trustees, our staff, and generous supporters, without whom none of it could have happened.

It has been a whirlwind of a year and we are been amazed, humbled and inspired by the young people who have joined our community. It is an honour to be […]

We had a fantastic day out for our first school tour last week. After an invigorating start and lots of fun at the Harbour Splash Aqua Park in Dun Laoghaire we headed over to the Phoenix Park to visit Bloom and meet up with staff and students from our sister school, Wicklow Sudbury School. A beautiful day and a lovely end to the year.

We have a great interest in philosophy at Sligo Sudbury School and were excited to have the opportunity to meet like-minded people at the Young Philosopher Awards. On the 15 may 2019, we went to UCD for the conference and presentation of the awards. We (myself and my friend) were not among the prize winners but it was […]

Our last Open Afternoon of this school year.  Anyone interested in finding out more about Self-Directed Learning and how our school operates, please come along.  We look forward to meeting you.

Making our Easter Tree was fun.

We blew the yolks out of the eggs first. Then we painted them. Then we hung them up on the tree.

They look just like eggs hanging from a tree.

We had a great time working with students of Sligo IT’s Creative Writing Programme recently.

In the first workshop the students talked together about their favourite myths and legends from Ireland and around the world. Each student them wrote and illustrated a story of their choice. Some students created their own story while others retold traditional legends.

In the second workshop the students worked in small groups to film their stories using shadow puppetry, clay animation, and paper modelling. We are looking […]

Our next Open Day is on Wednesday, 22nd May from 3-6pm.

Anyone who would like to come to see our school and find out more about how a Sudbury School works is welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you.