Meitheal is a Diocesan run project in which senior students are selected and trained by diocesan personnel to mentor 1st year pupils.

The aim of Meitheal is to ease the transition of pupils from Primary to Secondary education.

The Meitheal leaders meet the 1st years on the morning they arrive and spend time with them in their first days in their new school, helping them in whatever way they can.

Throughout the year the Meitheal team visit the class at least twice a week and organise class and year activities for them and they are always on hand to advise and listen to pupils.

They work closely with the class tutor, counsellors

and Year Head in an effort to make the transition to secondary school as happy as possible for all pupils.

MEITHEAL 2011-2012

With open minds and big suit cases we all went down to Castletown, Co.Laois for the week long Meitheal training course. We came home as a newly found family with a need for even bigger suit cases for all the new things we learned and the memories we made.