CEIST

Christ King Girls’ Secondary School is a member of the CEIST Trust of Schools in Ireland.

Catholic Education Irish Schools Trust (CEIST) is the trustee body for the voluntary secondary schools of the Daughters of Charity, the Presentation Sisters, the Sisters of the Christian Retreat, the Sisters of Mercy and the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. CEIST website

All members of CEIST community are committed to living the vision and the core values of the CEIST charter. These values have their roots in the Gospel of Jesus and have been central in the tradition of the five founding Congregations.

The values promote the dignity of the human person, inspire a Christian vision of the world, encourage the search for truth, wisdom and beauty, and lead to the formation of mature personalities. The CEIST Charter may be accessed here.

Core Values of CEIST

  • Promoting Spiritual and Human Development

    We believe a knowledge of and a personal relationship with Jesus Christ give meaning and purpose to our lives.

  • Achieving Quality in Teaching and Learning

    We are committed to excellence and to continually improving the quality of teaching and learning.

  • Showing Respect for Every Person

    We respect the unique and intrinsic value of every person.

  • Creating Community

    Our Schools are faith communities of welcome and hospitality where Gospel values are lived and where there is special care for those most in need.

  • Being Just and Responsible

    We seek to act justly and responsibly in all our relationships.

Catholic Education

 

The goal of Catholic education is the formation of the student. Catholic education prepares people not merely for the world of work but for the challenges of life. It provides learning experiences for students and teachers that will develop their capacity to think critically. It helps them to be fully human and fully alive.

Catholic Education is a lifelong process of human growth and development. It is more than schooling. It begins in the home, continues in the school and matures through involvement with the Christian community in the parish. These three dimensions of home, school and parish must work together if Catholic education is to truly attain its goal of forming mature human persons in the image and likeness of Christ.

Catholic education promotes the development of the whole person based on the belief that the human and the divine are inseparable. It promotes an explicit system of values based on the Gospels.

The partnership of Catholic Education with the Home: Parents have the primary responsibility for nurturing faith in their children and the school supports parents in this by providing not only an excellent academic education but also a high quality Religious Education programme for its students.

Parents get involved with school life by being active in the Parents’ Council which acts as a voice for the parent/guardian population. All parents/guardians of pupils enrolled in the school are automatically members of the Parents’ Council.