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| EOP celebrates five successful years From
little acorns, might oak trees grow and the little acorn known as the
Blakestown Mountview Education Opportunities Programme (EOP) sown five
years ago is now certainly a thriving tree of knowledge and success
in that community. The programme celebrated its fifth anniversary recently with a concert, exhibition and general partying in St. Peregrine’s GAA Club where the guest speaker, Aidan Savage, national co-ordinator of the Schools Completion Programmes congratulated all concerned on the work they had done and their success “in carrying on the ethos of school retention and engaging children in formal education.” According to local programme co-ordinator, Conor Cody, “we now have 140 young people from local schools using the service. When we started we had seven homework and breakfast clubs. Now we have 22 groups involved in a wide range of activities.” The St. Peregrine’s event was hugely successful with over 300 people in attendance as pupils from the senior and junior schools in both Blakestown and Mountview entertained their audience with everything from break-dancing to recorder orchestras and even the occasional young rapper. Visitors to the event were also able to chart the history of the project through a series of exhibition stands around the hall. Following some anxiety in recent times, the future of the project is now secure with a recent commitment of funding to ensure its continuation until at least 2010. Aimed
at keeping young people in formal education, the success of the project
was summed up by Conor who told Community Voice “it
encourages a greater sense of community among the schools and within
the schools and offers a balance between recreation and academic activity.”
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