Villiers Secondary School
| Villiers School Scoil Villiers |
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| Location | |
| North Circular Road, Limerick Republic of Ireland |
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| Coordinates | 52°39′42″N 8°39′23″W / 52.6617°N 8.6563°WCoordinates: 52°39′42″N 8°39′23″W / 52.6617°N 8.6563°W |
| Information | |
| Motto | Fidei Coticula Crux (Latin for 'The cross is the touchstone of faith') |
| Established | 1821 |
| Headmaster | Ms Jill Storey |
| Staff | 34 full time, 14 part time |
| Number of students | 508 |
| Website | villiers-school.com |
Villiers School is a co-educational, fee paying, boarding and day secondary school, located on the North Circular Road, Limerick, Ireland. It is Limerick city's only fee paying Protestant secondary school.
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[edit] History
Founded under the will of Mrs Hannah Villiers in 1821, the school has a Protestant ethos and is managed jointly by the headmistress and a board of governors. The school relocated from Henry Street to its current location on the Tivoli campus on the North Circular Road less than one mile from Limerick city centre in 1953.
[edit] Villiers Today
Boarders number about a third of the students with the rest living locally. The student body is multi-denominational and diverse including students from Spain, Mexico, South Africa, Germany and Russia.
The school has modern classrooms, boarding facilities, a new gymnasium (2001) and hockey pitch (2002), a large IT suite and several science laboratories. a new science, technology and art building was completed in 2007. All students sit the Irish Junior and Leaving certificates, with the vast majority progressing onto third level education.
[edit] Extracurricular activities
Villiers fields junior and senior teams in both hockey and rugby (boys only) in their respective Munster leagues and cups. there is also girls rugby and soccer teams.
Several other sports are played, including soccer, basketball, athletics, table tennis, tennis, swimming, horse riding and martial arts.
Music and debating are also encouraged and a large musical acted by transition year students is an annual event. The transition years also hold a very successful fashion show each year.
Also included in the long list of activities,Is the whole park area as a dedicated student smoking area.
[edit] End of an Era
The headmaster Mr Tom Hardy retired in 2011 after 25 years successful years at the school.[1]
[edit] Notable former students and faculty
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This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability or notability policies. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources cited within this article showing they are notable and alumni or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (November 2011) |
- Philip Owens. (Los Angeles based film editor who has worked with such notable international movie makers as Doug Pray, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve James and Guy Ritchie. Boards magazine named him one of the top new commercial editors in North America (2002)[1].
- Donald Clarke (film correspondent, The Irish Times);[2]
- Max Dennison (special-effects artist);
- Jan O'Sullivan (politician);
- Caleb Powell - President of the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU);
- Phoebe Prince.[3]
