Important Dates:

Completed applications will be accepted from:
Oct. 1st 2024.

Closing date for receipt of applications:
Oct. 18th 2024.

Date by which applicants will be notified in writing of the decision on their application:
Nov. 12th 2024.

Date by which applicants must confirm acceptance of an offer of admission:
Dec. 2nd 2024

Assessments
Has the student had an assessment in any of the following?

A copy of the Irish Exemption and /or a copy of Assessments must be provided to the school following an offer and acceptance of a place at Sacred Heart Secondary School.

Personal Data

Sacred Heart Secondary School is a data controller under the Data Protection Act 2018. The personal data supplied on this Enrolment Form is required for the purposes of:

● student enrolment,
● student registration,
● allocation of teachers and resources to the school,
● determining a student’s eligibility for additional learning supports and transportation;
● examinations,
● school administration,
● child welfare (including medical welfare),
● and to fulfil our other legal obligations.

Please note: Sacred Heart Secondary School reserves the right to contact you in case of an emergency relating to your child, regardless of whether you have given your consent.

While the information provided will generally be treated as private to Sacred Heart Secondary School, and will be collected and used in compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018, from time to time it may be necessary for us to transfer your personal data on a private basis to other bodies (including the Department of Education & Skills, the Department of Social Protection, An Garda Síochána, the Health Service Executive, Tusla (CFA), social workers or medical practitioners, the National Educational Welfare Board, the National Council for Special Education, any Special Education Needs Organiser, the National Educational Psychological Service, or to another school in the case of a transfer). We rely on parents / guardians and students to provide us with accurate and complete information and to update us in relation to any change in the information provided. Should you wish to update or access your child’s personal data, you should write to the school principal requesting an Access Request Form.

Data Protection Policy:

A copy of the Data Protection Policy is available on the school’s website (www.sacredheartclonakilty.ie). You and your child should read it carefully. When you apply for enrolment, you will be asked to sign that you consent to your data / your child’s data being collected, processed and used in accordance with this Data Protection Policy during the course of their time as a student in the school. Where the student is over 18 years old, they will be asked to sign their consent to this.

The Department of Education and Skills are seeking the following information on the nationality, mother tongue and ethnic/cultural background of students who have been offered and accepted a place in post-primary schools for the coming year.
The Department requires this information for the purposes of statistical analysis and reporting in the areas of social inclusion and integration of students in the education system. The Department has also informed the schools that it has consulted with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in respect of the data they are now seeking to collect.
The Department has advised schools that it will only use this information in an aggregate format for the above purposes, i.e. not identifying individual students. Access by Department staff to any of this information is restricted to a small number of Department staff, not exceeding 15, who provide technical support to schools on the collection of this data or who work in the area dealing with statistical analysis. Further information on the purposes for which this data is required by the Department, and how it is managed and secured, is available in Departmental circular 0023/2016. A FAQ on the use of the data of post-primary students by the Department is also available. Copies of both of these documents may be found on www.education.ie or on request from the school.
With the exception of the Central Statistics Office (CSO) the Department has informed schools that it will not share individual data on a student’s nationality, mother tongue or ethnic / cultural background with any other body or person outside of the Department. The CSO may obtain the information provided to the Department under the Statistics Acts. The CSO manages the data so provided in a secure manner and to the same standards that operates for the National Census.
Please note that schools are empowered under legislation (1) to receive information on a student’s nationality which they may in turn share with the Department. In order to collect details of mother tongue and share it with the Department, the school must obtain the consent of the parent / guardian. In respect of the ethnic / cultural background of the student (because this is deemed sensitive and personal for data protection purposes) the school must first obtain the explicit written consent of the parent / guardian to collect this data and share it with the Department.

1) Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 2005 sections 262-266 and S.I. 317 of 2015 Social Welfare (Consolidated Claims, Payments and Control) (Amendment)(No. 4) (Sharing of Information) Regulation 2015.
2) Section 2 of Data Protection acts, 1988 and 2003