Cairde na mBraithre

Public benefits

For students the aspiration is to continue to provide a broad and balanced curriculum to meet the career needs and interests of the students and to recognise their individual learning styles with a suite of subject offers that provides both traditional GCSE and A Level subjects and vocational pathways. This would be evidenced with supplementary

support for minority and other specialist subjects. There would be a range of extra-curricular activities to cater for a variety of interests and to promote and enhance the history, culture and heritage of the school to offer volunteering and performance opportunities, facilitate students to showcase their talents and support others to pursue interests and loves within arts and culture. The Enrichment Programme and the extracurricular life of the school offers leadership development and volunteering opportunities created for students e.g. The Pope John Paul Award, St. Vincent de Paul Christmas Collection, the Enda Dolan Foundation and Charity Street Collections, the annual School 10K event, which fundraises for CB schools in Africa. Cairde Bursaries offered to students from low-income families to assist with fees and related costs for third level education. Opportunities for past-pupils to return to the school for placements to facilitate skill advancement and development. Volunteering and leadership capacity building opportunities provision e.g. Edmund Rice Summer Camp, Millennium Volunteers, Young Enterprise, Peer Tutoring, Student Council in addition to links with external agencies for enhanced student opportunities such as Sandvik, Telestack, and provision of ‘Inclusion Shared Education’ opportunities for Arvalee Special School. The school provides support to parents managing the growth and maturation of their teenage sons through emotional health and wellbeing workshops provided by expert external agencies e.g., Familyworks, AwareNI etc Evidence of the benefits can be provided from curricular delivery in the school and documentation for curricular, enrichment and extracurricular planning, organisation and evaluation as a regular part of school life. The benefits can be further evidenced through the curricular and extra curricular life of the school on social media and feedback from parents and current and former students. There would be no harm arising from any of the purposes. Students, current and leaver and the provision of parental support. The local community benefits from the positive impact of student education and volunteering and leadership development of the youth of the West Tyrone area. The local community benefits from the increased and enriched provision for young people in areas beyond school. The education of future leaders in business, entrepreneurship, medical, industry etc will bring benefits to the local community and beyond. The school will provide invaluable and unique resources and quality amenities to the local community beyond school hours. Any private benefits will be incidental e.g. the provision of tutors for music or drama, specific expertise of sports coaches, support workshops to parents deliver by external agencies etc. There would be benefit to those individuals or agencies who would be sharing their expertise for the benefit of students and/or their parents.

What your organisation does

This function is carried out by the normal functioning of the school and also with the provision of learning opportunities beyond the classroom through leadership and volunteering opportunities as well as the provision of extracurricular activities across a broad range on interests.