HISTORY AND GOVERNANCE
Overview
Castle Park was founded in 1904 as a private school by W P Toone who was headmaster until he handed the School over to Donald Pringle in 1938. After Mr Pringle’s death, the ownership passed to a limited company with charitable status in 1965 and has since then been administered by a Board of Directors. The Board membership has tended to include current and recent parents. Since 1970 Castle Park has been co-educational is now entirely a day School.
The School’s Centenary Development Plan, 2004, reviewed the School and its position in the Irish educational context, and it was decided to renew all of the school buildings, to provide unrivalled indoor educational and sports facilities and at the same time to redevelop the outdoor amenities of this wonderful fifteen acre campus. The outstanding new facilities were opened in September 2008 and today’s pupils enjoy a world class educational facility. The school has now been housed in the new re-development for three years. The resources continue to develop with the upgrading of the ICT network and the inclusion of a suite of iMacs for multi-media studies.
Board of Directors
Castle Park is directed by an independent, private company with charitable status and is entirely self-financing. Our independence allows us to respond appropriately to a rapidly changing world while enjoying the freedom to hold onto our long-established values and traditions. Castle Park pupils enjoy a quality, all round education that develops the whole person – academically, emotionally, socially, spiritually and physically in state-of-the-art facilities.
Members of the Board of Directors
Mr Bill Paterson – chairperson
Mr Colin Beecham
Mr Stephen Cullen
Ms Philippa Cottle
Mr George McCullagh
Ms Áine Ní Neachtaín
Mr Conor O’Gallagher
Chairmen of the Board
Mr M Horan 1963 - 1980
Dr I Moore 1981 - 1990
Mr S K McComas 1990 - 1991
Mr T C Johnson 1991 - 1996
Mr S Hughes 1996 - 2001
Mr M Shiell 2001 - 2003
Mr A FitzGerald 2003 - 2010
Mr B Paterson 2010 - present
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