St Josephs National School, Hilltown, Ballymitty, Co. Wexford.

1950: St Joseph's National school was built. This building replaced the old school, which was located beside the church. The new school had two classrooms and two teachers - Master Garvey and Mrs Brennan.

1954: Saw a new principal Sean McKenna takeover at the school.

1960's: An extra room was built (currently May Lawlors room). A new teacher Mrs. Ferguson started.

1964: Another new Teacher, Mairead French started.

1969: Tullycanna N.S. and Hilltown N.S. amalgamated to become one school. Now the school had 182 pupils. Mrs. Fenlon was the new teacher. There was an extra classroom outside to cater for the large numbers.

1982/83: Two new classrooms, a General Purpose Room and a staff room were built.

Mid 1980's: Most classes were large with 30+ pupils.

Early 90's: The G.P. room was used a classroom to meet demands of large numbers.

2000: Deirdre Frayney and May Lawlor joined the staff. Sean McKenna retired after 46 years of teaching. Mairead French became principal.

2003: Isabelle Flynn joined our school.

2005: Our school was awarded the Green Flag for environmental awareness and respect.

2007: We were awarded a Green Flag for conservation of Energy. Mary Davey passes away in September of this year and Eleanor Kehoe joined the school.

2008: Fr. O'Leary left Ballymitty Parish and was replaced by Fr. J.J. Doyle.

2009: Fr. Doyle was replaced Fr. Cahill. Mairead French retired after 43 years of teaching and Isabelle Flynn took over as principal. Orlaith Kehoe joined the staff. The Green Flag for water conservation was awarded to the school.

At present there are approximately 150 pupils in our school, 5 permanent classroom teachers, 1 learning support teacher, 1 shared resource teacher, 1 special needs assistant, a part time caretaker and cleaner.

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