Integration

Integration at Oakgrove

At Oakgrove IP&NS, our motto is "Celebrating Diversity- learning together for life."

We aim to promote high achievement and learning for life by working with children of different backgrounds (religion, culture, race, gender, ability) to enable them to become happy, confident, polite, sensitive, tolerant and caring people.

Integrated Education Week will run from Monday 5th March until Friday the 9th March. The theme this year is 'Journeys'. The children throughout the school will be involved in various cross-community and integration activites.

Our annual Multi-Cultural evening will be held in Oakgrove Integrated College On Thursday 8th March. More details to follow. If you wish to get involved, please contact Miss Quinn.

Integration Links

NORTHERN IRELAND COUNCIL FOR INTEGRATED EDUCATION

Established in 1987, NICIE is a voluntary organisation that was set up to develop, support and promote Integrated Education in Northern Ireland. The underpinning principle of Integrated Education is the belief that by bringing Catholics, Protestants and children of other faiths, and none, together in a shared learning environment, they can learn to understand, respect and accept each other. Click on the logo to visit the NICIE website.

INTEGRATED EDUCATION FUND

The Integrated Education Fund aims to make integration, not separation, the norm in our education system. The Fund supports the continued growth of integrated school places and encourages all schools to provide their pupils with the opportunity to engage meaningfully with children from different cultural and religious backgrounds. Click on the logo to visit the IEF website.

NICIE Documents

Oakgrove Integrated College

Founded in the midst of conflict in our community, Oakgrove Integrated College cherishes the values of courage, imagination and determination which our founders showed.

We commit ourselves to nurturing those values in all our students and developing their ability to speak the truth with confidence. Founded as a place of learning, we strive to enable all to achieve the highest academic standards whilst fostering courage and willingness to take risks accepting what might not be.

We are ever mindful that our school’s history teaches us to look to the future with hope This is a different school created by people inspired to imagine a better future because difference is seen as strength, not weakness. As an integrated school, we are ever-committed to seeking out and welcoming what is different and recognising the challenge to accept what is new.

We foster world-wide partnerships, encouraging students to discover the joy of integrating which continues beyond the experience of school. Our fundamental aim is to develop self-esteem and from it to grow a sense of commitment to others and to the society in which we live, study and work. Oakgrove is no ordinary college. If you are willing to embark on the exciting challenge of a process of life-long learning, then join us now.