Several generations come together to celebrate school extension [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 17 October 2011
THREE generations — grandparents, parents and children — will attend the formal opening of a €250,000 extension to a tiny west Cork primary school today.
The 80-year-old Coppeen National School, which has 78 pupils, is marking the construction of two new classrooms, an assembly area, a general office and the refurbishment of the existing two classrooms into a staffroom and learning support room.
Among those attending the official opening by the Minister for Agriculture, Simon Coveney, will be past pupils, now parents and grandparents of students currently attending the school.
However, other local families stretch back even further over the generations: "There are also children here whose grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great grandparents went to school in Coppeen — some of them attending classes in the original building which was built in 1860 but later burned down," said headmistress, Catherine Bradley.
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