Welcome to our Web Site.  I hope that you find it interesting.  It contains some information about our school, the children who are educated within it, the staff who work here and the parents who daily entrust their children into our care and protection.

Ceara School caters for the educational, social and emotional needs of children who have severe learning difficulties and/or emotional difficulties and/or physical difficulties and/or medical complications.  Children attending the school are aged from three years to nineteen years.  The school has a preschool department; a Primary Section; a Post Primary Section and a vocational class.

There are currently 102 children attending Ceara, who come from every section of the SELB - Newry, Portadown, Armagh, Middletown, Banbridge, Gilford and Lurgan.

There are 13 teaching staff; 26 classroom assistants and five support staff.  Every person working at Ceara has had an enhanced PSNI/Access NI check carried out on them to determine their suitability to work with vulnerable children.

You may be interested to learn that the name 'Ceara' is a joining of the names Cecil and Barbara.  'CE' from Cecil and 'ARA' from Barbara.  Hence, CEARA.  Cecil and Barbara Browne were wealthy mill owners from Lurgan who donated their house to the Hospital Authority in 1957 who named the house after them.  Ceara is also the name of the national bank of Brazil; the name of the largest province in Brazil and  a very popular girls name in Spanish countries.

Dr Peter G. Cunningham

Principal