A School for Europe
St. Kilian's German School keeps a high academic profile. While it offers the full range of academic subjects in the Secondary school, with humanities, language, science and business subjects, its main focus is certainly on language, and on productive knowledge of the different system of thinking that accompanies the acquisition of a second language. 
St. Kilian's students learn to use a second language right from the start. German is not only the language of a school subject, but also the language of instruction in subjects like Art and Music (Primary School) and International History (Secondary School). St. Kilian's students learn to communicate through German - besides, of course, English, Irish and French. German is also spoken in the kindergarten.
At secondary level, we offer teaching and assessment to the proficiency level of the German Language Diploma (Stage II). The Diploma is accepted as language proficiency certification by universities in German speaking countries.
However, a St. Kilian's education is not one-sided. High academic standards are also the hallmark of our humanities, science and business syllabi. In all these subjects St. Kilian's students do remarkably well in the Irish Leaving Certificate, in fact they achieve 40 points more than the average Irish Secondary student applying for a university place, and 10 points more than the average private school student. Compared with the average co-educational school, St. Kilian's students achieve about 60 points more.
All this is the result not only of excellence in teaching and outstanding facilities, but also of a pedagogical concept that combines pastoral care, familiarity and challenge, support, encouragement and assessment. It opens children’s eyes to different ways of seeing the world, and gives them an outstanding level of skills for Third Level education. St. Kilian's students gain the self-confidence they need in order to master life after school.
St. Kilian's endeavours to help students find the self-confidence and independence of spirit that is beneficial to personal development. This implies self-discipline, high motivation and a mature and responsible attitude towards goals and achievements. This is also why we refuse to wear a school uniform: each child is seen as an individual, and in terms of its own merit.
St. Kilian's is supportive and demanding at the same time. We encourage students to choose to develop their full potential. And we make sure that peer pressure does not distract them from their objectives.
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