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St Johns College, Ballyfermot
St. John’s College De La Salle ber. Around 28 March every 3rd and 6th year student has
to walk in and the Pre-Junior Certificate Examinations
Coláiste Eoin De La Salle or the Pre-Leaving Certificate Examinations. This exam
doesn’t count for your actual Junior Certificate Exami-
nation or Leaving Certificate Examination, but it is dealt
like an actual exam. On 27 May up to 3 June 1, 2 and 5
year students are put up to their last exam of the year,
the Summer Exams. When these exams are over, the Ju-
nior Certificate Examinations and Leaving Certificate Ex-
aminations are held in the school on 10 June.
History
This college can trace it’s history back to Jean-Baptise
Latin: Sanctus John Contraho De La Eruptio de La Salle back to the institute of the Institute of the
Brothers of the Christian Schools back to 1680
Motto Signum Fidei
Motto in English Sign of the Faith Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651–1719)
Established 1956
Principal Ms. A.M. Leonard
Location Dublin, Ireland
Affiliations De La Salle Christian Brothers
Department of Education and Skills
www.schooluniformsdirect.ie
State Examinations Commission
Website http://www.stjohnsdls.ie
St. John’s College De La Salle is an all-male secondary
school in Ballyfermot, South Dublin in Ireland. The
school is run by the De La Salle Christian Brothers. St.
John’s College is partially funded by the Department of
Education and Skills. In this school, there are only five
levels. 1st year and 2nd year is divided into 4–5 classes.
Each class has the average number of 21 students. In 3rd
year, students are put into different classes, from high-
est to lowest. In St. John’s College De La Salle, it does not
allow students to do 4th (transition year). In 5th year,
students are divided into a two-year programmes called
Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate Applied and Leav-
ing Certificate Vocational Programme. Students have the
choice to pick one of these programmes. In 6th year,
these programmes stay the same. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, founder of the De La Salle Schools
Like every school around the country, it has exams. and the Institute of the Brothers of Christian Schools
In December all students must participate in the Christ-
mas Exams. These exams usually take place on 15 Decem- Born in Rheims, France, John-Baptiste de La Salle re-
ceived the tonsure at age 11 and was named canon of
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Rheims Cathedral when he was sixteen. Though he had to
assume the administration of family affairs after his par-
ents died, he completed his theological studies and was
ordained to the priesthood at the age of 26 on 9 April
1678. Two years later he received a Doctorate in Theolo-
gy.
De La Salle became involved in education little by
little, without ever consciously setting out to do so. In
1679, what began as a charitable effort to help Adrian
Nyel establish a school for the poor in De La Salle’s home
town gradually became his life’s work. He thereby began
a new order, the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian
Schools,[1] also known as the De La Salle Brothers (in the
UK, Ireland, Australasia and Asia) or, most commonly in
the United States, the Christian Brothers. They are some-
times confused with a different congregation of the same
name founded by Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice in Ire-
land, who are known in the US as the Irish Christian
Brothers.
In his own words, one decision led to another until he
found himself doing something that he had never antici-
pated. De La Salle wrote:
“ I had imagined that the care which I assumed of ”
the schools and the masters would amount only to a
marginal involvement committing me to no more Statue in Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle church, Paris
than providing for the subsistence of the masters
and assuring that they acquitted themselves of and his insistence on gratuity for all, regardless of
their tasks with piety and devotedness ... Indeed, if I whether they could afford to pay. Nevertheless, De La
had ever thought that the care I was taking of the Salle and his Brothers succeeded in creating a network
schoolmasters out of pure charity would ever have of quality schools throughout France that featured in-
made it my duty to live with them, I would have struction in the vernacular, students grouped according
dropped the whole project. ... God, who guides all to ability and achievement, integration of religious in-
things with wisdom and serenity, whose way it is struction with secular subjects, well-prepared teachers
not to force the inclinations of persons, willed to with a sense of vocation and mission, and the involve-
commit me entirely to the development of the ment of parents.
schools. He did this in an imperceptible way and De La Salle was a pioneer in programs for training lay
over a long period of time so that one commitment teachers. In 1685, he founded what is generally consid-
led to another in a way that I did not foresee in the ered the first normal school — that is, a school whose
beginning. purpose is to train teachers—in Rheims, France. He was a
At that time, most children had little hope for the fu- pedagogical thinker of note and is among the founders of
ture. Moved by the plight of the poor who seemed so "far a distinctively modern pedagogy. His educational inno-
from salvation" either in this world or the next, he deter- vations include Sunday courses for working young men,
mined to put his own talents and advanced education at one of the first institutions in France for the care of delin-
the service of the children "often left to themselves and quents, technical schools, and, secondary schools for
badly brought up." To be more effective, he abandoned modern languages, arts, and sciences. Worn out by aus-
his family home, moved in with the teachers, renounced terities and exhausting labors, he died at Saint Yon near
his position as Canon and his wealth, and so formed a Rouen early in 1719 on Good Friday, only weeks before
new community of lay religious teachers. The De La Salle his 68th birthday.
Brothers were the first Roman Catholic religious teach- De La Salle’s work quickly spread through France and,
ing order that didn’t include any priests. after his death, continued to spread across the globe. He
His enterprise met opposition from the ecclesiastical was canonized by Pope Leo XIII on 24 May 1900 and was
authorities who resisted the creation of a new form of re- inserted in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1904.
ligious life, a community of consecrated laymen to con- Because of his life and inspirational writings, he was pro-
duct free schools "together and by association." The edu- claimed as the Patron Saint of Teachers on 15 May 1950,
cational establishment resented his innovative methods by Pope Pius XII. Since 1970, his feast is celebrated in
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the Catholic Church calendar on 7 April, but at La Sallian Since 1937 its world headquarters has been in
institutions, and in communities that follow a pre-1970 Rome.[2] The community is headed by a Superior General
(but post 1904) calendar, on 15 May. with the assistance of a General Council. As of 2000, the
Currently, about 6,000 Brothers and 75,000 lay and Superior General is Brother Alvaro Rodriguez Echeverria,
religious colleagues worldwide serve as teachers, coun- FSC, native of Costa Rica.
selors and guides to 900,000 students in over 1,000 educa- The British province of the Institute, headquartered
tional institutions in 84 countries. in Oxford, is a registered charity under English law.[3]
There is a street named after La Salle in Bangkok,
Thailand: Soi Sukhumvit 105. It got this name due to a La St. John’s College (present)
Salle school on this street.
Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Uniforms
Schools St. John’s College has a serious dress code and if not fol-
lowed correctly, there could be serious consequences.
The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
Brothers,
(also known as the Christian Brothers the Lasallian
Brothers the French Christian Brothers or the De La
Brothers, Brothers, 1st, 2nd and 3rd year uniforms
Brothers;
Salle Brothers French: Frères des écoles chrétiennes Latin:
chrétiennes; In the John’s College, there are two sets of uniforms. Th-
Fratres Scholarum Christianarum is a Roman Catholic reli-
Christianarum) ese uniforms are put into individual years. To the right
gious teaching congregation, founded in France by Saint we can see the uniforms for the Junior students. They
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle and now based in Rome. wear a wine-coloured jumper, along with a grey shirt, a
Brothers use the post-nominal abbreviation FSC FSC. pair of grey trousers and a wine tie with grey stripes. You
He trained and organised a group of men to live in can wear any sorts of shoes like; Puma AG, Adidas, Nike
community and conduct the schools. He is credited with and Reebok.
establishing a regimen of education which emphasised
the good of the student, banning corporal punishment
from their institutions. The founding of the Institute is
generally dated to 1680. It was the first religious commu-
nity of men in the Roman Catholic Church not to include
clergy, the Institute being composed solely of lay broth-
ers. At one point, Jean-Baptiste de La Salle had one broth-
er, Henri L’Heureux, study for the priesthood, with the
intention of having him take over the supervision of the
Institute. However, Br. Henri soon became ill and died
unexpectedly the night prior to his ordination. Jean-Bap-
tiste took this as a sign from God that the order should
remain as a society of lay brothers.[citation needed] He deter-
mined that his Brothers would be older brothers to those
they taught and brothers to one another.
The Institute underwent two periods of upheaval in
France. The first occurred during the French Revolution
when schools were closed and some Brothers lost their Uniforms for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Years only
lives. By 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte restored the Institute
in France, beginning a period of rapid growth for the
Brothers. By 1810, the Institute had 160 Brothers working 5th and 6th year uniforms
in France and Italy; 90 years later by the end of the centu- To the left we can see the uniforms for the Senior stu-
ry, the Institute had 14,631 Brothers working in 35 coun- dents. They wear a navy jumper, along with a grey shirt,
tries. a pair of grey trousers and a navy tie. You can wear any
The second period of upheaval began in 1904 when sorts of shoes like; Puma, Adidas, Nike and Reebok.
France began to enact a series of "secularisation laws".
These laws essentially expelled most Catholic religious
groups from France and forced the closing of schools. School
Brothers left France to continue work overseas, notably
in Belgium, Canada, and Spain as well as Argentina,
Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Brazil, Panama, Mexico, North
References
Africa, Australia and the Philippines. [1] St. John Baptist de La Salle in Catholic Encyclopedia
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St. John’s College painting inside the auditorium
External links
Uniforms for 5th and 6th Years only • De La Salle Christian Brothers
• De La Salle Christian Brothers, Province of Great
[2] Generalate of the Brothers of the Christian Schools Britain
[3] THE PROVINCE OF GREAT BRITAIN OF THE • Brief history of the Lasallian Institute
INSTITUTE OF THE BROTHERS OF THE CHRISTIAN • Catholic Encyclopedia article
SCHOOLS (THE DE LA SALLE BROTHERS), • Works by the Institute of the Brothers of the
Registered Charity no. 232632 at the Charity Christian Schools at Project Gutenberg
Commission • Department of Education and Skills
• State Examination Commission
• Scoilnet
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