Our Vision
Clonard College, as a Kildare Education Ministries school, is a school where we strive for learning to be collaborative, dynamic, vibrant and purposeful. Inspired by the Gospel values of love, justice, service and peace, we will be a community that celebrates:
- Wonder and all that is good with joy and gratitude
- Courage by speaking and acting with integrity
- Hospitality by welcoming all
- Hope by bringing a sense of purpose
- Compassion by walking with and having empathy for all
- Justice through making the needs of the vulnerable paramount
Graduate Attributes
Clonard College
Inspired by this vision we aspire to educate students who graduate with the following attributes:
A graduate who LIVES with COMPASSION
- Creates and sustain life giving relationships recognising our common humanity and the sacred dignity of all
- Listens, reflects, speaks and acts with compassion inspired by the gospel
- Welcomes difference and diversity as an opportunity for encounter and dialogue
- Nurtures spiritual, physical, mental and emotional needs of self and others
- Reaches out and embraces those on the peripheries
A graduate who LEARNS with WONDER
- Finds hope and meaning in their sense of the sacred in self, other, creation and a faith community
- Holds a world view shaped by the Kildare Ministries values
- Seeks understanding and knowledge in the search for what is good, right and true
- Maintains a spirit of curiosity and creativity in embracing possibilities for ongoing growth and meaning making
A graduate who LEADS with COURAGE
- Welcomes uncertainty and ambiguity, meeting challenges with confidence and courage
- Influences and mobilises others, taking action for a just and peaceful society
- Values and creates connections, embracing inclusivity and reconciling diverse views for the common good of all
- Reflects, questions, critically analyses and dialogues, making informed ethical decisions
- Seeks to disrupt patterns of injustice
- Develops a unique voice and independence of spirit