Education
Our diocese has 4 Catholic primary schools:
St Columba's Primary School - Oban
St Muns' Primary School - Dunoon
St Andrew's Primary School - Rothesay
St Columba's Primary School - Fort William
Since September 2021, the diocese has offered online sacramental instruction for parishes.
Online delivery is a particularly valuable means to provide catechesis in our diocese, given the geographical challenges that we face. Even within parishes, parishioners can live far and wide!
Meeting parishioners and providing Catholic education face to face is always most preferable. However, despite its limitations, online provision has opened up new ways of evangelisation to meet the needs of our rural communities.
Online classes to prepare for Reconciliation, First Holy Communion and Confirmation are available to parishes who choose to take part and who do not have a Catholic school in their parish.
This year we have 19 children from 7 different parishes taking part in our online courses. The children are able to learn and meet other children from the diocese – something both novel and valuable in building community in Argyll & The Isles. Parents are encouraged to take part with their children and a few have commented that they have learned a lot through the courses as well!
For more information contact your parish priest or send an email to the diocesan RE Advisor, Fr Ronald Campbell.
