Cork primary school to see class double in size as it loses teacher

'Increasing pod numbers goes against public health advice'

Fourth-class students at a Deis school in Cork City are to see their class go from 16 to 32 pupils as their school has lost a teacher in the middle of a pandemic.

Fourth-class students at a Deis school in Cork City are to see their class double in size as their school has lost a teacher in the middle of a pandemic.

Two classes at St Patrick’s Girls National School are to be merged, going from two classes of 16 students to one class of 32, after the school lost its appeal to keep an additional teaching post for the year.