Questions, answered.

The Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny. It has run there every Christmas since 2007.

In Kilkenny we run five Junior Cert subjects and sixteen Leaving Cert classes. You choose the ones you want, and the minimum is two.

Higher Level Maths runs as two separate classes — Maths A (algebra) and Maths B (trigonometry) — covering different topics, not the same class twice. Most Higher Level students take both.

The full subject list and the timetable are on the Kilkenny course page.

You decide what subjects you'd like to do. You take the same subject, at the same time, for four days.

If you have a break between subjects, supervised study runs all day — you can join it whenever you like. Nobody sits around with an empty hour.

Third Year students sitting the Junior Cert, and Sixth Year students sitting the Leaving Cert.

Each class is 70 minutes, so we cover as much work as possible over the four days. The day runs 9am to 6pm in six teaching blocks.

Fifteen minutes at the end of every class and study session, and an hour for lunch from 1pm to 2pm.

A roll is taken for every class, and a text goes to parents if a student is absent.

We ask that students enter and leave only at the breaks, so as not to disrupt either the classes or the study hall.

Yes — but the rules are clear, and they're the same rules that make the room work.

• If you're using your phone for school work, it must be flat on the table.
• If you're not using it, it goes in your pocket.
• If we're in any doubt, we take the phone for that session. No arguments.

The full code is on our house rules page.

Yes, for school work.

Yes. Log into the Ormonde guest wifi.