Christmas Exam will run from 16th-18th December.

1st Year Timetable

2nd Year Timetable

5th Year Timetable

A message of support to our Erasmus + Inside Out partners in Turkey

The theme for Geography week is Celebrating Geography. There are a few activities running throughout the week to mark the occasion such as:

1. A daily Riddles Competition in which both students and staff can taken part- answers to be posted in the entry box outside the science lab.

2. An Art competition to design a poster that represents the Geo Week 2020 theme Celebrating Geography

3. A Photography competition with three categories (a)Celebrating Geography in my 5km, b)Green Living (recycling, composting, doing something encouraging / promoting Green Living) and (c)Earth Love (open to student interpretation)

Monday’s Geo Riddle:

I have seas without water. I have forests without trees. I have deserts without sand. I have houses without bricks. What am I?

Tuesday’s Geo Riddle:

What is the fastest country in the world?

Wednesday’s Geo Riddle:

What is smarter, longitude or latitude? 

While on TY work experience recently Rory Duffy got the fantastic opportunity to participate in a zoom call with Seamus Callanan and Lee Chin for SportsJoe.ie.

Well done Rory!

Read his article here

Experiment competition:

Students were encouraged to carry out a safe and fun science experiment at home and video it.

 Photography competition:

1st year students had to take 3 photographs. The topics were 1. Plants 2. Animals and 3. Water. The judges will be looking for creativity and good photography skills.

1st Year Table Quiz winners:

1A- Kedagh Broderick, William O’Meara & Jacek Boniakowski

1C- Oisin Lankoande, Sean Lyons & Tom Moylan

1B- Judy Cooney, Josh Horan & Lucy Daly

1D- Dectora Stevenson & Katelyn Smith

Winners & Runners Up 

Category 11-13 yrs:

Winner: Rachel Cleary 2C

Runner Up: Diana Chuhai 1A

Category 14-17 yrs:

Winner: Lisa Killeen LC2D

Runner Up: Katie Butler LC2A

Category 18+ yrs:

Winner: Kieran Kennedy LC2B

Runner Up: Rebecca McGarry LC2C

Our TY’s had an adventure filled few days exploring the Slievebloom Mountians courtesy of Birr Outdoor Education Centre throughout the week of the 9th-16th November.

Some of our IT classes participated in the National Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge which takes place from 2nd Nov to 13th November 2020. The challenge introduces computational thinking to students by allowing them to solve interactive tasks online. It is run in over 50 countries worldwide.