In order to promote College Awareness Week In Banagher College the TYs and Ms Kenny have worked together to produce a short five minute video highlighting all the courses and colleges that our past students are attending.
Well done to TY Students, Noah Cleymans, Patrick O Meara, Aoibhe Dooley and Harvey Dolan who have put huge work into this video.
1st Years express their dream job creatively via their Butterfly Window.
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!
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.
