On Wednesday Karen and Jane from AIB bank came to school to carry out an in house judging of our mini companies. They spent time examining the products, reading the business plans and meeting with each company. They will return for a prize giving in the coming weeks. A huge thank you to Karen, Jane…
On Tuesday 10th January two groups of CPB students along with teacher Ms Kingston made the long trip to Dublin to compete in the finals of the BT Young Scientist competition. Anna Towns and Anna Conlon’ project is titled “Food Miles: What is their impact on the consumer?”. The project looks at peoples’ shopping habits…
Anna Conlon and Anna Towns’s project is titled “Food Miles: What is their impact on the consumer?”. Our project looks at peoples’ shopping habits and viewpoints when it comes to food miles and the countries of origin of our foods. We are representing the school and displaying our project at the BT Young Scientist Exhibition…
The current GAA coaching module finished last Friday with the last session in Our Lady of Mercy. There was plenty of game practice for the final week showing off all the skills they have learned. A new TY group starts this week and we look forward to coaching in some more local primary schools before…
Some of TY students Lucy Connolly, Tempy Stock, Molly Harrington, Grace Keohane , Maebh Burke and Róisín Connolly under the guidance of their teacher Mr Graham spent Monday morning painting the front windows of SuperValu for Christmas ! This was a lovely challenge for them and we may be biased but it looks great! Well…
Last Friday morning our TY GAA coaching students were with 3rd and 4th class in Our Lady of Mercy NS practising the handpass and the solo. All the girls were brilliant and we are looking forward to next week already! 🏐
Massive well done to Transition Year students who held a Díolachán Cístí on Friday. They raised €795 for the Irish Cancer Society. They prepared and executed the event very well. Congratulations to Ms Jennings who won the raffled chocolate biscuit cake. A hugely successful event all round. Maith sibh!
TY1 and TY3 spent all day Monday in Glengarriff planting 2000 bulbs in conjunction with Glengarriff Tidy Towns. A huge thanks to Terry who coordinated the day and to all involved for the lovely pizzas for lunch which were really appreciated! Looking forward to seeing all the beautiful daffodils bloom in Spring! Thanks to Ms.…
Thanks to Tim Crowley from Michael Collins Centre Clonakiliy for a great day out for TY History.
We had Pat from Forensic Fun to school yesterday for two workshops with out TY students. They investigated the forensic evidence behind JFK’s assassination and got the change to try out finger printing, gun shot residue testing and much more. Pat was really interesting and helped the students to piece together the timelines and see…
