May 2013
The Girls
The Teachers
Plc Graduations
PLC Graduation was held recently for the graduating class 2012/2013. 160 Graduates and Guests (approx 500 people) gathered in Gym Tuesday 21st to honour those graduating form our 9 PLc groups.
Cecil Day Lewis Literary Awards 2013
Ciara Anderson of fifth year has recieved a literary award for her work on her poetry and short composition.
The awards evening will take place on Thursday the 23rd of May in Athy Heritage Centre- Museum, where she and her contemporaries will be awarded for their literary achievements.
Maynooth Access Programme Arawad 2013
The annual MAP award evening is taking place this Wednesday the 8th of May in the John Hume Lecture Theatre 1 in the North Campus of N.U.I.M. The awards are to honour the students and the work being done by them and their teachers.
6th Year awards
3rd Year awards
Inspirational Teachers
Cycle against Suicide
Cycle of Life - In Support of positive mental health in young people. Fundraising took place in the school last Wednesday with students making a donation of €2 to take part in a Non - Uniform day. Participating students and staff from schools in County Kildare VEC took part in the cycle. The route that ST. Conleths CC took part in had started that morning in Athy. From there it went to Rathangan to The Curragh to Newbridge and finally to the County Office.
Macbeth
On Wednesday the 1st of May, the senior english students were given the opportunity to go to the play Macbeth. The play was hosted at the Moat Theatre in Naas.
Kildare Youth Theatre staged the Shakespearian drama. It was an exciting, professional production. This production of Macbeth is timed to serve as a flash revision for all Leaving Cert students just weeks before the exam. It is also suitable for 5th years.
April
One Good Idea
Well done to the two Caitlins, Grace and Victoria.
These ladies represented St. Conleths Community College in the ONE GOOD IDEA competition.
As part of this competition, the girls had to research energy efficiency and climate change, pick a topic, a target audience and develop their one good idea for an awareness campaign.
The topic chosen was called Greener Fashion.
The following is an extract from the finished project:
Our clothes: from how they are made, to how far they have travelled, to the way they are cared for, to how we dispose of them: at each stage of the garment life cycle, there are energy and climate costs along the way. By understanding the processes behind our favourite clothes, we can identify where changes can be made to improve energy efficiency and carbon emissions in the clothing industry, and help make fashion greener.
The girls reached the final 5 in the final of their category.
To check out the project details, click on the following link
Sports News
The new Sports Centre at St.Conleth’s Community College finally had its first users on Tuesday 9th April last. The students of 3G were the first to experience the new facilities now in place for Physical Education students in. All week students showed great excitement for their first taste of their new Ionad Sports and passing their time over the next few months. We can all look forward to it being fully equipped so that proper classes may commence there in September.
Indoor Soccer
The indoor soccer league will take place over the coming weeks. Make sure that you submit your name to Mr. Connolly if you would like to take part. The winners and runners up will receive prizes. The matches will take place at lunch time and entry will cost €2. See the notice board outside the Woodwork room for teams, fixtures and league tables.
Basketball
Boys and girls basketball training takes place every Wednesday from 1.10 – 2.10 in our new gym. All new players welcome.
Ceiliu radh Cainte
Ceiliúradh Cainte took place on Wednesday the 17th of April. The 5th years from Ms. Maxwell’s Irish class participated in an Irish speaking day along with the teachers. They were given yellow t-shirts and a sponsorship card. All proceeds will go to Headstrong, which deals with young Irish peoples mental health.
Neven Maguire visit
Celebrity Chef Neven Maguire visited with staff and students of St. Conleths Community College on Wednesday the 10th of April.
Neven runs a business in the village Blacklion in Co. Cavan called MacNean House and Restaurant.
On the day, Neven prepared a lovely raspberry shortbread dessert for us and had student and staff participation in creating the decorations for it. Here are a few snaps from the day.
Happy Heart
On Friday 12th April, the Pre-Nursing students raised money in aid of two great causes. These are The Irish Heart Foundation and The Irish Wheelchair Association Athy Branch.
People came along to our Plc centre and got their BP checked and chatted with the group about heart health . Light Refreshments were served afterwards.
€310 was raised for the two charities
April
Mini-Golf for Homework regulars
On the last day of school before Easter holidays a group of 1st and 2nd year students from St. Conleth’s CC Homework Club participated in mini-golf. The mini-golf trip was a reward from the school for being regular and well-behaved attendees to Homework Club each evening. Students thoroughly enjoyed the food, the fun and the Easter eggs for the winning golfers. Homework takes place every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoon in the reading room and all Junior students are welcome.
March
Pfizer Trip
The trip to Pfizer was organised by Mr. Flannery for Engineering week. The 3rd and 5th years were welcomed to Pfizer and were greeted with fun facts and a breakfast. They were then given a detailed insight into engineering. There were four employees giving the tour and told the students interesting stories about life in the factory and how they ended up to working in it. The students were then split into groups and were given a tour around the different areas of the factory. When the students returned to the meeting room they were delighted to find pizza ready for them. Next the students had a marshmallow challenge along with a quiz.
The tour concluded with the students receiving a certificate and a Pfizer notebook each.
The winners of the quiz were awarded with t-shirts. Overall, the students all had a fantastic day and enjoyed the experience. Many thanks from all the students to Mr. Flannery for organising the trip.
LCA Museum Visit
On Thursday the 7th of March the LCa's went on a trip to the National Museum of Ireland in Collins Barracks. In the museum they saw as array of tanks, planes, boats, uniforms and guns. They found the history in the museum amazing because some of the artefacts were dating back from 1916 until the present. Ms Bolger accompanied the LCA's on the trip.
Seachtain na Gaeilge
Is féile idirnáisiúnta Ghaeilge í Seachtain na Gaeilge, atá ar an gceiliúradh is mó dár dteanga agus dár gcultúr dúchais a bhíonn ar siúl in Éirinn agus in go leor tíortha eile gach bliain.
Tá féile na bliana seo ar siúl ón 4 – 17 Márta 2013 mar chuid den cheiliúradh ar Bhliain na Gaeilge agus Tóstal Éireann 2013.
Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Language Week) is an international Irish language festival and one of the biggest celebrations of our native language and culture that takes place each year in Ireland and in many other countries.
This year’s festival is running from 4 – 17 March 2013 as part of the celebrations for Bliain na Gaeilge and The Gathering Ireland 2013
Irish is for everyone, Seachtain na Gaeilge is for everyone – Croí na Teanga, It’s You!
Team Theatre
Team Theatre visited the school on Monday morning, February 25th to perform a bilingual drama for 3rd, 5th and 6th year Irish classes.The play which lasted for just over an hour was followed by an hour and a half long workshop based on the drama itself.The students thoroughly enjoyed the event. Second year Irish classes will attend a bilingual play in the Riverbank Theatre on Thursday March the 21st from 1.00pm to 3.00pm.The play is titled Tromluí Phinocchio (Pinocchios Nightmare).
Tabletennis
Winners of Junior division 4 in the Leinster schools league. Cameron Mullins, Brandon Mullins, Reece White, Mark Hennessy.
Well done to the lads ! Winners of Leinster Schools League .. Senior boys Division 2 .. Gerry Kenny, Adam Hughes, Shane Fanning, Aaron Kearney
March
Leaving Certificate Drama Study
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On Friday March 1st, Leaving Certificate students from St. Conleth’s CC attended the play Sive by John B Keane with Ms. Whelan and Ms. O’Connell.
The play was organised by Kildare Drama Festival and was held in Kildare CYMS.
The study of a drama is an important part of the Leaving Cerificate English comparative question and students always enjoy watching the play come off the page and onto the stage.
St. Conleth’s Community College – Past Pupils
St. Conleth’s Community College is interested in starting a Register for Past Pupils who may be interested in being involved in, supporting or taking part in events associated with the school.
This initiative is being undertaken by the school as we are now approaching 80 years of Vocational Education in the school in 2013. 2013 also marks a new era in the school as our Gymnasium is due for completion in January and the proposed extension to the school will commence work later in the year.
Please take a few minutes to complete the following form
Breakfast Club - Jumbo Breakfast Rolls!
The Breakfast club recently provided full Irish breakfast rolls to all students who attended. This was very successful as many students attended and were given breakfast rolls. Some students even managed to eat second helpings.
Breakfast rolls will be provided again in Breakfast club before the end of each term.
Students are reminded that breakfast is served every school day between 8.30 and 8.55am. The breakfast club provides; cereal, cereal bars, toast, yoghurts, juice and tea.
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December 2012
Choir
On the Friday of the Christmas Holidays, Friday the 21st, a special concert takes place in the School. The Choir will be joined by the local singer Luka Bloom. We are very glad that Luka is back to make a second appearance at a school concert.
Ms. Kelly along with the Choir will be going Carol Singing in Tesco this Thursday the 20 th of December.
Business Link
As part of the Schools Business Partnership Programme the 5th years along with selected teachers went on a site visit to Oral B.
Students gained an insight into one of Ireland’s most progressive pharmaceutical companies and were given the knowledge and power to positively embrace the world of work.
Soccer
On Friday the 7th of December, the under 17 Boys soccer team took part in a home challenge match. Unfortunatley this time their Blessington counterparts proved to be too tough to beat. The match time will prove valuable in the lead up to the next match.
Art trip
All 5th Year and 6Th Year Art students and Art PLc's along with teachers Ms. Bolger,Ms.Talt and Mr. Cowley visited the National Art Gallery on Friday the 7th of December.
November 2012
Real Deal
On Thursday the 15th, the 5th Year girls took part in a workshop run by The Real Deal. Click on the following link to find about more about The Real Deal
IT Carlow
Ms Doyle along with students from the 6th Year group and the Repeat Leaving Cert group took off on Friday morning the 9th to Carlow to the open day at IT Carlow. It was an ideal opportunity for them to obtain information on courses in Engineering, Computing, Science, Sport, Humanities and Business.
Tintanic Exhibition
On Wednesday the 7th of November, an exhibition of the artwork and other activities that were put together for our One Book One Town event were put on display in the Asembly Area. The School was then open for students from the national schools in the town along with their teachers and our community to view. There was a good turnout at this event which took place between half 1 and half 3.
October 2012
One Book One Town closing ceremony
On the 26th of October, St. Conleths was delighted to host a successful end to our journey with the Titanic.
Take a look at the day through the following photographs.
- A Basketball match took place on Wednesday between the girls basketball team and a selection of stafff members. Here are a few snaps from the day,
The Girls
The Teachers
Plc Graduations
PLC Graduation was held recently for the graduating class 2012/2013. 160 Graduates and Guests (approx 500 people) gathered in Gym Tuesday 21st to honour those graduating form our 9 PLc groups.
- 6th Year Graduation – Thursday 23rd May. Awards sponsored by Bord na Mona, Lily O’Briens, Bank of Ireland and Parents Association.
- JCSP Award Certificates were presented to this years third years in a ceremony to which students and parent were invited to.
- Shane Fanning 5th Year attended the final of the ICS Scratch Computer Programming in Tallaght on Saturday 25th May. Shane was one of 30 finalists in National Final of ICS Scratch Computer Programming Competition in IT Tallaght and proved himself a worthy winner of the Senior Category.
- Students participaed in a Sports afternoon – Friday 24th May
Cecil Day Lewis Literary Awards 2013
Ciara Anderson of fifth year has recieved a literary award for her work on her poetry and short composition.
The awards evening will take place on Thursday the 23rd of May in Athy Heritage Centre- Museum, where she and her contemporaries will be awarded for their literary achievements.
Maynooth Access Programme Arawad 2013
The annual MAP award evening is taking place this Wednesday the 8th of May in the John Hume Lecture Theatre 1 in the North Campus of N.U.I.M. The awards are to honour the students and the work being done by them and their teachers.
6th Year awards
- Marta Kwiattkowska
- Stefano Riozzi
3rd Year awards
- Andy Busuttil - English
- Donna Keirnan - Irish
- Nikita Hayden - Maths
- Rebecca Anderson - Science
- Raluca Georgiana Comsa - French
Inspirational Teachers
- Ms Bolger
- Ms Talt
Cycle against Suicide
Cycle of Life - In Support of positive mental health in young people. Fundraising took place in the school last Wednesday with students making a donation of €2 to take part in a Non - Uniform day. Participating students and staff from schools in County Kildare VEC took part in the cycle. The route that ST. Conleths CC took part in had started that morning in Athy. From there it went to Rathangan to The Curragh to Newbridge and finally to the County Office.
Macbeth
On Wednesday the 1st of May, the senior english students were given the opportunity to go to the play Macbeth. The play was hosted at the Moat Theatre in Naas.
Kildare Youth Theatre staged the Shakespearian drama. It was an exciting, professional production. This production of Macbeth is timed to serve as a flash revision for all Leaving Cert students just weeks before the exam. It is also suitable for 5th years.
April
One Good Idea
Well done to the two Caitlins, Grace and Victoria.
These ladies represented St. Conleths Community College in the ONE GOOD IDEA competition.
As part of this competition, the girls had to research energy efficiency and climate change, pick a topic, a target audience and develop their one good idea for an awareness campaign.
The topic chosen was called Greener Fashion.
The following is an extract from the finished project:
Our clothes: from how they are made, to how far they have travelled, to the way they are cared for, to how we dispose of them: at each stage of the garment life cycle, there are energy and climate costs along the way. By understanding the processes behind our favourite clothes, we can identify where changes can be made to improve energy efficiency and carbon emissions in the clothing industry, and help make fashion greener.
The girls reached the final 5 in the final of their category.
To check out the project details, click on the following link
Sports News
The new Sports Centre at St.Conleth’s Community College finally had its first users on Tuesday 9th April last. The students of 3G were the first to experience the new facilities now in place for Physical Education students in. All week students showed great excitement for their first taste of their new Ionad Sports and passing their time over the next few months. We can all look forward to it being fully equipped so that proper classes may commence there in September.
Indoor Soccer
The indoor soccer league will take place over the coming weeks. Make sure that you submit your name to Mr. Connolly if you would like to take part. The winners and runners up will receive prizes. The matches will take place at lunch time and entry will cost €2. See the notice board outside the Woodwork room for teams, fixtures and league tables.
Basketball
Boys and girls basketball training takes place every Wednesday from 1.10 – 2.10 in our new gym. All new players welcome.
Ceiliu radh Cainte
Ceiliúradh Cainte took place on Wednesday the 17th of April. The 5th years from Ms. Maxwell’s Irish class participated in an Irish speaking day along with the teachers. They were given yellow t-shirts and a sponsorship card. All proceeds will go to Headstrong, which deals with young Irish peoples mental health.
Neven Maguire visit
Celebrity Chef Neven Maguire visited with staff and students of St. Conleths Community College on Wednesday the 10th of April.
Neven runs a business in the village Blacklion in Co. Cavan called MacNean House and Restaurant.
On the day, Neven prepared a lovely raspberry shortbread dessert for us and had student and staff participation in creating the decorations for it. Here are a few snaps from the day.
Happy Heart
On Friday 12th April, the Pre-Nursing students raised money in aid of two great causes. These are The Irish Heart Foundation and The Irish Wheelchair Association Athy Branch.
People came along to our Plc centre and got their BP checked and chatted with the group about heart health . Light Refreshments were served afterwards.
€310 was raised for the two charities
April
Mini-Golf for Homework regulars
On the last day of school before Easter holidays a group of 1st and 2nd year students from St. Conleth’s CC Homework Club participated in mini-golf. The mini-golf trip was a reward from the school for being regular and well-behaved attendees to Homework Club each evening. Students thoroughly enjoyed the food, the fun and the Easter eggs for the winning golfers. Homework takes place every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoon in the reading room and all Junior students are welcome.
March
Pfizer Trip
The trip to Pfizer was organised by Mr. Flannery for Engineering week. The 3rd and 5th years were welcomed to Pfizer and were greeted with fun facts and a breakfast. They were then given a detailed insight into engineering. There were four employees giving the tour and told the students interesting stories about life in the factory and how they ended up to working in it. The students were then split into groups and were given a tour around the different areas of the factory. When the students returned to the meeting room they were delighted to find pizza ready for them. Next the students had a marshmallow challenge along with a quiz.
The tour concluded with the students receiving a certificate and a Pfizer notebook each.
The winners of the quiz were awarded with t-shirts. Overall, the students all had a fantastic day and enjoyed the experience. Many thanks from all the students to Mr. Flannery for organising the trip.
LCA Museum Visit
On Thursday the 7th of March the LCa's went on a trip to the National Museum of Ireland in Collins Barracks. In the museum they saw as array of tanks, planes, boats, uniforms and guns. They found the history in the museum amazing because some of the artefacts were dating back from 1916 until the present. Ms Bolger accompanied the LCA's on the trip.
Seachtain na Gaeilge
Is féile idirnáisiúnta Ghaeilge í Seachtain na Gaeilge, atá ar an gceiliúradh is mó dár dteanga agus dár gcultúr dúchais a bhíonn ar siúl in Éirinn agus in go leor tíortha eile gach bliain.
Tá féile na bliana seo ar siúl ón 4 – 17 Márta 2013 mar chuid den cheiliúradh ar Bhliain na Gaeilge agus Tóstal Éireann 2013.
Seachtain na Gaeilge (Irish Language Week) is an international Irish language festival and one of the biggest celebrations of our native language and culture that takes place each year in Ireland and in many other countries.
This year’s festival is running from 4 – 17 March 2013 as part of the celebrations for Bliain na Gaeilge and The Gathering Ireland 2013
Irish is for everyone, Seachtain na Gaeilge is for everyone – Croí na Teanga, It’s You!
Team Theatre
Team Theatre visited the school on Monday morning, February 25th to perform a bilingual drama for 3rd, 5th and 6th year Irish classes.The play which lasted for just over an hour was followed by an hour and a half long workshop based on the drama itself.The students thoroughly enjoyed the event. Second year Irish classes will attend a bilingual play in the Riverbank Theatre on Thursday March the 21st from 1.00pm to 3.00pm.The play is titled Tromluí Phinocchio (Pinocchios Nightmare).
Tabletennis
Winners of Junior division 4 in the Leinster schools league. Cameron Mullins, Brandon Mullins, Reece White, Mark Hennessy.
Well done to the lads ! Winners of Leinster Schools League .. Senior boys Division 2 .. Gerry Kenny, Adam Hughes, Shane Fanning, Aaron Kearney
March
Leaving Certificate Drama Study
ss
On Friday March 1st, Leaving Certificate students from St. Conleth’s CC attended the play Sive by John B Keane with Ms. Whelan and Ms. O’Connell.
The play was organised by Kildare Drama Festival and was held in Kildare CYMS.
The study of a drama is an important part of the Leaving Cerificate English comparative question and students always enjoy watching the play come off the page and onto the stage.
St. Conleth’s Community College – Past Pupils
St. Conleth’s Community College is interested in starting a Register for Past Pupils who may be interested in being involved in, supporting or taking part in events associated with the school.
This initiative is being undertaken by the school as we are now approaching 80 years of Vocational Education in the school in 2013. 2013 also marks a new era in the school as our Gymnasium is due for completion in January and the proposed extension to the school will commence work later in the year.
Please take a few minutes to complete the following form
Breakfast Club - Jumbo Breakfast Rolls!
The Breakfast club recently provided full Irish breakfast rolls to all students who attended. This was very successful as many students attended and were given breakfast rolls. Some students even managed to eat second helpings.
Breakfast rolls will be provided again in Breakfast club before the end of each term.
Students are reminded that breakfast is served every school day between 8.30 and 8.55am. The breakfast club provides; cereal, cereal bars, toast, yoghurts, juice and tea.
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December 2012
Choir
On the Friday of the Christmas Holidays, Friday the 21st, a special concert takes place in the School. The Choir will be joined by the local singer Luka Bloom. We are very glad that Luka is back to make a second appearance at a school concert.
Ms. Kelly along with the Choir will be going Carol Singing in Tesco this Thursday the 20 th of December.
Business Link
As part of the Schools Business Partnership Programme the 5th years along with selected teachers went on a site visit to Oral B.
Students gained an insight into one of Ireland’s most progressive pharmaceutical companies and were given the knowledge and power to positively embrace the world of work.
Soccer
On Friday the 7th of December, the under 17 Boys soccer team took part in a home challenge match. Unfortunatley this time their Blessington counterparts proved to be too tough to beat. The match time will prove valuable in the lead up to the next match.
Art trip
All 5th Year and 6Th Year Art students and Art PLc's along with teachers Ms. Bolger,Ms.Talt and Mr. Cowley visited the National Art Gallery on Friday the 7th of December.
November 2012
Real Deal
On Thursday the 15th, the 5th Year girls took part in a workshop run by The Real Deal. Click on the following link to find about more about The Real Deal
IT Carlow
Ms Doyle along with students from the 6th Year group and the Repeat Leaving Cert group took off on Friday morning the 9th to Carlow to the open day at IT Carlow. It was an ideal opportunity for them to obtain information on courses in Engineering, Computing, Science, Sport, Humanities and Business.
Tintanic Exhibition
On Wednesday the 7th of November, an exhibition of the artwork and other activities that were put together for our One Book One Town event were put on display in the Asembly Area. The School was then open for students from the national schools in the town along with their teachers and our community to view. There was a good turnout at this event which took place between half 1 and half 3.
October 2012
One Book One Town closing ceremony
On the 26th of October, St. Conleths was delighted to host a successful end to our journey with the Titanic.
Take a look at the day through the following photographs.
