Well done to our TY students who ran a Club Colours Day as part of their GAA Future Leaders Programme and raised €290 for Killaloe/Ballina Community & Family Resource Centre. Hannah, Kate & Julia recently presented the money raised to the centre’s manager Kees.

Well done to all students involved!

We said goodbye to the Class of ‘24 yesterday, after 6 short years of having them in our classrooms and hallways.

We wish them every success on the paths they choose to travel on from here and we look forward to having them back for visits to tell us of all their adventures, mistakes and learnings that they gather from here on out.

We will miss their faces and their antics and we hope they spread their wings and soar to new heights of freedom!

Well done to all of our Transition Year and 5th Year Students who submitted an entry to this year’s Walton’s Music for Schools Competition and have been awarded Very Highly Commended.

Students recorded a performance which encompassed this years competition theme of ‘Music Moves’ using the songs ‘You Will Be Found’, ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ and ‘A Rainy Night in Soho’.

‘Very Highly Commended’ is a new category introduced this year to single out outstanding entries was awarded to a very small number of schools.

Well done to all the students who took part on a fantastic performance!

We had our annual student awards on Tuesday 21st May. Students were recognised for their achievements in different areas over the past year. Students from across the six years were presented with awards for sports, arts and much more.

The awards ceremony finished with 6th year student Elitza O’Connor being named as this year’s Student of the Year.

Well done to all of our students who received awards this year!!

Student of the year nominees:

Creativity:

• • Creative Leadership of Fresh Eyes Festival – Aisling O’Connor
  • Event Management of Fresh Eyes Festival – Oliwia Tchorz
  • Leadership and creativity committee

Poetry:

• Fresh eyes Poetry Competition: Winner and Runner Up

2. Show Jumping:

3. 3. Chess:

4. Camogie:

5. Enterprise:

6. Hurling:

7. Talent show/Arts and Culture/ Speech and Drama:

8. Basketball: 

9. Soccer:

10. Football:

11. Spirit Award:

12. Rugby:

14. Badminton: Clare Badminton Schools Championship and runners-up Munster Badminton

15. Team of the Year:     1st Year Basketball

16. Sports Star of the Year:
    

On Thursday May 16th our Talent Show was held as part of the inaugural Fresh Eyes Festival.

After holding heats in early May, 10 finalists were picked to perform at the final. There was an extremely high and broad range of talents this year from singing to dancing to beatboxing.

All students performed exceptionally well on the day and made the decision of picking a winner very difficult for our judges Aodán Ó Dubhghaill and Louise Harrison.

After difficult deliberations the judges announced Gráinne Scullane, 6th year student, as our winner.

Congratulations to all students who took part!

Congratulations to the U19 girls who won the Munster school’s final today in Rushbrooke 3-1 versus St. Angela’s Cork. A super achievement for the girls, well done!

Congratulations to all of our 1st and 2nd year French students who took part in this years Concours de la Francophonie Poster Competition.

Students had to create a poster in French mentioning at least 6 speaking French speaking countries.

As part of Mois de la Francophonie all 1st year students also took place in a quiz on France and French culture which was organised by our Transition Year French class.

Well done to our 2nd Year Business students who represented Clare in the National Student Enterprise Program in the Intermediate category in Mullingar on Thursday 9th April.

Dylan O’Brien, Gerard McWey, Donnacha Melnyk Murphy and David Maslanek progressed to the National finals after they won at the Clare County Finals in February with their business Cross Crafts.

2nd Year students Conan Gunning, Pádraig McSweeney, Cian Granger and Eoin Gibbs placed third in the County Final.

Well done to Ms. King and to all the business department.