As part of our Community Outreach Programme in Transition Year we decided to take it upon ourselves with our teachers encouragement to donate and create shoe boxes for the Team Hope Shoe Box appeal 2015. We spread awareness throughout the school, hanging posters and making announcements to the classes. Everyone in Transition Year decided to donate some money to be put towards a group fund which would be used to buy contents for shoe boxes. We collected €60 and used this to buy as much of the essential needs making sure we included the 4 W’s: Wear, Wash, Write and Wow. Everyone enjoyed wrapping the boxes and making each box as special as possible for the children in need who would receive them as Christmas presents. We really hope that our boxes will make a difference to the children who get them and make their Christmas a little brighter.

Thank you to the AIB Build a Bank committee who donated €20 towards the delivery of the boxes to Romania and the Ukraine.

The Girls under 15 Rugby team made history today by being the first female rugby team to represent the school in the Munster Schools Blitz. 19 girls from 1st, 2nd and 3rd year travelled to LIT to play in the Lep Rugby blitz and all students did very well. Well done to them all and there will be definitely loads more success from this team.

Congrats ladies

The Leaving Certificate Parent Teacher meeting takes place on Wednesday 18th November from 4:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.

Congratulations to all who represented St. Anne’s Community College at the All Ireland Schools athletics competition recently. Joseph McEvoy, 2nd year, was 3rd in the Javelin with a throw of 38.53m and 4th in the discus with 35.15m. Dean Mulqueen, 2nd year, was 1st in the hurdles in a time of 11.62 seconds. Well done.

Well done to Matthew Power, Conor Power, Joseph McEvoy and Thomas Bigot who won the Boys Munster U14 School Championship shield recently against a strong Tramore side.

Well done also to the U14 girls team, Emma Flynn, Roisin Houlihan, Leah O’Brien and Leia McEvoy who reached the final only to be beaten in a tie break.

Many thanks to Siobhan McEvoy for organising the team.

On the 7th of May, four TY students along with three teachers attended LIT for the “Stop Cyberbullying” campaign. This campaign originates from America and Canada and this was its firs time coming to Europe. The presentation started with the introduction of guests such as the Canadian Ambassador to Ireland and Senator Tony Mulcahy. The day continued with speakers outlining the different types of cyberbullying. We were then split up and put into different workshops where we working on defining the differences between actual cyberbullying and just being rude or mean. We were then brought back and our ideas were discussed. To finish off our day, we had lunch during which a rick band played through “Wolves of youth” and some more speeches from Carol Todd who spoke about her daughters hardship within her daughters life. Overall it was an interesting and educational experience for both teachers and students. It was a definitely an eye opener for all.

Colin Hart

TY 2014/2015

Well done to St. Anne’s Community College Boys U-14 tennis team who have reached the Munster schools shield final after beating CBC Cork last Friday . They will play Ardscoil na Mara, Tramore next Wednesday in Rushbrook Tennis Club, Cobh.