St Mary’s Junior Footballers lose
ST MARY’S Macroom Junior Team played Bantry in Tom Creedon Park recently. They lost by four points at the end but put up a big fight against the strong Bantry team.
The match started badly for for St Mary’s who conceded a goal and a point in the first few minutes while they remained scoreless. The team never lost hope and pulled together, going into half time one point ahead.
Maeve Kelleher and Lauren Barrett, two first year students, contributed to this great comeback. Each one on the back line put up a strong defence with Emma Cahill in full back and Clodagh O’Brien and Ava Rose Gallagher holding up the half back line.
Caoimhe O’Sullivan and Siobhan O’Leary helped out greatly from midfield. The forwards kept the scoreboard ticking over throughout the game with Caoimhe Donovan and Ava Ronan working hard to get these scores.
Unfortunately, Bantry scored a goal and a few points late into the second half and despite Eve Cummins’ great goalkeeping the team couldn’t keep up and lost by four points. MCEGAN students had a fantastic week for www. mathsweek.ie. Students participated in activities including Random Act of Mathematics where Transition Year students prepared a range of maths questions to ask students during breaktime.
There were public displays of numeracy as students created mathematical displays around the school. In addition, students participated on a maths trail around Macroom as well as played cards, board games and photography for www.haveyougotmathseyes. com
Transition Year measured the height and arm span of a sample of the school’s population, to put analyse their data next week regarding the Golden Ratio.
All in all, a diverse week of numerical activity that was inclusive of all mathematical abilities.