Dominican College Wicklow
GAA NEWS
The junior girls played the semi-final of the A championship against St Kevin’s CC in Rathnew. It was a game of fluctuating fortunes between two fine teams with the lead changing hands a number of times.
Dominican started the better and had two points on the board early on. At the other end a long range free hit the crossbar and rebounded for one of St Kevin’s players to hit the back of the net. At the end of the first quarter St Kevin’s led 1-1 to 0-3 but DCW were doing the bulk of the attacking and were rewarded with a Niamh Caffery goal in the 18th minute. They went on to lead by 1-5 to 1-1, but in the last attack of the half St Kevin’s scored a goal to leave a single point between the sides when referee Eddie Leonard blew for half-time.
St Kevin’s came out the stronger in the second half with a goal within two minutes. They added points regularly and followed it up with another goal in the 14th minute to give them a lead of 4-5 to 1-6. A Niamh Caffery goal for DCW in the 19th minute gave the girls renewed hope and when Niamh hit the net again three minutes later they began to scent a possible victory. In the 26th minute DCW scored another goal, this time by Leah Murphy, to reduce the lead to a single point. DCW continued to attack and were rewarded a long distance free which was sent over the bar by Niamh Caffery for the equaliser. Both sides had chances in an exciting finale with extra time looming but it was Jennifer Madden, who secured victory for DCW with a long range goal.
Well done to all the girls on a great team performance. DCW now meet Scoil Chonglais in the Junior A final. Date and venue to be confirmed.
WELLBEING JANUARY
The second year students participated in ‘Wellbeing January’. This included the girls having reflection’s read to them at assembly and doing mindfulness exercises in the morning during registration. They also had different themes for each week such as carrying out random acts of kindness in week one, ‘FEACH.
Forget Everything and Colour Happily’ in week two and ‘Green Dot – Take a Breath’ activity in week three. The second years really enjoyed their exercises in ‘Wellbeing’. As part of this ‘Wellbeing’ the second years students are going on a trip on Monday, February 5, to ‘GoQuest’ in Dublin which should be a fun day out for the year group.
HOCKEY
On Wednesday the second year hockey team headed to UCD to play Our Lady’s Grove, Goatstown. The girls played a great match and won 3-1. Well done to all especially Mia McCann who scored two goals and Ella Healy, who also scored a goal. Congratulations also to goal keeper Jessica Corkish, who saved a really important goal try at a very critical time.
‘I WISH’ CONFERENCE
On Tuesday, January 30, the TY students travelled to the RDS, Dublin to attend the ‘I Wish’ (Inspiring Women in Stem) Conference. ‘I Wish’ is an initiative to inspire, encourage and motivate young female students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). The theme for this year’s conference is ‘How Stem can Change the World’. The conference featured interactive exhibitions as well as the conference talks.
The TY students heard very inspiring talks from successful women in STEM including Emer Kennedy, a Civil Engineer with Arup, as well as representatives from Twitter and other companies. They then got to visit the interactive exhibitions and meet with various people from the companies represented. Overall it was a great experience for the students involved.
LE CHEILE CONFERENCE
On Thursday, February 1, Ms Mynes and Mr Byrne from the board of management attended the annual Le Cheile Conference. They were accompanied by students Emily Bateman and Laura Burke. The Le Chéile Schools Trust comprises the schools of 14 religious congregations. The aim of the Trust is to carry on the legal, financial and inspirational role of trusteeship that has, up to now, been done by individual congregations. It carries out the legal and inspirational role of trusteeship.
The main object of Le Chéile is the development of a vision of Catholic education and overseeing its implementation in the Schools, encouraging preservation of key aspects of the evangelical heritage of their founding Congregation and to facilitate the opening of new schools if and where the need arises and resources permit. Thanks to the girls for representing the DCW study body for this conference.
SPRING FAIR
The TY ‘Spring Fair’ will be held on Friday, February 9, in Fatima Hall. It is run by the Enterprise classes. The girls will be displaying and selling the products of the various enterprises that they have been working on all year. All family and friends are invited to Fatima Hall to view and buy the girls products.
SPORTS/SCIENCE CAMP
The girls fundraising for Tanzania have now raised over €14,000. In February midterm they will be holding a ‘Sports and Science Camp’ for all primary school students. The students will get to try their hand at physics, chemistry, biology, astrophysics, microbiology, basketball, football, hockey, tennis and much more. It will be held on Monday the 12th till Friday, February 16, in DCW and promises to be lots of fun. The cost is €65 for the week or €15 per day. Sign up forms are available in Dominican College school reception or in Malone’s bookshop, Wicklow. Places are limited and are booking very fast. The girls held a ‘Family Dog Walk’ on Sunday last on the Murrough and lots of fun was had by all the doggies and their owners.
SCHOOL CLOSURE
As part of the implementation of the new Junior Cycle programme, the Department of Education and Skills is providing two school days for continuous professional development for teachers in the school year 2017-18. These mandated training days will help to ensure that DCW can continue to provide a broad educational experience and deliver a progressive Junior Cycle programme.
The first of these days will take place on Wednesday, February 7, The second day is scheduled to take place on Thursday, February 22. There will be no school for students on either of these days.
MIDTERM BREAK
School will close for midterm on Friday, February 9, and will reopen on Monday, February 19.