Coláiste Bhríde, Carnew Coláiste Chill Mhantáin
LEAVING CERT APPLIED
Many congratulations to our Leaving Cert Applied students on the excellent continuous assessment results they received during the week. Well deserved by one and all.
TY NEWS JUNIOR CERT RESULTS
We would like to congratulate all of our Junior Certificate students on their excellent results and to thank the teachers and parents who supported the students in achieving their potential. We are confident that the positive results received in the Junior Certificate will motivate students towards further achievement and success in Coláiste Chill Mhantáin. A special word of congratulations goes to Jet Best and Eve Rafter, who topped the Junior Cert Results tally this year. Well done to all on a great success.
GOLF CLASSIC
Our school Breakfast Club has resumed for the school year. The Breakfast Club is open from 8.008: 40, Monday to Friday, in G19 and all students are welcome. The Breakfast Club provides tea, coffee, toast, cereal and, of course, a chat. There is a nominal fee to access this opportunity (20c). Also, in our promotion of healthy options, free fruit is available to take away.
EVENING STUDY
On September 10, all Transition Year students from Coláiste Chill Mhantáin travelled to the 2018 School Summit in Dublin, where they attended a number of presentations covering the areas of mental health, physical health, as well as listened to presentations which focused on different areas of employment.
A sample of the talks and presentations on offer included: Jason King from ‘Get Ireland Walking’ where he spoke about the physical and psychological benefits of exercise; Stuart Murphy the ‘HR Manager’ from ‘ABP Ireland and Poland Group’ who spoke about the apprenticeship opportunities with his company; Aoife Sheehy, the technical research and development officer for ‘FIT’, where she spoke about the ‘New Tech Apprenticeship Scheme’; Aidan Flynn from ‘The Freight Transport Association of Ireland’ who spoke about the ‘Logistics Associate Apprenticeship Scheme’; Keith Kavanagh from the ESB who presented on ‘Promoting Gender Balance in Technical Apprenticeships’; Shane Beirne from the ‘Irish Medtech Association’ who informed the students about the new ‘Manufacturing Apprenticeship and Polymer Technology Apprenticeship’; and Michelle Coyne from the IACP who spoke about ‘Counselling as a Career’.
The students were accompanied on the trip by their Year Head,
The fifth and sixth Politics and society students attended the secondary schools event themed ‘Inspiring Ambition over Adversity’ in New Ross, as part of the annual Kennedy Sumner school. The event was hosted by broadcaster Chris Green and speakers were Senator Lynn Ruane and Sinéad McSweeney, Twitter Ireland’s Managing Director. The girls engaged exceptionally well and found it enlightening and hugely relevant to their subject.
EQUESTRIAN
Our Equestrian team were back in action at the weekend at Wexford Equestran. The team (Ella Devereux, Naoimi Devereux, Maeve Magee Katz with Sunita Jackson from Avondale Community College). all put in a super effort and rode very well. While they didn’t make the ribbons this time they are off to a good start.
Maeve Magee Katz rode Cruising Home in the Novice Individual 80 cm and came in third place for St Mary’s.
The team are all enthusiastic and ready to compete again next Saturday at Boswells Equestrian hosted by St Gerard’s, Good luck girls.