Congratulations to Kane Collins who scored over 600 points in his recent Leaving Certificate. Kane has been a hard working and dedicated student over the past 6 years in Scoil Mhuire. Kane scored impressive A grades in a range of higher level subjects including English, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Technology. Congratulations are also due to the excellent teaching staff of Scoil Mhuire who assisted Kane and the class of 2016 to achieve outstanding results. We wish Kane well as he begins has the next phase of his education, studying science in UCD.
News & Notifications
Scoil Mhuire events – April 2016
GAA Blitz organised by TY students + winners
TY Life Saving at Mallow Swimming Pool
Learnstorm in association with Khan Academy. Students from first, second, TY and fifth year worked for 9 weeks on Khan Academy to develop maths skills and knowledge. 8 students qualified for an event in CIT on 23rd April.
LC v 5th year soccer match. LC won 4-2 with two late goals. Scorers LC: Cormac Cotter, Liam O’Brien, Diego O’Sullivan, Maria McSweeney 5th year: Christy Halihan, Christopher Mullane.
Scoil Mhuire Events – April 2016
Colm Cooper talked to second, TY and fifth year students in relation to nutrition, commitment and how to give yourself the best chances of success.
Couch to 5k was run by TY students over 6 weeks for first and second year students as part of Sky Sports.
Living for Sports. Second photo with Lorcan McLoughlin, Sky Sports mentor.
Under 16 Hurling Team.
Junior Boys badminton were runners up in the county final.
Scoil Mhuire Students Trip to India with HOPE Foundation
Transition Y
ear students Sarah Healy, Rachel O’Riordan, Alannah Drumm, Eadaoin O’Keffee and Heather Barrett accompanied by teacher Regina Brett, travelled to India over Easter with HOPE Foundation. The Hope Foundation is a registered Irish Charity working to save the street and slum children of Kolkata (Calcutta) from lives of pain, abuse and poverty.
Exposed to horrendous physical and sexual abuses on the streets, those who survive are left to fend for themselves, hungry, with no promise of a safe future. These children are some of the most disadvantaged children of our time. HOPE works to change their lives, to restore childhoods and give children the chance to create better futures for themselves.
HOPE funds and operates over 60 projects thanks to donors, sponsors, supporters and fundraisers. HOPE reaches out to the most forgotten; offering protection and shelter, healthcare, nutrition, education, rehabilitation and a family for life. The five Scoil Mhuire Transition year students and their teacher travelled to India to work with the HOPE Foundation’s projects in Kolkata.
In order to be selected, the students had to submit a letter of application and undergo an interview. After selection they had the daunting task of raising €3,100 each for the HOPE Foundation. The money raised will be used to fund projects working with the street and slum children of Kolkata. Over 250,000 children are forced to live on the streets of Kolkata and around five million people exist in horrific conditions in slums.
The students visited these children, worked with the projects and bore witness to these horrific conditions. Ms Brett and the students would like to thank everyone who supported their fundraisers over the last few months and made this once in a lifetime trip possible.
1916 National Flag Presentation Ceremony
Three students Darren Heffernan, Colm O’Keeffe and Sarah Healy along with History teacher Gerarda Mullane travelled to GAA headquarters on Monday 7th March to attend the National Flag Presentation Ceremony for Post-Primary Schools. Thousands of students and teachers attended this wonderful occasion in Croke Park in the presence of the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. Members of the Defence Forces as well as a number of special guests including former Ireland goalkeeper Pakie Bonner and Olympian John Treacey, presented the National Flag and a copy of the 1916 Proclamation of the Irish Republic to all schools at the State ceremony in association with the Thomas F. Meagher Foundation. It was a memorable day and a great start to the Centenary Programme to remember 1916.