Our Young Scientist Project was ‘Formulating a seaweed based skin cream using the North Clare seaweeds Fucus serratus and Fucus vesiculosus for potential use in the cosmeceutical industry” came from a previous project idea in our school, which found that seaweeds had anti-bacterial and anti-oxidant properties. After spending five days in school during the Christmas […]
Cycle Against Suicide,RDS
Two Transition Year students from our school got the opportunity to attend the Student Leaders Congress, Cycle Against Suicide which took place in the RDS on the fourteenth of January. The two students were myself and Megan Leyden. It was arranged for us to travel to the RDS with the Local Guards one of which […]
School Bank opening
The School Bank ‘ TIB ‘ will be open this Thursday,the twenty first of January in room nine. It will be open for all banking purposes whether that is bringing back forms,lodging money to a currently opened account or joining the school bank. Be sure to get your account opened this Thursday to be included […]
Doodle for Google – congratulations Emma!
Congratulations to Emma Clancy who has been selected as semi finalist in Doodle4Google art competition. 300 were selected nationally and now these will be shortlisted to 75 and then open to public voting. Doodles are the spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo in celebration of holidays, anniversaries and the lives of famous […]
Transition Year Self Defence
At the end of December, prior to the Christmas holidays and as part of the Transition Year PE programme, self defence classes were introduced. Some students were more happy about this than others as it required great acts of aggression but by the end of the first class all students realised the physical importance of […]
TYs participate in Public Access to Law
On Thursday, the seventh of January, the whole Transition Year group took part in an annual Law Day. For this, a highly qualified Barrister from Mayo came to our school for the day. First of all we went through all of the basic law theory that the group found was actually essential to know regardless […]