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Maths Week 2021

Maths Week/Numeracy Day October 2021 The last week before midterm saw the launch of the College’s Maths Week 2021. The week (plus Numeracy Day) was a feast of diverse and highly participatory events. As usual, a sequence of slides on the monitors detailed the rich history of maths and its many beautiful equations with contributions [...]

French Debating, Round 1 – Blackrock Vs St Andrews

French Debating Round 1 Blackrock Vs St. Andrews Congratulations to our team of Eoin Dunne (captain), Michael Paran, John Duffy and Mark McCabe (all 6th Year) who won their Round 1 debate with St. Andrews. We opposed the motion that ‘School does not respond to our needs’. Thanks to Ms Corcoran for her preparation of [...]

BT Young Scientist 2022 Qualification

BT Young Scientist 2022 Qualification Congratulation to the following students on their qualification for the BT Young Scientist Competition which will be held virtually in January. Diarmaid Byrne & Simon Considine (both T Year) Investigating the Effect of Concentration on Temperature in an Exothermic Reaction James Donohoe (2nd Year) Would a three-day weekend improve mental [...]

Green Schools, Oct 2021

Green Schools Opening of the new Bicycle Parking Bay Fr. O’Brolchain, on Thursday 21st October, blessed our new Bicycle Parking Bays before a gathering of our Green Schools Committee, Ms Harlowe, Ms Wyse, Mr Patrick Farrell (Pattersons), Mr Fintan O’Connor (College Buildings and Grounds Manager), Mr O’Shea and Mr Madden. We now have 274 parking [...]

Mental Health Awareness Day 2021

Mental Health Awareness Day Thursday, 21st October 2021 This year’s Mental Health Awareness Day took on a new format with a short exercise/presentation during each period. The focus was on kindness and reaching out to others. The message was constant throughout the day, in the classroom and on the corridors that ‘one kind act can [...]

Maths Weeks 2021

Maths Week 2021 Monday 18th to Friday 22nd October 2021 It was a very busy week as we encouraged the boys to focus on their numeracy and analytical thought processes. There were Maths Quizzes throughout the week as well as an online lecture series, 20-minute videos on: Monday: The Mathematics of Crowd Behaviour Tuesday: Living [...]

Auxilium 5th Year Launch

Auxilium 5th Year Launch As part of our commitment to the Spiritan ethos of reaching out in caring and kindness, the College was proud to launch our 2021 Programme of Service, Auxilium, at the Fifth Year assembly, on the 13th of October. This is the first year in which Fifth Year students are involved in [...]

2nd Year Family Mass, Oct 2021

2nd Year Family Mass Sunday, 17th October 2021 “Lord I will prepare missionaries for you and then you can put them to work” Claude Poullart des Places. Celebrant Fr. Cormac O’Brolchain urged us to take time for God and encouraged us to put time aside for prayer in the Morning, Evening and Night. “We are [...]

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Blessed Sacrament Mass Friday, 15th October 2021 On Friday 15th October, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament took place in the College Chapel. Over 100 boys across the various year groups attended as well as several hundred online. We thank Fr Paddy Dundon CSSp, our College Sacristan Ms Irene Dunne, Ms Crimmins and Mr Madden for [...]

5th Year Career Talks, October 2021

5th Year Career Talks Saturday, 16th October 2021 Last Saturday morning, 16th October, saw the first of our two sessions for the 5th years organised in association with the College Union. Talks on: Accounting, Finance and Investment by Mark Collins (class of 1991) and Eunan Maguire (class of 1990) Sales and Marketing by David Sheehan [...]
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