St Joseph's College,Summerhill

Concern Fundraising

October marked an important event in our school's long relationship with the charity 'Concern'. The school received a silver certificate from 'Concern Worldwide' for fundraising efforts on the part of our students over many years. This is a certificate presented to the top fundraising schools in the country. Since 1998,
€134,737.00 has been collected by the school on behalf of people in the developing world. It has funded projects such as emergency relief, building infrastructure, provision of health and education schemes and improvement of agricultural practices in these needy countries.
This is a huge achievement and a great credit to our students. Well done to all involved!
Your continued support will be welcome for the 24-hour fast in November.

Tag Rugby

As part of our P.E. programme in Summerhill, third year students
have been playing tag rugby over the past few weeks with
Mr. Gallagher and Ms.Wendy Hickey, Connacht WDO.
This has been great fun and the girls have shown a tremendous
appetite for the game as well as showing off their many rugby skills.

Author Terence Frisby visits 1st Years

As part of the Athlone Literary Festival, Terence Frisby, author of 'Kisses on a Postcard' visited First year classes on September 24th. He told students of his experiences as an evacuee during the second world war, seventy years ago. First year students had many interesting questions to ask him about his wartime childhood.

TY students create a big splash
at Hudson Bay Sports

"Throughout the day there were various challenges where we worked together in teams; building and paddling a raft , Kayaking, and paddle surfing to islands. At the end, we were taken out on a passenger boat to tour some of the inner lakes of Lough Ree".

"This was a brilliant day where we worked with different girls, got to know them better and we have also
made new friends along the way!"

New PLC Childcare groups begin courses

24 students enrolled in our childcare Fetac level 5 course and commenced their studies recently.
Meanwhile we have 27 students beginning our Fetac level 6-Advanced Certificate in Supervision in Childcare course.

TY and First Years reap harvest from Convent Vegetable Garden

Graduation Mass 2010

The students of the Leaving Cert class of 2010 celebrated their graduation on May 27th, in the company of their families and staff. A beautiful liturgy celebrated by Canon Liam Devine, was accompanied by a choir of leaving cert students and musicians, prepared by the Music and RE departments. It was a lovely occasion.

Staff Retirements

Students and staff bade farewell to much loved members of staff, Mr. Seamus Downey and Mrs. Mary Higgins recently, with great sadness, yet tremendous goodwill. Both will be dearly missed, but we wish them every happiness in this new chapter of their lives and thank them sincerely for their huge contribution to the school.

Sports Day May 2010

Awards Ceremony

Our annual awards ceremony takes place in May each
year. Students receive awards for their achievements
in studies in various subject areas, school attendance,
project work, extra-curricular activities such as various
sports, debating,entrepreneurship and many other activities.

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The School Garden Project

Students from TY and LCA have been busy with a new project in recent months-restoring and cultivating the convent garden. They began with the grotto which they transformed into a 'blue lake' for Spring with an array of bulbs.
Then the harder work started as they did the digging and planting to create a vegetable garden, growing potatoes, onions, beets, spinach, pumpkins, strawberries to name but some. We look forward to the harvest later in the year. Well done to the girls and their efforts, under the guidance of Ms Lyons.

The Young Environmentalists

Our TY Young environmentalists made a great impression when they went to the mansion house recently to take part in the Young Environmentalist Awards. They presented a number of projects and one group perfomed a song urging all of us to be more environmentally aware. Keep it up girls and Ms. Geraghty. More

The X Factor - School Version

Open Day & Taster Programme
for 6th Class

Bishop's Visit & Opening of
School Library


ON Thursday April 2nd, we were delighted to welcome
Bishop Christopher Jones to our school. We were
delighted to have him perform the official opening our
newly refurbished and restocked library and multimedia room.

Young Social Innovators


On May 6th transition year class Q4 travelled to the RDS, Dublin to showcase their project "Wake me up when December ends" in the Young Social Innovators competition. The project was all about poverty and how it effects people. As part of the groups action they assisted saint Vincent de Paul by organising a hamper appeal in the school before Christmas. All the hampers collected were donated to families in the local community. Many thanks to all those who donated items during the collection campaign.

Camels and Cows from Summerhill to Kosovo

As part of the religious education programme at St. Josephs College Summerhill, TY students participated in their annual fundraising for Bothar. Throughout the year students, together with the help of our teacher Ms Susanne Lally, raised money through bun sales, coffee mornings and 'guess how many sweets are in the jar' events. Altogether we successfully raised €848.45. This money raised by the students bought 2 camels and heifer for a disadvantaged family in Kosovo. As a result TY classes were invited to a special Bothar reception in Roscrea mart last week to mark the airlifting of the animals to Kosovo.
The students' generosity was commended by the Bothar team. Well-done girls!!

Senior Soccer Squad in Connacht Final

Congrats to the under 18 soccer team who put in a brave performance in the Connacht final at Athlone Town stadium, on March 3rd. Summerhill played their hearts out, but in the dreadful conditions, Mercy College, Roscommon, managed to edge it by just 1-0.

Well done to the girls and coach Mr Gallagher. Ye did us proud!!
There was a wonderful turnout of supporters who cheered on their team 100% despite the unseasonal day.
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