St Joseph's College,Summerhill

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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Concern Fast

140 students took part in the Concern Christmas Fast this year. Congratulations to all involved, we raised €4,885. A particular thank you to our first year students who did particularly well this year, raising a third of the amount.

First Year Mass

On Monday the 8th of December, first year students celebrated their Christmas mass, attended by their parents and staff. All the girls worked very hard with Sr Agatha and Ms. Morris to prepare a beautiful mass, which was celebrated by Canon Murray. Music and singing was provided by the first year choir guided by Ms. Halligan and accompanied by three 6th year students.