St Joseph's College,Summerhill

'Cinderella' wows audiences

Congratulations to all the TY students from St. Joseph's and St Aloysius on their
wonderful perfomances in the musical "Cinderella", staged in the school hall recently.
Well done to all involved!

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Ag. Science students in IASTA competition


5th Year Ag. Science students, with their teacher Ms. MacNeice, who recently entered a biodiversity competition run by IASTA (Irish Agricultural Science Teachers Association). They were awarded a prize of €100 from Coomhola Salmon Trust in Cork and we are very proud of their efforts.

BT Young Scientist 2011

Transition Year students Claire Leonard, Katie Nagle and Aishling McCormack attended the BT Young Scientists Exhibition in early January, with their project 'To investigate the effective diagnosis and treatment of mineral imbalance and deficiencies on the performance of an Irish sheep flock'. Although they didn't achieve a prize on this occasion, they presented their project very well to the judges and found it was a great experience.

Sporting Successes

Congratulations to the Senior Soccer team who had a
great victory against Ard Scoil Mhuire, Ballinasloe. We
wish them the best of luck in the next stages of their
campaign.

Also well done to our Senior Gaelic team on their
excellent win on Friday.

Open Day & Enrolment

Our annual 'Open Evening' for 6th class girls and their parents took place on Thurs. Nov.25th

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Geography Field Trip for Leaving Certs

Leaving Cert. Geography students braved the
elements on Thursday, November 25th to carry
out their field study, with Ms. Geraghty.
<< Some of the group on the trip.

French Exchange 2010

Transition year students recently returned from
another very successful two-week French Exchange,
with our partner school in Chateaubriant, Brittany.

First year Taster Programme

A very successful taster programme for 6th class girls took place in St Josephs College on Wednesday 10th of November from 9.50am to 2pm.
Girls from many primary schools in the area participated in a variety of interesting workshops.

3rd Years enjoy Kayaking in Hodson Bay.

As part of our 3rd year P.E. programme the girls take adventure as an option, which involves orienteering, team challenges and 2 weeks kayaking, learning the various strokes and techniques involved. Thanks to the instructors and facilities at Hodson Bay Sports.

First Year Information Evening

On Tuesday 19th October St Josephs College held a special evening for first year parents and their daughters. The purpose of the evening was to share information on how the students were settling in to second level.
Speakers included Mr. Nally, Principal, Ms Duggan, Deputy Principal, Ms Aine Lenehan, First year tutor, Ms Hynes, Year Head of First Yr. and Mrs Egan, Guidance Counsellor. Parents, students and staff found it a very pleasant and informative experience.

Dráma sa Tuar Ard

On October 13th, Sixth Year students enjoyed an outing to Tuar Ard Theatre Moate, to see the Irish play "An Cearrbhach Mac Cába" which is being studied as part of Leaving Certificate Irish. Performed by Fibín, the "young new and exciting Irish-language theatre company" using a combination of drama and puppetry, the result was a highly entertaining and comic play. The students thoroughly enjoyed a memorable experience, especially the audience participation.

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 is welcome for those involved in this year's 24-hour fast.

Visit to Ploughing Match

Transition Year students attend the Ploughing
Championships in Athy, Co. Kildare >>

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.

New Senior Prefects Elected

Congratulations to our new senior prefects, who were
elected recently for the school year 2010-2011
Our Head Girl is Deirdre O'Neill and Deputy Head Girl
is Alanna McGlynn.

Author Terence Frisby visits 1st Years

As part of the Athlone Literary Festival, Terence Frisby, author of 'Kisses on a Postcard' visited First year English 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