European hockey champion
Congratulations to Shane
(middle right) who represented Ireland on the
Under 18 team at the Euro Nations Trophy in Vienna during July. Shane
scored five goals during the tournament and the team beat France 5-3 in
the final to win the European trophy.
Shane has also recently been selected for the Ireland senior A squad and
is the youngest player ever to make this selection.
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Young Scientist prizewinners
Well done to Colm and Thomas (Form 2) who won 2nd
prize in the junior group category, Maths Physics and Chemistry and to
Sadhbh (Form 4) who won highly commended in the intermediate individual
social and behavioural sciences.
Sadhbh's project was entitled "Motivating pupil
performance" and her aim was to discover whether teachers giving higher
or lower marks was the best motivator. She divided her test subjects
into three groups and one group was given higher marks than they
actually achieved in a test, one group was given the actual mark and one
group was given lower. Those given the higher marks achieved best in a
second test and boys showed the most negative reaction to being given
the lower marks.
The project by Colm and Thomas was to investigate whether they could
design a portable robust wind turbine which could be taken by a person
when camping or involved in other outdoor pursuits to generate power to
charge batteries, for example for a lamp. They succeeded in building and
testing two devices, one of which proved to be able to supply a
satisfactory charge of 4.3 volts and to have acceptable purchase and
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Orchestra in the National Concert Hall
Congratulations to all of the members of
the orchestra and to its conductor, Ms M. White, on a magnificent,
confident performance in the NCH on Saturday evening.
Their performances of Mendelssohn's "Hebrides Overture", a medley from
Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess", and Dvorak's "Slavonic Dance" were assured
and obviously very well rehearsed.
The orchestra was invited to appear in the NCH as part of the 14th Irish
Aviation Authority Festival of Youth Orchestras. Eight orchestras from
around the country performed. Well done also to James Harding, Gavin
Rothwell and Mark Horgan who were interviewed on stage!
(Pictured right in rehearsal)
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National winner of Hewlett Packard photography
competition
Congratulations to Kit Connolly(Form 4) who is the overall national
winner of the HP "Digital Imagination" competition 2007. Kit has won a
laptop and a trophy, along with a digital camera for the school. The
entrants to the competition were working under the coordination of Ms H.
Killane of the Art Department. Other entries can be seen
here. We are pleased to reproduce the winning photo
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1st Year team wins Chemistry
competition!
Well done to the Form 1 team
(and their teacher Dr Whitford) which won the Salters' Festival
of Chemistry Salters' challenge on Saturday in Trinity College.
The judges were so impressed with the entry that the school has been
invited to send a team to represent Ireland in the final of the Royal
Society of Chemistry's "Top of the Bench" schools competition next April
in the Science Museum, London, all expenses paid. |
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Scholarship to USA
Kellie O'Flynn has won a
four-year scholarship to one of the most prestigious universities in the
world - Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. The scholarship, a combined
sports/academic award, worth over $170,000, will make Kellie the first
Irish woman ever to play on Notre Dame’s tennis team, which is the No. 2
college team in America. She has also been offered a free choice in the
degree she wishes to pursue. What a wonderful opportunity! Well done,
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Robert Farhat - first in
Ireland
Robert achieved the
top marks in Ireland in the Junior Certificate Music examination - well
done!
On April 20, Robert took part in three
competitions in advanced senior piano playing in the Sligo Feis Ceoil
and obtained first prize and gold medal in all three. He consequently
went forward as one of the six finalists - from various instrumental
categories - to compete for the overall prize, where he achieved the
overall prize of the Most Promising Musician of the Year and the
Instrumental Bursary to the value of €1000.
Robert also took part, for the first time,in the senior
section of the Dublin Feis Ceoil and was runner up in the Benson Cup for
playing Bach and a finalist and third prize winner for the prestigious
Nordell Cup (for playing a Sonata).
Robert will round up his musical activities of this school year with a
solo piano recital in Paris on May 20.
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First in Ireland and
maximum points!
Ian Thom is presented with his trophy
(right) for achieving 1st place in the Leaving Certificate in
Applied Maths. Also in the picture are Mr J. Hickey, Ian's teacher and
Mr Kevin Conliffe of Friary Publications. Well done!
Ian also scored maximum
points in the Leaving Certificate. Congratulations also to the many other students who almost
reached the maximum and to all those who did their best and achieved worthy
results. Hopefully you got the courses you wanted!
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Superb Trinity College performances
Congratulations to Debbie Blair, Jack
Kelly, Jack O'Kennedy, Stephen Shaw, Olwen Smith and Joan Somers
Donnelly of last year's Form 6 who were awarded Entrance Exhibitions to
Trinity College on the basis of the excellence of their Leaving
Certificate results. Six awards is a very good performance by any
school.
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Teachnet award
Congratulations to Ms M. Hearne who
completed her second Teach Net website over the summer and received an
award from the Minister for Education at a ceremony at Citi Group, IFSC
recently. The website, which is an Irish language teaching and learning
aid, can be viewed at http://www.teachnet.ie/mhearne/2005/ |
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Junior Science Olympiad medals
The
Junior Science
Olympiad is an international science competition. Students are selected
for the Irish finals on the basis of their Junior Cert. Science results.
The top100 students in the country were invited to enter the Irish
Finals. The High School was qualified to enter six finalists, the
highest number of finalists from any one school. The finals were
held at DCU on 5 November and consisted of three hours of tests on
Science and Maths (and even included sudoko puzzles!). The top nine
finalists were awarded medals and two of these went to High School
pupils, a silver medal and a bronze.
Our silver medallist will now go on, with five
students from other schools, to represent Ireland at the International
Competition to be held in Indonesia. Our bronze
medallist will be on the reserve panel. Congratulations to all
who took part.
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