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The information listed here
contains some examples of what has been achieved at the school in recent years.
This is not an exhaustive
list. You can see many more on the highlights
pages.
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
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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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3rd level scholarships
Congratulations to Vicki Collins, Tariq
Mesallati, Michael Sexton, Ian Thom and Richard Walsh on being awarded
Entrance Exhibitions to Trinity College, and also to Owen Wardell on
being awarded a scholarship to UCD, all based on the excellence of their
Leaving Certificate results. |
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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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Excellent examination results
- well done!
The students and teachers of The
High School have not only maintained their terrific academic results this year,
but have produced some of the best grades ever.
In the Junior Certificate, 133
pupils presented 1080 papers where different levels are available and 133 papers
at common level (CSPE). 905 papers were taken at higher level and grade C or
better was obtained in 85% of these. Grade E or less was obtained on 2.5% of all
papers. When the number of papers gaining a grade C or better at higher level is
taken as a percentage of the total number of papers, it (71%) represents the
best set of Junior Certificate results the school has ever had, equalling our
previous best of last year.
In the Leaving Certificate
Examination, 2005, 119 pupils presented 837 papers in 21 subjects. 566 papers
were taken at higher level and grade C or better was obtained in 77% of these.
Grade E or less was obtained on 4.3% of all papers.
In recent months, newspapers have
continued their steady agenda of trying to force schools into contributing to
league tables of results. Along with every other body in Irish education, we do
not believe raw league tables are a useful addition to educational debate
because they isolate only one factor concerning a school. Pastoral care,
extra-curricular activities, facilities, trips, codes of conduct, attitudes and
whether students are happy at school are ignored by league tables. This is why
such tables are illegal. We, therefore, are not going to contribute to the
agenda of the media by publishing points averages.
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However, we can inform you that
we looked at the figures published in the newspapers last year and the points
scored by our students compare very favourably with the schools published, and
are better than any of the private grind schools and institutes published.
This does not surprise us, as we would have known
our standards were that high over the years. However, it does show how poor the
tables of college entry figures published by the newspapers have been. When the
institutes have been placed near the top of these lists it has been purely
because they have large numbers in their classes! Once the tables are adjusted
for the size of the classes and turned into percentages, the institutes come way
down the tables and below most of the private schools in our sector - certainly
well below The High School. So, again, well done students and staff!
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