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Lucan Community College

Under 19 Boys soccer
Dublin West Semi Final

Lucan CC 4-0 Holy Family Rathcoole
Lucan CC booked their place in the Dublin West Final with an emphatic 4-0 win against near neighbours Holy Family.
Lucan were 2-0 up at half time thanks to two brilliant Luca Fiore finishes. Darren Smyth added two more excellent goals in the second half to wrap up the win.

St Joseph's College Lucan

BT Young Scientist: The whole school community is very proud of the three students who represented us this year the BT Young Scientist. Malak Ahmed, Sara Resetnic and Alheen Budureea entered their project entitled 'Banning mobile phones in schools, is it a good idea?'. The students put in a huge amount of work into their project and presented it extremely well to all the judges. This project is extremely topical and obviously caught the eyes of the Education Minister Norma Foley who stopped to discuss the outcomes and conclusions the girls made from their research.

Junior Camogie: A massive well done to our junior camogie team who won their semi final on Monday against Holy Faith, Clontarf. The team played brilliantly in the semi final and now progress to the final versus Maynooth. Best of luck to the whole team in the final.

Biological science: Many thanks to past pupil, Guste Venslovaite, final year student of Biological Science in Trinity who spoke to the 6th Year students today about following a career in Science.

Transition year ice skating: On Tuesday the transition years all went to Dundrum for a day of ice skating. This was a great day out organised by the PE department and a great way for the students to relax together as a year group after putting on such a wonderful school musical before the Christmas break.

St. Vincent De Paul fundraising Calendars/Planners: We have a small number of 2025 Calendars/Planners available at the reduced price of 5.00 euro per calendar. All funds raised will go to St. Vincent De Paul. If you would like a lovely calendar of Lucan for 2025, please call to the front office in the school. Many thanks for your support!

Parents Association Quiz Night: Quiz Night 28th February at 8pm in Kenny's pub, Lucan village. 10 euro per person with lots of great raffle prizes. Please come and support The Parents Association in their fundraiser for New Team Jerseys for all the school.

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Colaiste Phadraig

Science: Congratulations to our 17 participants at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2025 that was held at the RDS last week. Although our students missed out on the main awards, they all conducted themselves superbly throughout the four days and they proved to be fantastic ambassadors for the school. They engaged with the judges and the public to explain their projects, and faced the media with confidence, charm and good humour.

Some of them even had distinguished visitors to their stands, among them, Taoiseach Simon Harris and the Minister for Education, Norma Foley. 2nd yr students Shafin Chowdhury, Ayman Ahmed, and Kai Mohd Adrian did manage to win a 'Highly Commended Award' for their impressive project entitled "Applying Markov Chains to Model Stochastic Processes in Queueing Theory".

A special word of thanks to Mr. Carey and Ms. Farrell who dedicated a lot of time helping the students prepare, design and set up their projects. They were a constant source of support before and throughout the entire process and they were at the Exhibition every day, making sure that the students had every assistance that they needed.

Awards: Well done to 3rd yr Joseph Cosgrove, who won the Mark O Neill Student of the Month Award for December in recognition of his excellent behaviour, impeccable manners and impressive work-ethic.

Congratulations to TY student Derry Ware, who won the Sports Star of the Month Award in recognition of his exceptional displays for the school’s u16 and u19 football and hurling teams.

Comhghairdeas freisin le Jack Reihill, on rang 4 Edmund san idirbliain, a bhuaigh an gradam Gaeilgeoir na Miosa do mhi na Nollag mar gheall ar an sar-iarracht a dheanann se an Ghaeilge a labhairt agus an sar-obair ata deanta aige sa rang Gaeilge go dti seo.

Well done also to the class tutor student of the month winners, who will each receive a 5euro voucher for the school canteen.

Hurling: Our senior hurling team were defeated 4-12 to 1-15 by St. Declan's CBS, Cabra in the Dublin Colleges League 1-4 final last Tuesday. A 2nd half penalty save, by the Declan's goalkeeper, proved to be the turning point of the game as Lucan's opponents scored a vital goal just 30 seconds later. Paidi Murphy (1-03), Conor Dillon (0-9), Killian Costello (0-2) and Reece Kelly (0-1) got the team's scores.

Basketball: Congratulations to TY student Lewis Adjinakou, who was recently selected for the Ireland u16 basketball squad that are preparing for the European Championships (now known as the FIBA Youth EuroBasket competition), that will take place in the summer. Lewis made it through a series of intense and competitive trials to earn a place in the panel of 19 players. They will now train regularly until late March, at which stage a final panel of 12 players will be selected for the summer tournament.

Soccer: Our senior soccer team were defeated 6-2 by Castleknock Community College in their Regional 1-4 final on Monday. Will Smith and Eoin Maher scored the Lucan goals but Castleknock proved to be more clinical on the day.

Our TY team were beaten 2-1 by Creagh College, Gorey in the 3rd round of the TY Leinster Cup on Tuesday. Brian Whelan gave Lucan the lead just before half-time with an audacious lob from 25 yrds but Gorey hit back with two 2nd half goals to claim the win.

Enrolment assessments: The incoming First Years' Entrance Assessment will take place on Saturday 25th January 2025. On the day, students will sit a computerised CAT4 test which assesses how well a student can think about tasks and solve problems using a range of different questions. The advantage of this form of assessment is that it produces an individual report for Parents/Guardians, giving a summary of their son's strengths and weaknesses and how he learns best.

Study Skills: Our 3rd attended a study skills seminar in the school library on Tuesday. The hands-on workshop, run by On Your Marks, focused on skills such as memory techniques, revision strategies, note taking, time management tools, goal setting and planning as well as the use of visual aids and graphic organisers in their learning and the impact of mobile technology and social media.