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17 March 2024
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Schools notes

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St Joseph's College Lucan

Minor camogie: The minor camogie team had two games in the last week. They played St. Mary's, Naas last week Tuesday 5th, and were unfortunately beaten. They were in action again on Tuesday 12th, and bounced back with a great win against Mountsackville in their last group game. This win now qualifies them from their group to the Shield semi-final.

Junior Cycle English: Last Wednesday, all third year students were brough to The Mill Theatre, Dundrum by their English teachers. They saw a live production of their studied Junior Cycle play 'The Merchant of Venice'. It was great for the students to see their studied play brought to life on stage.

Mental health week: Last week was Mental Health Week in St. Joseph's. Throughout the week the student and their teachers engaged in activities based around five key pillars for good mental health – Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Keep Learning and Give. Well done to the guidance department in the school for organising the activities on each of the various days.

History trip: Last Friday, fifth and sixth year history students travelled to Derry for the day with their history teachers. The students learned about the history of the city and visited the Museum of Free Derry, the Siege Museum and took in a walking tour of the murals and walls of Derry.

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History quiz: Last Tuesday evening, 5th, we had eight third year students travel to Colaiste Iosagain to compete in a History quiz hosted by the Irish History Teachers Association. The girls competed against 43 teams and finished in the top 10 and represented the school brilliantly.

Transition year activities: On Friday morning the organisers of the Lucan, St. Patrick's Day parade were in the school. They were working with transition year students teaching them the skill of balloon making and also face painting.

Cross country: Well done to our magnificent junior cross country team who competed in the All Irelands on Saturday morning. The team performed fantastic in very difficult and tough conditions for cross country. They finished in 5th place overall which is a phenomenal achievement considering all the schools from the four provinces who started out in the competition last September.

Junior hockey: Well done to the Junior hockey team who played against Ardgillan Community College on Monday morning. St. Joseph's played brilliantly and won the game on a scoreline of 6 – 0.

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Colaiste Phadraig

Awards: Well done to 5th yr Sam Jacob who won the Mark O' Neill Student of the Month Award for February in recognition of his excellent manners, strong work-ethic and co-operation in all of his classes. Congratulations to TY student Niall Ryan Doyle who won the Sports Star of the Month Award for February in recognition of his fantastic displays in goal for the schools' TY, u17 and Senior soccer teams. Niall saved an incredible 6 penalties in just 3 games recently to help the various teams advance in their respective competitions.

Comhghairdeas freisin le Caolin Reilly on gcead bhiain a bhuaigh an gradam Gaeilgeoir na Miosa do mhi Feabhra mar gheall ar an sar-iarracht a dheanann se an Ghaeilge a labhairt agus an sar-obair ata deanta aige sa rang Gaeilge.

The three winners each received a 20 euro voucher as well as a framed certificate to recognise their achievements.

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

Athletics: Well done to 2nd yr Conor Abbott who represented the school at the All Ireland Schools Cross Country Finals held in Tymon Park, Tallaght on Saturday 9th March. Conor completed the tough 3.5km course in an impressive time 12mins 55 secs to finish in 17th place out of a field of 109 elite athletes from 2nd and 3rd yr. Despite being one of the youngest competitors (having just turned 14 in February), Conor pushed himself to his limit and once again demonstrated unwavering determination and racing maturity throughout the high-class race. Conor has been representing the school with enormous distinction in cross-country over the past two years and we are very proud of him.

PE: Our Senior PE students recorded their Performance Assessments in Airlie Park, Adamstown last week. They were delighted to get the opportunity to use this fantastic new multi-sport facility with its full sized 3G GAA pitch and 2 full-sized 3G soccer pitches. The students already completed their PAP (Physical Activity Project, which is one of three assessment components of the Leaving Cert PE course and worth 20% of the overall marks) in December. The Performance assessment is worth a further 30% of the overall marks. They will then sit the written exam in the summer (which is worth the remaining 50% of marks).

The school employed a professional cameraman to record full-scale 11-a-side matches in soccer and Gaelic Football in Airlie Park. The students who had chosen soccer/GAA skills had to demonstrate various pre-selected skills such as shooting on the half-volley, defensive and offensive headers, free-kicks, corners etc in soccer and hand/hooked passes, block-downs, high-catches, free-taking, tackles etc in GAA. The matches were played at a proper intensity in order to replicate match-playing conditions as much as possible. Basically, the students had to demonstrate their talent in their chosen sport. They each received copies of the taped matches and their job now is to edit themselves demonstrating the chosen key-skills.

Other students did their recordings in the gym doing various weight-bearing exercises. Some chose to do theirs on the athletics track for sprinting and running. Everyone was free to choose their own sporting, physical or fitness activity with the aim of demonstrating their talent. The completed video must be submitted by Thursday 21st March so they will all be busy in the days ahead putting the finishing touches to their work.

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Well-being: Transition Year students completed the final round of surveys this week as part of the Be Real Body Kind curriculum. The Body Kind programme, as delivered by Ms. Farrell & Ms. Moore is a body image curriculum specifically designed for Irish secondary school students. The programme focuses on social media and gives students tested tools to help them with comparisons they make of themselves to the images they see in their social media feed. Body Kind also discusses appearance bias and the role society’s prejudices play in students' feeling that they do not fit into society's ideals for appearance. Ms. Farrell would like to thank Edmund, Rice and Ignatius for their enthusiasm and participation in the programme and subsequent surveys!