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Lucan Community College
Golfing Success: Congratulations to TY student Mark Greenwood who recently won the Irish Junior Open School's Cup at Greystones Golf Club, shooting a score of 78 to win by two strokes. Everyone at the school wishes Mark the best of luck when he next competes in the Golf Union Ireland U16 Connacht Championship in Strandhill Golf Club over the Easter Break.
TY Wall Climbing: For the first time ever, our school has a TY climbing squad, who competed in the Awesome Walls Irish Schools Climbing Competition! This exciting event brings together young climbers from across the country to test their skills on a national level at Awesome Walls Dublin. We had a total of three teams enter the competition, and the 12 competitors were incredibly excited for this opportunity.
The students showed amazing resilience and dedication as they competed, and displayed incredible team spirit and encouragement as their teammates climbed. Big shout out to the top scorers from each team: Finn Coghlan, Donagh White, and Katie Gregory L'Estrange. An extra congratulations to Donagh for having the fastest time of any of our competitors on the speed climb!
The results will be announced in the coming weeks, but no matter the outcome, we're incredibly proud of their dedication, teamwork, and adventurous spirit. Best of luck to our climbers - you've already made LCC history!
2nd year Trip to Galway: On Wednesday the 2nd of April the 2nd years departed on a thrilling trip to Killary Adventure Centre in Galway. We were gifted with wonderful sunshine during the trip and got up to many activities during the stay. Some of these activities include jumping into bogs, shooting targets on archery, climbing, canoeing with friends, walking through gorges with beautiful scenery, completing obstacles and zip lines in the aerial park and coming together as a team in the team building exercises. We also learnt how to drum to a beat and Irish dance in the night activities. We all learnt new skills and tried something new on this exhilarating experience and we left on that Friday feeling accomplished and really tired!!!
Careers Evening: Last week saw the first 'Explore your Future' event being held in Lucan Community College. It featured 17 past pupils of the college who all work in different areas from business, engineering and medical careers to the air corps, the Gardaí and an entrepreneur to mention but a few.
They shared their career paths, knowledge and experience and spoke to our enthusiastic students afterwards. an enjoyable and informative event.
St Joseph's College Lucan
Brain Tumour Ireland fundraiser: A massive well done to our Student Council who raised 934.64 euro for Brain Tumour Ireland in their recent 'Wear a Hat Day'. Thank you to everyone who donated and helped out with such a great cause.
2nd year basketball: The second year basketball team made the long trip to Mayo last week to play in the national playoffs. They defeated Ballinrobe CS in a brilliant first match but were unfortunately then defeated by Moate CS in a thrilling playoff final. Unfortunately this means the team do not progress any further this year but they have played so well and represented the school with such distinction.
Third level speakers: Thank you to Emma from Shannon College of International Hotel Management for delivering a very inspiring talk to our fifth year students last week. She shared exciting career opportunities in the hospitality industry with lots of global travel and amazing job opportunities.
Badminton blitz: Congratulations to all of our under 16 students who attended our badminton blitz on Thursday. A special congratulations to Serah Arun and Sarah Binoy who were the winners on court 1 and Avanthinka Hemanth and Erin Aldho who were the winners on court 3.
Lucan Tidy Towns: Thank you to Lucan Tidy Towns representatives, Catherine and Kevin who came in to talk to our TY students who have been working hard all year keeping Lucan clean and tidy. The students were delighted to hear about the fantastic work done by Lucan Tidy Towns ahead of the National spring clean on Saturday morning. Many of our students contributed and helped out with the event as they continue to contribute to their local community in a fantastic manner.
Debaters: Congratulations to our junior debaters Alison Bria and Vitika Sonigara who competed in the final of the MACE debates competition in UCD on Saturday. On Thursday night, Elise Muldowney and Agnes Martin co - chaired the National Concern Debates semi final in the Talbot Hotel, Stillorgan.
Girls Go Circular: Our TY students took part in a 'Girls Go Circular' workshop organised by Junior Achievement Ireland. The students learned a lot about the circular economy and came up with excellent sustainable business ideas for the world of fashion. Thanks to Kaylah and Brianna from Junior Achievement for delivering the workshop.
First Year Basketball: Congratulations to the First year Basketball team who were successful in their matches against two very strong teams from Bettystown CS and Gaelcholaiste Chill Dara. The First years now go through to the semi final of the All Ireland competition on Thursday 10th April in the UL Sports Arena. We wish the team the very best for their semi final.
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Awards: Well done to 5th yr Daire Reilly who won the Mark O' Neill Student of the Month Award for March in recognition of his outstanding contribution to school life. Daire is a school prefect and a very active member of the ERST Student Council Committee.
Congratulations also to Eolann Maher from 1 Barley who won the Sports Star of the Month Award in recognition of his impressive displays for the 1st yr soccer, football and hurling teams.
Comhghairdeas freisin le Anish Iyer on triu bhiain a bhuaigh an gradam Gaeilgeoir na Miosa do mhi Marta 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.
Soccer: Our 1st yr soccer team were eliminated from the Dublin Metropolitan League last Thursday, as they suffered a heart breaking 2-1 extra-time defeat to St. Fintan's HS, Sutton in their 1-4 final clash. Sutton dominated much of the 1st half, yet the best opportunities fell to Lucan, who finished the half very strongly.
Sutton managed to take the lead 10mins into the 2nd half when they scored from the penalty spot. Lucan pushed hard for an equaliser, and they were rewarded with the last kick of the game when Alex Deegan's well struck shot from distance took a wicked bounce in front of the Sutton keeper and looped over him to force extra-time.
Sutton regained the lead the stroke of half-time in extra time when the number 9 gleefully swept the ball home at the back post into an unguarded net.
Lucan threw everything at their opponents in the 2nd half of extra-time, but to no avail and Sutton held on for a hard-earned and ultimately deserved win. Our 1st yrs can reflect on a competitive campaign, with 6 wins and a draw in their 10 games.
School tour: Best of luck to the 60 2nd yr students, and six teachers, travelling to Barcelona during the Easter Holidays for a 4-day school tour. They will be flying out on Saturday 19th and returning on Tuesday 22nd April. It promises to be an action-packed tour with a lot of exciting activities lined up to keep them entertained. We look forward to hearing all about it when they return!
ERST News: Our inaugural ERST Student Council Committee welcomed a 5th member this week, with the addition of Niall Ryan Doyle to the group. The other four members, Daire Reilly, Jayron Sarmiento, Evan Whelan and Lucas Collender, were influential in convincing Niall to join them and they are delighted to have another enthusiastic, dedicated, committed and passionate 5th yr on board.
The 'Fab Five' have been busy this week running Easter FM over three days to celebrate the Easter Triduum. Daire 'The Voce' Reilly took over the intercom (again!) to read out a short message about the life of Jesus. He also posed trivia questions, based on the religious sacraments, with prizes for the 1st correct emailed answers. The committee also put together a beautiful display of Easter images just inside the main entrance to the school and this really helped create extra awareness of this important liturgical season. We thank the committee for their fantastic initiative, energy and enthusiasm. We appreciate the efforts they have gone to in promoting and celebrating the underlying values of our ERST school community.
Exam news:
The Leaving Cert oral exams take place over the Easter Holidays in the school and we have students sitting these exams in Irish, French, German, Polish, Spanish, Italian and Chinese! The orals begin on Saturday, 12th April. We wish all of our students, who have been practising their spoken skills in the different languages so diligently throughout the past two years, the best of luck.
Our LC Construction Studies students are busy this week putting the finishing touches to their exam project, with the deadline being this Friday. This is worth 25% of their overall marks. They will then sit a 4-hour Practical exam on Thursday 1st May, which is worth another 25%. Their written exam in June is worth the other 50% of the marks.
Our 6th yr Art students sat their 5-hour Art Practical Exam over two days this week. This is worth 20% of their overall marks. The students submitted their Art Practical Coursework, worth 50% of the marks, last Friday.
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