Many thanks to all the parents and students who attended last night’s TY Subject Choice talk. It was great to see you there and meet so many parents. As requested, I have made the presentation available to you but as the file is too large to attach here, I have uploaded the presentation to the…
DetailsSome of our TY students have been collaborating with Derval and her team on a Teenage Wellness Journal, which they hope to see published in the coming months. The girls have been working on the project since February, and Derval wanted to pop in and wish the girls well as they graduated from Transition Year.
Last Friday, the TY Reading Revolution group hosted the second talk in our lecture series ‘The Power of Words’. The guest speaker, restaurateur Angela Rutledge, who co-owns Monk’s Green & Olive’s Room, traveled from Dublin to Cork to address all our TYs. A former solicitor, Angela spoke about the power of reading and writing in…
DetailsIreland Reads is a new campaign from Irish libraries, Children’s Books Ireland, NALA, booksellers, publishers and others to get the whole country reading this month in the lead up to Ireland Reads Day on Thursday, the 25th of February. The aim is to get everyone to pledge to ‘squeeze in a read’ on the 25th…
DetailsA group of TY students took part in a ‘UPcycle Fashion Photography Project’ last week whereby they photographed images and drawings of fashion models wearing recyclable materials as garments. Students thoroughly enjoyed the creative process, and as you can see from the images, they also constructed some very innovative pieces.
