May Edition 2015St. Nessans Newsletter

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The Year AheadThird TermMonday 12th April 2015 to Friday 29th May 2015State Examinations Commence on Wednesday 4th June 2014

New Library Twitter Page for St. Nessans Community CollegeCheck out the librarys fabulous new twitter page! Follow the library at @Stnessanscclib. Ms Bingham-Shee tweets JCSP news and library events on this page. Six word stories from the recent JCSP Six Word Story Competition are tweeted daily! Come and have a look, tweet and retweet!

1st Year Trip to Ballyhass Lakes

Student of the Year 2015

A selection of photos from the 1st years recent trip to Ballyhass Lakes in Mallow. Students took part in activities such as Kayaking, Low Ropes, Abseiling, the dreaded Leap of Faith as well as taking in the Zip Wire which takes you ziping across the lake. A great day was had by all the students and more than one was found sleeping on the journey home.

Aaron Buckley receives his Student of the Year Award from Mr. OBrien.

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JCSP Library Initiative - Drama Workshop with Myles Breen

JCSP Poetry Event in Dublin

First year students did a workshop writing comedy scripts and developing their acting skills with famous Limerick actor and playwright, Myles Breen! The students had lots of fun writing and performing sketches and Myles said, You have some great talent in St Nessans, the key is to keep practicing your writing and acting skills!

St Nessans is very proud of its second and first year students who represented their school and Limerick so well at the JCSP WraPPa-round event at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin. This event was organised by the JCSP Library Project and Poetry Ireland to bring student poets and rappers from all over Ireland together to perform their poems and raps on stage. To prepare for this event, the students took part in poetry and rap workshops in the schools JCSP library to learn how to write and perform in front of an audience. Well done to Kate Price, Chantelle Troy, Leah Vaughan, Natalie Cleary, Courtney Barrett, Niall Keane and Tony OHalloran! Afterwards a very successful and enjoyable performance, the students celebrated with lunch at Captain Americas on Grafton Street!

Well done to the winners of the Poetry Competition organised by the JCSP team for students and staff! Win-ners: Ms OConnor, Ms Raf-tery, Tara Madeley, Louise Murray, Matias Grandi, May-Lee Boey, Cian ODonnell and Cherise Ring.

St. Nessans Community College poets!

We had an exciting morning of code-breaking in the JCSP library with the numeracy team! First years broke substitution ciphers using frequency analysis. Top tip - E is the most common letter in the English language followed by T and A!

Future code-breakers in action!

1st Year Class Prefects accepting their Certificates on behalf of their classes-1DA,1DE,1DI.

First Year Class Prefects

Angelas Ashes Curator, Una Heaton presents an original drawing of Frank McCourt and Leamy House to Transition Year Class

Presentation to Transition Years Budding filmmakers from St Nessans C.C. found plenty to inspire them at the 6th Annual Limerick Film Festival,which took place at the Millennium Theatre,LIT on Friday 24th April.3DA and 3DN attended the short film screenings which showcases winning short films from around the world.Highlights include guest speaker director Kevin Liddy and various other film-makers. The students along with their English teachers, Ms Beaumont, Ms Toomey and Ms Bingham Shee really enjoyed the experience .

Annual Limerick Film Festival

Temoignages des Voyageurs et voyageurs

Rebecca Murray: In France, you will travel all around Paris by using the metro and see all the well-known tourist attractions such as the Eiffel Tower, Le Louvre (which includes the famous painting of the Mona lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci), the Arc de Triomphe, the castle and beautiful gardens of Versailles, Moulin Rouge and many more attractions. In Paris with Madame Andre you will also spend an entire day in Disneyland where you will watch a spectacular fireworks show in front of the castle. This four day trip is definately worth it and you will remember this experience for ever.Louise Murray: The school trip to Paris is a great experience and is also very educational. You will see many great attractions and have a lot of fun.Kai Ashley: Disneyland was good and I had fun talking to the lads. Hotel was alright. Crepes were nice.Tyreak Chaddad: Exciting and very sore and brilliant.Evan Franklin: Disneyland was good. The weter was good. Crepes were nice and most of the food was niceKevin Papke: My favourite part of being in France was Disneyland. We had a lot of fun on the roller coastersHannah Muller: Paris is really exciting. If you are not going youre missing a lot of fun, a great experience and all the Paris attractions. We spent one whole day in Disneyland Paris. We went on different rides and everyone could do what they wanted to do. Paris is great! If you want to have a picture with the Eiffel tower, as big as you, go with Madame Andre to Paris, she knows where to get the best pictures!Nicola Carmodys local jokes: What is the clumsiest monument of Paris? the Eiffel Tower (I fell)What do you say to an annoying French person? Bah get away (baguette)Madame Andre: Wow!! again... speechless!! That was some crowd to bring to France!! It is such a pleasure to bring some of my Irish stu-dents to show them my capital and to witness the culture shock. The adventure is priceless in a way because when I saw your eyes lit up on so many occasions during 4 days it makes me happy. Roll on Paris 2016! My greatest thanks to Ms Mai Patton for coming with us this year.. My eternal thanks to Ms Aideen OBrien without whom I could not rock the boat.. Mr Eugene OBrien merci for allowing this amaz-ing and rewarding experience for students and teachers. And indeed parents.. my hat to you for all your support and encouragement.

Well done to the LCA students for raising 280 for Milford Hospice in a recent Colours Day. Sean Dalton (Milford Hospice volunteer) collected the cheque and thanked the sixth years for their donation and praised them for organ-ising the colours day event to raise the funds.

LCA Colours Day Fund Raiser for Milford Hospice

Parents BookclubThe Parents Bookclub had a fabulous lunch at The Greenhills to celebrate a year of reading great books. All parents from St Nessans and Salesians are welcome to come to the bookclub which meets every Tuesday in the JCSP library. Do come along to join us in September. We chat about books we are reading and have coffeeand scones afterwards.

Mindfulness Graduation Ceremony

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BE COOL _ STAY IN SCHOOL SMILE School Completion ProgrammeNewsletter Coordinator: Michael OConnor

A Numeracy Orienteering Event was held on the 1st May, to promote approaches to teaching and learning that engages and motivates students in all aspects of numeracy. The orienteering event was introduced in a cross curricular manner through physical education to exercise the mind and body. Students traversed an outdoor course using a map, measuring distances, working of numeracy ques-tions at each junction and navigated their way to the correct answers. Students gained knowledge regarding numeracy in a manner that was fun, they worked in teams and supported each other to answer as many numeracy related questions as possible. First year students put a huge effort into the activity and big congratulations to all the first years. There were a number of individual students put in a huge effort on the day motivating their teams and leading by example. The Numeracy team and P.E department would like the thank the many teachers helped out and encouraged the the students on the day without which the event would not be possible.

1st Place Team BJennifer Kileen, Robyn Kiely, Tara Daly & Kipras Pleckaitis. 2nd Place Team H(the fastest team)Michael OCallagahn, Chyree BoeySarah OHagan & Mercy Ikponmwosa. 3rd Place (teams K and C)Rachael Murphy, Amber Cunningham, Mark Roche, Chantelle Holohan, Annmarie KellyStacey Daly & Ciara Tobin.Best Overall Team Effort went to Teams I and FJohn Hanifin, Tony O Holloran, Mathew McInerneyLeanne Duggan, Anna Zakzrzewska& Chantelle McCarthy.

On Wednesday, the 29th April, our Turbo Titans Team Competition got to go to Dublin Castle to compete for the F1 in Schools National Finals competition. We managed to go on the Tuesday as we had to set up the entire pit display to be ready for judging at 8am the next morning. We had great fun stopping off at Supermacs on the way up and finding the venue (no thanks to Mr. Doodys directions!) Luckily, Ms ODriscoll was on hand to keep things moving so we could fit in a bit of shopping time afterwards! We then got to enjoy a lovely dinner in Nandos where Hannah showed us Irish up by being the only person to order a salad. Obviously we were all tucked up in bed early so we could be our best for the next days Finals.On the day we were there really early & had to have our car ready for testing before it raced. We also had to be at our stand a lot as there were judges around all day, evaluating us on various aspects of the project (engineering and mar-keting side, etc). We got to meet the Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation, Damien English and listen to an expert in Formula 1, Steve Nevy, Former F1 Red Bull Racing Business Development Manager giving the teams a presentation of Life in Real Formula 1 Racing. Unfortunately although we ranked highly on all aspects of the competition, we didnt come away with any awards. We were really disappointed but it didnt take away from how much weve learnt and how much weve enjoyed doing this. Weve

all excelled in our chosen areas and developed massively in our self-confidence. Big thanks to both our teachers, Mr Doody and Ms ODriscoll for all the time and effort they put in and for all the entertaining they did on the bus journey home!

F1 in Schools National Finals

Colm Cooper called into the school recently to promote Literacy and the JCSP Programme. He also spoke with the Transition Year students and was nabbed by plenty of the female staff for a photo.

GAA legend Colm Gooch Cooper drops into St. Nessans

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