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December 2018 Edition
St Clare's
Comprehensive School
Senior Business Trip to London
30 Senior Business studies accompanied by their teachers Mr Ward, Ms Conaty and Ms Gallagher
travelled to London on Tuesday the 11th of December for a 3 day business trip. The trip was action
packed from beginning to end. We began with a guided tour of London with our excellent guide
Sara where we got to see Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, the Financial district and London Bridge to
name a few. It was followed by us stopping at the Bank of England Museum to learn about the
Bank’s history and its work at the centre of the economy. From there we visited the Science Mu-
seum where we were blown away by the floors of discoveries and the 3D cinema where we experi-
enced landing on the moon. We finished off our day with a late night trip to Winter Wonderland in
Hyde Park where students brushed shoulders with X factor contestants and You Tubers.
Wednesday we began the day by waiting to catch a glimpse of Theresa May as she left Downing
Street on the day she was supposed to travel to Dublin but had to cancel the trip as she made a
case for her leadership with her parliamentary colleagues before the confidence vote. We then
took a brisk walk through St James Park to Buckingham Palace to witness the spectacle which is
the changing of guards. In the afternoon we visited Chelsea football stadium and looked behind
the scenes at the business of Football and lastly enjoying the West end show Wicked. We visited
Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square to examine real life marketing with the neon signage.
Thursday we visited the London Eye where we had a bird’s eye view of the city at 443 feet high,
the London Eye is currently the fourth-largest Ferris wheel in the world, the ride on the London
Eye took us 30 minutes, and it travelled at a speed of about 0.6 miles per hour. Following this we
enjoyed a cruise along the River Thames where we discovered the iconic bridge we see in photo-
graphed of London is in fact Tower Bridge and not London Bridge we finished off our trip with
some free time for shopping on Oxford Street. Students got to experience the hustle and bustle of
a large city, put into practice using bus and tube timetables and navigating the tube map and lines
to get us from A to B. They enjoyed the celeb spotting on the tube getting pictures with Samira
from Love Island. Thank you to Ms Gallagher, Mr Ward and Ms Conaty for organising the trip and
accompanying the students.
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Music Trip to the National Concert Hall Getting in the Christmas spirit...
Music Students from St. Clare’s traveled to the National Concert Hall on well done to Rang mhic Dhiarmada.
the 12th and 13th December to see and hear the National Symphony Great fun making door wreaths for their
Orchestra performing their Christmas Lunchtime Concert, conducted homes. With bit of imagination and
by Christopher Bell. The orchestra were accompanied by soprano Christmas cheer it's amazing what can
Sarah Brady on the 13th. The music included Christmas singalongs as be achieved...well done to you all.
well as excerpts from Swan Lake and Harry Potter. The students par-
ticularly enjoyed joining in with the actions to The Penguin Song and
The Twelve Days of Christmas. It was a very enjoyable day and all stu-
dents agreed that it was great to see and hear an orchestra performing
live, especially in the run up to Christmas.
Rang Mhic Dhiarmada also enjoyed a
recent shopping trip to Athlone. Thank
you to their teachers and SNA’s for or-
ganising the trip and accompanying
them.
Grooveline
rd
Congratulations to 3 Year Band Grooveline who com-
peted in the Oireachtas Music Competition in Killarney
last week. The members of the band are Evan Gerry
(Vocals and Guitar), Tarach O'Snodaigh (Vocals and Gui-
tar), Matthew Connolly (Guitar), Glen Feely (Bass Guitar)
and Bronwyn Kirwan (Drums). They had to compose,
perform and record a song through Irish and were se-
lected to perform at the final on Thursday 1st Novem-
ber. There is a prize fund of €4500! The band per-
formed superbly for all the music classes in the school
and came out on top on the night winning themselves
€2,000. Well done and we enjoyed heraring hear you
perform for the whole school at the annual Christmas
Fair.
Build A Bank Bank of Ireland LC Geography Field Trip
“Bank of Champions” will open their Thank you to Bank of Leaving certifi-
branch every Friday in the Main hall Ireland who sponsored cate students
from 10:05—10:45. They remind all a new soccer kit for our were accompa-
students to keep saving a few cents students. So far it has nied by Ms
every week and for those who haven’t brought both male and McDonald on
started it’s never too late to open an female teams huge their geography
account with them. Competitions will success. field trip lately.
be held for account holders and regular
savers every term. Thank you to Eimear
Kelly from AIB for facilitating the open- Junk Kouture
ing of the bank every week and to Ms Transition years have been busy preparing their outfits for their junk cou-
Gallagher who facilitates the pro- ture entries every week since September. There is 12 entries from the
gramme. The “Bank of Champions” will school this year with Ms Conaty working closely with the students. Stu-
represent the school at the regional dents are now putting their finishing touches to their outfits before regis-
finals in Dublin early next year. tration opens on the 7th of January.
Christmas Craft Fair
Debate Success: St Clare’s Destined for Junior De- Mini company students from 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th year
bating National Final! held their Christmas Craft fair in the school gym on
On Saturday 24th November, Ms Faughnan accompanied Tuesday the 18th of December. It was a huge success
16 of her debate students from first, second and third with Santa even making an appearance.
year to Galway for the Junior Debate Connacht final. All
16 students competed in a semi-final in school to reach Thank you to the huge number of parents who at-
the final and every pupil did exceptionally well on the tended the fairs to support the mini companies. To
day. Each student had to debate in three different rounds Brian Dolan from LEO for attending and judging the stu-
and pupils were judged as individual speakers. Ms Faugh- dents. We look forward to the next stage of mini com-
nan said, “the passion, the power and use of language pany on the 21st of February where students prepare
was phenomenal from everyone.” We are delighted to for their Schools Final and discover who will represent
announce that Gráinne O’Connell and Roisin McCann
from second year were selected to go through to na-
tional finals in March. Each year during the Connacht fi-
nals, there is a prestigious
award for best first year and
Hannah Smith from first year
in St Clare’s was the winner of
this award. Hannah did in-
credibly well and was pre-
sented with her award by the
mayor of Galway, Niall
McNelis – Hannah, too, will
compete in the national fi-
nals.
Foroige NFTE Young Entrepreneur of the Year
Rachel McPartlin was crowned
young Entrepreneur of the
Year 2018 where she faced off
huge competition from around
the county. Rachel repre-
sented St Clare's and Ireland at
the European final.
Active Bodies Active Minds
On Wednesday 19th and Thursday the 20th of December
each year group availed of an hour’s workshop in skip-
ping. Sessions included looking at footwork, crosses, side
swings partner skills and long rope games. Great fun was
had by all and the school would like to thank Mark from
Skipinrope and look forward to his return next year.
Young Scientist Competition 2019
Congratulations to Rachel McPartlin under the supervi-
sion of Ms McPhelim who will represent the school at the
National exhibition in The RDS from the 9th—12th of
January.
Rachel is looking at fracture patients and if there is a cor-
relation with decreased Calcium levels. Rachel recently
competed in the National Finals of the Sci Fest competi-
tion in Dublin.
Sports in St Clare's
The Ladies Senior Team who are through to the Connaught semi final
The Juvenile Boys team
The U14 Ladies Gaelic Team The Junior Girls Basket-
ball Team
First Year Girls Futsol team who competed in Senior Basketball team
the Connacht Finals in Sligo IT recently. Dearbhla Rooney
World Cadets Chess Championships 2018 CSPE TRIP
Congratulations to Susan Aji who represented Ireland Mr Martin accompanied 3rd year CSPE
in the World Cadets Chess Championships over the students to Loughan House. A great day
was had by all.
last two weeks. Susan competed in the U12 Girls
competition and played 12 rounds against other girls
from Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Finland and Engineering Trip
China to name a few. Well done Susan on a successful Mr Cummins brought the senior en-
championship. gineering studies students to Sligo IT
for a tour of the facilities.
Spanish Tapas Trip
This is becoming an annual visit for St. Clare's Comprehensive! Sixty 2nd year Spanish
students visited The Loft restaurant in Manorhamilton to taste a selection
of tapas achurros a Spanish dessert. The dessert was a firm favourite: churros con
chocolate. Churros are similar to doughnuts, but are long and thin. They are made
from fried dough and covered in sugar. Churros are normally eaten for breakfast and
you dip them into thick hot chocolate. We would like to thank the staff at The Loft for
their time and all the gorgeous food. We hope to be back very soon! We think they
should add Churros con Chocolate to their breakfast menu!
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