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Junior Cert Results 2022

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Congratulations to the Junior Cert class of 2022 on their excellent results.

Pictured are some of the students who received their results today with their Junior Cycle year head Ms. Sammon.

TY Movie Award

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In March of this year, a group of our then TY Students worked with the Young Irish Film Makers over 3 days to write, direct and edit their own short film.

The Nenagh Arts Centre recently contacted our school to inform us that the group had won the award of “Best Short Film” for the Action Thriller – “Michael Man 2 – The Revenge of Evan”! Well done to the 8 students involved for their creativity and excellent acting skills – Sarah Jane Bourke, Michael T Collins, Aidan Maher, John O’Meara, Michael McKibbin, Evan Quigley, Seamus McKenzie Cleary & Maciej Andrzej Lis.

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal

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Thank you to all the students who took part in this year’s Christmas Shoe Box Appeal with Team Hope. It was a huge success with close to 50 boxes donated by both students and staff! They’re sure to bring lots of joy to children around the world this Christmas.

Laptops Pilot Programme

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Nenagh College Transition Year students at work on their laptops, as part of our pilot programme for introducing the use of laptops, exclusively, throughout the school. From September all students in 1^st year, Transition Year and 5^th year will use devices, only. We are saying goodbye to the heavy school bags and expensive schoolbooks, and welcoming the school’s latest technological advances .

Parent Council AGM

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3rd Year Parent Teacher Meeting

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3^rd year Parent Teacher meeting – Thursday 24^th November from 4.15 p.m. – 6.45 p.m.

Classes for all years will finish @ 3.45 p.m.

Nenagh College represented at the Pathology Laboratories Information Day

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Siobhan O’ Donoghue, 5th Year, represented Nenagh College at a ‘Pathology Laboratories Information Day’ at UHL, on Saturday 12th November. She had a jammed packed agenda that included visits to the following labs: Serology, Microbiology, Pathology, Urology, Haematology, Immunology, Cytology and Transfusion Services.

She attended a presentation on the areas of study in UHL labs and met with some new interns.

Her favourite part of the day was time spent in the Blood Bank and encountering an array of internal organs for transplant.

She gave feedback on the visit to UHL and had a tremendous day. She was awarded a certificate for her attendance and contribution.

1B wood technology

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1st year class 1B recently completed their taster in wood technology. Students are displaying their finished F1 model racing cars.

Upcycling in Art

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6LCA working on upcycling some old shoes into fun art pieces ,junk kouture style ! 😀

Pilot School for Computer Science Leaving Cert Course

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5^th Years working on their Applied Learning Task in Computer Science. This ALT is on embedded systems and prepares them for the practical side of the course which is worth 30% of their Leaving Certificate.

Here at Nenagh College, we are delighted to be a pilot school for the Computer Science Leaving Cert course. This course enables the students to learn computer programming skills, design and development, computional thinking and how computers and society combine.