Congratulations to the 15 students who represented their school so well in the East Munster Boys Schools Track and Field Championships in Templemore on Wednesday 11th May. Athletes from secondary schools in Tipperary and Waterford competed in order to qualify for the GloHealth Munster Schools Track and Field Championships which will be held in Waterford on Saturday 21st May. Nenagh College prize-winners and qualifiers were:
Brian Naughton – 2nd Intermediate Hammer and 2nd Intermediate Shot Putt.
Oscar Ottoman – 3rd Intermediate 100m.
Joshua Delaney- 2nd Minor Shot Putt and 2nd Junior Discus.
Jake Murphy- 1st 75m Minor Hurdles setting a new record for the event of 15.50.
Calvin O’Rourke – 2nd Senior 800m and 3rd Senior 400m.
Miss Carey’s second year CSPE class organised a project to collect money for Crumlin Children Hospital. There were two fundraisers held. Starting with a soccer blitz in which each person participating would have to contribute €2. There was also a sweet jar competition where students had to pay 50c for 3 attempts to guess how many sweets were in a jar.
There were events committee, finance committee, permission group, raffle group and the advertising committee. Each of these groups contributed a large amount to the project.
Miss Carey’s HCT class contributed €100 from a restaurant event they held.
In total €450 was raised for the Children’s Hospital. The class would like to thank everyone who contributed to the fund.
Nenagh College would like to thank all the organisers and participants of the Darkness into Light 5K walk that took place on Saturday 7th May at 4.15am. It was a fantastic experience for everyone involved. All proceeds were in aid of Pieta House.
For the full list of photos please follow the link to our Facebook page
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Congratulations to all of the second year students who competed in the SPHE Drug and Addiction Awareness Presentations. Students were given the task of researching and presenting on many of the different kinds of illegal substances.
First place: Eva Lawlor and Becky Kenneally
Second Place: Kieran O’Connor and Joe Kitson
Third Place: Ella Kenny and Jessica Kiely
All of the staff and students at Nenagh College would like to thank Ms. Sherry for their wonderful year of studying Chinese. From Tai Chi, calligraphy and language classes, our students were delighted to experience a new culture. The Easter Shanghai Camp was a once in a lifetime opportunity offered to three of our transition year students, Marley Delaney, Ciara McDonnell and Lauren Moylan. They were accompanied by Ms. Madden Murphy on their 2 week trip to China. Nenagh College would like to thank Ms. Sherry and the Confucius Institute in Cork for providing our students an opportunity to study Chinese language and culture.
Transition Year student, Nicole Byers Ryan, was the recipient of a Youth Garda Award at a ceremony that took place in the Garda Training College in Templemore on Wednesday 27th April. This award was open to nominees between the ages of 13 and 19 years of age, to acknowledge the efforts they made in making their communities a better place to live in or who have shown great determination in their own lives.
The judging panel consisted of former Tipperary hurler Brendan Cummins, Thurles born Una (Healy) Foden (of ‘The Saturday’s’ & ‘The Voice’) and Circuit Court judge Mr. Gerard O’Brien.
