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The TY students enjoyed lectures on many subjects including Arts, Politics, History and Psychology on their trip to NUI Maynooth. A great day had by all.

 

 

Board Games and Hot Chocolate with Big Brother Big Sister

2nd and 3rd years completed a wet felting and needle point felting workshop as part of their Junior Cycle and Junior Certificate Home Economics Program. Students learned many new skills while practicing some old ones. Well done to all involved they are amazing pieces of textile art.

Almost 350 boys and girls descended on Nenagh College this week for the school’s annual STEM days.

This is a unique opportunity for the students from 15 primary schools from the surrounding areas to sample subjects to which they might not have daily access.  Subjects such as Engineering, Wood Technology, Science and Coding are available to the students as well as Home Economics and PE.

There was a great air of excitement when, after meeting with the STEM day Coordinator at Nenagh College, Ms. Nichola Carey and their Transition Year guides, the pupils set off on an adventure through the school’s state-of-the- art facilities.

What made this year’s STEM event more exciting was the partnership with Fiserv. Fiserv’s executive assistant office manager and Nenagh native, Samantha Neary, had worked closely, with the school, in advance of the STEM day to ensure that a number of her team were on hand to support the delivery of the Coding and Computer Science module which included a lesson on Robotics.

School Principal, Damien Kennedy noted the increase in demand for STEM based education over the last number of years, the increase in demand for STEM subjects is particularly noticeable amongst girls. This has led to the school population almost doubling in size over the last number of years, an increase which has led to the school and the Patron body, Tipperary ETB, lodging an application for additional accommodation with the DES. A new Engineering room will be a priority in any future increase in accommodation.

Each day ended with the students enjoying a freshly made lunch courtesy of Patricia O Shea and her Get Fresh catering team.

Well done to all of our TY students who visited Croke Park last week

Home Economics 2nd years were lucky to be able to complete a workshop this week in the school on the craft of wet felting. Feltmakers Paulina Katan and Jean Louis Wessels from their company Woolly Crafts in Ladysbridge, Co Cork spent two days showing 2nd years the art of felt making. All 2nd year Home Economic students completed a wet felting piece of their own. It was a great experience and it was wonderful to be able to learn a new skill.

Big Brother Big Sister making friendship rainbow brackets in support of standup week???

 

All first year science students enjoyed CSI murder mystery at Nenagh Arts Centre to celebrate Science Week 2019

 

Reminder to all students. No uniform day tomorrow to support Stand Up Awareness Week to help to create a friendlier, safer school for LGBTI+students.

Today, the 5^th year art students visited the National Gallery in Dublin where they attended an insightful tour of Contemporary Irish Image Exhibition which included works from Joe Caslin and other national greats including Louis Le Brocquy and Jack Yeats. The guides had a clear concise breakdown of the Leaving Cert question topic. The students were accompanied by their Teachers Ms E Knight and Ms Beirne.