The Young Americans are an outreach performing arts tour that host three day music and performance workshops in schools and communities throughout the world. They have worked in many schools in Ireland. Colaiste Eoin has, in recognition of the importance of supporting and developing a love of the arts and of supporting the creative talent of all our students, invited […]
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Here in Coláiste Eoin we have a brilliant homework club every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. The students come up to the library straight after classes finish to do their homework and extra study for an hour. The library is fully equipped with computers and internet access for the students. There are many opportunities for the students to do extra work at this […]
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On the 4th of December Coláiste Eoin took part in an inter-schools chess tournament in St Kevin’s College in Crumlin. The event was organised and run through the JCSP library in St Kevin’s. We were in competition with 8 other schools on the day. Our team were made up of 5 students from our chess club. In Coláiste Eoin our chess […]
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Last term our first years began a literacy intervention called The Reading Challenge. They chose a wide variety of books from the library and their mission was to read and review these books within 6 weeks. This went extremely well, and has fostered a culture of reading for pleasure with them. The Reading Challenge was linked to their reading homework as they had […]
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Coláiste Eoin is taking part in a nationwide rap event called WRAPParound. This stands for Writing, Reading and Performance Poetry. Students from JCSP schools all over the country are collaborating to write rap and poetry for this project. In May 2015 there will be a huge event in the National Library where the students will be invited to perform their […]
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On Thursday October the 16th the library was host to Caolan McBride once again. Caolan is always a big hit in Coláiste Eoin, and he had a special maths based show for us to celebrate Maths Week. We had our 1st and 2nd years at this event, and we also invited students from St Brigid’s and St Canice’s local primary schools.
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On the 15th of October, four of our students visited the JCSP library in Trinity Comprehensive for an inter-schools dice competition. They did extremely well as we had practiced for weeks beforehand. The students were chosen from 1st, 2nd and 3rd year and they each represented their school impeccably. Well done to Jasmine, Adam, Lee and Nathan.
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This month we had Maths Week, and it was a big occasion in the school. Sue McGrath came for the day on the 13th of October to kick off the week. Throughout the day our seventy-six JCSP students, along with fifty-five 5th class primary school students from St Brigid’s and St Joseph’s, became young investigators and took part in activities […]
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[cycloneslider id=”visit-by-sheila-kelly-from-board-bia”] Sheila Kelly from Bord Bia paid a visit to the school at the beginning of October. She showed the students how to cook a variety of tasty and healthy dishes that were quick and economical to make. The students then had the chance to taste each of the dishes, as nothing was left over it’s safe to say it […]
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[cycloneslider id=”ty-carlingford”] The TY class, 4 Realtí, went on an overnight trip to Carlingford Adventure Centre in County Louth. The students took part in a variety of adventure sports and team building exercises. Over the course of the two day trip the students got the chance to have a go at raft building, pier jumping, kayaking, laser tag, a blind […]
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