January Newsletter 2016

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January EditionSt. Nessan’s NThe Year Ahead

First TermTuesday 25th August

2015 to 22nd December2015

Midterm 1Monday 26th October to

Friday 30th October 2015Conjoint Staff Day

Tuesday 8th DecemberChristmas Holidays

All schools close on Tuesday

22nd December and reopenon 6th January 2016

Second TermWednesday 6th January

2016 to Wednesday 16thMarch 2016

Midterm 2Monday 15th February toFriday 19th October 2016

Conjoint Staff DayMonday 22nd February

Easter HolidaysWednesday 16th March -

Monday 4th April 2016

Third TermMonday 4th April 2016 to

Friday 3rd June 2016Conjoint Staff DayFriday 15th AprilTuesday 3rd MayMay Bank HolidayFriday 29th April -

Wednesday 4th May 2016

State ExaminationsWednesday 8th June 2016

Parent Teacher Meetings3rd Year & 6th Year

Thursday 26th November2.30 - 5.45

2nd Year, 5th Year & TY Thursday 21st January 2016

2.30 - 5.451st Year

Thursday 11th February2016

Don’t forget you can keep upto date with all the

news from St. Nessan’sCommunity College on our

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On the 6th of January, Cian O’ Donnell TY set off for the RDS in Dublin accompanied by Jack Downey. Thetwo boys had an early start in order reach the RDS by 10 am. Cian’s projects was a fully functioningprosthetic arm, which he printed on the schools own 3D printer. Before setting off for the competitionCian put in an amount of work both inside and outside of school. Upon setting up the stand Cian wasinundated with interest from other competitors and from passers by.In total Cian spent four days in Dublin explaining his project to thousands of people who passed throughthe door of the RDS, and when Cian needed a break Jack stepped up and took hold of the reins.

Cian wasn’t one bit camera shy made and made the RTE &TV3 news and also appeared on TWO tube

Transition Year class missed Cian & Jack so much that Mrs.O’Driscoll & Mr. Doody had to bring them to the RDS on Friday.(above left) whilst Cian had a special guest request to met himon Friday from the Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan.

Like previous years St Nessan’s didn’t Leave the BT youngScientists empty handed (pardon the pun) Cian scooped aDisplay award for all his hard work. Fair achievement for apupil who worked solely on his own. Credit to the school .S.Fleming . Jack got bored and went for a spin!!!!



There was a Christmas party in the library to celebrate the hard

work done by irst years in Homework Club. Homework Club is acollaboration between the JCSP library and the SchoolCompletion Programme and is on for an hour after school in theibrary. Students are given a snack and help with their home-

work. It is a quiet place to do homework and to develop goodtudy skills. First years who are interested in coming to

Homework Club should contact Ms Bingham-Shee.

There is a new bookclub for students in St Nessan’s JCSP libraryevery Friday at lunchtime. Students choose their own books from

the library, read at their own pace and recommend the ones theyenjoy! We talk about books that we like in an informal way. Allbooks are provided by the library free of charge. Please note,that entry to the library at lunchtime on Fridays in restricted tobookclub members only. If you are interested in joining Bookclub,please talk to Ms Bingham-Shee or Ms Magee.

On the 18th of January, the 3DE class enjoyed an alternative production of Romeo and Juliet presented by Cyclone Rep. To quote theirown brochure “Shakespeare comes to life in The Romeo and Juliet Session”. It was interactive and aimed to assist students with theirxam revision for Junior Cert.

They were accompanied by their teacher Erin Beaumont, tutor Patricia Campbell Cuddihy and Dympna Cremin. Lunch was had in theestaurant in Mary Immaculate, followed up by a visit to the Art Gallery and The Granary Library. Altogether we had a very enjoyablend informative day.

“Shakespeare comes to life inThe Romeo and Juliet Session”



St. Nessan’s Community College won 1st place in the Caherdavin Credit Union art competition “Happiness is”Kim Kiely won 1st place , Cian Guerin won 2nd place and all entrants were kindly presented a selection box each by Liz the managerand staff who came to present the prizes before Christmas. Lorrayne

ake Gilligan and Gary Dillon last autumn at the Hunt Museum showing work as part of Positive Mental Health Week.They also visited the History of Ranks exhibition. Lorrayne

Positive Mental Health

French week is promising to be a great 7th edition.The theme this year is Food of Love, Love of Food.La Marseillaise National French anthem will be sang.The CINEMA FRANCAIS will be active as previous years with 3 different movies showno First, Second and 5th Year Students.

We will bring France to the school with a French Drama company who will show LERENDEZ VOUS:A group of friends have travelled to Paris to go to a rock concert, but one of them hasa more important mission. He has arranged to meet his Parisienne correspondanteor the irst time. As he travels across Paris he has many strange adventures, but they

delay him and he worries if he will arrive on time, and, of course, if she will like him.Here is a picture of the artists!!There will be 2 competitions for the students: Food of Love Photo Competition andValentine Cards in French. Indeed the staff will be kindly treated to Café Croissant at some point during the week!

Fr en ch Week is coming . . .

Mini Saga Superstars JCSP library CompetitionFirst second and third year students are challenged to write a mini saga (a story in 50 words). Thiscompetition is open to all JCSP students in all JCSP schools in Limerick. Please let me know if you wouldike your class to take part. The student’s story can be happy, sad, scary, romantic, thrilling, serious,unny or zany! The story can be ictional or non- ictional. It can be about themselves, a famous person, aictional character or a historical event. They can even base it on a famous author’s book or a ilm. They

can include a picture to illustrate their story but this is not essential. The best stories from each schoolhat takes part will be compiled in a storybook and copies of this book will be presented to the winners

at a book launch in 2016.

Please email your entries to me or drop them into the library. The closing date is January 29th 2016.Ms. Bingham-Shee



Contact Details : St. Nessan’s Community College, Moylish Park, Limerick. Phone: 061 - 452422www.stnessans.com Printed by: Limerick printing 061 422 300

BE COOL _ STAY IN SCHOOL SSchool Completion Programme

Newsletter Coordinator: Michael O’Connor

Thursday 21st Jan 2016 St. Nessan’s was the host schoolfor an Energy Awareness day.Invited Schools from within the Limerick Clare Education& Training Board partook in this exciting day.The students interest peaked by the thermal imagingcamera – it showed the amount of heat that came off aperson but this could be used in a house to show wherecold air was leaking in through windows & doors. Thewhiter the image the hotter the surface.The students gave it great gusto to produce energy using abicycle with a dynamo attached to produce energy.The students were fully informed on the most ef icientkind of lightbulbs that are available on the consumermarket and how to read and understand the informationon the back of a light bulb box package. We all learned that we have to be S.M.A. R. T. in our ap-proach to conserving Energy at home and also at school.S. = Speci ic (target to reduce our use of energy)M. = Measurable ( read the meters e.t.c.)A. = Attainable ( we can do it)

R. = Realistic (We will do it)T. = Time bound ( within a time limit) St. Nessan’s must extend the gratitude to Fiona O Loughlin– Environmental Engineer for approaching the school tohold this fantastic Energy forum. Everybody involved onthe day really were delighted going home with an extranugget of information to save the planet (& put €urosback into their pocket) Thank youMaedhbh Dennison (Green Schools Coordinator)

Energy Awareness Day

The students found the FFL programmeun, enjoyable and very interesting.

What the Students said :-

We learned how to think positive.We learned to realise that it is OK to havevery feeling, but it is how we behave with

our feelings that is important.We have become aware that things are notalways as bad as they seem.When things get tough we have the power tohink happy thoughts for ourselves.

We feel more secure knowing that we haveamily and friends we can talk to when times

are dif icult.We have learned that solving a big problems like eating a huge big chocolate cake – Onemall bite at the time.

We have to remind ourselves to practice what we learned in Friends For life.We really loved doing the Friends for Life on a Friday morning and we would recommendall irst years to do it.

Ms. Dennison gave us hot chocolate with marshmallows and chocolate biscuits. Yummy!!

Maedhbh Dennison

January Newsletter 2016

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