Green Schools host the ‘Bin Your Gum When You’re Done’ Workshop
This week the Green Schools committee hosted the Wrigley’s ‘Bin Your Gum When You’re Done’ Workshop. At this workshop all of the Second Year students had a very enjoyable and interesting workshop, which highlighted the serious issue of chewing gum littering in our communities. Hosts Rebekah and John encouraged the students to think carefully about where […]
TY’s raising awareness for the RSA Road Safety Week.
This week, 3rd – 7th October, Transition Years were raising awareness for the RSA Road Safety Week. As part of this, various groups have undertaken different aspect of Road Safety. Here’s a short clip highlighting farm safety on the road. Farm Safety Video
Congratulations to the winners of the September numeracy challenge
Well done to this month’s winners Clara Muller the Junior, Emma O’Malley the Senior and Megan McCabe the Minor winner. Congratulations, and well done to all the students who entered September’s numeracy challenge. We’re looking forward to seeing who will be October’s champions.
Congratulations to Emma for wining an individual Best Speaker Award
Well done to Emma Kenny, won an individual Best Speaker Award, at a Public Speaking Soap Box Competition held in Ballinasloe Town Library, on Friday 30th September. The topic for the evening was “The EU: United in Diversity”
Congratulations to our Senior Basketball team
Well done to our Senior basketball team and Ms Jacobsen, who had a great win today in the John Kenny memorial match in Pres Athenry.
Congratulations to the 2016 TY’s for winning the YSI ‘Making our World Greener’ Award
Well done to last year’s Transition Year students who won the Young Social Innovators ‘Making our World Greener’ Award in Dublin showcasing their ‘No Bee No Mee’ project. This project was aimed at working to save the Bee population from going into further decline, so that both the human and bee populations will survive, into […]
Students of the Month for September Claire McGill & Shóna Hendrick
Students of the Month for September Claire McGill & Shóna Hendrick
Dr. Fergus Heffernan is coming to Currylea!
Renowned Psychologist and Psychotherapist, Dr. Fergus Heffernan, who is a leading educator in the area of stress management and how it connects to our mental health, will visit the school on Wednesday 19th October to deliver his workshop ‘Creating Resilience in Teenagers’ to all student year groups. He will have a follow up talk for […]
Transition Year students have a great day out at the TY Expo
Our Transition Year students had a great day out at the TY Expo at Punchestown. They bounded back to the Pres with bags full of freebies and ideas for TY activities galore. What a fabulous bunch of girls they are, ready and willing to embrace all TY has to offer!
ON THE TECH ROAD – Find out what life is in…
Google Developers Group Galway are hosting a free technology event, at the Portershed (Eyre Square) on Wednesday 14th September at 7pm. The aim of this evening is to encourage senior cycle students to embark on a technical career in areas such as Science Technology Engineering and Maths. There will be speakers from Amazon, HP, Triangle […]