Thank You to the outgoing Head Boy James Johnston and Head Girl Niamh Fox. They both lived up to their election promises and have been a posi-tive influence, active in creat-ing a significant contribution to life at St. Clares. Under their guidance this years student council have been working hard and we wish to thank them for their input too.

Megan Hannon has been named Head Girl and Michael Conlon Head Boy for the school year 2016/17. Con-gratulations to both and best of luck in their new roles within the school community. They will be supported by Senior Prefects Peter Poniard, Alfie Cavaliero, Chynese McTiernan and Ava Murray.

TY’s Driving Lessons were provided by Martin Cunningham, Andrew

Murray and John Finans driving schools. The TY’s learned

basic driving skills including hill starts, 3 point turns, reversing,

and parking. They learnt about road safety and the upkeep of cars. The students enjoyed the driving experience as it gave them a great chance to learn how to drive and the learn the basic rules of the road.

Head Boy and Head Girl Elected

TY Driving

St Clare’s

Comprehensive 2 0 1 6 S U M M E R E D I T I T O N

LOUGH

ALLEN

ADVENTURE

CENTRE

Sixteen TY students were picked out of a hat to get to go kayak-ing and windsurfing in Lough Allen Ad-venture Centre every Thursday for 4 weeks, with all expenses paid for. On the last day, there was a competi-tion against Lough Allen students in vari-ous activities, includ-ing water polo and a

raft race which St. Clares won. The centre also held the Transallencross, in which 5 students from St. Clares came sec-ond place.

BALMORAL On the

11th May, the TY’s, Ms Cun-ningham &Ms Sweeney went to

the Balmoral Agricultural Show in Belfast .The sun was shining and there was a variety of things to ap-peal to everyone at the show – from farming, show jumping and trade exhibitions to amusements and food stalls, the day flew by and the warm weather just added to the experience.

Head Boy

Michael Conlon

Head Girl

Megan Hannon

P A G E 2

TY

Gasketball On Wednesday 4th of May TY Students organised, par-ticipated and officiated in a Gasketball blitz. The TY classes were tasked by Lei-trim GAA to develop a game that contained elements of both Gaelic football and bas-

ketball. The game was played using an exercise ball. Teams wore a mix of GAA and bas-ketball kits.

S T C L A R E ’ S C O M P R E H E N S I V E

Third Year English Trip Ms. Walsh and Ms. Carden took the third year higher level English students to Sligo on Tuesday 5th April. They visited W.B. Yeats' grave in Drumcliff followed by a talk in The Yeats Memorial Buidling in Sligo. The talk

was de-

livered by Martin Enright, the President of the Yeats Society. It was very informative and interesting. Mr. Enright spoke at length about the areas of importance in Sligo and Leitrim, to the poet Yeats. After the talk, the students went to The Merchant of Venice Sessions at The Hawkswell Theatre Sligo.

TY students participated in a four week art and drama workshop, facili-tated by the Leitrim Women’s Centre. Maura Logue from the Women’s Cen-tre organised a drama workshop where students created characters from the time of the rising. Liz Byrne worked with another group of students to cre-ate signs, props and badges for use in the parade. On the day of the parade, Kiltyclogher was transformed to look like it did in 1916, with horses and carts, residents of the town in costume, and a fair in the streets. The students that participated in the drama work-shops walked in the parade, in costume and as their characters. Other drama displays took place on the day and the parade was reported by various media including RTÉ.

Photo credit to James Connolly

Kiltyclogher

St Patricks Day Parade On Wed April 20th class 2B visited Hamilton's Castle. They recently completed a project on The Plantation

of Leitrim and learned all about the role of Sir Frederick Hamilton, the founding father of the town. The pro-prietors of the cas-tle, Tony and Maura Daley gave us a detailed tour and we all found it most informative. We

learned what daily life was like inside the walls and the how the garrison coped with being under siege. We also learned about the impact Hamilton had on shaping the history of our area.

Visit to Hamilton's Castle

FIRST AID &

CPR

Congratulations to all the TY students who completed their First Aid and CPR Cert, run by Firstaidaware.ie

Wheelchair Basketball

TY 7-a-side Gaelic

Both The Girls and Boys Ty GAA teams participated in a Ty tournament against Swin-ford, Claremorriss, Ballin-robe , Kiltimagh and Athenry. Congratulations to the girls who won their com-petition.

Transition Year students took part in a very successful Wheelchair Basketball Experience event held in Sligo I.T

Leitrim Council TY Integration Day

P A G E 3

Second Year Exchange 31 second year students participated in a school exchange with students from College Michel Servet in Annemasse. They got to visit the city of Anse ,stay with a French family and experience life as a French stu-dent .They attended school and experienced a large contrast to how our own school runs and the many cultural differences were apparent. During their lei-sure time, the students went on a boat tour of Geneva Lake, saw Mount Blanc, enjoyed the amusements and visited Animas. Overall, the students said they had a great experience participating in the exchange and many hope to stay in con-tact with their French exchange student.

On Monday 9th of May, the TY European Studies class hosted a European Day event. Students in the class presented projects on different European countries. The projects were shown to first and second year students and students participated in a quiz on the individual projects and on the capitals of different European countries.

European Studies Sky Sports Performance

TY Students Mark, Adam, Cian and Niall organised a soccer Blitz for the 1st Year Boys.

Ms Gallagher, Ms Benson and students at the National Flag Ceremony in Croke park for Proclama-tion Day in advance of the 1916 Easter Rising Commemora-tions.

The school’s county players took part in the Sky Sports Living for Sports programme in conjunction with the Youth Sports Trust. Leitrim Senior footballer and past pupil Kevin Conlon presented the programme. The main aim of the programme was to highlight the 6 keys of success and to show how they can be used in every day life. The six keys were: 1. Mental Toughness 2. Hunger To Achieve 3. People skills 4. Sports And Life Knowledge 5. Breaking Barriers 6. Planning For Suc-cess . They participated in many different team games and challenges throughout the two days.

Athletics Martin Sheridan

Perpetual Cup Congratulations to the junior and senior athletes who won numerous track and field events at the annual IT Sligo Athletics Event. They retained the cup for the third year in a row.

Leitrim County Council held the 2nd Annual TY Integration Day on the 14th of April in the Ramada Lough Allen Hotel, Drumshanbo. There were approximately 180 TY students from six secondary schools in Leitrim in attendance this year. The event was organised alongside the Leitrim County Coun-cil Roads, Veterinary and Sports Departments.

O ‘Egg Margaret Farrelly, the foun-der of O'Egg . gave a talk and cookery demon-

stration . She spoke about details of her unique selling points; using eggs as a functional food and producing egg products in a bottle to meet the convenient needs of the consumer. O'Egg chef, Veronica, demonstrated some fabulous Egg based dishes. Every student in atten-dance at the talk a goodie bag con-

On Thursday the 28th of April the first years went on a geography trips to the Giants Causeway, in Antrim.

Special Olympics Gold

Congratulations to Megan Lee who won first place in her skills category in the special Olympic badminton club Sligo.

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All Ireland Finalists

Congratulations to Shan-non O ‘Hagan and Lara Mulvaney-Kelly who will represent the school in the All Ireland Athletic Finals Shannon will represent St.Clares as Connaught Champion in the Javelin. She threw a pb of 30.35m in the Javelin at the Con-naught Finals. Lara and Shannon will both compete in shotputt, in their age catagories this June. Best of Luck to both students.

Fablab

Fablab (Manorhub) gave demonstra-tions, including use of 3D scanner, printer and a robot on Tues 23rd May in the School library

All the First year Girls took part in the Leitrim Sports physical activity celebration in the May-flower. They participated in Archery, Cycling, Box-ing and Dance.

Girls Active

First Year Geography School Tour

Archaeology Workshop

On Thurs 21st April Centre. Students were given a day long presenta-tion and series of

workshops on archaeology. This was led by Shirley Markley lecturer of archae-ology in Sligo IT and got to experience a range of practical workshops in the Bee Park Community centre.

On Thursday 14th April, the 5th Year L.C.V.P. students undertook an Enterprise trip to Belleek Pottery in Fermanagh and The Organic Centre in Rossinver with their teachers Ms. Fahey, Ms. Sweeney and Ms. Carden. Students will

complete a report based on the trip as part of their Link Module

The voluntary work group formed from the Link Modules student grouping, recently fea-tured in the Leitrim County Matters television programme alongside their team leader Mr. Michael Lonican.It fo-cused on the town of Manorhamilton and the various elements of com-munity work being car-ried out in the town. Stu-dents have been working

hard since Easter, helping the Tidy Towns group prepare for the historical and street re-naming, project on May 29th, as well as the national Tidy Towns’ adjudication process in June. Students have worked on brightly painted buildings on the Main Street, flower boxes and in the repair and painting of fences.

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