On Thursday the 26th of January three of our 4th year classes went down town to help our community by picking up litter behind the Eldon and in other areas of the town .
Our students believe that it is important to give back to the community and they also want to help Skibbereen tidy towns achieve their goals and make the town a better place for everyone.
The students managed to collect several bags of litter and will hope to continue this good work in the future
4th year students Bláthín Barry, Stephen Kingston, Christina Hurley, Sophia Kate leahy, Daniel Hurley, Ryan Scully and Chloe McCarthy went to Baltimore road nursing home recently to play Bingo with the residents.
Both students and residents really enjoyed this experience and our students brought great joy to the residents.
SCS are delighted to announce that going forward we will be assisting Skibbereen Tidy Towns in their efforts with litter picking in Skibbereen and educating young people about this important topic.
We wish to thank Mr. Jerome Dwyer and Mr. John Hamilton for giving up their time to speak to 4th years last week.
There is more rubbish now than 26 years ago. Skibbereen has three silver medals and are striving for gold and we are looking forward to helping them achieve this.
Thanks to Ms. Órla O Sullivan, Mr. Sean Ronan, Ms. Deirdre Hennigan and Ms. Grace Callaghan for organising.
SCS is delighted to announce we are taking part in a walk ability study with Ms. Sandra Flynn and Skibbereen Tidy Towns.
We are very excited about this 4th year project that will see groups of 4th years looking at different areas of Skibbereen with a view to making Skibbereen a better place to be, going forward.
Thanks to Ms. Sandra Flynn for giving up her time and to Ms. Órla O’Sullivan and Mr. Sean Ronan for organising.
January 22nd - January 29th is Catholic Schools Week 2023.
The theme of this year's Catholic Schools Week is "Walking Together in Faith & Love".
Hard luck to our Senior Boys Football Team and their coaches and selectors, Mr. Tony Harrington, Mr. Colman O Driscoll, Mr. James McCarthy, Mr. Elliot Connolly and Mr. Chris O Brien on losing to Coláiste Spiorad Naoimh on Thursday in the Quarter Final. Many thanks to all the players, staff involved and supporters for all their efforts throughout the campaign.
Congratulations to Ava who received a display award for her project in the BT young scientist competition. Well done on a great achievement. Many thanks to her teacher Ms. Nóirín O’Brien for accompanying her to the RDS.
Ava also won the ISTA National Photo Competition. She received her prize in the RDS from the ISTA former chairperson, Mary Mullaghy. The competition was on the theme of sustainability. She captured a beautiful skyline while out walking in Drinagh one evening. Thank you to her teachers Ms. Ita O' Donovan and Ms. Angela Burke for promoting this competition in the school.
Tánaiste Micheál Martin was very impressed with Ava Scarlett's project today at the BT Young Scientist competition.
Pictured here are our wonderful Fourth Years that were helping out at Cara House.
A very pleasant few hours were had by all.
SCS is delighted to be associated with Áine Minihane and her hardworking team.
Ava Scarlett who is a transition year student is competing in the ‘Intermediate Individual Biological and Ecological Sciences’ category.
Her project is titled: Constructing a Microbial Fuel Cell to Investigate the Electrical Power Output of Copious Organic Waste Samples.
On the first day, she set up her stand and underwent the first of 3 rounds of judging.
Best of luck Ava over the next few days!
On Tuesday 10th of January the school were delighted to welcome Sandra Flynn from Skibbereen Tidy Towns committee. She spoke of her role in Skibbereen of promoting a Walkability Study for Skibbereen. She also promoted her work on food wastage in Skibbereen.
Thanks to Ms. Órla O’Sullivan and Ms. Deirdre Hennigan for organising.
SCS are delighted to say 2023 started off with a bang with Cara House.
When our students went in, they were introduced to Áine Minihane who was very helpful and welcoming to them as always.
They went around serving teas, coffees, and scones to the different tables and chatted with the elderly people as well. Next, they were sent off to collect messages for them, which they really enjoyed as they felt they were helping to give back to the community in a small way, but it means a lot to all the elderly people.
At 1 o'clock they served everyone their soup and dinner, followed by cake to celebrate one member of Cara House Luncheon Club's 80th Birthday. They lit candles on the cake and sang a big happy birthday!
Even though they were only there for two and a half hours, they all thoroughly enjoyed the experience, everybody was so lovely.
They would all like to volunteer like this on a regular basis as they feel small things like these can make a huge difference to the members of Cara House Luncheon Club. They felt that they learned loads from this experience.
