The TY chemistry class made delicious ice cream today using their knowledge of the effect of salt on ice.
The salt allows the ice and salt mixture to get colder than pure water ice. This extra cold mixture of salt and ice is able to freeze the ingredients in the ziplock bag and turn them into yummy ice cream.
Top it off with some strawberry sauce and it was the perfect Thursday treat!
Class 1F took part in a Science Escape Room today as part of Science Week.
They had to answer questions related to the digestive system and crack the code before the time ran out. Well done to all and to the winners, Danny & TJ who escaped first in record breaking time.
The TY Food and Hospitality and Home Economics classes had a visit from Michelin Star chef Rob Krawczyk from The Chestnut Restaurant in Ballydehob.
He spoke to them about his journey around the world learning from world famous chefs and what brought him back to beautiful west Cork. His advise is work hard and don’t always take the easy option. Sometimes you need to work for the experience rather than the money.
The School Community think of Craig, his family, friends and Year Group on the 2nd Anniversary of his passing. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
Well done our TY Students who raised €1700 recently for the Mercy Hospital’s “Heroes” Fundraiser! This money will be used to support teenagers who are undergoing cancer treatment in the hospital. Pictured are our TY Students, Ms. Louise O Brien, Mercy Hospital Foundation, Mr. Conor Uhl, TY Coordinator and Mr. Diarmuid Ó Donnabháin, Deputy Principal.
The school was delighted to invite Nurse Margaret Crean to our school today and yesterday to speak to students about personal health and hygiene. Tks to Ms. Orla O Sullivan, Ms. Majella Ni Charthaigh and Mr. Pat Joe Whooley for organising
TY students headed to Bantry Driving Academy to take their first steps towards driving.
They got the opportunity to drive a car, change tyres, and learn various driver theories and road signs.
A great day for all involved.
Safe driving in the future.
TY students had a great day in West Cork Secrets Team Building adventure centre.
They completed various group activities that encourage team work and resilience.
You are only as strong as your weakest link.
A great day with a great group of students.
1st years took part in 'The Spaghetti Tower Challenge' yesterday as part of Science week.
The students had to design their own structure and then create it using just spaghetti and tape.
Well done to Jennifer & Patrick who created the tallest tower, it was 104cm high!
Now that the Digital Drop-In concept has been tried and tested, Thursday 9 November was the first of the 4-in-a-row workshops for November, all on Thursday afternoons.
Participants were welcomed with tea, coffee and biscuits by Ellen and Rachel, who kindly helped us out with hot spotting our devices since the Wi-Fi network was a challenge, even with devices leaning against the window! It was quite an experience but armed with Cork County Council library cards everyone managed to progress with downloading and installing BorrowBox, and in a couple of cases, borrowing an ebook or audiobook. We are keeping our fingers crossed that next week we will be able to follow up with more knowledge sharing on this topic and in addition to BorrowBox we plan to include Libby, the library app for a world of magazines! Participants left the workshop armed with a notebook in which their mentors have started adding tips and tricks that they may refer to at home.
Tip of the workshop: If you’re not sure whether your smartphone data plan includes unlimited data, have a look at a recent bill and it should tell you. If you don’t have unlimited data you may wish to avoid hot spotting to your smartphone since it could cost you money!
Many thanks to Mr Anton O’Mahony for the school’s participation and graciously hosting the workshops. Thanks also to Mr Conor Uhl and Ms Orla O’Sullivan for organising.
Well done to our U16 and U19 Boys Basketball teams and their coach, Ms. Marie O Mahony on beating Douglas Community School at home today.
TY Art students and their teachers, Ms. Olivia Hoskins and Ms. Hannah Phelan went on a trip to see the Ardu Street Art in Cork City.
They saw some amazing murals scattered around the city. They also stopped off in the Crawford Gallery for a look around.
The RE Department have been running the annual Shoebox Appeal- and we want to say a huge thank you to all the staff and students for their generous donations!
Our local representative Sally Daly came up to SCS on Friday last to collect our donations and spoke to the 2A RE group. She reminded us of how our small sacrifices can make a huge difference to children in need.
Well done everyone!
Wednesday November 8th : Hard luck to our U16 and U19 Boys Basketball teams and their coach Ms. Marie O Mahony who were narrowly beaten by Crosshaven away.
Wednesday Nov 8th: Congrats to our U15 Boys Rugby Team and their coach, Ms. Aoife Breen who won all their games at the West Cork Munster Rugby’s Schools Development Blitz in Clonakilty RFC.
Wednesday Nov 8th : Congrats to our First year Ladies Football Team and their coaches, Ms. Anna Ward and Ms. Kate O Donovan on beating St. Mary’s of Midleton in the LGFA County Championship
Wednesday 8th: Hard luck to our Senior Boys Football team and their coaches, Mr. Tony Harrington, Mr. Michéal Kelly and Mr. Colman O Driscoll on losing to Tralee CBS in the first round of the Corn Uí Mhuirí.
Thursday 9th Nov: Congrats to our Junior Ladies Football team and their coaches Ms. Ella Ryan and Ms. Anna Ward on beating Sacred Heart Clonakilty in the County Championship.
Dear Parent/Guardian,
Due to Met Eireann and the Department Of Education’s advice, Skibbereen Community School will open at 10am tomorrow morning, Monday Nov 13th. School Buses will not be running in the morning!
Hard luck to our U16 and U19 Girls Basketball teams and their coaches, Ms. Maria Wilson and Ms. Kate O Donovan who were beaten by Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí yesterday in the league.
TY Home Economics and Spanish students joined forces to prepare and enjoy a typical Spanish breakfast together.
Students were responsible for creating a shopping list and price comparison for different items of food, as they had a budget to adhere to. The TY Home Economics class prepared some of the foods & presented them.
The TY Spanish & Home Economics classes were also busy designing menus, decorating the room, sourcing suitable music, setting up the cafetería, serving the food, tidying up afterwards and teaching each other Spanish phrases. The Home Economics & Spanish students also experienced the sensory challenge of differentiating between freshly squeezed orange juice and concentrated orange juice.
We were lucky to have Jone, Wisdom and José in our group and they explained each dish in Spanish. Ivan also explained his typical Ukranian breakfast, and he also prepared a Ukranian breakfast for the TY students to try.
Students sampled freshly made pan con tomate, magdalenas, napolitanas, tortilla española, zumo de naranja, chocolate caliente and café con leche.
It was a very enjoyable morning for all involved!!!
Day 8 was a jam packed day that followed a wonderful evening in Tinker’s Son Restaurant where we were honoured to meet local celebrity and award winning chef Nr. Brian Houlihan from Boston who cooked in Bia in Bantry and the Riverside Restaurant as part of West Cork Food Festival. His shepherds’s pie is superb! After meeting the school’s librarian Tracey Newman, we headed off to JKF Library. The nation’s official memorial to John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States was a stunning building. It was off to the Irish Pastoral Centre for lunch where we were given an incredible welcome by the staff who fed us chicken curry and lasagne. Before we left Fr. Dan Finn and Mr. Noel Daly sang “The Banks of our own lovely Lee”. It was so lovely to also have lunch with Ms. Kathleen Adams, Ms. Mary Ann Casavant, Mr. Neil Hurley, Ms. Amy O’ Connell, Mr. Albert Swanton (a native of Skibbereen) and Ms. Roisin Lee. They do such important work and provide incredible support to the Irish. We also loved seeing the Bumblebee Knitting group. Tks again to Brenda O’ Connor as always for accompanying us and guiding us along the way.
Scituate Boston Blue Men’s Group update. We had a great night out at the Blue Men Group in Boston. We were roaring laughing when Liz and Brenda were asked to go up on stage. This was a wonderful show definitely worth seeing that plays all over the world and is going over 30 years to date. It was a nice celebration of our final night together. Thanks to Brenda and Ed O’ Connor, Liz Grindle, Christine Walsh, Carol Sullivan Hanley and Kate Ciulla for accompanying us.