LCVP Students Visit Clonakilty Black Pudding Visitor Centre

5th year LCVP students visited Clonakilty Black Pudding visitor centre on Wednesday last and were welcomed by Anita who gave an insightful presentation on the business.

Colette Twomey, Managing Director is the only person who actually knows the recipe for the famous Clonakilty Black Pudding.

We observed the factory floor from a viewing gallery and Anita talked us through the production process while answering any questions we had.

Our visit concluded with a complimentary tasting of their delicious sausages, rashers, black pudding, white pudding and veggie pudding.

Career Guidance Guest Speaker

The Guidance Department were delighted to welcome Mr Don McCarthy, SOLAS advisor to the school yesterday to speak about and discuss new developments in Apprenticeships with 5th year students.

Don outlined the fantastic opportunities that are available to students interested in this option after school. 

Chess Competition

This was the Annual Bantry and Dunmanway School Completion Programme Chess Competition. Kindly sponsored by Dunmanway Credit Union and supported by the Community Gardaí providing transport and some medals.

Other schools involved are  COLÁISTE POBAIL BHEANNTRAÍ and MARIA IMMACULATA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DUNMANWAY 

 One of our Skibbereen Teams won overall. Team members were:

Ivan Prashel.

Liza Denysova.

Patrick Bahrynowski.

Danish Mohd Saiful.

 Lucy Riley was on a mixed schools team that came third.

Liza got a special award as the highest scorer in the whole competition involving 32 players.

Well done to all.

All-Island Healthy Home Chef Cookery Competition

Poppy Kilpatrick - finalist in the All-Island Healthy Home Chef Cookery Competition, pictured with Mr. O’Mahony.

We in Skibbereen Community School would like to congratulate Poppy Kilpatrick, who has been selected as one of the finalists in the All-Island Final of the Healthy Home Chef Cookery Competition in the Senior category.

The final will take place on Wednesday May 1st in ATU St Angelas College in Sligo, where celebrity chef Neven Maguire will be one of the team of experts judging the competition.

This a fantastic achievement for Poppy and the Home Economics Department are exceptionally proud of Poppy’s achievement to date, along with everyone in Skibbereen Community School.

Poppy previously excelled in the Macroom Food Festival cookery competition and has pursued her passion further, by recently completing her work experience at Restaurant Chestnut, (Michelin star restaurant) in Ballydehob and also at Liss Ard Estate, in Skibbereen.

Skibbereen Community School would like to take this opportunity to commend you Poppy on your fantastic success to date, and we wish you the very best of luck on Wednesday. You’re already a winner in our eyes!

2nd Year Well-Being

Pictured are our 2nd years meditating during their well-being classes today on our new yoga mats.

Thanks to Ms. Orla O’Sullivan and Ms. Tina O’ Mahony for facilitating.

Green Schools - Ways to Make a Difference

The Green Schools Club are starting a new initiative - Ways to Make a Difference - and are hoping to post a suggestion each week. Suggestion number three is as follows:

TY Waterford Greenway Cycle

Pictures of our TY students who completed the Waterford Greenway cycle today.

A great day was had by all!

1st Year Boys Football

Pictured below are our 1st year boys gaelic football team who participated in a football blitz in Dunmanway yesterday, Wednesday 24th April.

Well done to all.

Inter School Wheelchair Basketball Tournament

Pictured below are SCS students who participated in an inter school wheelchair basketball tournament in Coláiste Pobail Bheanntraí on Wednesday 24th April.

Well done to all.

U14 Soccer

Best of luck to the West Cork U14 Soccer Team and especially Skibbereen Community School students Bobby Carstairs, Conall Whooley and Matthew Ashe who travel to Barcelona to take part in a soccer tournament.

They take on Korea, Spain and Holland over the next few days!

1st & 2nd Year Students Visit Skibbereen Library

Pictured below are our 1st & 2nd years after visiting Skibbereen library today.

They were all encouraged to read and avail of all of the library services.

Thanks to Gina Davis, Sharon O’Mahony and Jim Coonihan for facilitating and to Ms. Orla O’Sullivan for organising.

TY Students Litter Picking

Pictured below are some of our 4th year students litter picking this week.

Many thanks to Mr. Jerome Dwyer Skibbereen Tidy Towns, Cork County Council and Ms. Orla O’Sullivan for organising.


TY GAA Coaches help organise National School Football Blitz, April 23rd

Well done and many thank to our TY GAA coaches who helped organise the National School’s Football Blitz in Rossa Park on April 23rd. Over 320 kids took part. Many thanks to Mr. James McCarthy, Munster Development Officer and Mr. Conor Uhl, TY Coordinator. Missing from photo were:

Kate Connolly

Rachel Connolly

Holly Brickley

Grace O'Connell

Kate Carey

Allie Tobin 

Eabha O'Donovan

Aoife O'Driscoll

County Semi-Final Win for Senior Ladies Football Team, April 23rd.

Congratulations to our Senior Ladies Football Team and their coaches, Ms. Ella Ryan, Ms. Anna Ward, Ms. Kate O Donovan and Mr. Ger Carey on their win over Sacred Heart Clonakilty in the County Semi Final today. Many thanks to those parents and local club members who attended.

First Year Trip to Ballyhass Adventure Centre on May 1st

Dear Parent/Guardian, As part of the 1st year trip to Ballyhass Adventure Centre On May 1st, students must fill out an online waiver before they can participate in any activities. This is also a mobile phone free event. In an event of emergency, parents can contact school staff on 0871028472 during that day.

Plese follow the link below and fill out the required information. Your booking ref is: 162185 to gain access. Link: https://www.ballyhass.ie/sign-waiver 

Kind Regards, 
Rosie O Brien.

School Chaplain
Skibbereen Community School ,

Gortnaclohy, 
Skibbereen,
Co Cork.
Ph: 028 51172

W: www.skibbereencommunityschool.ie    


Mr. Jeremy Irons and the Green Schools Committee

On Tuesday 9th of April the SCS Green Schools Committee was delighted to welcome the well-known actor Jeremy Irons to our school to introduce the documentary film ‘Trashed’.  This film, which Jeremy produced, researched and narrated, highlights the many negative impacts of the waste that our lifestyle produces.

 It is a hard-hitting film in places but gets over the message of the importance of reducing our waste for health, environmental and social reasons.

 The film explores the various ways that societies have tried to deal with their trash, eg. dumps, incinerators and burying it, but shows that the massive volume of plastic that we are now producing has overwhelmed the systems and has polluted our soil, air, rivers and oceans with toxic chemicals that can have devastating effects on human health.

 The students watching the documentary found it very thought provoking and had some probing questions for Jeremy Irons at the end, to which he responded with honesty.  Things have not improved since the film was made in 2012, but he encouraged everyone to do their bit by encouraging their family members to cut down on buying plastic whenever they can eg. take your own bag to the shops and don’t buy fruit that’s wrapped in plastic.  Also, he asked us not to buy lots of fast fashion as clothes waste (which almost always contains an amount of plastic fibres) makes up a high proportion of the mountains of rubbish poisoning the planet.

 In talking with the Green Schools Committee afterwards he encouraged them to carry out some detective work to find out how much plastic waste in school is recycled and what happens to that recycling when it leaves the school.

 It was a sobering and thought-provoking afternoon, and all agreed that everybody should watch the film ‘Trashed’ to realise the effect plastic is having on our lives and the future lives of those who come after us.  We were very grateful to Jeremy Irons for taking the time to come and explore this important subject with us and for encouraging us to take responsibility for helping to take care of our world.

1st Year Girls Football

Well done to our 1st year girls football team who had a great win against Coláiste Choilm today.

Green Schools - Ways to Make a Difference

The Green Schools Club are starting a new initiative - Ways to Make a Difference - and are hoping to post a suggestion each week. Suggestion number two is as follows:

Cineáltas Anti-Bullying Flag

Well done to our second year SPHE class who officially put up our Cineáltas Kindness Flag in its permanent position today, as part our our anti-bullying campaign launched by our principal Mr. Anton O’Mahony.

We are very proud of the message that this flag sends out about the importance of kindness. This is a very important message, to be positive in life and to think of others.