Everyone is asked to support tomorrow’s Valentine Bake Sale in the canteen!
Well done to Gavin, Alan and Ferdia for representing our school so well at today’s Munster Schools Cross-Country Championships in Co. Clare. The lads did fantastically well with Gavin coming 10th, Ferdia 15th and Alan 32nd in all of munster. Well done lads. Youve done us proud. Mant thanks to their coaches Ms. Niamh Lordan and Mr. Peter Swanton and to Ms. Sweetnam for the support today.
There will be a Subject Options Information Evening for Parents of First Years going into Second Year in Sept 2020 from 7pm to 8pm on Feb 25th and Subject Options Information for Parents of 3rd Year Students going into 4th and 4th going into 5th from 8pm.
First year girls basketball team make it three wins in a row with comfortable victory against St. Angela’s. Well done to all.
Many thanks to Ms. Cliodhna O Sullivan, Guidance Counsellor Dept. and Ms. Deirdre Hennigan, RE Dept for taking a number of our TY and 5th students to the West Cork Mental Health Conference in Bantry today.
Congratulations to our U16 Boys Basketball Team and their coach Ms. Marie O Mahony on reaching the All-Ireland League Final in Dublin today. They beat St. Peter’s of Wexford by 40 points to 30 in the quarter final and then went on an hour later to beat the much fancied Dundalk Grammar School by 50 points to 32 in the SemiFinal. They will travel to Tallaght again looking to make it a League and Cup Double! Many thanks to the lads, Ms. O Mahony and Ms. Lordan, Ms. Kavanagh and Ms. Buckley for travelling today in awful weather conditions. Another great day for Skibb Basketball!!
The following Skibbereen Community School students are currently training with Cork squads. We wish them well with their involvement this weekend!
U 16
Oisin Daly
Niall Daly
Cathail Hegarty
Jack O Neill
Jamie O Driscoll
Shane Carey
U15
Mark Keating
Dylan Hourihane
Shane O Connell
James Buckley
U14
Frank Hurley
Finn Brickley
Aidan Fahy
Sean Connolly
Donal O Callaghan
Ryan McCarthy
Luke Shorten
Well done to our U14, First Year Girls Football Team and their coach Ms. Niamh Lordan on beating MICC Dunmanway today. Many thanks to Mr. Chris O Brien for accompanying the squad.
Pictured are our First and second Year Boys and Girls Football Teams who train every Thursday after School. Many thanks to our school coaches, visiting coaches and Mr. James McCarthy and Mr. Paudie Crowley Development Officers for all their efforts.
Congratulations to our 15 TY students who completed their week long coding training course today. Each was presented with their certificate by the Vodafone team. Many thanks to Laura, Molly, Ian and Elliott for their kindness, skills, patience and motivation. They came down from Dublin and stayed for the week. Our gang thanked them with a West Cork Mug!
Well done to our first year girls basketball team who have started their A league campaign well, recording comfortable wins against Bantry and Midleton.
Pictured is Ms. Lordan’s First Year PE class doing some CPR training today.
Well done to today’s TY Group who did trojan work in picking up plastic/litter on our local beaches. Many thanks to Mr. Rory Jackson for coordinating and to Mr. Chris O Brien for accompanying the team.
Well done to our First Year Boys Basketball Team and their coach Ms. Marie O Mahony who beat Carrigaline Community School today in the league.
Our School hosted a Munster Rugby Skills session today for our First Year Girls and First Years from Scoil Pobail Bheanntrai. Denise, Willie and Damian put them through their paces. Many thanks to them, many thanks to Ms. Aoife Breen, our coach, the travelling team and coaches from Bantry and Chris and Niall our TY Admin officers. The day was glorious for some great rugby.
Many thanks to local Beekeeper, Mr. Donal Duggan for giving an excellent presentation to Mr. Fitzgerald’s TY Farming Module. Thanks to Mr. Fitzgerald for organizing.
Our U15 Boys Rugby Team were out in force at the Munster Rugby’s West Cork School’s Blitz in Dunmanway. Skibb A beat Bantry, Clon and Dunmanway and Skibb B beat Ross, lost to Clon and lost to Ross. Everyone gave it their all. The next Blitz qualifier is on March 3rd. Well done to the panel and their coach, Mr. Paul Crosse. Many thanks to him and Ms. Aoife Breen for accompanying the team. Thanks also to Niall Sweetnam and Chris Benn TY for doing the admin on the day and to Munster Rugby for a well organized tournament.
Pictured is the team from Vodafone who will be working with our TY Team for the week. Many thanks to Ms. Laura Corbett, Ms. Molly McGrath, Mr. Elliott Ryan and Mr. Ian Kinsley.
CodeLikeAGirl workshop is a nationwide initiative which aims to teach teenage girls how to code. Run in partnership with CodeFirst: Girls and supported by Vodafone’s Technology team and their Women’s Network.
This initiative is part of Vodafone’s new ground breaking “What will you be?” international digital skills jobs programme which aims to provide career guidance and access to training content in the digital economy for up to 10 million young people across 18 different countries through a new smartphone-based service called the Future Jobs Finder (https://futurejobsfinder.vodafone.com/). The new tool analyses personality, abilities and behaviours to recommend relevant and live digital jobs and free online learning content.
Dear Parent(s)/Guardian(s),
ACCS (Association of Community and Comprehensive Schools) has informed the Board of Management that all TUI members have been directed to take strike action on Tuesday 4th February. Pickets will be placed on all schools where TUI members are employed on that day.
If the strike goes ahead as planned the Board of Management will not be in a position to discharge its responsibilities with regard to the care of students in its charge.
The Board of Management is therefore requesting you not to send your son/daughter to school on Tuesday 4th February.
The Board of Management regrets that this course of action is necessary. The Board has no wish to interrupt the education of students in this school.
Yours sincerely,
___Mr. J. Hourihane______________________
Chairperson of the Board of Management.