Skibbereen Community School would be very grateful if the community of Skibbereen could assist us to be in with a chance to win €50,000 for our school.
Step 1: Download the Lidl Plus App.
Step 2: Select Skibbereen Community School.
Step 3: Spend €40 or more in-store to earn a stamp.
Step 4: Collect 6 stamps by Sunday 22nd October and submit your completed card.
Farmers Journal offer for students this year:
€20 for the Digital paper (normally costs €159)
or
€50 for the physical paper plus a digital copy plus a Backpack (normally costs €234)
If interested contact Mr. Shanahan before this Friday September 8th as orders must be in by next Monday.
Fourth Years pictured today completing the Skibbereen Town Centre First Survey.
Under the Town Centre First Policy initiative, Skibbereen town has been identified as a “pathfinder” town and funding has been granted to Cork County Council for the development of a regeneration plan for the town.
The aim of the Town Centre First Policy is to create town centres that function as viable, vibrant and attractive locations for people to live, work, and visit, while also functioning as the service, social, cultural and recreational hub for the local community.
Students today were given an opportunity to reflect on living in Skibbereen and to give their views by completing the survey.
We are looking forward to the next stage of this process.
Pictured also is our Principal Mr. Anton O’Mahony and Ms. Órla O’Sullivan discussing the initiative.
Photos from the Team Building Activity as part of the TY Induction Day.
Congratulations to Katie Kingston who represented Ireland in the AAA Championships in Birmingham.
Katie was selected on the Irish team for this competition having achieved the qualifying standard at the national juvenile championships in July. Katie won gold in the U17 girls’ javelin (41.80M) & that booked her place to represent Ireland.
Katie won five All-Ireland medals in 2023:
Silver in the U18 All-Ireland Spring Throws
Silver in the All-Ireland Juniors
Silver in the Senior All-Ireland League
Silver in the All-Ireland Schools
Gold at the National Juvenile Championships.
Well done Katie on your superb achievements.
Many thanks to Actor Robert Sheehan for visiting our school and speaking to our TY students on their induction day.
He spoke about going out of your comfort zone & learning to love yourself. He told students to see knock backs and rejection as experiences to grow and develop and to stop wasting precious time on mobile phones & social media and live in the now interacting with people.
Caoimhe Flannery became the first SCS student to win an International Schools Athletics medal ,following her 3rd place finish at the Schools' International Athletics Board (SIAB) in Grangemouth, Scotland in July.
Caoimhe was selected following her win at the Tailteann Games u17 Interprovincial Schools event, in June. This followed on from her clean sweep of South Munster,Munster and All Ireland Schools' titles in the u17 1500m Steeplechase this season.
Competing against the top 2 athletes from England ,Scotland and Wales, Caoimhe ran a Personal Best of 5;10 to finish in 3rd place .This was the first Steeplechase medal won by an Irish athlete since 2018 and the first ever by a Munster girl.
Congratulations & well done to Caoimhe on a superb achievement.
Pictured below are our first year students on their first day in SCS.
The school community wishes them every success as they begin a new chapter on their educational journey.
Best of Luck!
Pictured here are the Barrett family handing over two cheques of €10,100 each to Pieta House and West Cork Palliative Care.
€20,200 was raised during the year in the hugely successful tractor run. It was Ricky’s wish to have it bigger and better than the previous year.
The school community were delighted to support the tractor run in aid of Ricky’s chosen charities.
‘Skibbereen taking on Food Waste’ was a key project for Skibbereen Tidy Towns in 2022/23.
Funded by the Clean Technology Centre at Munster Technological University, SCS students had the opportunity to partake in a number of food waste awareness events.
The CTC kindly sponsored two €100 gift cards as prizes in a draw for students who successfully completed the online food waste course. The lucky winners were Niamh and Oleg. Many congratulations.
Congratulations to Leah and Heidi who received a West Cork Garda Youth award on Friday night in the West Cork Hotel in Skibbereen. Ricky Barrett RIP also received a posthumous award.
Pictured here are our 4th years litter picking yesterday.
Many thanks to Ms. Orla O’Sullivan, Mr. Sean Ronan and Ms. Deirdre Hennigan for organising.
Thanks also to Mr. Jerome Dwyer from Skibbereen Tidy Towns and to Cork County Council for their continued support in collecting the rubbish.
