As part of Languages & Culture Week, 3rd year Spanish students brought in food for a Tapas Fiesta, mainly Spanish but also Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Mexican and Columbian dishes and desserts.
Well done to all the class!
Thank you to all those for your support to date. We are currently coming 2nd in Cork in the competition.
Skibbereen Community School would be very grateful if the community of Skibbereen could continue to assist us to be in with a chance to win €50,000 for our school. More funding and jerseys also available.
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.
TY students enjoyed a great day at the Warren doing both surfing and Pitch & Putt. Great waves and perfect greens offered a great experience for the students. The weather also played ball.
First Year English students enjoyed a wonderful trip to Skibbereen Town Library today.
They were told that their library membership was free. With their library card, they can borrow twelve items for three weeks. There are no fines anymore, so there is no reason not to use the library.
They can use the computers and WiFi in the library for free and print if they need to. They can download a Cork County Library App to browse the catalogue, request books, and access thousands of free e-books, audiobooks, e-magazines and lots more! They can even borrow musical instruments.
Thanks to Sharon and Veronica for their presentation in the library and to Ms. Órla O’ Sullivan and Mr. Enda O’Donovan for facilitating.
Congratulations & well done to Daisy Griffiths and Alice Bushe who competed in the 1720 National Championships in Dunmore East as part of the Baltimore Sailing Club under 25 team. The BSC team won 1st Under 25 boat at the event which is a great achievement (ex pupil Joseph Griffiths at the helm!).
Congratulations & well done to Leah Geaney, winner of the silver medal in the Celtic Cup Boxing Competition last weekend.
The theme of the photo competition is 'Chemistry in your daily life'.
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This Wednesday September 27th at 11.30am we will have our beginning of year school mass in St Patrick’s Cathedral Skibbereen.
This is a very special occasion where we come together as a school community in gratitude and take time to reflect on our hopes and aspirations for the year ahead.
All members of the school community are invited to attend and we would like to say a special thank you to Fr Heinhold for leading the mass this year.
Well done to our 4th years today who were picking up rubbish around High Street this morning.
Many thanks to Ms. Orla O’Sullivan for organising, to Jerome Dwyer from Skibbereen Tidy Towns and Cork County Council for organising the collection.
Thank you to the Ludgate Hub who facilitated a fantastic tech talk for our TY students yesterday.
Guest speakers Jack Regan, Claire Meskill and Graham Clarke gave the students some fantastic advice on start ups, how to succeed in the business world and where you can get support and funding from.
Some great quotes from today’s talk include:
“Find a problem and develop a way to fix it. Be passionate about what you are doing”.
“If you’re not moving forward your falling behind”.
“Don’t judge a fish on it’s ability to climb a tree, find your domain and excel in that.”
Digital Drop-In is a pilot initiative that aims to provide an informal social environment where older adults can come together to enhance their digital skills through facilitated peer and intergenerational learning.
Arising from PhD research by Sandra Flynn, Digital Drop-In is the first project from social enterprise, Learning. Digital. Together., where learning meets friendship, and technology becomes fun!
Supported by a small team of enthusiastic Transition Year students this autumn, a series of informal workshops will guide older adults through each step of what they want to learn, ensuring they gain the skills and confidence needed to maintain and develop their digital literacy.
At an information session facilitated by Dr Sandra Flynn and Ms Susan Boland, volunteer TY mentors were provided with information about this important pilot and encouraged to share their motivation for volunteering along with hopes of what they would like to get from this intergenerational learning opportunity.
The first workshop is scheduled for Thursday, 28th September, when Skibbereen Community School looks forward to hosting our older adult 'drop-in' learners.
Thanks to Mr. Conor Uhl and Ms. Orla O’Sullivan for organising.
SCS will celebrate World Languages and Culture Week from 22nd – 28th September! This coincides with Culture Night, which is celebrated nationally on 22nd September, and The European Day of Languages, which is celebrated every year on 26th September.
The aim is to promote and celebrate different languages and cultures within our school community, to learn about new traditions and to practise a second language in a fun and meaningful way.
Culture can be viewed through the lens of values and belief systems; languages; sport; music; art; food; way of life; entertainment etc.
A number of activities have been organized with lots more to follow!
· Music - breaktime playlists
· Art - First year poster competition
· Dance - Zumba & Salsa class; Dance Offs!
· Sports - “Champions League” soccer tournament
· Quizzes
· Food – un petit-déjeuner / desayuno español, churros y paella
· Festival – a mini Tomatina
· Film club – screening of short foreign language films
Well done to our 4th years today who spent the morning picking up rubbish around High Street.
Many thanks to Ms. Orla O Sullivan for organising, to Jerome Dwyer from Skibbereen Tidy Towns and Cork County Council for organising the collection of the litter.
TY outdoor pursuits day took the students on a hike from Kenmare to Killarney.
The 16km walk through the beautiful Kerry mountains started at 10am in Kenmare and all arrived back at Torc Waterfall at 2.30.
A great day enjoyed by all involved.
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Pictured this morning are our 4th Years picking up litter in the surrounding areas.
Well done everyone and thanks to Ms. Orla O’Sullivan for organising.
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.
