Edmund Rice Schools Trust Newsletter / Issue 6 / Autum 2012
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Edmund Rice Schools Trust • Autumn 2012 • Issue 6 Síol Newsletter The very best wishes to you all from the Cillian Kirwan Edmund Rice Schools Trust as you start this new school year. Cillian Kirwan is a fourth year student in St. Fintan’s High School, Sutton, Dublin 13. It is always a great pleasure for me to read the very many life- Cillian’s commitment to sport has been manifest since his giving stories from your schools that are reproduced here in enrolment in St. Fintan’s four years ago. A young man of the pages of Síol. many talents he currently plays on the U16 Gaelic football The quality and breadth of education being provided in the and hurling teams in school. He also plays both sports for his Edmund Rice schools is truly inspiring. Such quality is a fitting club, Scoil Uí Chonaill, where he captains the U16 football tribute in this very important year, which marks the 250th team. Cillian is also a gifted athlete, representing St. Fintan’s anniversary of the birth of the founder of our schools, Blessed in Cross Country and Track and Field events both regional and Edmund Rice, who was born on 1st June, 1762. national. He is a member of the Intermediate Cross Country team which won the All Ireland Championship in Galway on I encourage you all to contribute to the life of your own school 10th March this year. and to avail of the opportunities that your school provides you with. You can do whatever you make up your mind to do. As However Cillian is not just an accomplished sportsman. He is passionate about music and plays guitar and bass as well the inventor Henry Ford said “whether you think you can, or as singing in a local band. Cillian had one of the lead roles you think you can’t, you are right”. I wish you well for the year in our recent school musical, Disco Inferno, which played to ahead and I urge you all to follow your dreams. packed houses over three nights in March. Indeed on the last Very best wishes, day of the show Cillian left Dublin early on the morning of Gerry Bennett, Chief Executive 10th March to travel to Galway where he joined his teammates to compete in the All Ireland Cross Country Championships Final. Cillian was first home on the team thus ensuring victory for St. Fintan’s in the final. He didn’t have time to wait for the medal ceremony, having to rush back to Dublin to take part in the final night of the musical. Cillian Kirwan continued A natural leader Cillian is a role model for all students in the school especially those involved in sport. When representing St. Fintan’s Cillian at all times does so with pride and honour inspiring the school community in so many ways. In everything that he undertakes be it academic, sport, music or other, Cillian gives fully and generously of his time, talents and efforts. Cillian strives at all times to achieve his potential, in most instances surpassing it. Cillian Kirwan is mannerly, courteous and respectful to every member of our community at all times. He devotes many hours to coaching underage players and he is equally active in volunteering for any tasks that require attention in the school. Cillian Kirwan’s quiet maturity and integrity mark him out as a young man of exceptional character. Cillian represents all that is positive in our community and in young people in general. In our opinion he embodies the true spirit of the Olympics and St. Fintan’s High School was proud to nominate him to participate in the Olympic Torch Relay on 6th June. He did his school, his community, his family and the Olympic Council of Ireland proud and we in St. Fintan’s High School were proud to support Cillian as he prepared to take on the responsibility and honour of Olympic torchbearer for the 2012 Olympics. Contents Buaiteoirí Scléip 2012! 3 Swords Students receive award from Dublin City Lord Mayor 3 Sive 4 Don’t stop believing! 5 Proud to be Irish in Europe 7 Abbey contribution recognised by GAA President 8 Grandparents Afternoon at Doon Primary School 9 All Ireland Senior Champion 11 Slán le Cairde Uaisle 12 Stained Glass Window Project 2012 14 Zambia 20 Scoil Iognáid Rís, Kilkenny 27 & 28 Coláistí na nDéise Thiar win Dr. Harty Cup 33 Síol Page 2 Buaiteoirí Scléip 2012! Gaelcholáiste Mhuire A.G., Corcaigh Bhí lá den scoth againn ar an 24 Márta in amharclann an Axis, Baile Munna ag craobh ceannais Scléip 2012. Ghlac 15 scoil páirt sa chraobh, agus bhí an-rath ar an imeacht. Bhí sé an-dian ar na moltóirí cinneadh a dhéanamh maidir leis na buaiteoirí toisc feabhas na tallainne a bhí ar stáitse rompu. Mhol siad na hiomaitheoirí uile as an dul chun cinn a bhí déanta acu ó na réamhbabhtaí, ba léir go ndearna gach éinne an t-uafás cleachtadh! Sa deireadh, bhí an bua ag ár mbuachaillí idirbhliana (Dylan Ó hEochaidh, Stiofán Ó Gallchóir, Eoin Ó Donnabháin, Cian Ó Bhriain, agus Graham Ó Cuana) sa rannóg Ceol Nua-Aimseartha Grúpaí! Is éacht iontach é seo agus molaimid iad go hard! Mo cheol sibh a bhuachaillí! Swords Students receive award from Dublin City Lord Mayor Coláiste Choilm, Swords Students from Coláiste Choilm and Loreto College who took part in Buaiteoirí Scléip 2012! the Swords Lions Club sponsored Peer Education Alcohol Awareness 3 Programme last year (Transition Year - TY) were each awarded a Swords Students receive award from Dublin City Lord Mayor 3 certificate of achievement by the Dublin City Lord Mayor, Cllr Andrew Montague, at an event organised by Dublin Lions Club in the Mansion Sive 4 House on Fri 21 Oct last. Students from three other schools also attended, Holy Faith in Clontarf, Larkin Community College in Cathal Don’t stop believing! 5 Brugha Street and St Louis High School in Rathmines. The programme is now in its seventh year with the two Swords Colleges involved for Proud to be Irish in Europe 7 the past three years. Initially, the teachers are trained in the programme and provided with Abbey contribution recognised by GAA President 8 teaching materials. The transition year students are then trained over Grandparents Afternoon at Doon Primary School 9 8/10 sessions. On completion of their training they work in teams teaching either 1st Year or 2nd Year classes about the ill-effects of alcohol. They use All Ireland Senior Champion 11 the materials supplied and material from their own research to address the issue of alcohol abuse. While the TY students run these classes there is Slán le Cairde Uaisle 12 always a teacher present. Maurice Kealy from Swords Lions Club explains that the costs of training and Stained Glass Window Project 2012 14 materials, and attendance at the awards ceremony is borne by Swords Lions Club who are very proud of the success of the project and the enthusiasm Zambia 20 f f StuStudents from Coláiste Choilm Swords at the Mansion House. Front Row L/R: Frank O’Donoghue Dublin Lions with which the teachers and students alike approach the programme each Club and Programme Organiser, Sean Sandford District year. The major benefits based on feedback from them are: Scoil Iognáid Rís, Kilkenny 27 & 28 Governor Lions Ireland, Maurice Kealy Swords Lions Club, Mary O’Keeffe Teacher Colaiste Choilm and Farid Assouad f Alcohol is a major issue in society and this initiative puts it in the Coláistí na nDéise Thiar win Dr. Harty Cup 33 President Dublin Lions Club. spotlight to ensure young people are informed about the risks of alcohol f L/R: Maurice Kealy Swords Lions Club, Mary O’Keeffe f It is a practical and effective way to help change how our society and Teacher Coláiste Choilm and Sean Sandford District approaches its use of alcohol Governor Lions Ireland also from Swords Lions Club f The programme builds a spirit of leadership and social responsibility among the young peer educators Autumn 2012 Page 3 Sive Coláiste Éanna, Rathfarnham tinker while Kevin Fletcher of 2nd Year to be completed – the stage, the set, impressed audiences with both his flooring, seating, lighting, sound, props, In March 2012, Coláiste Éanna, acting and singing talents in his portrayal advertising, tickets, costumes and make- Rathfarnham, after a break of some 20 of Bocock’s son Carthalawn. Finally, up all had to be organised. And in a school years, revived the old school tradition Eoin O’ Flaherty of TY gave a highly- where a production of such magnitude of staging a school production. Little convincing performance as the love-struck had not been seen in 20 years – it made did we know in September 2011, Liam Scuab. for quite the daunting list! We needn’t when the decision to stage a drama have worried however, as while hard was made, the immense effect the Our next task was to fill the three female work had certainly been anticipated; the production would have on both the leads. Despite suggestions to dress three generous outpouring of support could only school itself and indeed the wider of our students in fetching dresses, we have been imagined. Parents, students, community. Nor could we have decided we would visit our neighbouring staff and people from the locality came anticipated the tremendous success all-girls school, Sancta Maria College together to ensure that “Sive” would be a that it would be and the outstanding instead. Principal Geraldine Kennedy resounding success. And a success, it most reviews we would receive from could not have been more supportive certainly was.