St Joseph's

Secondary School Tulla

BT Young Scientist FINALISTS

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 06 February 2019; Created: 14 January 2019; Hits: 2544

Congratulations to 6 of our very talented TY students who represented our school at this year's BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in the RDS. In its 55th year, the competition saw 4,251 students from 383 schools across the island of Ireland compete for the coveted title "BT Young Scientist and Technologist of the Year".

Students, staff and parents alike were delighted that 2 groups were successful in becoming finalists and in showcasing their projects at the exhibition.

Project 1: Luke Meade, Ronan McGrath and Stephen Moloney. A technology entry, titled, "Making Grass Green" that converted heat energy in grass cuttings into voltage. This is a project that showed excellent, engineering, technological and analytical skills.

Project 2: Liam Boyce, Stephen Marsh and James McNulty. A physical, chemical and mathematical sciences entry, titled, "The Will of the People - A study of electoral voting systems". This group proposed a number of changes to the current electoral system with some fascinating findings.

Congratulations to both teams and their teachers. We will be watching out for you in the future!

Pictured below are both teams with our VIP visitors to the stand, TD Timmy Dooley and Minister Pat Breen.

Christmas Concert 2018

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 14 January 2019; Created: 31 December 2018; Hits: 3001

The school enjoyed a wonderful carol service on Thursday 20th December. The first and second year music classes along with the choir and other musicians performed a variety of carols, Christmas classics and instrumental pieces, and we also listened to the story of the Nativity.

Over 100 students took part, thank you all for your participation. It showcased the amazing talent we have in St. Joseph's.

Well done everyone!

Art Excursion to Glor

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 20 December 2018; Created: 20 December 2018; Hits: 3174

On Tuesday 17th of December 2018, the Junior Cert Art Class and two fifth years went to Glor to see the exhibition "Mick O Dea Selects".

O Dea has just finished his term as president of RHA and here he rounded up his term by inviting a selection of wonderful RHA artists to exhibit with him in his home town. Before we left the school we studied O Deas "Milk and Honey " which hangs above the music room in the GP area.

On arrival in Glor we were met by Alan who gave us the grand tour back stage, through the auditorium , the dressing room,and the green room where Artists chill before performance ..

We were then delighted to be served huge mugs of hot chocolate and biscuits, setting us up nicely for a few hours drawing/sketching and note taking in the gallery upstairs. Miss Nugent was on hand to answer any questions related to the War of Independance which is a strong influence on O Deas work.

Before we headed back to the bus Miss Moran wanted to show us some of the Art works around town.. we went to see Shane Gilmores Sculptures, and found out that there is one of his pieces in the Meditation room which commemorates John Delaney, the former Art Teacher in SJT.

It was a day filled with information and we learned that Ennis has so much to offer artistically.....

(WRITTEN BY: ELLA CLAYSON)

TY Duvet Day

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 19 December 2018; Created: 19 December 2018; Hits: 2923

On Monday 17th December, Transition Year students participated in the annual Duvet Day as part of the English Department's literacy initiative.

Students enjoyed a relaxing day reading and finished the day off with hot chocolate with marshmallows and biscuits.

Annual 24 Hour Charity Fast

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 17 December 2018; Created: 17 December 2018; Hits: 2948

Our Leaving Cert students are preparing for their 24-hour charity fast sleep-over on,

Wednesday 19th December.

This year all donations are for Sr. Angela's Kenya Fund.

Please support us when you see us out collecting!

Christmas Carol Service 2018

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 07 December 2018; Created: 07 December 2018; Hits: 2969

To officially mark the beginning of the Christmas Season in St.Josephs, Fr Brendan Quinlivan, Fr. Brendan Lawlor and Sr. Bosco joined First Years, Transition Years and staff in a Christmas Prayer Service.

We lit a candle of remembrance to commemorate past students Jack Lynch and Scarlett Donnellan Feeley and hung 2 special decorations on our Christmas tree in their memory. After we switched on the lights, we lifted our spirits with a rapturous round of "Jingle all the way"!

TY Autumn Newsletter

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 07 December 2018; Created: 07 December 2018; Hits: 2955

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YSI and the Cairde Initiative with Transition Years

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 03 December 2018; Created: 03 December 2018; Hits: 2747

YSI is a project that allows young people to pick a social issue that they are interested in and make a change.

For many years, Ms. Hogan has been working with TY groups to help them generate, research and investigate many thought provoking projects for the Young Social Innovator competition. The areas chosen have been as diverse as Positive Body Image to Alcohol Abuse, Farm Safety to Positive Relationships. Surveys and Songs, Movies and Posters have all been created to communicate the passion of our students to change their world. Last year our group had great success winning their category with their research into domestic violence and positive relationships. They have been invited to work with experts to further their project, such was the quality of their initial presentation.

Our TY students never fail to impress us with their ability to pinpoint social issues, that need to be addressed.

Cairde – Friendship

This Year the TY 2 class have created a Cairde group with the actively retired group in Tulla, as part of their Young Social innovator project. TY 2 decided to work with senior citizens in our community to help to pass on traditions from the past that would otherwise be lost. The actively retired share their lives with us and we in turn share our talents and lives with them. It is a very special opportunity to develop links between the generations locally and have fun at the same time.

Each Tuesday our senior friends come into the school and participate in various activities with the students. They have visited History classes and English classes and share their stories about life long ago. At the moment we are busy preparing for the Christmas concert where the Cairde group are the first act. The sketch involves a story from dances years ago telling how the young people, at that time, used to treat each other and the customs they had.

We got this idea from a short video we filmed in the court house in Tulla highlighting the differences between the dances years ago and young people going out today. The first obstacle we had to overcome was language. We use very different terminology now to discuss the whole dating scene. We learned a lot about etiquette and the older people were introduced to the area of internet dating. This led to lots of laughter. Emma Sams produced this film with us and is entering it into the Scarriff Film Festival.

We have had a very positive response from the community to all of our initiatives with our Cairde group. Our link person is Kay Madden. She co-ordinates the senior citizens and Ms Hogan in school co-ordinates the TY's. We all look forward each week to Tuesdays as it means we can have a cup of tea and a chat before we get down to rehearsals.

Wellness Week Fundraising

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 28 November 2018; Created: 28 November 2018; Hits: 2572

Congratulations to our students and staff who raised €1300 during our recent Wellness Week. The funds raised will be divided between between our two chosen Mental Health awareness charities - Elevate and Grow Mental Health.