St Joseph's

Secondary School Tulla

Texaco Art Competition

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 05 June 2019; Created: 05 June 2019; Hits: 5466

Congratulations to Conor Kelly who was recently awarded Special Merit at the Texaco children's art competition. Well Done!

Sporting Success at SJT

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 05 June 2019; Created: 05 June 2019; Hits: 4606

Huge congratulations to our Clare Senior Schools Hurling Champions 2019... and a massive thank you to coaches and supporters...

...and we are so proud of our 1st Year Camogie Clare County CHAMPIONS who defeated the Coláiste, Ennis recently...

TY Horticulture

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 14 May 2019; Created: 14 May 2019; Hits: 5071

Green Schools Award

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 14 May 2019; Created: 14 May 2019; Hits: 4649

First Year Girls Football

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 10 May 2019; Created: 10 May 2019; Hits: 4679

End of season blitz for our First Year Girls

Success at SCI-FEST

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 08 May 2019; Created: 07 May 2019; Hits: 4998

This year St Joseph's achieved great success at the SCIFEST regional science competition in LIT Limerick. St. Joseph's received a special award from Intel as Best School participating in the competition. We submitted three projects this year, all of which were commended on their excellent work.

Image 1: First Year Group Representing SJT at SCI-FEST.

Image 2: Charlotte Campher, Ciara Sheppard, Sarah Nihill: 3rd Place in the Biological and Ecological Science Category

Looking Downstream: Could Nanosilver in Consumer Products Affect Pond Life? Consumer products, such as sports clothes, cosmetics, and even food containers contain tiny silver particles, which are used to prevent the growth of to bacteria and fungi. This project investigated how a specific freshwater organism, Daphnia magna, responds to the exposure to different concentrations of nanosilver.

Image 3: Róisín Sheedy and Saoirse Donnellan :2nd Place in the Chemical and Physical Science Category

Solar-powered Chemistry: A Study of Chemical Reaction Rates in Ultraviolet Beads An investigation to determine if uv beads could be used to determine how effective sun cream, and sunglasses are at detecting the damaging effects of uv rays.

Image 4: Molly Jane Sweeney: 3rd Place in the Chemical and Physical Science Category

Asteroid Mining: Gold Rush in Space?

A study into the composition of asteroids and an investigation into whether it will possible to mine on asteroids in the future

Image 5: SCIFEST Representatives with teacher Máiread O'Brien receiving the INTEL Best School Award

A huge congrats to all involved for their incredible achievements!

Cycle Against Suicide

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 26 April 2019; Created: 26 April 2019; Hits: 5305

http://www.cycleagainstsuicide.com/ for details of the route, how to donate, events around the country and how to get involved....

Cycle Against Suicide Event

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 26 April 2019; Created: 26 April 2019; Hits: 4961

Staff and Students have been spreading the word about our very special, upcoming "Cycle Against Suicide" host school event, this Monday, 29th April 2019. The specially commissioned tee-shirts have blazed a trail nationally and internationally to spread the message:

#itsoknottofeelok

Can you spot students, staff and friends out and about in...Berlin, Paris, Geneva, Koblenz, Machu Pichu & Cusco Peru, Sligo, Monaghan, Malaga, Viahna do Castelo Portugal, Galicia Spain, Abu Dhabi, Cliffs of Moher, Warsaw, Krakow, Antrim...