St Joseph's

Secondary School Tulla

Science Week Activities 2018

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 26 November 2018; Created: 26 November 2018; Hits: 1722

Students in at St. Joseph's undertook a number of fun activities for Science Week recently. Pictured below are First Year students, who designed a structure that was strong and portable enough to "fly" from the first floor (height 6 m) with an egg as the pilot! Second Years constructed an edible model of DNA (yum!) and Transition Years went to UL to attend a Science Extraordinaire magic show.

Music Trip - Cork Pops, Nov 18

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 26 November 2018; Created: 26 November 2018; Hits: 1762

Cork Pops Orchestra Trip - ‘A World of Rhythm’.

St. Joseph’s First, Second Year and LCA classes visited the Cork Pops Orchestra in University of Limerick Concert Hall on Friday, 9th November. Evelyn Grant was the conductor and, frankly, she did an amazing job. She also interacted with the audience, introducing the various pieces and describing the special features of every instrument. There was an array of instruments from all orchestral families, including string, woodwind and brass.

The concert was aptly titled ‘A World of Rhythm’ as there was a particular focus on percussion instruments. The regular tuned and untuned percussion instruments were present, along with a few surprises. Pieces included the Anvil Chorus by Verdi which was played by hammers hitting car break discs. Balero by Ravel featured a snare drum and Typewriter by Anderson featured a typewriter, guiro and bell.

There were two special guest musicians, Phoebe Dipple and DJ Dashka. Phoebe played Snow White in the pantomime in Cork and DJ Dashka presents a show on Spin South West. He showed us his skills on his sound sampler.

Experiencing this show definitely broadened our knowledge of the orchestra. We learned that the percussion musicians didn’t stay in one place for the performance, as they needed to move around quite a lot during the show to play a variety of instruments. In conclusion, the concert was a very enjoyable experience and we would love to go again next year!

By: Polly Donnellan, Chloe Gallagher & Sarah Nihill

Athletics Success, Nov 2018

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 26 November 2018; Created: 23 November 2018; Hits: 1857

Clare Secondary Schools’ Cross Country Championships Success for St. Joseph’s

St. Joseph’s students from 1^st Year to 6^th Year took part in the Clare Secondary Schools’ Cross Country Championships last Thursday November 15^th. The event was held in the Lee’s Road Complex in Ennis on a very wet, challenging day for our competing athletes.

Our minor girls were first to represent St. Joseph’s – Sophie Conway, Polly Donnellan, Saoirse Donnellan, Áine Lenihan and Helena Downes put in fantastic performances to come third in the team event. Next to compete were our minor boys – with a very successful second place victory, winning silver medals for the team. Dannan Fox and Issac O’Sullivan finished very strongly, followed closely by Jake Slattery, Denis Whelan and Michael Moran. Our junior girls Claire Murphy, Saoirse Keogh, Chelsea Canny, Sarah Manley, Áine Browne and Anna Doyle were up next – again, great performances from these girls gained second place in the team event.

Fantastic performances from our junior boys led to Tulla’s next team medal – Dara Fitzgerald, Darragh Moroney finished strongly, followed by Eoghan Daly and Eoghan McMahon. The other junior boys running were Davy Hassett, Sean Walsh, Conor O’Donnell, Colin Hogan and Eoin McNamara.

Éabha McInerney and Isabel O’Connell competed in the Intermediate girls race and performed very well. Our intermediate boys of Darragh Keogh, Donal Sheedy, Fionn Hickey, Fiachra Hale, Eanna Culloo, David McInerney,Neil Callaghan, Marc Norte, Dylan Moone, Michael Ryan, Aaron Shanahan, Diarmuid Molloy and Lucas Donlon just missed out on a team medal.

The last event of the day was the senior boys race – tremendous running from Padraig Cahill, Fintan Caulfield, Stephen Donnellan and Jonah Bartelink ensured a team gold medal for St. Joseph’s. We are so proud of all of our athletes as their great performances led to St. Joseph’s taking first place in the Best Overall School for the “Tully Cup” 2019, for the third year in a row. Well done to all! Special thanks also to Shane and Stephen for organising all of our teams on the day.

We are now looking forward to the North Munster Schools’ Competition to be held in Pallaskenry in January.

Important information for 2nd and 3rd Year Parents

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 16 November 2018; Created: 15 November 2018; Hits: 1661

Please find link below, to important documents relating to the Junior Cycle Programme for:

2nd and 3rd Year Junior Cycle Students

1. General Information Leaflet

2. Information for 2nd years regarding important dates, assessment descriptors (Distinction, Merit etc.) and more...

3. Information for 3rd years regarding important dates, assessment descriptors (Distinction, Merit etc.) and more...

Attachments:
Info 2nd Yrs CBA	[ ]	1131 kB
Junior Cycle Parent Info	[ ]	985 kB
Info 3rd Yrs CBA	[ ]	816 kB

Senior Art Trip, Oct 2018

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 02 November 2018; Created: 02 November 2018; Hits: 2257

On Tuesday the 2nd of Oct 2018, the senior art students from St Joseph’s went on an art educational trip to Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery / Studios to see exhibition by CeA/R/T , an acronym for Clare Artists/ Researchers/Teachers made up of Mary Moran, Edel Hogan, Lorraine Callanan, and Bairbre Geraghty.

The students had two uninterrupted hours to sketch and interrogate the works on show.

Overall it was a very educational, enlightening and culture rich day.

Interschools Showjumping 2018

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 26 October 2018; Created: 26 October 2018; Hits: 2379

On Friday the 19th of October, Beatrice Vaughan, Rachel O Connell, Mia Egan, Ashleigh Mc Namara, Ciara Morris and Sinead Vaughan tacked up and represented St Joseph's in a thrilling showjumping competition in Clare Equestrian centre.

It was a win win situation for our two teams as for the first time the competition was held on a school Day...other years Miss Moran and her troop headed to the showgrounds on Sundays, but this change of venue and day meant that the course was more difficult and there were ALOT more schools from all over Munster.

We had a great start with a clear round from Beatrice on Black Jack, but were unfortunate with Mia on Pickles and Rachel on Tyro picking up four faults.

Team two also had a great start with Sinead riding clear on Tyro, Ashleigh riding clear on Polo but disaster struck when Taz threw Ciara. Thankfully she was unhurt :)

Individual rounds went better with four rosettes coming home to Tulla, and only a time difference costing first place.

It was an exhilarating day...

Article by: Mia Egan, 2nd Year

TY October Excursion

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 21 October 2018; Created: 21 October 2018; Hits: 2285

Sláinte an Chláir Concert

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 13 October 2018; Created: 13 October 2018; Hits: 2423

Concert Sláinte an Chláir

On October 4th, St Joseph’s Secondary School in Tulla hosted an all-star line-up of musicians, singers and dancers for a fundraising concert in aid of Sláinte an Chláir.

The programme was brainchild of the LCA class and their music teacher Aisling Behan. This student-organised concert brought together accomplished artists such as All-Ireland award winning musicians Sinéad Mulqueen and Dáire Mulhern along with talented students Aisling Clarke, Dearbhla Creaven, Daragh Leamy, Éabha McInerney, and the LCA music group.

The mix of student and professional talent taking part led to lively and heart-warming performances for a very worthy cause.

Success with Irish Junior Science Olympiad

Details: Written by Lorraine McCarthy; Last Updated: 08 October 2018; Created: 08 October 2018; Hits: 2126

Congratulations to Aoife Kelly, Keva Conway and Liam McInerney, pictured with their teachers after being chosen for the

Irish Junior Science Olympiad

following their exceptional Junior Cert results in Science and Maths. A fantastic achievement and St Joseph’s is extremely proud having 3 students selected.

Well done to all

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