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Calling all students; want to win some nice prizes and explore your local area at the same time? We are running a photography challenge for the month of February. Using the poster attached below please take a picture of something from within your 2km/5km radius that represents that thing. There are 28 different challenges, one for every day of this month. At the end of the month you can put your photos together in a collage and send to either Mr. Curtin or Ms. Foott using their emails:

Dear parent of incoming 1st year,

I hope you and your families are all keeping safe and well and that you are coping well with the considerable challenges posed by current COVID 19 restrictions.

I want to reassure you that we continue to plan for our incoming 1st Year group and that we will be putting contingency plans in place to ensure we can support students and parents as much as possible with the transition.

Hi all,
For Week 4, we have decided to introduce the ‘5k within your 5k Challenge’. We are asking every student/staff to complete a 5k walk/run within their 5km distance, complying with the latest Covid restrictions. We are also asking everyone to complete this 5k with a family member/friend (complying with 2m social distancing) as we know that Physical Activity is more important now than ever for our physical and mental health. Feel free to tag your walking partner in a photo in Strava!

Hi all,
A huge well done to all those that got out and active for Week 3 of the Coláiste Mhuire Fitness Challenge, the Head-to-Head competition. Congratulations to the 1st, 2nd and 5th year groups for winning their respective challenges! At the end of the week, we noticed some encouraging statistics for Week 3:
- The number of students in each year group on Strava continues to increase, with 291 students and staff now registered and using the app!
- As a school, we completed 3,458km this week, which was a slight decrease from last weeks number, but we are committed to improving on this score for Week 4 - The 5k within your 5k
- For the first time in the challenge, we saw the teachers being beaten to the top of the leaderboard, with the 2nd years taking the title for the most active group in the school!
- And finally, we had new leaders for each year group for Week 3, which is very encouraging to see and also highlights the competitiveness of some of the students in each year group.

Have a look at our next post to see what we have in store for Week 4!

The PE Department

Dear Parent/Guardian

As you are aware we are very lucky in the school to be able to provide a service whereby your son/daughter has the option of a free breakfast and a subsidised lunch in school each day. During this difficult time, we would like to ensure that families continue to get the benefit of the scheme where necessary. The Government and the Department of Education have confirmed that the School Meals scheme is an essential service and therefore the following arrangements are being put in place to continue it. If you already expressed an interest in early January, we will assume you wish to receive delivery this month also and there is no further action required. If you did not express an interest last month but now wish to do so, please follow the instructions outlined below.

Our virtual TY information evening via Teams (CMB18TRANSITION YEAR 21/22 Information & News) will be on Tuesday February 2nd at 7pm. All third year students and their parents/ guardians are encouraged to log in.

Thanks a million,

Mary Dunlea

T.Y Co-ordinator

A huge well done to everyone that made a huge effort during Week 2 of the Coláiste Mhuire Fitness Challenge to get out for a walk/run. Here are a few interesting statistics from the week:

- We saw a huge increase in the number of students registering on Strava, with 278 students and staff now using the app, an increase of 82 from 196 in Week 1!

Huge well done to everyone for getting up at out this week. The Colaiste walked a total of 2,398 kms this week - cork to Morocco! . It is never too late to join our Strava lockdown challenge. Click on the link to find out the registration details.

Hi everyone,

Seeing as we will all be staying at home for the month of January, we, the Coláiste Mhuire PE teachers have decided to set up a Coláiste Mhuire fitness challenge! It will be PE with a twist this month with challenge provided each week to students/staff. No better time to get moving and get yourself involved than the Coláiste Mhuire PE Challenge starting this Tuesday 12th January, lasting until the reopening of schools.

Dear Parent/Guardian

During this difficult time, we would like to ensure that families continue to get the benefit of the school meals scheme where necessary. The Government and the Department of Education have confirmed that the School Meals scheme is an essential service and therefore the following arrangements are being put in place to continue it. If you already availed of recent food parcels, we will assume you wish to receive delivery this time also and there is no further action required. If you did not express an interest recently but now wish to do so, please follow the instructions outlined below.

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Prior to the holidays, I’m sure none of us envisaged such dramatic rises in COVID 19 numbers over the short Christmas period. As of Wednesday 6th January, the government announced that school buildings will now remain closed until Friday 29th of January except for 6th Yr students and students attending special classes, who were set to attend school from next week. Whilst we had commenced planning to welcome these students back in as safe a manner as possible, Wednesdays’ announcement by the minister for education sparked much debate and concern nationally, resulting in a reverse of the decision tonight. Provision for all students will now be through online learning for the coming weeks.

Merry Christmas to all our students, their families and the local community. Please enjoy one of our 1st year classes performing Silent night through sign language. From all at the Colaiste we hope you all have a lovely Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all in the new year.

We are extremely proud of our two students - Conor Hanlon and Seamie O Callaghan who have made the Cork minor football panel for tonights championship decider against Kerry. Conor and Seamie are a credit to their clubs and families - Buttevant and Granard Gaels respectively. We want to wish ye both the best of luck in tonights match and we will be watching with great interest on TG4 Youtube Channel. Throw in 7pm.

Great news today for the Coláiste when the four TY student's have been selected to go on to the second round of the Certified Irish Angus Beef Schools Competition.

The boys will have a busy Christmas planning and prepping to make sure they impress the four interviewers in early January.

The 2nd Year CSPE classes have been learning about homelessness in Ireland. As part of their Classroom Based Assessment they put together a shoebox with toiletries, warm hats/gloves and some treats. They dropped these into Horgans Foodstore and these will be forwarded onto Cork charity "Street Angels".

TY students have been busy over the last couple of weeks collecting food for St. Vincent de Paul’s annual Christmas food drive. We received huge support from teachers, students and their families and have made one of the biggest food donations from the Colaiste to SVP to date. We would like to thank you all for your very generous donations and continued support of this appeal.