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6th Year student Stevie Mortell gaining valuable hands-on work experience at Hutch’s Hardware, Buttevant! 🔨🛠️👏

Some of our music students travelled to Dublin recently to see the West End production of ‘Matilda the Musical’.
From the outstanding performances to the powerful music and storytelling, it was an inspiring, fun, and emotional experience for everyone involved. The long bus journey was more than worth it for a show that left such a lasting impression!

Our First Year and Transition Year students took part in their first Buddy Quiz yesterday, enjoying a fun and engaging activity together. The quiz gave students an opportunity to work as teams, share some laughs and get to know their fellow students better. It was a fantastic way to build new friendships and strengthen the sense of community within our school.

On our first day back to school, our TY students met their 1st Year buddies for the first time. The PE Department organised a fun-filled session of games and icebreakers, giving everyone the opportunity to get to know one another in a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere.

Well done again to our Leaving Cert class on their amazing results!

“Class of ‘26 signing out” ✍️ Ye are amazing, best of luck in the upcoming exams! 🧑‍🎓🥳

Our Students enjoyed a great day of fun at this years Sports Day. Special thank you to our P.E department for organising such a good day.

Congratulations to our winners of a recent Literacy competition where students wrote poems and short stories on the theme of ‘Identity’!

Celebrating culture, community, and everything that makes our school unique with music, colour and amazing food 🌍✨
Well done to our student council for organizing an amazing Culture Day 🙌👏

Class 1A held a bake sale and non-uniform day for classmate Ronan Ducey who is part of a team, Munster Special Olympics. The class raised 1000 euro.

Commiserations to our Boys U19 soccer team who went on a brilliant run through the Cork Senior Cup this season.

Our U14 and U16 girls had a smashing day at a friendly tournament recently in Charleville.

The TYs and their first year buddies had an egg-cellent afternoon hunting for Easter eggs. It was great to see them work together and enjoy the Spring day. They are all well and truly ready for the Easter break!

Well done to our U15 ladies soccer team who battled until the very end to come away with a win in their trophy semi final against Youghal.

We were delighted to host the Cork County Badminton Div 3 Competition last week, and what a smashing day it was! 🏸

Our 5th year Ag Science students got to visit the farm of past pupil Ronan Buckley of Ballyclough during the week. They experienced a first hand insight into the daily workings of a dairy farm from milking, to feeding, to housing.

Some of our 1st year students were lucky enough to attend the 'Make a Book' JCSP competition in Cork this week 📖 

Well done to our Boys 1st Year Soccer team who played against a strong Douglas Community School team in the Cork Cup.

Our 5th & 6th years got hands‑on with the Road Safety Shuttle, experiencing VR drink‑driving and distraction simulations, testing their reaction times, trying the motorbike simulator, and tackling coordination tasks with impairment goggles.