Wicklow and Bray People weekly School Report

OPEN NIGHT

CHANGE OF DATE:  Open Night will be now held tonight, Wednesday December 2nd from 6.30pm to 9.00pm.  Open Night affords parents and children from the community and beyond an opportunity to visit the school, view its facilities and meet with staff and students.  We hope it will be a fun filled, eventful and entertaining evening for all who attend.

 

CRAFT FAIR

Many thanks to our caretaking staff, Mr. Chris Nugent and Mr. Vincent Hunt, and to the Parents’ Association, for organising the annual craft fair.  The fair took place on Sunday last in the school and was well attended by parents and the local community.

 

PARENT TEACHER MEETING

Please note that the 5th Year Parent/Teacher/Student Meeting will now be held on Thursday 28th January 2010 at 1.15 to 3.45pm.

 

BUSINESS TALK

The 6th year business class spent a day in the life of a marketing student last Friday when they visited Dublin Institute of Technology, Aungier Street. They were afforded the opportunity to talk to current students, ask the lecturers questions, and they also sat in on first year marketing students lectures in economics and business. Many thanks to Ms. Laura Cuddihy in DIT Business School who facilitated the day. The students found the trip very informative.

 

INFORMATION EVENING

An Information evening was held on Thursday 26th November for Parents of 5th years, the purpose of which was to highlight the approach that students in 5th year should take to study, career choice and preparation for the Leaving Certificate. Topics included: The Successful Leaving Certificate student, Study and Organisation, Reaching your potential, Career Decision Making, Role of Parents in supporting their children. 

 

COLLEGE SPEAKERS

CAO College speakers attended Coláiste Chraobh Abhann on the afternoons of Thursday 26th and Friday 27th November. Speakers from IT Carlow, Dublin Business School and IT Tallaght spoke to 6th years about the colleges and the courses they have on offer. Speakers from other universities and colleges will be attending the school over the coming weeks to speak to the 6th year students.

 

PEER MENTORING INTERVIEWS

Peer mentoring interviews took place in the school last week.  24 students were interviewed and 10 students will be chosen to do the training with our present mentors in fifth year.

 

UNDER-16 BOYS GAELIC FOOTBALL

Congratulations to the Under 16 boys’ Gaelic football team who had a convincing win over Arklow CBS in the South Leinster under 16 competition. Man of the match went to Niall Crosbie, with honourable mentions going to Shane Doyle, Stephen Davis, Ciaran Byrne and Darren Gammell. We now go through to the quarter finals and await the winners of Baltinglass and Bengalstown.

 

SENIOR BOYS FOOTBALL

Our senior boys’ team recently travelled to Bray to play Presentation College. Despite the terrible wind conditions we played some good football and were ahead by a point leading into half time. Despite starting the second half reasonably strong, a lack of discipline and composure in front of goal cost us the game. Man of the match for CCA was Conor McKenna, with honourable mentions going to Darragh Browne, Darren Byrne and Niall Byrne. We now enter the Shield competition to play way to Arklow CBS.