ST. COLMCILLE’S COMMUNITY SCHOOL NEWS

Extra Curricular Summer Activities
The National schools track and field competition was held in Tullamore on the 4th of June 2005. Shauna Cannon and Rebecca Tyson both had a good run in the 200m giving them 5th and 2nd place respectively. However, the most exciting event of the day was the Junior girls 4 x 100m relay when St. Colmcille’s girls, Shauna Cannon, Lisa Barnwell, Natalie Hyland and Rebecca Tyson had a fantastic run. After a photo finish the girls won 2nd place, which was an excellent achievement for the schools first competitors in the competition.

Student Awards
Congratulations to the following students who were presented with the following awards for the academic year 2004/05:
Year Student of the Year Academic Student of the Year
1st Year Dearbhalla Brennan Michael Ward
2nd Year Daragh Kelly Murtagh Amanda Keegan
3rd Year Eoin O Reilly Roisin O’Keefe
5th Year Ben Murphy Liam Devine

Our Prefects 2005 – 2006
A wonderful group of 6th Year students were assigned prefects in June 2004. They are going to help with Break and Lunchtime supervision/clean up and have already set up a rota, which is working very well. Each junior class has a Prefect assigned to them. This person will be the liaison between the students and the school staff. They will be able to guide them with their experience of school life up until now. They will be the person that a junior student can come to if they are having problems of any sort and find it difficult to approach a staff member.

4th and 5th year have a Prefect assigned to the year and the Head Boy and Head Girl will be working with the sixth years.

The Prefects started back this year earlier than everyone else. They came in for an induction meeting where they discussed leadership skills, working with people, ideas and plans for the year.

Our team this year are an excellent group of dedicated young men and women and are great ambassadors for our school. They are very enthusiastic and have wonderful ideas. They are already showing great initiative and work very well together. We are looking forward to a excellent year with them.

School Musical 2005
We are off again! This year we are staging the Sound of Music. The scripts and scores have arrived. The Transition Year students along with Ms. Burke & Ms. Walsh are already looking at scenery and props and will have their sewing needles out….there will be a lot of veils needed! Rumour has it that there will be strange nuns about at the time of performance!!! The musical will be staged in the school on the week beginning Monday 24th October. See you there!