Sports Day - Huge Success!

9th May 2012
On Friday May 4th all Scoil Mhuire students took part in the annual Sports Day. As usual Ms Eustace had organising an eventful day for students with races (egg & spoon, 100m, relays, 3 legged...), a penalty shootout, an obstacle course and the puc fada competition to name a few. Although there were a few drops of rain at one point and the weather was a little chilly, everyone thoroughly enjoyed the day. Congratulations to all those who took part, especially Jenny Canvan for winner the spud & spoon race for the 6th year in a row and also to Fiona Moloney and Kristine Callinan who won the three legged race for the 6th year in a row.
HUGE thanks to Ms Eustace for all her hard work and to all the other teachers who helped out on the day. Thanks also to the TY students who took the photos.
Check out there photos here.

Chinese Language and Culture Enters Scoil Mhuire

2nd May 2012

Scoil Mhuire’s Chinese Studies Programme started in October 2011 offering
Mandarin Chinese classes to Transition Year students. The programme was developed
by the UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland under the guidance and support of the
Confucius Institute Headquarters and the National Council for Curriculum and
Assessment (NCCA). The Confucius Institute works with the Irish government,
businesses and academia to develop stronger educational, cultural and commercial
links between Ireland and China.
Scoil Mhuire is privileged to work with the UCD Confucius Institute and to offer our students what we believe is a wonderful opportunity to learn about China and to study Mandarin Chinese.
The Confucius Institute provides native Chinese speakers to teach Chinese language and Ms. Higgins delivers the Chinese culture classes to our students.
In addition to their language classes our students are presented with opportunities
to experiment with Chinese cookery, paper cutting, calligraphy and many other
activities.
Click here for photos.

TYB Organise Fun Run for Clare Haven House (YSI)

30th April 2012
Congratulations to the TYB students who organised a 5k Fun Run/Walk on Saturday 28th April 2012. This was the first time the girls had organised anything like this and they learned a lot from the experience. They are also delighted to be passing on €160 to Clare Haven House. Well done and thanks to all those who took part.
Organising the run is part of their YSI project. The girls in this group will be travelling to Dublin for the National Finals of the YSI competition on the 9th of May. They have put in a lot of hard work for this project and we wish them every success. Good luck to their teacher Ms. Nicola Honan as well!

TYs in Build A Bank Final

30th April 2012
Nine TY students travelled to the RDS in Dublin (staying in Bewley's overnight) for the national finals of the AIB Build A Bank Challenge. The Scoil Mhuire team were one of 20 schools that made the finals from over 200 original participants. On the day, the girls had to make a 20 minute presentation to the judges answering numerous questions about the work they had done. The girls performed very well but unfortunately did not take a prize this year. Well done to all involved for their huge effort. A special thanks must also be extended to Mary Gleeson who work with the girls throughout the whole project. Thanks also to Ms. Higgins and Mrs. Uí Dhomhnalláin for travelling with the girls on the day.

Miss Cullen takes part in European Championships

30th April 2012
Congratulations to Miss Cullen who took part in the recentr Taekwon-Do European Championships in Solvenia. Miss Cullen travelled with the Irish team of 34 competitors, both Junior and Senior. Once again it was a very successful tournament for the Irish team and Miss Cullen was part of the team who won a bronze medal in the Senior Female Team Pattern competition.

5th Year Burren Walk

30th April 2012
All fifith year students took part in their annual burren Walk on Thursday 19th April. They were accompanied by Ms Eustace and Ms Collins and as always had a great day. Well done to all those who took part and thanks to the two teachers involved.

TY YSI Success

30th April 2012
Congratulations to the TY YSI groups who have progressed to various levels within the national competition. The Drug Awareness group and the Domestic Violence group were put through to the National Finals and the Animal Cruelty group are through to the Poster Competition. All TYs will travel to Dublin on the 9th of May for the finals.

Past Pupil in Dublin Youth Opera Company

27th March 2012

Past Pupil Ailbhe is involved with the Dublin Youth Opera Company and would like to involve all those in Scoil Mhuire to an exciting upcoming event. DYOC travels nationwide touring and raising money for charity. They are currently in the middle of their ‘Big Brother’ tour and are stopping off in Clare on the 10th of April. Big Brother in a juke-box opera where they ’ve taken different songs from musicals etc and put them together in a new and amusing way! All money raised goes to their selected charity which is ‘Slainte an Clar’ Clare Cancer Support for the Clare concert. It’s a fantastic innovate idea, taken on board by young peopleand all done for an extremely good cause.

So basically the show will be on in the Sea-World hall Lahinch on the 10th of April at 7.30pm, with special guests Broadway School of Dance.

TYs Prepare for Public Access to Law

23rd March 2012
TY students are currently preparing for the Annual Mock Trial competition in Loughrea Court House on Monday 26th March. The team will be competing against another school and will be acting out a trial scene. The team consists of 2 barristers (Laura O'Loughlin & Lisa Sexton), 1 solicitor (Aisling Flynn), 4 witnesses (Alanna Gleeson, Dearbháil MacMahon, Rebecca Youdell & Siobhán Nestor), 1 Registrar (Kate Healy) and 6 Jurors (Sinéad Considine, Aoife Hegarty, Sinéad Rouine, Molly Walsh, Alice Hayes & Orlaith Egan). Good luck girls!

Good Luck Mairead

23rd March 2012
Very best of luck to Mairead healy in 5th year whose band, Purple Electric, are competiting in the Clare's Got Talent Final in Glór on Saturday night at 8pm. All support on the night would also be greatly appreciated!
GOOD LUCK!!

Art Congratulations

23rd March 2012
Congratulations to the 2nd Year Art class - Aoife O'Gorman, Skye Stagno Navarro, Fiona O'Brien, Aoife Rynne, Aideen Bonito and Aoife Fitzgibbon - who won our Biodiversity Sculpture art competition. The competition was judged by Shane Casey, the Biodiversity officer for the Clare County Council.

Congratulations Michelle!

23rd March 2012
Congratulations to Michelle Flanagan from the 1B English class who has been shortlisted in te Clare Champion Short Story writing competition. The final takes place on 10th May in Ennis. Winning entries will be published in the Clare Champion.

YSI Report

12th March 2012
All Transition Year students took part in the YSI Speak Out on Thursday 8th of March. The students had worked very hard in preparing a Speak Out to represent their project. Click here to read two reports by some of the TY students. Results of the Speak Out will be announced in the coming weeks.

Build A Bank WINNERS!

7th March 2012
Congratulations to the TY Build A Bank team who won the regional finals of the Build A Bank competition yesterday. This will mean that the girls progress to the All-Ireland finals in the RDS in Dublin on April 25th. Huge thanks and congratulations to Mary Gleeson who has been working with the team since before Christmas.
The Bank is open in school at lunch time every Thursday.
Read Laura O'Loughlin's report about their Build A Bank experience to date.
Photos from here Build A Bank project are here.

Good Luck in YSI

7th March 2012
Good luck to all the TY students who are taking part in the YSI (Young Social Innovators) Speak Out competition in Galway on Thursday 8th March. All the students have made a huge effort preparing for this competition. There are three groups; one presenting on Drug Awareness, one on Animal Cruelty (focusing on the dog pound in Ennis) and the third on Domestic Violence (focusing on Clare Haven in Ennis). As well as preparing for the speak out, the groups have already done fundraising in school and have organised talks to hear more about their topic.
There are plenty of picture from YSI related activities here.

Scoil Mhuire Beats Scarriff in Camogie

7th March 2012
Congratulations to the senior camogie team (which is made up of quite a few first years as well!) who beat Scarriff on Monday this week. This is the first round of the competition but if their performance at that match is anything to go by, we can expect great things from this camogie team!

Subject Choice for Leaving Cert

8th February 2012
Ms Ahern, Guidance Consellor, gave a talk this week about the subject options for Leaving Certificate. At this talk she referenced a file laying out a lot of relevant information about the subject options. This file can be found here.

Valentines Roses

6th February 2012
The Transition Year students in TYB are organising the annual Rose Delivery for roses to be delivered on Thursday 9th and Friday 10th of February (seeing as Valentines Day falls during the mid term break!). The students have been around to classes to take orders but if you missed them make sure to find a TYB student in school asap. The roses cost €4 each or you can get 3 for €10.

2nd Year Religion Retreat

23rd January 2012
A letter has been sent home with all second year students outlining the arrangements for the upcoming 2nd year retreats on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th of January.
To view a copy of the letter, please click here.

Mocks Timetable 2012

23rd January 2012
The timetable is now available for all the third year and sixth year students. Please note that for all students lunch time will change to 12.30 - 13.15 for the duration of the exams.
Best of luck to all students sitting the exams.
3rd Year Timetable click here. 6th Year Timetable click here.

Young Scientist 2012

23rd January

On the 11th of January Siobhán Nestor, Sinéad O’Brien and Dearbháil Mac Mahon travelled to Dublin to compete in the BT Young Scientist 2012. They had been working on the project since September along with their teacher Mrs. Sheridan.

Congratulations Róisín and Róisín

23rd January 2012
Congratulations to Róisín Howley and Róisín Rouine who were both on the All-Ireland winning Munster All Stars Football Team. This is a great achievement for both girls. Congratulations must also be extended to Ms Eustace the coach of the school football team who encourages the students all the time.

Preparations for exams

15th January 2012
Students: With mocks approaching and the State exams always getting closer it is time to start thinking about a bit of extra study to ensure you achieve the best of your ability. Evening study continues as always and weekend study is also available. This gives a great opportunity for study in silent supervised conditions.

Build A Bank

15th January 2012

This year nine TY students are taking part in the annual AIB Build A Bank challenge. The challenge involves setting up and running our own bank here at school, developing a theme and encouraging students to save for the future. This year we have gone for a nautical theme, the name we chose for our bank is “SME Atlantic Bank” The bank operates from the resource area every Thursday at lunchtime.
This provides an opportunity for students to open accounts, lodge money to existing accounts and speak to a bank official from the local AIB branch in Ennistymon. If you have any enquiries or are interested in opening a student account please come to see us!  Any one that opens a new account gets entered into a draw to win a voucher!! We are also running loyalty promotions including “Saver of the month”!

If you have any questions please ask any member of the bank;

Sarah Clair – Bank Manager

Sharon Roche – Assistant Manager

Kate Healy - Auditor

Sarah Flynn – Sales and Marketing Executive

Laura O’Loughlin – Assistant Sales and Marketing Executives

Rosie Powell – Assistant Sales and Marketing Executive

Aisling Flynn – Teller

Aoife Hegarty – Teller

Denise Kelleher – Assistant Teller

Basketball Regional Champions

15th January 2012
Congratualtions to the U16 Backetball team who won the Regional Basketball Championships before Christmas. The girls have put in a lot of hard work as have those involved in coaching them - Stephen Leigh and Ms Eustace.

Christmas Exam Timetable

13th December 2011
The Christmas Exam Timetables are now available for all year groups. Best of luck to all students in these exams. Click here for more details...

Parent Teacher Meeting Schedule

5th December 2011
The 1st, 3rd and Transition Year Parent Teacher Meetings will take place this coming Thursday, 8th of December. The following is the time schedule for the day.

• 1st Years - 9 - 10.50
• 3rd Years - 11 - 1
• TY - 2 - 3.50

If there are any parents unable to attend, please contact the school in advance to inform teachers.

LCVP Table Quiz for Pemba

30th November 2011

Well done to the 5th year students who organised a table quiz as part of LCVP. The table quiz took place on Wednesday afternoon, Nov 30th, and all first and second year students were invited to attend. The quiz was very well organised and the students taking part seemed to really enjoy it. The money raised from this quiz will go to support the community in Pemba with whom Scoil Mhuire now have a very strong link. Well done also to their teacher Ms Higgins.

Thanks for a Great Musical

30th November 2011
Congratulations to everyone who took part in the recent production of The Sound of Music. This year's musical was really excellent and huge thanks must be extended to everyone involved but in particular Ms Dooley. Ms Dooley, as always, gives up a huge amount of her time to prepare the students and it definitely paid off. Thanks also to all those involved in costumes, set design, props, stage management, lighting sound, DVD, supervision and of course to the students for giving of their talents!

The Hills are Alive...

22nd November 2011
The Sound of Music opened today with a matinee in the Ennistymon Community Centre attended by many local primary school students. This perforance follows weeks of dedicated preparations by many students and staff (especially Miss Dooley) The show continues until Sunday 27th with evening performances each night, starting Thursday 24th, at 8pm. Tickets are available from students, in school or on the door. Hope to see you there!

Scholarships for Scoil Mhuire Students

17th November 2011
Congratulations to last years Leaving Cert students who were recently awarded academic scholarships. Leigh Brosnan & Siobhán Garrahy were awarded the JP McManus scholarship which entitles them to funding every year of their degree. This scholarship is only awarded to two Co. Clare students. Gráinne Donnellan received an entrance scholarship to NUIG and Odharna Ní Dhomhnalláin received an entrance scholarship to Trinity College Dublin.

Bake Sale in aid of ISPCC

10th November 2011
The 3B CSPE class are organising a Bake Sale on Monday 14th of November in aid of the ISPCC. Goodies will be available at the 11 o'clock break and at lunch time. Please try to support this worthy cause as best you can. Best of luck to the girls in the Bake Sale and with the rest of their CSPE Project.

Breast Cancer Awareness Total

7th November 2011
October was the month for Breast Cancer Awareness and the Transition Year students organised and took part in a number of fundraising activities during the month. All together the events included a No Uniform Day, a Bake Sale, Street Sales of official merchandise and a Hot Chocolate Morning. In total to date the girls have lodge €1500 to the Irish Cancer Society account for Breast Cancer. This is an excellent achievement and one we hope to continue next year during October. Congratulations and thanks to all those who took part and supported our events.

Taekwon-Do European Championships

26th October 2011
Congratulations to Miss Cullen who returned from the Taekwon-Do Auropean CHampionships with two bronze medals. This was the first time Miss Cullen has represented Ireland in Taekwon-Do and she was very pleased with her performance achieving the medals in Individual Female 3rd Dan Patterns and Senior Female Team Sparring. The competition came after a number of months of hard training with the Irish squad which really paid off as Ireland finished in 2nd place overall.

Comhairle na n-Óg

14th October 2011

Laura O ’Loughlin, Nadine Vaughan, Lisa Sexton, Dearbháil MacMahon, Sinéad Considine, Aoife Hegarty, Denise Kelleher and Eimear MacNamara attended Comhairle na n-Óg in Cois na hAbhna in Ennis on the 13th of October. Comhairle na n-Óg is a student council for County Clare and all schools are invited to participate over two separate days. During the course of the day the girls took part in group activities, had food during the day and discussed items for the Comhairle to look at during the course of the year.

Transition Years continue to Fundraise

12th October 2011
The Transition Year students are continuing to fundraise for Action Breast Cancer. Following the success of the no uniform day, the girls also sold the Breast Cancer merchandise on the streets of Ennistymon and Lahinch on Friday 7th October. Along with this, there was a staff coffee morning and a portion of the proceeds from their recent bake sale have all contributed to the fundraising. The total lodged to date amounts to more than €1400. This is a huge achievement for Transition Years and they will be continuing to raise more money during the month. Keep an eye out for other events!

3A Class raise moeny for Somalia

12th October 2011
As part of their CSPE Project, the 3A class organised a bake sale to raise funds for Somalia Famine Appeal. The girls had a great array of goodies for sale on the day and raised an impressive total of €200.40. This money will be presented to a volunteer from GOAL who is coming in to speak to the girls on Tuesday the 18th October.

Scoil Mhuire GO PINK!

5th October 2011
To mark October being Breast Cancer Awareness month there are numerous events taking place in Scoil Mhuire. The first of these was a No Uniform Day on Tuesday 4th where students and staff were asked to wear something pink for the day. Congratulations must be extended to Lousie Collins (6th Year), Lily Donovan (2A), Isabelle O'Mahony(2A), Caoimhe Haran (2B) Róisín Long (1A) and Isabelle Coleman (1A) who really put in huge efforts to be dressed head to toe in pink. Other events will include a bake sale, staff coffee morning and a hot chocolate morning.

Musical Rehearsal Dates

27th September 2011

All the dates for rehearsals have been added to the Extra Curricular Calendar. A full list of dates can also be found here. Full attendance is vital. Transition year students will be providing a hot dinner option for those who wish to avail of it. This will be on the mid week rehearsal evenings.

Email Instructions

14th September 2011
Every student now has an email account. For details on accessing this account, changing passwords etc. please click here. If there are any problems with your account, please ask Miss Cullen

Junior Cert Results

14th September 2011
Congratulations to all students who received their Junior Cert results today. The results were very good across the board and we hope that all students will be happy. We also hope that all students enjoy (safely) the celebrations today! See you back in class tomorrow!

Audition Information

13th September 2011
Ms Dooley has put together all the relevant information on each lead character for the auditions this week. Please click here to view the info and good luck with the auditions!!

School Email

12th September 2011
Almost all students have been assigned a new school email. This account is accessible from the home page of the school webiste. Because the email is been run from within the actual school, when you try to access it for the first time a warning will more than likely appear to say the site is untrusted. This warning can be ignored (just click Ok or Continue, whatever appears)! The email accounts are safe! Also, once you log in for the first time, please make sure you change your password. This can be done by clicking "Options" on the top right hand corner (beside your name) and then selecting "Change Password". Your new password must contain at least 8 characters and be a mix of Capital letters, small letters and numbers (at least one of each is actually requried). Your password cannot contain your own name. If you have any questions, please ask Miss Cullen.

Music News

5th September 2011
Another year of music is about to begin in Scoil Mhuire. Trad Group is beginning on Tuesday 6th of September. This year's school musical is "The Sound of Music". Auditions will take place on Friday 16th of September but students must sign up by Wednesday 14th. The running order list for the auditions will be posted closer to the time.
For any more information about the Trad Group or the musical, please speak to Ms Dooley. Good luck to all those who audition!

Year Begins with changed staff

5th September 2011
As excited voices of 60 new First Years echoed through the summer emptied school on Friday 26th August, Scoil Mhuire was lamenting the loss of two most distinctive and influential voices for generations of students, those of Helen Cleary and Mary O'Flaherty.
Helen Cleary and Mary O'Flaherty were pillars of the school community and we will miss their presence in the staffroom and their warm, accessible and caring natures.Their selfless service to Scoil Mhuire  and expertise in their subjects was evident to all who knew them and were lucky enough to have been their pupils. Both Helen and Mary had a wonderful passion for their respective subjects and worked tirelessly to instil in their pupils values, knowledge, hopes, dreams and a hunger to learn. read more...

Students Returning to School

20th August 2011
Although school re-opens for teachers on Wednesday August 24th, students are not returning until Friday at the earliest. The following is the list of return dates for all students:
1st Years and 6th Years - Friday 26th August
2nd Years, 3rd Years and 5th Years - Monday 29th August
Transition Years - Thursday 1st September

Outstanding Results

17th August 2011
At 9am this morning the queue of Leaving Cert students awaiting results began to form outside the principals office. During the course of the morning it became apparent that this years results were exceptional. A number of students achieved over 500 points while one student, Odharna Ní Dhomhnalláin, achieved 600 points with 7 A1s and 1 A2. The results from the girls are a results of very hard work. This years Leaving Cert students were generally very conscientious and hard working and it is great to see this hard work rewarded. We wish all the students the very best in the future as they travel down whatever path these results have made available to them. Congratulations and stay in touch! read more...

Leaving Cert Results

15th August 2011
This year's Leaving Certificate results will be available in school from 9.30 am on Wednesday 17th August. Best wishes to all the girls, we hope that you will all be happy with your results.

Booklists Available Online

21st June 2011
The booklists are now available online for 2011-2012. Just click on the relevant year group to see the list(s) requried.
Junior Cycle: First Year, Second Year, Third Year
Transition Year: TY Booklist
Senior Cycle: Fifth Year, Sixth Year