School News
1st year Sky Sports Day by Siofra Buckley, TY Student
Borrisokane Community College started work on their project in October 2016 and the event took place in March 2017 during Active School’s Week. The project was run by twenty Transition Year students with assistance from their Physical Education teachers. Whilst brainstorming for ideas, the idea came about to do a one day Olympics in our school […]
Scifest
The SciFest programme aims to encourage a love of science, technology and maths through active, collaborative, inquiry-based learning and to provide a forum for students at local, regional and national level to present and display their scientific investigations. All 1st year students participated in a Scifest event at the school on 3rd March. There was […]
School Digital Champions head to Facebook
On Friday, 3rd of March, Lorcan Tuohy Donnelley, Elena Mackey and Rachel O’Dwyer with their teacher Miss Fogarty went to Facebook in Dublin. We went on this trip as part of the School Digital Champions programme. At first, we got to use oculus virtual reality headsets. This allowed us to immerse ourselves into a virtual […]
Borrisokane Community College attends biggest ever Cycle Against Suicide Student Leaders’ Congress in UL.
Last week on the 19th January, students and teachers from Borrisokane Community College travelled to the University of Limerick to attend the 2017 Cycle Against Suicide Student Leaders’ Congress. The Congress focused on raising awareness of the message ‘It’s OK not to feel OK; and it’s absolutely OK to ask for help’, and promoting help-seeking […]
BT Young Scientist
On Thursday 12th January eighty one 1st year students and a small representative group of TY students travelled with Ms Suzanne McMahon, Ms Jackie Hayes, Ms Laura Walshe and Ms Ann Ryan to visit the exhibition in the RDS and support Robert Guest, TY student under the guidance of Science teacher Ms Mary Brady, in […]
Borrisokane CC 1st and 2nd Vs Gallen CS
Borrisokane CC 1st and 2nd year girl’s basketball teams played Gallen CS at home on Monday 30th January. First years were up first and struggled with form early on against a very strong Gallen side. Borrisokane struggled with their physicality and despite an improved performance in the second half lost this game to a better […]
Borrisokane CC crowned Junior Munster Champions
Borrisokane Community College defeated St. Marys High School, Midelton, Cork in a very tense Junior C Munster final at Drom and Inch GAA grounds on Saturday 28th January. Borrisokane got off to a great start thanks to a point from Laura Leenane and a well taken goal from Aine Slattery. With excellent hooking and blocking […]
Basketball – 1st years Boys Vs Portlaoise College
1st years played Portlaoise College in their first game on Friday 20th. They put in a great performance demonstrating great teamwork and skills. They won 16 – 0.
