School News
National Youth Media Awards 2017 Entries
Aoife Dunne & Catherine Tighe: Transition year students with their entries for the National Youth Media Awards 2017. (www.drugs.ie)
Borrisokane Community College will be respresented at the 2017 BT Young Scientist.
Robert Guest ,Transition year student , has successfully reached the exhibition stage of the BT Young Scientist in the RDS this Wednesday to Saturday inclusive. Robert has been diligently working on his project titled Development of an Algorithm for Increasing the Efficiency of Computer Component Selection for the past few months. We wish Robert the very best of luck at the […]
Christmas Market.
The annual Christmas market took place at Borrisokane Community College on the 16th December. Tipp Fm broadcasted the Carol Power show live from 3- 6 pm from the school. There were over 60 stalls with a range of artisan and high quality products made locally and by students at a very reasonable price. The stall […]
Digital Youth Council Rep Lorcan Tuohy Borrisokane TY student.
Lorcan Tuohy-Donnelly, TY student in Borrisokane Community College and member of the Digital Youth Council of Ireland pictured with colleagues at “Cracking the Code” – A symposium on the development of a Computer Science curriculum for Irish schools in Farmleigh House on Friday 9th December. This event, as part of Computer Science Week provided an […]
Borrisokane students win in the local and regional Credit Union Art Competition.
The theme of the 2016 Credit Union Art Competition was ‘Dreams are made of this…’. The Credit Union Art Competition is one of the most successful annual promotions undertaken by the Credit Union Movement. The competition encourages and rewards self expression, creativity and imagination among young artists throughout Ireland. Entrants were required to draw or […]
Three Borrisokane Junior students into Doodle4Google Art Competition Semi Finals.
Three 2nd yr Art students have reached the semi-final of the Doodle4Google Art Competition. They are ‘three of fifteen’ semi-finalists in Munster in the 1st/2nd/3rd year category. They will find out on Feb 7th if they are through to the final which will be held at Google Headquarters in Dublin on April 3rd. The theme this […]
Birr Castle Trip & Presentation 1st year Awards
All 1st year students travelled to Birr Castle and Science museum last November. They partook in workshops that day in Science. They enjoyed travelling through the grounds and gardens on a horse and cart. They also experienced a guided history tour of the castle. As part of research and engaging the key skills of Communicating, […]
CSPE Trip 2B
We travelled to Dublin Zoo on Tuesday to complete a conservation module as part of our CSPE action project. The module was called ‘Zooardship’ , a play on stewardship which is a key concept in CSPE. We chose to focus on the Asian elephant as this is an endangered species in the wild. Many Zoos […]
