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05May 2021

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TY ‘Come Dine with Me’ Challenge

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05May 2021

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All Ireland Drama Success

Congratulations to Olivia Bruen (TY) on coming fifth in The RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival Playwright Competition. Schools from Cavan, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Limerick, Longford, Meath, Offaly, Roscommon, and Tipperary promoted and supported TY students’ participation in the scripting of a one-act play this year. Aoife received a certificate, a pen and a €50 voucher which was sponsored by Athlone Credit Union. Hopefully, this critical creative experience of script writing may further stimulate Olivia and her fellow TY students to write more plays in the future.

05May 2021

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Bubble Up!

Congratulations to ‘Bubble Up’ Mini-company from St. Nathy’s College who scooped 1^st prize in the ‘Best Business Category’ of the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Foróige programme. 'Bubble Up' are a mini-company making vegan bath bombs and consist of Aoibheann Maloney, Chloe Gallagher, Holly Murray & Meadhb McCormack in Transition Year. 'Bubble Up' represented St. Nathy’s College in the National Semi-Finals in April – we are so proud of them!

17Mar 2021

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Donal Walsh Webinar

LThe TY's attended a webinar which was run in memory of Donal Walsh, an event that promotes the value of life and featured Mayo's Tom Parsons and Kerry's Ciaran Donaghy who shared their resilience techniques.

It was a truly inspiring event.

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17Mar 2021

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St Patrick’s Day

Wishing all members of St Nathy's College Community a very happy St Patrick's Day.

TY students put their artistic and creative talents to work making bookmarks to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge and St Particks Day.

Well done!

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17Mar 2021

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International Womens Day

Some of the wonderful TY students taking the opportunity to celebrate International Women's Day by dressing up to highlight the achievements of woman in science, music, sport and most importantly....in our family!

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09Mar 2021

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TY’s Artistic Endeavours Receive National Coverage

Pandemic fails to put a stop to students’ creative endeavours for innovative art exhibition When the world as they knew it was collapsing around them, an oak-inspired art project became a symbol of the resilience of students and teachers at St Nathy’s College. Now the colourful mural is displayed on a school wall as a permanent reminder of the hard work and creativity of pupils at the Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon school in the year that Covid hit. It is also one of the entries in the annual Creative Engagement Exhibition hosted by the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD), to showcase the artistic talent and innovation among second-level students. The annual exhibition, which was opened by Arts Minister Catherine Martin, runs online until Saturday. It is all the more impressive this year with students challenged to complete the project during the pandemic. Work on the St Nathy’s mural depicting the mighty oak and a rainbow, and made of bottle tops, had started well before the pandemic closed the school last March. Pupils had collected thousands of bottletops, mainly from strategically placed baskets in the school and community settings, such as nursing homes, for their: Bringing Plastic to Life – Out of Waste Grows Beauty mural. Local artist Mo Robertson was a guiding hand and the project started with one group of Transition Year (TY) pupils, but the sudden interruption to in-school teaching last spring disrupted the work. That might have been the end of it, but Karen Munnelly the school’s Creative Engagement co-ordinator said: “When we came back in September, the new TY picked up the mantle and we finished it. “You could easily have given up on it because of the closure, but we pushed through with the project and we were determined to see it through to the end. “We showed resilience, just like the oak shows resilience. Ballaghaderreen is the ‘town of the little oak’, the oak is also on the school crest and students used this as a motivation to finish the artwork despite interruptions to class time.” A cross-curricular approach also involved woodwork students, who made benches, complete with planters, designed to sit in front of the mural and to be filled by the horticulture class. Above is an extract from an article in the 'Irish Independent' by Katherine Donnelly published on 5/3/21. To see the article in full, please click the link below: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/pandemic-fails-to-put-a-stop-to-students-creative-endeavours-for-innovative-art-exhibition-40163614.html

09Mar 2021

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TY Riddle Scavenger Challenge

TYs have been busy engaging in challenges together while remaining apart. Last week they completed a Riddle Scavenger Challenge. Congratulations to Ava O'Grady who completed the challenge in the fasted time.

09Mar 2021

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St. Nathy’s Celebrates World Book Day

Thursday 4th March was World Book Day, and here in St. Nathy’s College we celebrated our love of reading in fine style! Our students shared their most loved reads, got involved in some 'novel' upcycling, dressed up as their favourite fictional villains and even created some book-inspired bakes!