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Transition Year Adventures!

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🎉 Exciting day for our TY students! They headed to Limerick for a fun-filled outing at Funworld, where they enjoyed a thrilling bowling game. 🎳 After that, they kicked it up a notch at the brand-new Padel LK arena, diving into the fast-growing sport of padel and developing their skills! 🌟 A huge thank you to Mr. Heffernan and Mr. Forde for accompanying our students! 🙌 

100 Million Trees Project 

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 Nenagh College Ty Students are delighted to be a part of 100 Million Trees Project, and today with John from the Project were involved in the planting of native Irish trees on a preprepared site. This is part of a biodiversity initiative in Nenagh College and we are very grateful to all involved in this endeavour.
The 100 Million Trees Project is a National Not-for-Profit initiative being run by Richard, David and Tina Mulcahy. The project aims to plant 100 million Native Irish trees across the island of Ireland over the next decade, to increase the native Irish tree population, to add to the biodiversity throughout the country and to help mitigate carbon dioxide output in Ireland. The project’s ambitious aim will be to densely plant up to 2,500 native Irish trees per Mini Forest in ¼ acre sites using ‘the Miyawaki method’.  Named after Japanese Botanist, Professor Akira Miyawaki, who developed the technique in the 1970s to restore degraded land, the Miyawaki Method of overplanting trees has been used in over 3,000 mini forests worldwide.
The trees  are planted as saplings (between 30 and 75 cm high) and  planted very densely so the idea is that in two or three years we will have a mini-forest.  It will be a place for the birds, bees and small animals.  Following planting  the site will marked by a  “tree” on the 100 million Tree  map of Ireland to acknowledge our participation in the project.

FET Open Day

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On Friday 21 March a group of 40 students across 5th & 6th year LC & LCA  programmes visited the FET Open Day in Archerstown.
They had a fantastic opportunity  to:
✔️ Explore state-of-the-art facilities
✔️ Learn about career & study progression options
✔️ Meet apprenticeship advisors
✔️ Discover full & part-time courses
A valuable and exciting learning opportunity for all that visited.

Third Year Engineering

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Congratulations to our 3rd year Engineering student David Holland on being the first of 47 students in 3rd year Engineering to complete his junior cert “Forklift Project”
His Engineering teacher Mr. Heffernan is extremely proud of him for achieving this as it’s something David put a lot of effort into throughout the past few months.

Indian Cookery Lesson

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Ms Carey’s 5th and 6th year Home Economics students had the delightful opportunity to participate in an Indian cookery lesson led by Ms. Maharaj. They prepared a variety of dishes, including Onion Bhajis, Butter Chicken, Indian/Irish Chicken, Bombay Aloo, rice, and poppadoms. It was a fantastic day where everyone enjoyed learning about new flavors and techniques that are not typically found in Irish cuisine. A heartfelt thank you to Ms. Maharaj for generously sharing her time and expertise with us!

St Vincent De Paul

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Clodagh Lenihan was welcomed by TY and LCA students in Nenagh College, where they learned about the role of St Vincent De Paul in our community.
The Society of St Vincent de Paul provide a wide range of services for vulnerable people through their local offices, shops, resource centres, housing, day care and holiday schemes, they provide personal visiting, education grants, social housing supports, community and family services, adult and older people services, child and youth services etc
Nenagh College are currently working on creating innovative projects to fundraise and increase students awareness of the role of SVP in our society. Ms O Keeffe will attend the Youth Conference in the Radisson Blu in Limerick on the 10th April with her team of young SVP senior students.

Nenagh Arts Centre

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Nenagh college  students and teachers enjoyed a visit to Nenagh Arts Centre .
Art teacher Edwina Knight opened her solo exhibition “Immersions – the art of lake swims” earlier this month.
Her paintings and videos installation are about her interaction with the lake and her enjoyment of the quiet ritual of each lake swims .

Seachtain na Gaeilge

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An tseachtain seo caite, bhí Seachtain na Gaeilge againn ar scoil. Ghlac na daltaí páirt i ngníomhaíochtaí éagsúla i rith na seachtaine – tráth na gceist, scannáin, cluichí, comórtais agus rinneamar iarracht bhreise ár dteanga a labhairt. Bhí Lá Glas againn ar an Aoine chun airgead a bhailiú do LauraLynn Children’s Hospice. Sheinn ár ngrupa ceoil ceol traidisiúnta dúinn ag am sosa. Bhain muid go léir taitneamh as an tseachtain. Mar a deir an seanfhocal, ‘beatha teanga í a labhairt’.
Last week we had Irish week at school. Students took part in various activities during the week – quizzes, films, games, competitions and we all made an extra effort to speak our language. We had a green day on Friday to raise money for Ireland’s Children’s Hospice LauraLynn. Our trad group played tunes for us during break time. We all really enjoyed the week. As the saying goes ‘The life of a language is to speak it.’

Nenagh Schools’ Public Speaking Competition

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The Nenagh Schools’ Public Speaking Competition organised by Nenagh Lions Club, took place in the Main Council Chamber in Tipperary County Council Civic Offices yesterday. We are very proud of our team, Sebastian Siwek (Captain), Killian Lane, Blanca Wrona and Xander Gregan, who eloquently discussed the topic, ‘Lough Derg – local amenity or natural resource?’ with powerful, well researched speeches. Well done! Thanks to Nenagh Lions Club for organising and Tipperary County Council for hosting this event. The team are pictured with their medals, together with Mr. Don O’Brien, Nenagh Lions Club, Ms. Mairead Sammon, English Teacher and Ms. Catherine O’Keeffe, TY Co-ordinator.