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Take 1 Programme

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Nenagh College in partnership with Tipperary ETB’s Take 1 Programme Director, Valerie Lewis, have been working on exploring and embedding the Take 1 programme in our school.

The Take 1 programme looks at the internationally agreed 17 Sustainable Development Goals and aims to promote these among the school community.

As part of this, the staff of Nenagh College participated enthusiastically in a whole school CPD with Valerie on January 17th last. Following this, teachers and students explored the 17 Sustainable Development Goals during Nenagh College’s Take 1 week from January 23rd to 26th. During their classes that week, teachers linked these SDG’s to their various subject areas, thus displaying to students across their whole curriculum the themes of each SDG.

 

 

Ms. Egan’s first year Geography class have been studying about primary economic activities the past few weeks. During Take 1 week they made posters, making the connection between their studies (natural resources, farming, fishing, forestry and sustainable exploitation) and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

 

Ms. Powell’s first Year Wood Technology students explored characteristics of deciduous/coniferous tress, discussing about climate, native trees in Ireland and about sustainable forestry making links to Sustainable Development Goals.

 

Classroom photos of work done on Sustainable Development Goals for Take One Week 2024 during Ms. O’ Keefe’s third year SPHE class. They were exploring Sustainable Development Goal 3 which is Achieving universal health and wellbeing.

I Wish Convention 2024

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Nenagh College female STEM students were delighted and privileged to be selected to participate in the I Wish Showcase event in the RDS on Thursday 8th February. This event aims to empower girls to consider careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).
Representing us on the day were Annabel Galvin, Emma Smyth, Fayth Abbott-Muldowney, Gabriella Creed, Julia Placek, Lily O’Brien, Tuireann O’Brien, Weronika Walerowiscz, Magdalena Chanas and Amy Fogarty with their teacher Ms O’Malley (Coding, Computer Science and Maths).
Speakers at the event came from diverse areas and included former president Mary Robinson, Irish science communicator Ciara Judge, head of Meta Ireland Anne O’Leary, global diversity leader Furkan Karayel, aeronautical engineer Dr Norah Patten, and Irish Olympian hockey player and biomedical engineer Katie Mullan. Companies participating included Deloitte, Dell, PepsiCo, Johnson and Johnson, Merck, Regeneron, Qualcomm and AWS.
All junior cycle students have the options of studying Coding, Design and Communication Graphics, Engineering, Materials Technology and Science. At senior cycle they have the options of Agricultural Science, Computer Science, Construction, Engineering and Graphic Design, as well as Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

Lets Learn About Drugs Together

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Second year students and their parents/guardians took part in interactive workshops funded by the HSE, in Nenagh College on the 31st January and 7th Feb 2024.
The theme was “Lets Learn About Drugs Together”. Parents/guardians and their students enjoyed the engagement with each other.  There was plenty of discussion and group work which added to the learning.
Ms O Keeffe would like to thank the TY students: Caoimhe Callaghan, Hazel Kinsella and Lucy Slattery who assisted with the set up and refreshments.  She would also like to thank Maya Snycerz (HSE) who facilitated the workshops.
Please note the following drug and alcohol helplines:
1800 459 459
helpline@hse.ie
Drugs.ie

An Introduction to Positive Psychology

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Over the last 5 weeks teacher and Positive Psychologist Siobhan Connolly Hogan, delivered “An Introduction to positive psychology & Sona Strengths course” to our Transition year Students. Her course enlightened our students to tap into their inner character strengths, focused on the concepts of grit, growth mindset, negativity bias and the happiness pie and flow-all of which supports good mental health but also cultivates positive wellbeing that support students in and outside of the classroom. Thank you to Siobhan for introducing students to Positive psychology which is the “scientific study of human strengths and virtues.”