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Think Language Competition Winners

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Congratulations to the following students who won prizes in our #thinklanguages competition.
1st Place: Gina Wu
Joint 2nd Place: Eileen Wu / Iman Gidalishova
Joint 3rd Place: George Tatarus/ Bronwyn Keegan.
Runners Up: Anastasiia Popova, Nathan Kozlowski, Sarah Child – Looby and Victoria Tulchynska.
Well done to all the students who made posters and contributed to the positive and enthusiastic atmosphere throughout the week.

Ag Science Trip

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On Tuesday 18th November our 5th year Biology students and 6th year Ag Science students were accompanied by their teachers Ms Duffy and Ms Sugrue to Science Week in UL. The biology students attended an excellent interactive genetics session on “How NOT to get cancer” while the Ag Science students participated in a session on “Tinder for Cows”.

****Online parent’s event***

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Do you have a child or loved one sitting their leaving certificate? Are you trying to gain a better understanding of the CAO and college options available? If so, this online information session may help you.

The online event, which takes place Tuesday 26 November from 7pm-8pm, is aimed at giving the parents of prospective students and guardians of school leavers the information they need to help their children make the right choices for them throughout the CAO process.
Register with the link below:
https://www.setu.ie/events/parents-online-information-evening-2024

Nenagh Arts Centre

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Students from Ms Beirne 2nd year Art class visited the Mna na hEalain “Unheard Voices”
Exhibition today as they design their Art Activist Lino Print Posters for Christmas
Exams.
This Collaborative Exhibit inspired students to design create and Craft their own Prints.

U16 Boys Volleyball

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The U16 Boys Volleyball team, played an exciting match against Mungret Community College and Alfa Steiner SS. Although, they didn’t achieve victory, they showed great effort, teamwork and commitment. This experience will help them improve and achieve their goals for the upcoming years. Congratulations to all players involved and the great dedication showed

The last day of #thinklanguages

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The last day of #thinklanguages week was a whole school event where Language and Sport got together.
Every year group got involved in our World Cup Soccer Blitz organised by the Champion Team with the help of their TY group.
Funds raised from the Blitz will be donated to the Irish Deaf Society.
The countries represented were India, France, Turkey, Germany, Italy, China, Mexico Canada, Spain, Greece, Austria, Poland, Ireland, Eygypt, Netherlands, Portugal, Wales and Japan.
Both the players and supporters enjoyed the event.
Mexico and Portugal made it to the final and Portugal were crowned the Winning Team, who were presented with what will now be a perpetual trophy as we look forward to making this a yearly Think Languages Event! Hazel O Donovan from The Champion Team presented Séamus Connolly, the winning team captain with the cup🏆

U 16 Girls Volleyball

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The U 16 Volleyball girls represented Nenagh College in the Secondary Schools division C competitions. They won one match and narrowly lost against Passage West and Portlaoise College.
We’re so proud of the girls, many of whom started playing Volleyball for the first time this year! Well done to the girls!

Think Languages Quiz

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Our Think Languages events were in full swing again today, kicking off with the exciting Think Languages Quiz! We had a blast competing against schools from across Ireland and discovered so much about the fascinating languages and vibrant customs from around the globe!
Today’s canteen special took us on a culinary journey to China with a delicious dish of crispy chicken balls smothered in tangy sweet and sour sauce—an absolute treat!
Zoe, with Blanca’s fantastic support, led an engaging and lively German workshop for our first-year students! They explored numbers, days of the week, and so much more, including a fun filled game of bingo. Zoe treated everyone to delicious homemade Lebkuchen as prizes—baked specially for the occasion!

Think Languages Week Continues

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Nenagh College TY students were delighted to get the opportunity to speak to Alison from Tipp FM about their #thinklanguages week. They have been shortlisted into the top 11 schools out of a nationwide entry of 200 and are now in with a chance of getting to the top 3 and winning a trip to Brussels.
Listen here to their interview.

Munster Olympic Handball Competition

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On Wednesday, we brought 4 teams all the way down to Neptune Stadium in Cork City to compete in a Munster Olympic Handball competition. A total of 46 students travelled and represented the school brilliantly.
In the juvenile girl’s competition, the girls were in hard luck narrowly losing two group games and unfortunately didn’t make it to the finals.
The boy’s juvenile team came second in the group stages and competed in the final as a result. They came up against a strong St Brendan’s who won out 5-2 but were unlucky to concede two late goals.
The boy’s junior team faired similarly as they also came second in their group and again faced reigning All Ireland champions, St Breandan’s. The boys put up a great fight and even took a 3-2 lead early in the second half before St Brendan’s finished strong to win out 6-3.
Finally, our junior girls team went undefeated and topped their group. They faced St Aloysius’ College in the final where they were victorious on a scoreline of 3-1 to be crowned Munster champions.
All in all, our juvenile and junior boys were crowned runners up in all of Munster while our junior girls are now Munster champions!!!
Well done to all students who travelled and completed today and best of luck to our junior girls who will go on to compete in the All-Ireland stage