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Success for Juliette at the Tipperary Fleadh

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Nenagh College would like to congratulate 5th Yr student Juliette Kerin, who competed in the Tipperary Fleadh Ceoil held in Cashel recently. Juliette qualified for the Munster Fleadh Ceoil in the following categories
-Trad Flute
-Trad Flute – Slow Air
-Tin Whistle
-Tin Whistle Slow Air

This is a fantastic achievement and the result of much dedication and hard work.
We wish Juliette the best of luck in the Munster Fleadh Ceoil which takes place in Newcastle Wet in July 2022

Tipperary Fleadh success for Emma

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Nenagh College would like to congratulate 5th Yr student Emma Fitzgerald, who competed in the Tipperary Fleadh Ceoil held in Cashel recently.  Emma was placed first in the following categories –
-Under 18 Banjo Solo
-Under 18 Mandolin Solo
– Misc Tenor Guitar
-Bodhrán solo accompaniment
This is a fantastic achievement and the result of much dedication and hard work.
We wish Emma the best of luck in the Munster Fleadh Ceoil which takes place in Newcastle Wet in July 2022

VEX Robotics Competition

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On Tuesday 18th of May, TY and 5th Year Nenagh College Students participated in the VEX Robotics Competition in Dell Technologies. The students spent the last few months designing, building and coding their VEX robot during their lunch time. The students were very successful at the Robotics Competition making it to the semi-finals. For parts of the competition our students had to work with students from other schools. This built confidence, team-building and communication skills.  It was a very enjoyable day and a learning experience for all.

TY Home Economics

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TYs very creative today in Home Economics with our Irish staple food. They were given the task of cooking potatoes in a variety of different ways. They made wedges, potatoe cakes, hash browns, French fries, potatoe cubes, mash and roast potatoes.

Girls Junior Soccer NC v BCC

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Congratulations to our Junior Soccer Team, who were victorious on Friday 13th. Grace Quinn. (1st yr) captained our Team in a 9 a side Friendly match played in BCC, against very competitive opponents.
Results 3 NC to 2 BCC
We would like to thank their teacher, trainer and our hosts for their welcome and a very enjoyable day at Borrisokane Community College.
Training continues this Tuesday .
We look forward to an upcoming blitz to finish this season.
Students were accompanied by Ms Beirne and Ms Crowe

PLC graduation 2022

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On Friday last, 6th May, Nenagh College of Further Education hosted their first graduation ceremony since 2019. Graduates were accompanied by their families and friends with our senior cycle students, teachers and PLC tutors present in the gym. This day is always a very proud day in the life of Nenagh College of Further Education whereby we celebrate the achievements of our adult learners in a special way.

The PLC Co-Ordinator, Lucinda Dillon commented in her opening address that people do PLC courses for many different and varied reasons:

  • To gain skills in an area of interest
  • To upskill or retrain to change career
  • To use it as a steppingstone to enter colleges and universities to pursue further and higher education

The Class of 2022 saw a number of changes and initiatives including:

  • Our new Business Administration Course replaced our previous Information Processing programme
  • The launch of the new Early Learning and Care course nationally, replacing the old childcare award
  • Erasmus+ Programme

Lucinda also took the opportunity to thank our work experience providers on taking our students year after year for without them we couldn’t run such ambitious programmes as a college – TY, LCA, LCVP and PLC. She commented, “That’s why it’s so important to support our local businesses.”

Our 4 QQI Level 5 PLC Programmes on offer for 2022/23 are:

  1. Applied Social Studies with Healthcare
  2. Business Administration
  3. Early Learning and Care
  4. Sports, Recreation and Exercise

Finally, it was officially unveiled that Nenagh College of Further Education was granted Erasmus+ Programme status in early 2020 just as the world was going into lockdown with Covid restrictions. Thankfully, the grant funding was frozen for the duration and became available to use once restrictions lifted earlier this year. This now means that 10 lucky PLC students are traveling to Malaga, Spain to do a 2-week work-placement on 22nd May – 4th June. This trip is totally funded by the EU.