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Some of our students competed in a basketball match as part of our well-being day here in Nenagh College. Well done to all!!

On Tuesday 18^th of May, TY and 5^th 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.

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.

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.

Vinnie Graham from Nenagh, a member of the Irish Special Olympics Skiing team has recently spent a week training in Soll, Austria.

The Special Olympics World Championships were due to take place in Kazan in Russia in 2022. However due to the conflict in Ukraine, the World Championships have been cancelled.

Vinnie, who is in second year in Nenagh College, has been training hard at the artificial ski slope in Kiltiernan, Dublin. He really enjoyed his week of training which enabled him to improve his skills and prepare for more competitions in the future.

Nenagh College’s Big brother big sister group celebrated the end of their mentoring programme with a fun filled afternoon in Foroige youth club in Nenagh! Well done to the First Years and Transitions Years who took part in the programme👏🙌🎉

Bienvenue to our French exchange students Jeanne Lucas from Nantes and Maellis Behlouli from Normandy, who are attending Nenagh College this term. Their presence is a great asset to the students of French in the school, giving them to opportunity to practise their French and learn about the culture. They are pictured with French teacher Mairead Sammon.