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Check out our September Digital Newsletter here....
Welcome to our school....
Christmas Shoebox Appeal
Our TYs have begun the annual 'Christmas Shoebox Appeal'. We would be most grateful if people could drop in shoeboxes for this wonderful cause. The list of items that can be included can be found here or on our website. Please drop the boxes to Ms. Murrays office. The deadline is the 8th of November. Thank you! Team Hope
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Bonding in the Burren
Our LCA1s are just back from their bonding trip in the Burren Outdoor Education Centre. Two days were well spent in activities such as hillwalking up the Burren's Abbey Hill, caving and kayaking. Well done to our newest LCA class who represented our school brilliantly and hopefully made some new friends and great memories
Social Media Use amongst 1st years
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A message from our TY Digital Media Literacy class. #TY #DML
Our TYs have been busy surveying the 1st years on their digital media use and collating the data from their anonymous survey. The TYs have honed their computer, interpersonal and maths skills over the last few weeks. The results have been compiled into this infographic showing digital media use amongst 1st years and some of the results are concerning. With this is mind, TYs have begun to construct a presentation that will be made to all first years about digital media. It will look at the benefits, pitfalls and strategies in how to stay safe online. We urge you to have a conversation around social media with your children. Webwise Ireland have a great resource in their Parental Guide available at the following link: https://www.webwise.ie/parents/ |
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Thank You
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We would like to thank Pat and Andy Moloney for their very generous donation of €400 for resources for our ASD classes in Inbhear. Andy cycled from Edinburgh to Shannon during the summer in his "Andy's Cycle for Autism". They raised funds for the Irish Society for Autism and Scottish Autism. We really appreciate that they thought of us and look forward to buying much needed resources for the benefit of our students.
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STEM Talk
A big thanks go to Hugh Carvill from Northern Trust who came in on Friday as part of Smart Futures and Junior Achievement Ireland. Hugh spoke to the 5th year Physics class on careers in STEM.
Cash for Clobber
We are hoping for the help and support of the school and wider community as we prepare for our current musical – Legally Blonde! We are organising a ‘Cash for Clobber’ event here in The Comp. We would very much appreciate your help to raise money for our musical. The list of materials that can be donated can be found on the poster. Every little helps as we continue to fundraise for Legally Blonde. #HelpUsMakeTheMusicHappen
The Comp Quiz
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Calling all students, parents, past pupils and staff! Do you have what it takes? In our last quiz a team of teachers was narrowly defeated by a team made up of parents and past pupils. Who will be victorious this year? We are presenting THE COMP QUIZ, a general knowledge quiz designed to challenge all those who attend! 😉
Our quiz is in aid of our production of Legally Blonde and all support is gratefully accepted. We are also hoping for donations of spot prizes for our upcoming fundraising events. Please support! |
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Parents Association AGMOur Parents Association will hold their AGM on Monday the 14th of October. New members are always welcome!
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Junior Cert Results 2019We would like to wish luck to all our students receiving their Junior Cert results today. Congratulations on your achievement and well done to you and your families.
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TY Bonding Trip
Our TYs have just returned from their annual bonding trip in Lahinch. Much fun was had by all and we are looking forward to a very enjoyable and productive year.
Storm Lorenzo
In the interest of Health and Safety we are cancelling all after-school activities this evening, Thursay 3/10/19 and tomorrow evening. All personnel should be off-site by 4 pm this evening. Should we need to remain closed tomorrow, Friday we will notify parents/guardians though text, website and social media.
Student Enterprise Induction Day
Some of our Transition Years went to The West County Hotel today where they attended the Student Enterprise Induction Day. The students had a great day brainstorming ideas for their mini company. They also heard from some local entrepreneurs about their business ideas and success stories. Jack and Aoibhin were also interviewed by Robin from Clare FM about their mini company idea and reasons for doing Mini Company.
Vacancy
We have a vacancy in St. Patrick's Comprehensive School for a part-time cleaner to work 3 hours every weekday evening. Experience desirable but not essential. Please submit a letter of application, including the contact details for one referee, to Principal, St. Patrick's Comprehensive School, Shannon or via email to info@shannoncomp.ie with Vacancy in the subject line. Applications to be submitted by Friday 4th October at 4pm. Immediate availability is required.
Thank You
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We would like to thank Aero-Zone for their generous donation to St Patrick's Comprehensive School - Aero-Zone have purchased an additional mobile IT trolley for the school which allow any classroom to become a computer room supporting Teaching & Learning. Aero-Zone have also sponsored the purchase of a rotary toaster for our school canteen which will be used for the Breakfast Club and the provision of complimentary tea and toast for our students from 8:30 every morning. On behalf of students and staff of St Patrick's Comprehensive School - thank you for thinking of us and supporting our students.
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New mentoring programme - Cara
We are delighted to announce that we are a number of weeks into a new and successful initiative here at The Comp called 'the Cara mentoring programme’.
Ms Akers, the mentoring Co-ordinator, has teamed up with Thomas O’Hara from Clare Youth Services and have provided training to equip 25 of our 5th year students with the skills required to run such a programme.
The Cara mentoring provides extra support for all first years settling into Comp life. Every Wednesday at lunch time at 1.25pm, our fantastic team of 5th years arrange and carry out a variety of ice breakers, games and activities for first years to take part in. It is done in a very relaxed atmosphere in room 9 and 10 and all first years are encouraged to join and have some fun.
We are incredibly grateful to our 25 volunteer mentors from 5th year and Ms. Akers for organising this programme for our first years.
Ms Akers, the mentoring Co-ordinator, has teamed up with Thomas O’Hara from Clare Youth Services and have provided training to equip 25 of our 5th year students with the skills required to run such a programme.
The Cara mentoring provides extra support for all first years settling into Comp life. Every Wednesday at lunch time at 1.25pm, our fantastic team of 5th years arrange and carry out a variety of ice breakers, games and activities for first years to take part in. It is done in a very relaxed atmosphere in room 9 and 10 and all first years are encouraged to join and have some fun.
We are incredibly grateful to our 25 volunteer mentors from 5th year and Ms. Akers for organising this programme for our first years.
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Congrats
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European Day of Languages
Today the TY students from Ms. Akers German class and Ms. Griffin's French class held a modern language table quiz for all first year students. This annual event marked international European Day of Languages. The results on the day were very close but team Finland came out on top! A huge thank you to all TY students for the time and effort spent preparing for such a successful table quiz.
Football NewsOur Under 15 footballers had a great win with a scoreline of 7-6 to 2-6. Mitchelstown put in a huge performance but our lads came out on top and deservedly so. Great team performance! On to the next round
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Legally Blonde - Cast Announcement
We are thrilled to reveal our main cast list for Legally Blonde - the musical! We are super excited to see this talented bunch take to our stage in December. More students will be cast and will be volunteering for backstage and organisational roles as time goes on. We are building up a fantastic team for what promises to be an amazing show.
Thank YouA big thank you to all our staff who supported ‘Ireland’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ today. All funds raised are going to Cahercalla Hospice. Thanks to Ms. Ahern for organising the event and providing the fabulous cake and Ms. Shannon for the lovely scones. Well done all!
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Soccer Star
Congrats and best of luck to 1st year student Amy who has been selected as part of a 17 player squad to represent Munster in the 2019 Inter Provincial Tournament in soccer. She will be representing her school at the U15 Munster schools level.
We join your family in being very proud of you and wish you luck in this amazing journey!
We join your family in being very proud of you and wish you luck in this amazing journey!
The Globe Program
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Digital Media LiteracyOur TYs have started a new course in ‘Digital Media Literacy’ and are learning and researching about all things digital media related. This week they will be surveying some of our students regarding their social media use and will hopefully teach them more about social media after tallying the results. Over the next while if you see posts tagged as #TY #DML on our channels then it’s a post that we are sharing based on their course. Hopefully we will all be learning with the TYs!
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German Exchange 201924 of our German students have gone on a week long exchange to Lichtenfels Bavaria. They are enjoying some of the culture and language in this immersive programme. Thanks to all those who organised this wonderful trip.
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Christmas Market |
Return of The Breakfast Club
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Legally Blonde
We are so proud of all our dedicated and enthusiastic students who have already made time for their dance workshop and auditions. We can’t wait for it all to kick off.🙌🎼🎤
Coming to The Comp near you soon!
Coming to The Comp near you soon!
Music Generation ClareOur corridors will soon be filled with even more music! Legally Blonde isn’t our only musical adventure this year. We are delighted to welcome
Music Generation Clare to The Comp. They start instrumental tuition in Guitar, Ukulele, Music Tech, Concertina, Banjo and more from the 19th Sept 2019. TO REGISTER EMAIL INFO@MUSICGENERATIONCLARE.IE 
Auditions
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Junior Cert Results 2019
Parents Association MeetingWe would be delighted to welcome new members to our Parents Association. Please find the details below.
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New course.
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We are delighted to announce that we will be welcoming Middletown Centre for Autism to our school to host autism courses for parents and professionals. It is with great excitement that we welcome this initiative to our school. The course will run for 5 weeks starting in February. Details on the course and registration can be found in the link below. We imagine that this will be a popular course so please follow the link.
https://www.middletownautism.com/training |
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2018/2019 - Highlight Reel
Social Media Highlights Scroll down to see what has been happening on our social media.
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