February 2019

A group of parents and community participants began a 4 week flower arranging course with Tutor Mary Owens arranging/spring planting course this morning in the school. This course is a LMETB community education funded course and is offered free to parents and interested members of the community. Other upcoming free community education and family learning courses are […]

5th Year Mini-Company students Samantha Healy, Chloe Moore, Sarah Louise Byrne Duffy and Suzie Pimlott who hosted a cake sale in the school. A fantastic array of cakes were displayed for the sale which took place during lunch break on Friday last. Students and staff were invited to purchase the particular tasty favourites from the

Following a 10 week typing challenge with 2nd Year classes, Mikolaj Suchomski (78wpm), Eamonn Reilly (72wpm) and Slu Zaka (66wpm) achieved the best score in their groups, and Avril Coyle and Mikolaj Suchomski showed the best improvement in their groups. Mikolaj and Eaminn are pictured with the “Ten fast fingers” programme opened behind them in the Computer

Le Cheile woodwork students were hard at work this term creating hand crafted picture frames to display their favourite games, TV shows and characters. Students demonstrated excellent attention to detail which is evident from the high standard of craftsmanship.

 Ms. Glynn’s 5th Year Mini-company class attended the educational workshop hosted by “The Chocolate Warehouse” in Dublin. The visit consisted of an informative talk on the organization and the work practices of a modern food manufacturing business in addition to a thought provoking account of the opportunities and challenges facing the confectionary industry in Ireland,

Pictured are the winners of students of the month for January: Senior Achievement = Larry Dillon (left); Junior Merit = Aoife Dixon (second left); Junior Achievement = Daniel Cusack (second right) and Senior Merit = Rhys Black (right)

Staff and students from Le Cheile visited Cullentra Farm in Longwood where they fed the animals and had a lovely cup of tea in the farmshop. All enjoyed their time on the farm.

Winning start for 1st and 2nd year girls basketball.  Our first and second year teams both got off the winning start to their season last Wednesday.  Despite very little training the first years held out to defeat Athboy by a single basket. With many girls playing their first ever basketball game it was great that