March 2019

Students in the Colaiste Clavin Drama group are busy putting the final touches on their upcoming staging of the murder mystery ‘Cafe Murder’ by Nathan Hartswick. Students will perform the play on April the 11th in Colaiste Clavin at 7pm. Tickets are €5 for students and €7 for adults. Tickets are on sale in the School […]

5th Year LCVP students had their Wrap Up session today with Aine Dunne representing Breedon Cement and Petrina Twomey from BITC. The students gave various presentations including mock interviews and were presented with Certificates for participating in the programme. Ms. McGrath (SCP Co-ordinator) organised a very nice spread of food afterwards which was enjoyed by

The U14 hurlers competed in a hurling blitz day recently. We played both Ratoath and Dunboyne on the day and unfortunately the bounce of the ball didn’t go our way but there was some great performances from Donal Stagg, Adam Peacock, Sean Burke, Patrick Jordan, Senan McCooey, Evan Ennis and Patrick McElhinney.

First year JCSP students attended the Make a Book Exhibition in the Ardboyne Hotel in Navan on Friday 22nd of March with Ms. McCoy. They made their first recipe book for the exhibition with Ms. McCoy containing some very tasteful delights and got it printed. They made each of the recipes in their Home Economics class

Ms Farrelly and Ms Purcell brought their 1st Year Geography Students to visit Dunmore Caves outside Kilkenny City where they saw several dripstones formed by the Process of Carbonation. The caves are also home to several species of bats and it was a site of a Viking massacre. After they went to view the impressive

1st Year History Students visited the National Museum of Ireland on Kildare Street where they viewed some priceless artefacts including the Ardagh Chalice and theTara Brooch. Anastasia Lungu is pictured beside the Aradgh Chalice with the Tara brooch to the right hand side. Later they visited Dublinia where they found out about the Vikings and

Coláiste Clavin held there annual wellbeing week from the 11th to the 15th of March. It was a jam-packed week of activities for our students with talks and activities to promote positive mental health, physical activity and nutrition. On Monday Fitness with the BodyShaper got our first, second and fifth years dancing to some Bokwa

On Friday last the Health Promoting Schools Committee were delighted to be able to raise the HPS flag on completion of the Health Promoting Schools three-year programme. Coláiste Clavin is now recognised as a school that is promoting Health and Wellbeing for all students. The Health Promoting Schools committee, which was made up of teachers,

Robyn Harvey a 1st Year Student won 1st Prize for her pitch in the Dragon’s Den at the Student Enterprise Competition held in the Knightsbrook Hotel in Trim on Thursday 14th of March. Robyn also came second in the overall Junior Category. Robyn received two trophies and €200 in one4all vouchers. Robyn manufactured a belt

Our Wellbeing Week ended with all the whole school community creating a massive smile on the pitch. The School would like to thank Colin Vaugh who kindly used a drone to capture our big smile at the end of Wellbeing Week; thanks to Mr Hughes and Mr Farrell for drawing out the smiley face on