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The students in St Mary’s High School attended a recent presentation delivered by Mr Wayne Denner on e-safety and creating a positive online reputation.
Wayne set up Ireland’s first Social Network platform before Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, he is a renowned speaker, educator and author.
The Rights Respecting School’s Steering Group has carried out student research and identified that the majority of students use a wide range of social media sites on a daily basis but also many have concerns regarding their own personal safety and cyber bullying when using such sites.
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The Irish League of Credit Unions Chapter 4 held their annual School Quiz at the weekend in the Armagh City Hotel with many local schools competing.
Local winners included St Ronan's Primary School and Abbey Grammar School.
The winners were
Competition A
Winners: St. Ronan’s P.S., Newry. Team: Tiernan Kearns, Callum Byrne, Aine Hughes and Sadhbh Sweeney.
Runners up: Ballydown Primary School, Banbridge. Team: Ruby McNiff, Harriet Blair, Enda McDermot and Niall Malcolmson
Third place: St. Dallan’s, Warrenpoint. Team: Eanna Carr, Sarah Daly, Ethan Kelly and Erin Keen
Competition B
Winners: St. Louis’ Kilkeel. Team: Padraig Cunningham, Ciaran Bradley, Niamh McDowell and Aoife McQuaid
Runners up: Abbey Grammar, Newry. Team: Cian Toal, Tom Comer, Sean Rock and Caleb Quigley
Third place: St. Joseph’s, Donaghmore. Team:: Michael Morrow, Cara O’Brien, Finn Murray and Thomas Devlin
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A newly refurbished art suite costing £163,000 was opened at St Joseph's Boys High School in Newry by Education Minister John O'Dowd on Wednesday.
The refurbishment works were completed following the investment from the Department of Education under the minor works programme. The Minister also joined in with pupils participating in home economics and music classes and discussed employability skills with pupils in a careers education class.
The Minister said: “It is a pleasure to be here in St Joseph’s Boys’ High School today and I would like to thank the Principal, Hugh Mallon and all those connected with the school for their warm welcome.
“In particular I welcome the opportunity to officially open and view the fantastic new art suite at the school which has been completed with funding of £163,000 from my Department.
“Continued investment in our schools estate is essential if we are to help support our teaching staff to deliver a quality education to all our children and young people.
“As well as having a positive impact on our young people, this investment also provides a much needed boost to the construction industry, helping to sustain local jobs. It is therefore good to see representatives from the local project contractor and architects firm here today to help celebrate the completion of this important piece of work.”
The Minister concluded: “I have thoroughly enjoyed my visit to St Joseph’s Boys’ today. I was very impressed by the talent and enthusiasm of the pupils I met. Finally, I want to commend the Principal and the Board of Governors on their leadership and the whole staff body for their continuing hard work.”
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The Art and Design Department in St Mary’s High School celebrate the outstanding results of students Ciara Elliott and Laura McAleenan, both students achieved maximum marks in their GCSE Art and Design exam.
The outstanding achievement at GCSE level reflects the hard work and dedication of students and their teachers.
The school is also celebrating the achievement of A Level student Danielle Kinney whose work was selected for the ‘True Colours’ exhibition in the Ulster Museum, Belfast.
True Colours is a unique and exciting exhibition of outstanding artwork by some of the brightest young artists and designers in our schools and colleges.
The Ulster Museum in partnership with CCEA is hosting the ‘True Colours’ exhibition which showcases a selection of the best and most interesting work of almost 80 local students produced for CCEA's Summer 2012 GCE, GCSE, AS and A2 level examinations and includes preparatory work alongside the finished pieces.
Students, families and the general public can visit at weekends and on weekday afternoons from Friday 10 January 2014 - Sunday 23 February 2014 The Museum is closed on Mondays.
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Eoin Lane and Oisin McKinley from Abbey Christian Brothers School, Newry took First Place in the Junior Group Award in the Biological and Ecological Science section at the BT Young Scientist of the Year Exhibition in Dublin last week. The pair also received a Junior Display Award.
Their project entitled A study of the Resource Holding potential of the Red Beadlet Anemone attracted a lot of interest at the Ballsbridge event.
The pair were the only Newry representatives at this years 50th Anniversary Young Scientist Exhibition.
In all, almost 1,165 students from 32 counties covering 550 projects from 210 schools nationwide competed for the title of BT Young Scientist of the Year won this year by Paul Clarke, aged 17, from St Paul’s College, Raheny in Dublin who took home the top prize for his project entitled “Contributions to cyclic graph theory.
Paul was presented with a cheque for €5,000, the opportunity to represent Ireland at the 26th European Union Young Scientist competition taking place in September and a brand new trophy. As this year’s winner, Paul will also win a once in a lifetime trip to Silicon Valley in California, home to some of the world’s biggest technology corporations, to meet BT’s Innovation team, and will enjoy a hosted tour of leading enterprises and meet business leaders from the world of science and technology.
Colm O’Neill, CEO, BT Ireland said, “When we set out last year to plan for the 50th BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition we wanted to make sure that this was our most exceptional event to date. I’m delighted to say that it has exceeded all of our expectations. Over the past three days we have had some of Ireland’s brightest, most creative and positive young people astound us with their ideas for a better future and we have been greatly impressed by the high standard of these entries.
He added, “Over the years the exhibition has proven to be an important launch pad for the next wave of entrepreneurs, academics, scientists and technologists; people who will be fundamental in addressing the global skills shortage. For that reason, we cannot underestimate the importance of this exhibition in encouraging our young students to pursue careers in science and technology. I would like to congratulate every single student who participated this week and of course to Paul on his enormous achievement. If our past winners have taught us anything, it’s that this award could change his life.”
Speaking about the winning entry, Professor Tom Laffey, judge in the Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences category said: “Graph theory is an area of pure mathematics which studies properties of linkages and networks. It has applications in several areas including computing, molecular structure, neuroscience, search engines, engineering etc. In this project Paul makes a profound contribution to the study of graphs. He identifies key concepts and provides the methodology to apply them to some long-standing major problems in the subject with great success.”
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It's been a very busy couple of weeks for musicians and the music department from St Joseph’s Boys’ High School in Newry who brought their musical skills to Dublin, the Buttercrane as well as the School Christmas Concert.
St Joseph’s held their annual Christmas Carol Service on the 4th December in the school assembly hall with a great turn out of pupils, teachers and a Liturgical service celebrated by Fr Corr. The beautiful service included reflections about the true meaning of Christmas whilst the school choir sang carols and hymns accompanied by the String ensemble. The wind ensemble concluded the service by playing Christmas music and filling everyone with the Christmas spirit.
The school choir travelled to Dublin on the 5th of December to participate in the ‘Young Voices’ concert in City West Hotel. The 40 choir members were part of a 3000 children’s Hallelujah choir which sang their hearts out to friends and family. A great time was enjoyed by all with long lasting memories.
The wind band attended the annual Christmas event in the Butter Crane shopping centre on 11th December. Every year the pupils provide Christmas music for the shoppers and also raise money for a worth while children’s charity ‘Barnardos’.
St Joseph’s Head of Music, Mrs Sharon Byrne, expressed her absolute delight at the level of dedication that the pupils have shown over the last number weeks in making all the musical events such a success and on behalf of all the staff at St Joseph’s would like to wish all the pupils, parents and extended school community a very Happy Christmas.
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Pupils from St Joseph's Boys High School presented a cheque for £700 to the Macmillan trust.
The funds were raised at a series of fund raising activities including a bake sale and sponsored walk.
Principal Mr Hugh Mallon expressed his delight at how staff and pupils contributed together in the support the Macmillan and commended the Pioneer Association for its efforts of arranging the recent Coffee Morning in school.
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Members of the Newry Neighbourhood Policing Team recently visited the Southern Regional College in Newry to rasie awareness of the dangers of alcohol and drug misuse. Write a comment
Pupils from the Sacred Heart Grammar School recently presented a cheque to Newry Samaritans following their walk along with the Newry Canal Towpath with pupils from St Mary's High School.
The cheque for over £900 was presented to Eileen and Paddy, Volunteers with Newry/Dundalk Samaritans.
Samaritans are very grateful to these young ladies for their efforts, as the organisation is entirely dependant on contributions from the public and is in urgent need of funds. This walk helped raise some of the funding needed to keep the local branch going.
Samaritans, who this year are celebrating their 40th year in the area, are located at 19 St Coleman's Park, Newry and offer emotional support 24 hours a day. They are always available to receive your phone calls at 028 (048) 302 66366, or your emails at jo@samaritans.org if you need to talk, or your financial contributions if you want to help.
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