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SRC Catering Students bring home the bacon Returning from IFEX in a haze of glory, the Professional Chef and Food Service students from Southern Regional College are taking a well earned break after producing some of their best work at the large hospitality event held in Belfast.
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On Friday 12th March a Key Stage 3 Science Quiz took place at St. Patrick’s High School in Keady. Sixteen schools including Secondary and Grammar Schools participated in the annual event.
This event runs during National Science Week. Newry High pupils Mark Irwin, Claire Tilley and Christopher Bagnall were awarded third place. The pupils are pictured with their Teacher Mrs Miriam McPolin. Congratulations to all.
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Bhain na gasraí seo a leanas scoláireacht / scholarship winners were
J1 – Cormac Clarke Niall Clarke Conal Gordon
J2 – Declan Loye
J3 – Mateusz Jadczak
S1 – Daire Brown Patrick Sweeney Conal Mc Cavanagh Eamon Grant
Bhain na gasraí seo a leanas bonn / medal winners were
J1 - Thomas Carlin
S2 – Martin Ryan
The annual Feis an Dúin Gaeltacht scholarship competition was held on Saturday 20th and a number of St Colmans students were successful. Overall nine students have won scholarships to the Gaeltacht and a further two students were successful in the medal competition. Yet again Coiste na Feise are to be commended for an excellent day which the students enjoyed and benefited from. Mol an óige agus tiocfaidh sí!
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The music department of St Colman’s College held its annual Spring Concert on Thursday evening, March 25 in the school assembly hall. The aura was festive on Violet Hill as the entire College community continued to enjoy the spirit of jubilation following the MacRory Cup team’s victory on St Patrick’s Day.
The concert opened with Forrest Gump Suite performed by the school orchestra. The orchestra, led by Conor Masterson, also played the very melodic Music from Evita featuring tunes from the musical such as Buenos Aires, I’d Be Surprisingly Good For You, You Must Love Me, Don’t Cry For Me Argentina.
A primary aim of the evening always is promote the younger instrumentalists in the school. For some players in junior string orchestra it was a debut public performance in I Wish I Had the Shepherd’s Lamb from Irish Suite conducted by Mr Mark Doran. Similarly in junior band, beginner saxophonists, flautists, trumpeters and percussionists joined forces with seasoned players in Royal Alpine Fanfare.
The very large, supportive audience was treated to Jimmy Ward's Jig and The Dublin Reel from the traditional group. They offered a warm reception to the string quartets, brass quintet, jazz and big band music as well as hearing music from the flute trio and saxophone ensemble.
Participating students and audience alike were inspired by performances from a number of very talented soloists. Chengrun Shi (guitar), a past-pupil of St Joseph’s High School and currently a sixth year music student at St Colman’s College performed Bourée in E minor. Stephen Murphy performed Andante et Scherzo for trumpet by Busser. Conor Masterson (violin) performed Czardas by Monti. Cahal Masterson, who recently was soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3 with SELB South Ulster Youth Orchestra enthralled everyone with his performance of Chopin’s Scherzo No 2.
In keeping with tradition, the final performances of the evening were a celebration of choral work in the school. The boys’ choir once again drew great audience applause for their vibrant rendition of Waltzing Matilda while the famous Cradle Song by Brahms afforded them the opportunity to show their expertise in controlled legato singing. Their exceptional young accompanist was James Murphy, a very talented pianist who was nominated Most Promising Pianist in Warrenpoint Feis 2010. The full choir of St Colman’s College, drew the evening to a close with two a cappella pieces, Molly Malone and Lullaby, both arranged by Phillip Lawson for the King’s Singers.
Speaking during the concert, Head of Music, Miss Sinéad Frame remarked that while we were undoubtedly living in a technological age, it was important to continue to support those involved in the Performing Arts – this was happening in St Colman’s College. Dr Francis Brown thanked the students for having provided such a rich and varied programme of music. St Colman’s College indeed continues to be a centre of excellence.
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St Colman’s convincingly qualified for their 9th Hogan Final with a 2-15 to 1-08 victory over the Connacht champions at a sunny if breezy Pearse Park Longford last Saturday. The College will now attempt to annex the coveted All Ireland Colleges’ Hogan Cup for the 7th time on Saturday April 10th at Croke Park where the team will face Munster standard- bearers St Brendan’s College Killarney.
Playing with wind advantage in the first half the Newry team was first to settle with points from Chris Clarke, Colin Stevenson and Caolan Mooney in the opening five minutes. Yet St Gerald’s looked bigger and stronger in many positions with centre-half Cillian O’Connor posing a serious threat every time he gained possession and it was O’Connor who supplied the pass for corner forward David Stenson to register St Gerald’s first score. However the Newry forward line was drawing frees from a robust St Gerald’s defence which allowed Mooney and Jerome Johnston to add further points while Donal O’Hare added a third after a nice inter-passing movement.
St Gerald’s replied with points from Conor O’Shea and O’Connor (2) while St Colman’s were forced to reshuffle their defence with the loss of Shane McGreevy to a very heavy tackle form Castlebar’s towering midfielder Danny Kirby. Saval’s Eamon Magee replaced McGreevy. Niall McParland was playing a captain’s role at midfield and his promptings led to the first decisive score of the game as Caolan Mooney rounded the Castlebar keeper and goaled in the 23rd minute. Mooney was to add a further 2 points before half-time while Donal O’Hare also contributed a good point to negative O’Connor’s free for St Gerald’s just before half time.
Half time score: St Colman’s 1-09; St Gerald’s 0-05
St Gerald’s decided at half time to adopt the long high ball tactic into the St Colman’s goalmouth but some inspired fielding especially by Niall Donnelly restricted St Gerald’s to one pointed free from O’Connor in the opening 20 minutes of the second half. Meanwhile the slicker movement of the St Colman’s attack led to 3 points in the first 10 minutes from Mooney (2) and Stevenson. St Gerald’s introduced several substitutes and threatened the St Colman’s goal for a long 10 minute period but it was Colman’s who broke the stalemate with well taken points from Jerome Johnston and Niall McParland. Then, with less than 8 minutes left St Gerald’s got the break they needed; another long high ball broke loose in the Colman’s rearguard and St Gerald’s substitute Niall O’Malley bagged a good goal. Spurred on by this, the Connacht men laid siege to the St Colman’s goalmouth and it took magnificent defending from Donnelly and Lively to restrict the westerners to an O’Shea point. St Colman’s countered with the introduction of talisman Ross McGarry and the speedy Shay McCartan. McGarry certainly made an impact: a classy point from the left in the 25th minute was followed by an unstoppable shot to the net 2 minutes later and St Colman’s knew for certain they were in the Hogan Final again. O’Connor did contribute one more pointed free for the Connacht men but St Colman’s were deserving and decisive winners on a scoreline of St Colman’s College Newry 2-15: St Gerald’s College Castlebar 1-08
Scorers: St Colman’s : C Mooney 1-06 (03f); R McGarry 1-01; J Johnston 0-02; D O’Hare 0-02; C Stevenson 0-02; C Clarke 0-01 and N McParland 0-01 St Gerald’s : C O’Connor 0-05 (04f); N O’Malley 1-0; C O’Shea 0-02 and D Stenson 0-01
Final Result: St Colman’s College Newry 2-15 St Gerald’s College Castlebar 1-08
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Southern Regional College, Newry Campus hosted their annual hairdressing competition for all NVQ Level 3 full time and day release hairdressing students as part of their qualification.
A packed audience viewed and sampled the three different categories in the competition: Commercial Day Style, Ladies Evening Style and Avant Garde.
The judges on the day who had the very hard task of selecting the category winners were Stephen McCusker from Hair by Stephen International, Meave O’Healey Harte, Producer and Editor of the Irish Hairdresser International Magazine, Helen Reavey, past student and international competition winner, and Karen McArdle, previous Irish Business Woman of the Year from Chaplins, Dundalk.
For another year, the level of creativity in the competition exceeded expectation and all the lecturers involved expressed their thanks to students, families and salons for all the hard work and dedication that was needed to make the day such a success.
Winners by category:
Commercial Day Style
1st Colette Fitzpatrick 2nd Yvonne McGreevy 3rd Louise Milligan
Ladies Evening Style 1st Ciara Bell 2nd Colette Fitzpatrick 3rd Jovita Riderzeviciute
Avant Garde 1st Colette Fitzpatrick 2nd Ciara Bell 3rd Grainne Hughes
Overall Winner of the three competitions – Colette Fitzpatrick
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Thanks to all Junior pupils who attended ‘St Colman’s Got Talent’ on Wednesday 24th March. The event was staged to coincide with Trócaire Day and was a great success. £250 was raised with £50 being paid out as prize money.
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The overall winner, judged by the SVP members in S4, was Niall O’Hagan (J1) who displayed a great singing voice and indeed great composure on stage in front of hundreds of his peers.
In second place was Michael Mc Cartan and Miceal Mullin (both J2) who played the tin whistle. It was the boys’ second year in a row competing in the event and should be praised for their ‘trad’ ability.
In third place was the novelty act of Neill Jones who got the crowd pumping. Neill skipped, which in itself would be no big deal, but he did it whilst on a pogo stick, class!!
Ms Hardy’s J1 got proceedings underway with a rendition of ‘Da Do Run Run.’ The lads were dressed up in multi colours and dramatised the song, which was in Irish of course, with some great acting and well prepared props. Thanks to Ms Hardy for organising this part of the show, it really added to the event. Seamus Brady (J1) then played the fiddle for the packed house and was fantastic. He is obviously putting in big hours practicing.
After overall winner Niall O’Hagan performed, Bart Thiede (J2) played a tune on the keyboard, and like last year was a great crowd pleaser. Jordan Mackey (J1) then sang ‘The Climb’ made famous lately by Joe Mc Elderry. It takes some guts to stand up in front of so many people and sing, especially as a first year. David Boyle (J3) then followed Jordan and did a recitation of a poem he penned himself. Tiarnan Mc Gabhann (J2) and Liam Mc Greevy (J3) juggled for the audience and provided a few laughs.
Miceal Cunningham (J1) played the recorder very well and Matthew Larkin (J2) was excellent on the keyboard as well. William Oliver (J1) did a David Copperfield like Magic act and was excellent as well as Conor Barry who played the banjo with aplomb. Sean Fallon (J1) did Scór proud with a recitation which roused the crowd.
It was a great occasion and Co-ordinator Mr Rónán Mc Mahon made special mention of the SVP members in S4 who did the bulk of the work in preparing for the event. He also thanked the Music Department who provided the equipment and Ms Boyle and Ms Campbell who helped out on the day.
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Southern Regional College and Southern Area Health and Social Care Trust are working in partnership to provide training to health care workers. SRC is delivering the Technical Certificate in Health and Social Care to 56 health care workers at present across the region and this training will continue with further students when the first group completes the programme.
Fifteen health care workers are working towards their qualification at Southern Regional College’s Newry Campus and recently met with Joanne Wilson (NVQ assessor within the Trust), Justin Edwards (Director of Curriculum and Student Services, SRC), Maggie Grant (Head of School Early Years and Health Care, SRC), Mairead McGarvey (NVQ coordinator, SRC) and Anna Shortt (Deputy Head of School Early Years and Health Care, SRC).
This is a great achievement for the employees from the Trust and they will continue their learning pathway by completing an NVQ Level 2 in Health and Social Care within the next few months.
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The annual awards ceremony for the ‘Community Safety Youth Competition’ was held on Tuesday 2nd March in Bellinis. Each student designed and created a story board based on topics. There were over 800 entries from Newry & Mourne and and 7 students from Newry High School were selected.
They were scored on creativity, the impact of the message in the story and the ability for the storyboard to be adapted to a short film. All the students and their parents were invited to the awards ceremony and were presented with their prizes by Mr Julian Simmons from UTV.
The finalists were: Diana Marks Hannah Kennedy Shannon Hunter Zoe Lowry Lina Janavicivte Lucy Bell Rebecca Dodds
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