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Rockford Manor Newsletter May 2015

Principal’s Lunch April 23rd

Several local primary school principals and local T.D. Ms. Mary Mitchell O’Connor were invited to a tour of Rockford Manor.

The L.C.A. class cooked an amazing two-course lunch and served it in the revamped “restaurant”, Room 25.

L.C.A. Teachers Meal May 6th

The L.C.A. class prepared a fabulous two-course meal for their teachers to thank them for all their hard work over the school year

Trip to Dáil Eireann May 12th

The class went on a trip to Dáil Eireann on May 12th, having been invited by local T.D. Ms. Mary Mitchell O’Connor who met the class earlier this term.

This was followed by an Art trip to Merrion Square with Mr. Collison and Ms. Cheevers.

The Transition Years had their end of year exhibition night on Wednesday, May 21st.

The night gave the students an opportunity to showcase their years work.

To mark the occassion there was even a special cake made, with the school logo on it.

This took place during the week 27^th April – 1^st May 201.

The P.E. department arranged a number of activities to raise awareness of this event. Each morning at Assembly, the whole school took part in a dance activity.

The final event of the week was the Annual Student Teacher basketball match on Friday, May 1st.

During the interval the teachers entertained the school with a display of their dancing skills (this followed some intensive coaching sessions from Miriam Howlin!)

It was a fantastic success.

Special thanks to P.E teacher Miriam Howlin who organised the entire programme of events.

Needless to say the Student/ Teacher Basketball match was won by the teachers! That’s 57 years in a row. Even less surprising they completed the double when winning the dance-off.

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Congratulations to 3rd Year student Erica Turner who has made the FAI Schools International Squad.
We are very proud of Erica’s continued success. Well done Erica.

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Sixth Year student Valentyna Slyusarchuk  took part in the Irish Chemistry Olympiad in D.C.U.

Vally was placed second out of 130 candidates.

Medals were awarded to the top 8 students. Vally was the only female prizewinner.

She will now go on to 3 days intensive Chemistry training over the Easter Holidays in DCU.

This training will finish with an exam and the top four candidates will win the opportunity to participate in the World Chemistry Olympiad in Summer 2015.

Well done Vally, and also congratulations to Chemistry teacher Ms. Peutz.

Ms. Lil Hennigan, S.P.H.E. co-ordinator arranged a series of talks for all of the students in the school.

Three speakers from Narcotics Anonymous addressed each class group describing their experiences. . All of the recovering addicts stated that cannabis was the first illegal drug that they had used.

The feedback from the students was that this was a very worthwhile exercise.

A further meeting to address parents is being organised.

Garda Nora Sutton, community Garda in this area, also addressed each Junior Cycle class on the issue of drug abuse this term.