Sponsored Walk
Transition Year Awards
Transition Year Musical 2010
Human Rights Day
School Amnesty Group
Sponsored Walk Oct 2009
A Sponsored Walk and Family fun day was held on Sunday Oct 4th. What a day it was for St. Mary's College!. This inaugral event was a huge success. Hundreds of students turned out with their family and friends. Some were wearing fancy dress while others brought their pets.
They were led off by the celebrities of TV3's The Apprentice, Bill Cullen, Jackie Lavin and Brian Purcell. Also joining them for the day were former world 5000m champion, Eamonn Coughlan and Olympic boxing gold medalist Michael Carruth.
The aim of the event was to continue to pay off the debt on our new astro turf and outside sports facilities. Students gained huge support through sponsorship cards and raised an amazing €30,000.
Many businesses of the town gave their support through sponsorship and prizes including Mongey Communications, Meteor Mobile, Gourmet Burger, Boots, Newbridge Silverware, Tenors, Sizzers, Hair Design, Corono Design, Storm Cinema, Eden, Gerard Paul, Morgan Richards Hair Design, Barker and Jones, Yum Yums, Mc Donald's, Classic Image and Pizza Hut.
None of this would have been possible without the tremendous work done by all the teachers for the past few weeks, checking sponsorship cards, collecting and counting money and helping on the day.
Parents also were busy cooking and baking for the day's event while many others helped out in stewarding and in so many other general ways on the day. This was a wonderful example of co-operation and teamwork by the whole school community.
Last but not least special thanks must go to Jackie Lavin and the committee of Attracta Mongey, Aileen Morrin, Mary Byrne, Jemma Morrin, Joan Delahunty, Marie O'Neill and Anna McMahon. Well done to all.
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Transition Year 08-09 Gaisce and Fáinne
Presentation of Awards
Transition Year Musical January 2010
Rehearsals are well under way for this year's T.Y. Musical, 'Honk'. This is the story of the ugly duckling and it has something for everyone from great songs to an entertaining storyline. This year a new director, Noel Mc Donough, is at the helm. Noel's credits include The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus in the National Concert Hall with Glasnevin Musical Society. He has been very successful at the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera winning the Best Professional Director Award seven times with Mack and Mabel, Chicago, Cabaret, Barnum, Chess and the Irish Premier of Evita for Arthur's team.He also directed the Premier of A Slice of Saturday Night, Seussical, the Musical, and the World Premier of Rebecca Storm's Hollywood Ladies and Brian O' Reilly's Buskin at the Tivoli Theatre. In 2006 Noel directed Jekyll and Hyde for Wexford Light Opera which won the Best Show in the AIMS, winning four awards.
In 2006 he produced and directed 'Honk' in the Helix with a cast of 350 children from 15 primary schools for the Dublin Docklands Development Authority which won the 2006 Allianz Award for Culture in the Community.
The musical will run from 3rd -6th of March 2010. Good luck to everyone involved.
3E have been very busy in their CSPE class lately. They decided to celebrate Human Rights Day on December 10th. Having organised themselves into five groups, each with responsibility for different aspects of the project, they set up their stalls in the Assembly Hall on Thursday December 10th. The displays focused on Sierra Leone and child labour, the Ivory Coast's unfair coffee trade and child labour and prostitution. Another display highlighted Trocaire's work in many countries and two students even organised a display of tribal music and dancing. The day was a huge success and the Assembly Hall, decorated with the 32 Articles of the UDHR and over 50 balloons, saw pupils enjoying all the displays, information and fun while worthwhile funds were raised for charity. Well done to the 3E class and their teacher Ms. Fitzpatrick.
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School Amnesty Group
Amnesty International is a campaigning organisation that seeks to challenge human rights abuses and to support the full realisation of human rights standards such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. St. Mary's College has had an Amnesty Group since the late 1980s. This year we are a group of about 12/15 students from Ist year to 6th Year. We meet at least once a fortnight at lunchtime. We write letters on behalf of people whose human rights have been violated.
In November we took part in Amnesty's Youth Week of Action which focused on human rights abuses in Zimbabwe. We put up posters around the school, gave information each morning over the intercom and had a petition signing event at lunchtime. We are currently participating in Amnesty International's Greeting Card Campaign - sending cards to human rights defenders and to people whose human rights have been violated in countries such as Mexico, Iran, Israel and the Occupied Palestian Territories and Zimbabwe.
St. Mary's Amnesty Group 2009-2010