On Monday the 7th of October, the St. Ailbe’s under 19 soccer team went to Thurles to play Colaiste Mhuire Co-Education School in the second round of the John Murphy Cup. After a quick warm up session, the game began. Ten minutes into the match a penalty was awarded to Thurles. Unfortunately our goal keeper Tommy […]
School News
Psycho Spaghetti 2013
On Friday the 20th of September accompanied by Mr. Quirke, my fellow transition years and I made our way to the Excel Theatre in Tipperary town to watch the one man comedy show, “PSYCHO SPAGHETTI“. The show attempts to answer the age-old question: Just what is going on inside the teenage brain? The show aims to get […]
Disappointing Start for U16 Hurlers
Our first under-16 hurling match of the school year took place on Wednesday the 18th of September, in Ennis Co. Clare. It was the first match of the Munster Championship. Up against Ennistymon the boys were prepared for a tough game. No more than two minutes into the game Ennistymon planted the sliotar in the back […]
Green Flag
September 9th , proved a very important day in our school year. Invited guest, Mr. Adrian Hayes (Explorer and Team Motivator) raised our first Green Flag. The award is organised by Repak, in association with An Taisce’s Green-Schools programme. It is designed to reward a school that has gone to extra length to reduce, reuse and […]
Kenmare Trip 2013
On Wednesday the 11th of September, after we received our Junior Cert results, we headed off on a trip to “Star Outdoor Pursuit Centre” in Kenmare Co. Kerry. The trip was organised by Mr. Kennedy, Ms. Long and the S.C.P. team as a celebration of exam results and as a team building and team bonding experience to […]
One Book, One Community
At the start of September, Ms. Clifford gave the first years a book to read for the ‘One Book One Community’ programme, “Skyhawk” by Gill Lewis. They choose this book as Ms. Clifford said it was an easy but interesting read. The One Book One Community challenge is a reading program for first years and […]
1st Yr. Girls Munster Football Blitz
On the 1st of May, St.Ailbe’s first year team had their football blitz in Mallow. There were 44 teams at the football blitz. All the teams were from schools around the province of Munster. Our school had two first year teams entering this wonderful event. The first match for St.Ailbe’s A began at 11 o ‘clock. […]
The Wonderful Wiz of Oz
Last December, auditions for our school musical “The Wonderful Wizzz Of Oz” were held in the school. Every TY student was auditioned for a part in the show. Ms.Hayes and Ms.Hall were holding the auditions. We all had to sing a song of our choice. We hired a choreographer to help with dance auditions. Once […]
Transition Year Tour to Barcelona, April 2013
On the 2nd of April 2013 the Transition Year students went on their annual trip to Barcelona along with 5 teachers. We departed the school at 11am on Tuesday morning. We flew Ryanair from Dublin arriving in Barcelona at 7:50pm. For some students it was their first time on an airplane so the bus trip […]
Build a Bank Open Day
The 5th of November was a big day for our school as it was the launch day of this years’ Build a Bank Competition. The Build a Bank challenge is a competition for Transition Year & 5th Year Students and is currently in its 12thyear. A bank representative comes down to the school to pick a group […]
