A group of 15 Borrisokane Community College students travelled to the Burren Outdoor Education Centre in Turlough. Co. Clare with their co-ordinating teacher ,Ms Deirdre Kyne and principal, Mr. Matthew Carr on Thursday 23rd of March to complete their Adventure Journey for their Bronze Gaisce Award. They completed the first leg of the 25km on […]
Month: March 2017
Wheelchair Basketball
Transition year students took part in a wheelchair basketball activity day on Tuesday 21st march. This is a highly enjoyable annual event for all the students.
1st year Sky Sports Day by Siofra Buckley, TY Student
Borrisokane Community College started work on their project in October 2016 and the event took place in March 2017 during Active School’s Week. The project was run by twenty Transition Year students with assistance from their Physical Education teachers. Whilst brainstorming for ideas, the idea came about to do a one day Olympics in our school […]
Scifest
The SciFest programme aims to encourage a love of science, technology and maths through active, collaborative, inquiry-based learning and to provide a forum for students at local, regional and national level to present and display their scientific investigations. All 1st year students participated in a Scifest event at the school on 3rd March. There was […]
School Digital Champions head to Facebook
On Friday, 3rd of March, Lorcan Tuohy Donnelley, Elena Mackey and Rachel O’Dwyer with their teacher Miss Fogarty went to Facebook in Dublin. We went on this trip as part of the School Digital Champions programme. At first, we got to use oculus virtual reality headsets. This allowed us to immerse ourselves into a virtual […]
