Gaisce Trip to The Burren

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 […]

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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 […]

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Borrisokane Community College attends biggest ever Cycle Against Suicide Student Leaders’ Congress in UL.

Last week on the 19th January, students and teachers from Borrisokane Community College travelled to the University of Limerick to attend the 2017 Cycle Against Suicide Student Leaders’ Congress. The Congress focused on raising awareness of the message ‘It’s OK not to feel OK; and it’s absolutely OK to ask for help’, and promoting help-seeking […]

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BT Young Scientist

On Thursday 12th January eighty one 1st year students and a small representative group of TY students travelled with Ms Suzanne McMahon, Ms Jackie Hayes, Ms Laura Walshe and Ms Ann Ryan to visit the exhibition in the RDS and support Robert Guest, TY student under the guidance of Science teacher Ms Mary Brady, in […]

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