On Wednesday 5th April Borrisokane Community College, staff, students and members of the local community where delighted to welcome Ms Jaana Teckenberg, the Finnish ambassador to Ireland, to their school. Finland is currently celebrating Suomi Finland 100 similar to Ireland’s 1916 celebrations last year. Finland celebrates their 100th year anniversary of independence this year with […]
School News
Doodle4Google – Borrisokane student a finalist.
Niamh Ryan, TY student in Borrioskane Community College was a finalist in this year’s Doodle4Google competition. She received a framed copy of her doodle, a Google goody bag and a personalised t-shirt from Head of Google, Ms Fionnuala Meehan, at Google headquarters in Dublin on 3rd April 2107.
Teachers volunteering in Sri Lanka
Two teachers, Ms Deirdre Kyne and Ms Eimear Mc Grath are volunteering in Sri Lanka this summer as part of a USIT Volunteer Program. They will be involved with the taking care of under privileged children, sports coaching, teaching monks and women empowerment programmes. They have held a number of fundraising events in the school […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
