School News

Christmas Market.

The annual Christmas market took place at Borrisokane Community College on the 16th December. Tipp Fm broadcasted the Carol Power show live from 3- 6 pm from the school. There were over 60 stalls with a range of artisan and high quality products made locally and by students at a very reasonable price. The stall […]

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Borrisokane students win in the local and regional Credit Union Art Competition.

The theme of the 2016 Credit Union Art Competition was ‘Dreams are made of this…’. The Credit Union Art Competition is one of the most successful annual promotions undertaken by the Credit Union Movement. The competition encourages and rewards self expression, creativity and imagination among young artists throughout Ireland. Entrants were required to draw or […]

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CSPE Trip 2B

We travelled to Dublin Zoo on Tuesday to complete a conservation module as part of our CSPE action project. The module was called ‘Zooardship’ , a play on stewardship which is a key concept in CSPE. We chose to focus on the Asian elephant as this is an endangered species in the wild. Many Zoos […]

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Science Week Lecture

On Wednesday, 9th of November, Transition year students at Borrisokane Community College received a talk on Biomedical Science and Engineering from Liam Brennan, a spokesperson from GMIT (Galway Mayo Institute of Technology). Beginning the talk, he explained to everyone what exactly biomedical engineering is. It is a new branch of engineering which involves the creation […]

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