Archive | 2023

Principal Helen McTighe’s Halloween message

Dear parents/guardians and students, As the leaves begin to change and nights get colder, I am delighted to welcome you to our newsletter. It’s a time of year when we reflect on our journey so far and look ahead to the exciting possibilities that lie before us. I want to take the opportunity to emphasize […]

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1st Year Business students create short stories and Comic Strips

Our 1st Year Business students were busy using their creativity skills to analyze and deepen their understanding of the key terms ‘Opportunity Cost’ and ‘Financial Cost’. They first created a short story to apply their understanding of the concepts. Next they created comic strips to bring their stories to life! A great mix of humour, […]

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1st Year Art

Our 1st years have just finished up their taster of subjects and have decided what subjects to keep on for junior cycle. In art class all students got to learn about clay by designing and creating a clay tile.

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Scoil Aireagail Students attend Study and Motivation Workshops

On Thursday October 19th  all our students attended workshops on Motivation and Study Skills facilitated by Ray Langan from Rayse the Game. The mission of RAYSE THE GAME is to motivate, inspire and impact as many students, parents and teachers as possible.   In his workshops Ray teaches his renowned 30-Minute Study Sprint and WHIZGRID note-taking […]

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‘Tuesday Tunes’- Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’

Scoil Aireagail Music students proudly present the return of ‘Tuesday Tunes’. This first performance in our Tuesday Tunes series is by one of our 1st yr students and it is a cover of Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’. A fantastic performance, Well Done Click on the image below to view the performance on our Scoil […]

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Creative Cluster Project-LEGO Wanted!

Scoil Aireagail will link together with 4 local schools to work on a creative project to bring Arts and Education together. Over the next two years we plan to run workshops in sculpture through Lego, stop motion animation, video production and editing. Music and song writing workshops. Our Aim will be to create a short […]

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Tuesday Tunes – Rihanna’s ‘Stay’

This week in our series of Tuesday Tunes , we have one of our 5th yr students performing a cover of Rihanna’s ‘Stay’. A fantastic performance, Well Done. Click on the image below to view the performance on the Scoil Aireagail Music YouTube channel.  

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Senior Soccer Success

Soccer Results Scoil Aireagail Girls 5 KCVS 2 Scoil Aireagail Boys 6 KCVS 2 Our senior players second round of soccer fixtures ended with both our boys and girls securing victories. Our girls dominated the game throughout with Abbie O’Keefe scoring 4 goals again bringing her tally to 8 for the year already. Abbies 3rd […]

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Past Pupil and Oscar-winning effects animator Colbert Fennelly returns to Scoil Aireagail bringing his Oscar trophy

Excitement buzzed through the halls of Scoil Aireagail as the school welcomed back one of its most illustrious alumni, Oscar-winning effects animator Colbert Fennelly. Past pupil of Scoil Aireagail, Colbert worked as the technical environment lead on Avatar: The Way of Water which won the coveted Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. He returned to […]

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