Handy Hurleys from Ard Scoil na Mara in Tramore has won the Senior category of the Waterford Student Enterprise Programme and qualified for the National Student Enterprise Competition. Charlotte Balfe is the founder of Handy Hurleys, a convenient and cost-effective way to store hurleys in the home or club. The...
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Gaelcholáiste Phort Láirge scoops top European Award for Digital Education Practices
Gaelcholáiste Phort Láirge scoops top European Award for Digital Education Practices
Gaelcholáiste Phort Láirge has become one of the first schools in Europe to achieve European Digital Schools Awards status. Launched last year, the Digital Schools Awards European programme was created to encourage and recognise innovation, collaboration and skills development in digital technology amongst schools....
Edmund Rice Secondary School Embrace ‘Plant a Planet’ Project
Edmund Rice Secondary School Embrace ‘Plant a Planet’ Project
An exciting ‘Plant a Planet’ project is underway at the Edmund Rice Secondary School with students from 1st, 2nd, and 5th year working together to source and sell young trees to plant to at least 10% of the school community. The Irish School Sustainability Network (ISSN), a group of schools who got together to do...
Waterford Transition Year Students ‘Look Into Law’
Waterford Transition Year Students ‘Look Into Law’
Over 400 students across Waterford are set to take part in a legal online programme as part of their transition year studies. Following the overwhelming success of last year’s online programme, The Bar of Ireland’s annual course for Transition Year students – Look into Law – is underway for 2022 and promises to reach...
De La Salle College wins local Litter Challenge for Secondary Schools
De La Salle College wins local Litter Challenge for Secondary Schools
Secondary schools throughout Waterford and Tramore recently took part in a litter challenge to help make Waterford a cleaner city. Nine secondary schools took part in the challenge and De La Salle College was the overall winner of the prize of €1,500, sponsored by Tom Murphy Car Sales Volkswagen. As part of the Tom...
Ardscoil na Mara is top of the class in local feeder school list
Ardscoil na Mara is top of the class in local feeder school list
Justine Dwyer Ard Scoil na Mara in Tramore has recorded a 100% rate of Leaving Cert students who went onto higher education according to the 2021 Irish Times Feeder Schools report published at the weekend. Ardscoil na Mara, Tramore The table is based on pupils who received Leaving Cert results, whether through exams,...
Ursuline history students meet Molly Malone
Ursuline history students meet Molly Malone
Dublin is a beautiful city, and it is amazing to look back in time. Even Queen Elizabeth II noted that “it is impossible to ignore the weight of history here.” And so, on a chilly mid-October morning, a determined group of 6th year historians from St Angela’s took the train to discover that past for themselves. It...
Student Enterprise Programme launches for its 20th year
Student Enterprise Programme launches for its 20th year
Over 300,000 students have benefitted from creating their own business since programme began Ireland’s largest student enterprise programme was launched last week in what is now its 20th year. An initiative of the Local Enterprise Offices to encourage entrepreneurship in secondary schools, the Student Enterprise...
Abbey Community College – we’re back, we’re good and we’re very busy
Abbey Community College – we’re back, we’re good and we’re very busy
In August, we welcomed back over 1000 students and staff including 180 first year students. Our carefully planned induction programme eased students and staff, new and old, into life in the Abbey. In early September, we celebrated the achievements of the Class of 2021 when they received their Leaving Certificate...
Everyone’s a winner in chilly Cappoquin
Everyone’s a winner in chilly Cappoquin
Waterford United 2; Waterford Junior League 2 ■□■ View More Photos Waterford United began their pre-season campaign in Danesfield, Cappoquin on Wednesday last, the first game of a long hard campaign that won’t come to an end until Friday, October 29th when Longford Town visit the RSC. Many pundits are predicting...
Blues boys cruise past Kerry
Blues boys cruise past Kerry
Waterford League 4; Kerry League 0 ■□■ View More Photos The Waterford League had little difficulty beating the Kerry League in Ozier Park on Sunday afternoon last. The locals are comprised of many of the players who won last season’s U14 All-Ireland title and going on this display they could go all the way once...
De La Salle’s modern revamp
De La Salle’s modern revamp
The substantial development plans for De La Salle college, revealed in The Munster Express last week, follow the already huge renovations which have taken place at the school over the summer. Enthusiastic principal Gearóid M O’Brien has ambitious plans for developing an astro-turf GAA sized pitch, new basketball and...