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Colaiste Mhuire Buttevant vs Coachford in Mahon @11a.m

Christmas Greeting

On Friday 13th December the 2nd year students enjoyed a Coláiste Christmas breakfast.  They ate, laughed, and then completed by a quiz - compered by MC Mr Ó Súilleabháin.  It was a throughly successful morning!  A big thanks to all the teachers who got involved with the organisation. 

Well done to our boys U19 soccer team on their excellent 4-0 victory over Scoil Ruain, Killenaule. In a rematch of last years Munster final, the boys performed superbly in a great team perfomance, with Zack Mannas opening the scoring with first half penalty. 

When selecting books for your son/daughter, Children’s Books Ireland can be a very helpful resource. Each year they recommend books which are then posted on their website. The 2019/20 recommend reads will be posted in late January 2020 but previous years are available on their website now. For more information go to childrensbooksireland.ie and from the menu follow the link to “Inis Publications” where you can view books for a variety of ages groups.

On Thursday it stopped raining just long enough for the school choir to bring some Christmas cheer to all in Buttevant, by singing loud for all to hear!

A great effort was made by each class group and their teachers to decorate their doors. Such colour and fun is great to see. Fantastic Christmas spirit. Well done.

The 5th and 2nd Year English classes made up shoeboxes as Christmas gifts for the homeless in Cork. They also donated lots of toiletries. They were thrilled to get the donations. Well done to everyone involved.

Some excellent design and investigative work from 2nd Year Metalwork students in their design and manufacture and presentation of a wind turbine highlighting Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) no. 7 (affordable and clean energy). Best design went to Luke Linehan and Siobhan Kennedy.

The choir and trad group had a busy weekend! On Friday morning we started with Carol singing for Focus Ireland in Charleville.

Our U14 hurlers had a match today in Fermoy GAA grounds against Coláiste an Chaoibhin. They were narrowly beaten with the final score - Col an Chaoibhin 4:06 Colaiste Mhuire 4:04. The game was very close through out.

First year Geography students creating spinner wheels in class on the structure of the earth while making links with SDG 13 Life on Land.

If you happen to be in Charleville tomorrow morning (Friday) come along and support us Carol Singing!

We will be fundraising for Focus Ireland from 9.15am outside Supervalu and then outside Dunnes Stores.

2A are collecting food hampers for the Saint Vincent de Paul Food Appeal. All donations would be greatly appreciated! Members of 2A will be visiting all junior cycle (1st to 3rd year) class assemblies in the coming days.

Students in Home Economic class linking SDG 13 Climate Change while calculating the food miles for a selection of food around the world using the world map on scoilnet.

Well done to the girls Senior Camogie team who had a thrilling win today over Presentation Secondary School, Mitchelstown on a scoreline of 5-3 to 4-3.

As part of SDG (Sustainable Development Goals)Take one program students linked the Affordable and Clean Energy SDG with renewable energy sources in their Engineering class

During Science Week Michelle and Anne Marie from PepsiCo Cork spoke to senior cycle students about PepsiCo and the importance of S.T.E.M. Subjects. They also spoke about sustainability and how PepsiCo deals with their waste in an environmentally friendly manner.

2D CSPE Class visited the 100% Organic Farm belonging to Patrick Frankel at Kilbrack, Doneraile.

Colaiste Ooze Class but Nagle have their Measure in Formidable Battle of the North!

After a blistering start to the first quarter, in which Colaiste dominated on both ends of the court, our U19 boys unfortunately fell to local rivals, Nagle Rice, in the Cork County D League Semi Final on Thursday last (21st of November).