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Dear Parent/Guardian

During this difficult time, we would like to ensure that families continue to get the benefit of the school meals scheme where necessary. The Government and the Department of Education have confirmed that the School Meals scheme is an essential service and therefore the following arrangements are being put in place to continue it. If you already availed of recent food parcels, we will assume you wish to receive delivery this time also and there is no further action required. If you did not express an interest recently but now wish to do so, please follow the instructions outlined below.

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Prior to the holidays, I’m sure none of us envisaged such dramatic rises in COVID 19 numbers over the short Christmas period. As of Wednesday 6th January, the government announced that school buildings will now remain closed until Friday 29th of January except for 6th Yr students and students attending special classes, who were set to attend school from next week. Whilst we had commenced planning to welcome these students back in as safe a manner as possible, Wednesdays’ announcement by the minister for education sparked much debate and concern nationally, resulting in a reverse of the decision tonight. Provision for all students will now be through online learning for the coming weeks.

Merry Christmas to all our students, their families and the local community. Please enjoy one of our 1st year classes performing Silent night through sign language. From all at the Colaiste we hope you all have a lovely Christmas and we look forward to seeing you all in the new year.

We are extremely proud of our two students - Conor Hanlon and Seamie O Callaghan who have made the Cork minor football panel for tonights championship decider against Kerry. Conor and Seamie are a credit to their clubs and families - Buttevant and Granard Gaels respectively. We want to wish ye both the best of luck in tonights match and we will be watching with great interest on TG4 Youtube Channel. Throw in 7pm.

Great news today for the Coláiste when the four TY student's have been selected to go on to the second round of the Certified Irish Angus Beef Schools Competition.

The boys will have a busy Christmas planning and prepping to make sure they impress the four interviewers in early January.

The 2nd Year CSPE classes have been learning about homelessness in Ireland. As part of their Classroom Based Assessment they put together a shoebox with toiletries, warm hats/gloves and some treats. They dropped these into Horgans Foodstore and these will be forwarded onto Cork charity "Street Angels".

TY students have been busy over the last couple of weeks collecting food for St. Vincent de Paul’s annual Christmas food drive. We received huge support from teachers, students and their families and have made one of the biggest food donations from the Colaiste to SVP to date. We would like to thank you all for your very generous donations and continued support of this appeal.

Rógairí an Rap!
Seo físeán agus rap a rinne an chéad bhliain, 1C faoi COVID 19 don chomórtas Rógairí an Rap don ETB Bliain na Gaeilge. Maith sibh agus go n-eirí libh sa chomórtas!

Our annual St. Vincent de Paul food drive is underway in the Colaiste. Each student has been given an item to bring in before Thursday December 3rd. These food items need to be non perishable and dated to at least March 2021. The students can leave these items in the boxes provided in their assembly room in the morning. If you would like to send in more food or drop in a bag of food we would be very grateful! All food collected goes towards families in the Buttevant area. Thank you for your continued support and generosity.

Mr Curtin’s Ag Science students linked their revision of fertilisers, slurry methane emissions and water pollution to SDGs 13: Climate Action, 14: Life Below Water and SDG 15: Life on Land. Ms Whyte’s 2nd Year Home Economics class discussed the meaning of sustainability and food waste, while making connections with SDG 2: Zero Hunger and her T.Y class looked at sustainability in fashion. @ETB-SDGS and #Take1week

We had a fantastic week of events during science week 2020 in various subject departments. There were lots of winners in various quizzes, individual project poster competitions and riddles.

Here are some of our winners.

First year Geography class participating in a volcano Kahoot game, while discussing the SDG links 5:Life on Land and SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy. Ms Bunworth’s Irish class linked SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being and SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation, while learning about the environment.

Sixth year Engineering made links with SDG -Sustainable Cities and Communities while working on their Leaving Cert project on a sustainable urban freight vehicle for city use. Ms O ‘Sullivan’s second year science class, learnt about sustainable farming through a Teagasc webinar, while linking SDGs, Zero hunger, climate action and life on land. @ETB-SDGS and #Take1week

First year Engineering linked SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, while investigating the impact of mechatronics on the environment and society. Mr Curtin’s Ag Science class made connections with SDG 15: Life on Land, while discussing and creating posters on the benefits of using low emission slurry spreading (LESS) methods for sustainable dairy farming.

Fifth year Irish class linked SDG 5 on gender equality while, learning a poem on gender equality. Ms Colfer’s home economics class created posters on sustainable practices around food and linked them with SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production.

We celebrated Friendship and Stand Up Week in school last week. Students were encouraged to show kindness and friendship throughout the week. Communication games were played in SPHE and Religion classes.