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Hat-trick for Carn Girls’ School
13.06.08
St. Patrick’s scoop
prizes in Arts, Science and Music
by Liam Porter, Inishowen
Independent
STUDENTS from St. Patrick’s Girls School travelled
to Sligo today to accept a Discover Primary Science
award, the third major award the school has won in
the past few weeks.
It’s no surprise that the last few weeks have been
weeks of great excitement in St. Patrick’s Girls
School, because not only have the school captured
the Discover Primary Science Award, they’ve also won
awards for music and arts.
Speaking to the Inishowen Independent yesterday,
school principal Ailish Tully said the students and
staff had worked extremely hard in all of the
projects and were delighted with their success.
She explained that the first of the awards came when
the school won a commendation in the “Moladh An
Cheoil” nationwide competition, sponsored by RTE
Lyric fm and Yamaha for their submission detailing
the music initiatives on-going in the school. |
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“We impressed on the
judges of the award how important music is for our
students and how we place a very big emphasis on
music education.”
The school has produced a whole host of musicals,
has encouraged students to take part in musical
activities outside school and organised a huge
number of successful events like the Halloween
Hooley.
But students at the school have shown much more than
musical talent the school has also received an award
for “Inspired Learning” for their cross-curricular
Pushkin Project entry entitled “Blowing In The Wind”
which was recently exhibited at Harvey's Point
Hotel.
That cross curricular project, involving students
from the whole school, and their display included
pieces of art work, creative writing, history,
geography and science projects as well as
photographic and video coverage of field trips,
drama, music etc. that they had engaged in over the
year.
The “Blowing in the Wind” display will be on view
later this week when members of the public are
invited to view the exhibition in the school on
Thursday, June 12th between 6.30 pm and 7.30 pm.
By that stage the school’s third award - the
Discover Primary Science Award will also no doubt be
on display after students pick that up at an award
ceremony in Sligo today. Discover Primary Science is
a flagship project that aims to increase the numbers
of students studying the physical sciences, to
promote a positive attitude to careers in science,
engineering and technology and to foster a greater
understanding of science and its value to Irish
society.
“All three projects involved students from all
classes and require a lot of hard work and
dedication from the children and the staff. It is
fantastic to see that hard work recognised.
Hopefully the parents will come along now later this
week to get a taste for themselves of the things the
students have been doing,” the school principal
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