May Edition Just What Happened

Tuesday 22ndStaff Vs LCA’s

Soccer Staff 20 - 14 LCA’s

Thursday 24th Staff Vs 5th Years

SoccerStaff 20 - 8 5th Years

Thursday 24th Dell Visit by

Transition Years1st Year Bowing Trip

with Class TutorsMonday 28th

JCSP Graduation 2012Transition Year

Graduation 20122DE Second Year Trip

to Ennis & LahinchFriday 25th May,

Leaving Cert Graduation 2012

LCA Graduation 20123rd Year trip

to Lough GurFriday 31st May

Staff LunchSchool Finish

Au Revoir St Nessan's

Graduations 2012

Congratulations to all the Leaving Cert students and

LCA students on their Graduation 2012

Congratulations to the Transition Year students on

their Graduation 2012.Congratulations to the JCSP Students on their

Graduation 2012

De la part de notre classe de français nous aimerions vous dire un grand merci pour votre patience et votre gentillesse au cours de l’année scolaire. Vous avez travaillé si dur pour nous en particulíer dans la préparation de notre examen oral. Merci Mille fois Clémence. An revoir et bon voyage.Jade Griffin, Emma Ryan, Fionn Ryan, Kelsey Duhig, Lisa Roche & Kelly Angley.

The Economics of Staying in School with Junior Achievement 2DI

My class, 2DI, did this careers programme with Mr. John Quaid. He works for DELL and he volunteered to do the programme with us. Week one we learned about different jobs and the wages and we talked about what we want to do when we are older. Week 2 we discussed what success really means to us – have a big house, have a nice car, have children or travel the world. Then we moved on to budgeting and we found that all the small treats, like lunch at school every day really add up at the end of the month. Week 5 we learned to differentiate between personal skills and qualities, for example a skill is being good at sports or computers and a quality is being a nice friendly caring person. John also told us about his business trip to Malaysia. In the last two meetings we prepared for our mock interviews. John came all dressed up in a nice suit to show us professional dress. Nikita, Shane and Cian volunteered to go outside the door and come in and do a short mock interview with John. They had to shake hands, show manners and talk about why they would like to get the summer job as his personal assistant. Shane got the job as he did the best interview! He got a prize from Ms. O’Sullivan. We all got Junior Achievement Certificates of Completion for the Economics of Staying in School. Thanks very much to John and to DELL for all their help.By Kaitlynn Downey 2DI

Happy Birthday Clémence

Thanks to all the staff who submitted articles and

photos to the newsletter over the course of the year to the newsletter - it’d be a blank canvas without your

input.

Staff Zone

Arriving at the same time in a foreign country and in a new school for my first concrete working experience was a big deal for me.At first a terrifying undertaking, my stay in Ireland turned out to be one of the most enriching experience in my life. I was sent to St Nessan’s Community College by the French “programme” CIEP (Interna-tional Centre of Educational Studies) after my three years of college in Paris, where I was studying both French and English. This “programme” contributes to French students’ mobility, at European and international level, and offers a training op-portunity and an introduction to professional life whilst bringing na-tive speaker language skills to schools. There are almost 80 language assistants all over Ireland. My ambition when I arrived at school was to make students realize that French was not only something that you can see in books, but an authentic, well-spread speaking language. Just by hearings questions in the corridors, I had won my bet: “Is she French? “; “She can’t speak English...?”; “Is she related to Madame André?” The most common question from students was “Is she a teacher?” Here is my answer: No, not yet. But that’s what I want to be. I deeply appreciated the warm welcome and the support of all the staff during this year. Because more than just being a first professional experience that confirms my desire to become a teacher, my year in St Nessan’s was a beautiful human experience. Through the work I achieved here, I discovered a new culture and a new edu-cational system; I created new friendships and came to learn more about myself. There were ups and downs, but I hope I could have given you, all what you, students and staff of St Nessan’s, gave me this year. Thanks to every person who involved me in the life of school and made me feel useful. A big thank you to the French Department who gave me the opportunity to live this experience, and to all my Leaving Certificate stu-dents with whom I spent most my time here. I’ll never forget the chance I had to stay with you during these eight months. Hope to come back soon in Ireland, or to see you all in France! Avec toute mon affectionA bientôt, Clémence. Merci Clémence

Nessan’s Newsletter

TY recently attended The Fresh Film Fes-tival,2012 at the Lime Tree Theatre, Mary Immaculate College. The group really enjoyed the unique selection of beautiful and quirky films which presented the lives of young people as lived around the world. There was a very interesting discussion of the films after the event which afforded the students a very real opportunity to look carefully at how films are made and the way in which they can create a meaningful story for their audience. The stu-dents learnt how to read a visual image such as a film in the same way as they have learnt to read a book or a play.Two of our students, Jenny and Jodi attended a workshop with the Young Irish Film Makers and produced a short film at the end of the day. The class thank Ciadra (Fresh Film Fes-tival) for her interest and individual attention on the day.Ms M Toomey.

Reading Film.

As part of a whole school initiative to develop literacy, Minister Jan O’Sullivan, launched an E-Reading programme during her recent visit to the school . The purpose of the initiative is to enhance and expand the reading experience for students in the library, the classroom and ultimately as a fulfilling life skill. Having done some pilot work with students it was obvious that they were very keen to use the readers and, unlike some of the teachers, they had no problem with the technology. As access to ma-terial increases it is hoped its expand usage of the readers into textbooks. In addition to the novelty effect of this for students, the benefits of lighter schoolbags, ease of storage of mate-rial and reduced costs would be felt by parents and students alike.Mr John Gale, Librarian.

E-reading Initiative in St. Nessan's

Green Flag Committee

On Thursday 17th May 2012, representatives of the Green Flag Committee, Kelly –Anne Blackledge and Cillian Cassidy were awarded on behalf of St. Nessan’s’ Community College the school’s first international Green Flag. The Students were accompanied by Mmd. Clemence Depois, and Ms. Dennison. What an exciting day they had. On arrival to the Silver Springs Hotel in Cork the students met Mr. Darragh Bee and Mrs. Ellen Bin. Next an official photograph was taken to mark the official occasion. The ceremony itself was electric and all the students vibrated with anticipation of the importance of the occasion.The students of St. Nessans’ – Kelly Anne & Cilian represented the school with honour and pride. On Thursday they held in their hands the much sought after International Green Flag, which they presented on Friday to Mr. E. O’ Brien (Principal) Mr. M. Treacy (Vice Principal) on their return to school exhausted from the previous days award events.I will take this opportunity to thank every single person who helped out in any way large or small in making this fantastic achievement such a whole school success. WELL DONE EVERYBODY – take a bow!!!!Ms D.

Recently the LCA 1 group completed a task and as part of the task they exhibited their work for the examiner. They produced a banner made up from much batik. This ban-ner will be used as part of their graduation ceremony next year.Ms. Murphy

CRAFT AND DESIGN TASK

Don’t be a litter hater – Love Mother Nature!

Give a hoot – and Don’t Pollute!!So work to keep the earth that

way.Kim Kiely 1DE

A Book Worm beatsA Litter Bug all the time!!

Nicole Kelly 2DI

St. Nessan’s is a Green School, and it is really cool,

We always work hard, Even though half the people are MAD !

And they should get the Green Flag!Don’t be mean and keep our school clean,

So if you want our school to be Green, You really need to keep it Clean!!

John O Mahony 1DE

Make use of your brains Don’t Litter,

Anyone who does is bitter!!Nathan O Brien 1DE

Try to be Fantastic Recycle your Plastic!!Joanne (Missy) Sheehan

2DI

Green Flag Committee

Pick up your rubbish and your waste,Otherwise our school will be a big

Disgrace!!Nicole Kelly 2DI

Don’t be a fool that destroys our school,

You might think that is cool,But it is against the rule,

So don’t be a litter bug! – FOOL!Just play it nice and cool!!

Dean Kelly 2DI

Save the Trees for the BeesMicheala Meehan 1DA

Don’t Litter the School,Remember the Green

Code Rule.Lorna Bennis 2DI

Go Green!!Keep our school Litter and

Waste Clean!Aaron Brosnan 1DN

Make it, Use it, Don’t throw it away, Keep us clean,Recycle today!

Allana O Mahony 1DI

My school is the cleanest I have seen,Maybe they should paint it greenSpotless doors, spotless floors,

I bet you wish my school was yours!!Not a paper on the ground,

Well - kept greens all around,My face will surely start to sag,

If we don’t win that famous Green Flag! Aaron Philips 1DE

If we keep the school Green We will be proud to be seen

Aaron Philips 1DE

Newsletter Design and Layout: Michael O Connor Newsletter Editor: Marie Toomey

‘Be Cool - Stay in School’ SMILE School Completion Programme

On Friday 25th May,the 3rd Year school tour headed of for Lough Gur-In the Countryside, uurrhh! Mr J was definitely outside his comfort zone, whereas all our class tutors took it in their stride.But, hey what a day. the sun shone and the 3rd Years swam. The day began with’ a gentle walk’ - Ms Toomey’s words –which gradually got harder and harder as the climb took its toll on even the fittest of 3rd Years. Only one member of the team made it to the summit-and that turned out to be a teacher! OH the shame, but we blamed it on our P.E. teachers! Lough Gur is one of Ireland’s archaeological and historical gems. The beautiful and enchanted lake lies 21 km south east of Limerick city and we must have visited it on the best day of the year-29 degrees at lunchtime. From the level surrounding countryside it unfolds its beauty its placid waters and rugged hills – a fairyland of stone circles, ancient habitation sites, megalith tombs, crannogs and castles. So lots of hill walking, swimming and not forgetting bird watching!! Nice costumes girls.Massive thanks to Mr J and to our class tutors, Ms Toomey, Ms Aherne, Ms Campbell Cuddihy - We will miss ye.Keith Meade and Calvin Prendergast, 3DE.

Climb a Mountain or Jump in the Lake.

5th year trip to national print museum

12 of the 5th year art (options) class travelled to Dublin to attend a workshop with The National Print Museum in April. They worked with a retired printer/typesetter Con who brought the museum to life with practical demonstrations of composing typeface and printing. The students participated by composing and printing their own written words, which they had been working on as part of the Rachel Joynt public sculpture for St Nessan’s school. They then printed individual pieces some which they will keep and more which will be framed for the school. Rachel had set up this workshop and was there to document the pro-cess. The students worked hard all day and their attitude and manners were excellent. They really engaged with the process and kept up enthusiasm all day from 11 till 3.30. The museum, Rachel, and Con the printer mentioned how impressed they were with the group behaviour and eagerness to learn. Con said they had taken exceptionally fast to a medium that takes people normally a lot longer to learn. Con remarked that St Nessan’s community college can be very proud of this group of young people. well. It was also a first for the museum who had not worked with this age group before. They had not worked in such a creative manner either where students used their own words. The students remarked how they enjoyed the process and were very well behaved on the trip down home. All in all a great day.

On Thursday the 24th May the Transition year group accompanied by Ms. Carew headed off to the Hub to attend a workshop given by Dell engineers on Hardware. The group really enjoyed looking at the internal circuit boards of a machine and learning about all the differ-ent internal PC components. In the afternoon the Class visited the Dell Command Centre in Raheen. Much amazement was expressed at how impressive the centre was with one student saying, “It is like the Star Ship enterprise”. The students were given a tour of the Centre and in each department they were given a demonstration and a talk about the Command centre daily activities. They got a taste of meetings in the Fish bowl, viewed Dells list of open sup-port Items from around the World, walked around the huge server room and got to use some of Dells new Technologies from 3D graphics and medical software to Alienware Gaming Laptops. A great day was had by all. Dell expressed an interest in taking on St. Nessan’s stu-dents for Work Experience next year, which really got the attention of some of the TY boys. Many thanks go out to Vinnie, John and Claire from Dell for their enthusiasm and attention throughout the day.Ms. Carew

Transition Year dell workshop

1st year Gary Dillon recently stayed late to make a banner to wish the 6th years well for their graduation. This was indeed an impressive gesture for a 1st year to do for his fellow students. Well done Gary.

1ST YEAR GESTURE TO 6TH YEARS