Local school wins regional prize in School of the Year competition

Borrisokane Community College are delighted that thanks to the work of a Transition Year student, the school won the Munster Regional Prize in the iRevise School of the Year Competition.

The project involved showcasing all the wonderful wellbeing opportunities the school provides for their students and staff, such as Wellbeing Walks, Wellfest, their Active Schools committee promoting a variety of sports to encourage fun movement breaks during Wellbeing & Guidance class for all Junior Cycle students. The school will have Premium Access to the iRevise website for a year.
A group of creative Transition Year students made it to the National Final of 'The Pitch' - a competition run by PublicJobs.ie to highlight the diverse range of careers in the public sector. Transition Year students had the opportunity to work on their 30 second pitch during Career Guidance class, with the finalists presenting the work of translators and interpreters in the public sector.

TY Future Leaders Event

The TY Future Leaders ran an amazing event this week. There was a Quick Pick Challenge, Crossbar Challenge, Ball Wall Challenge, Long Puck and the Fiserv Challenge and 3rd and 1st year students got to participate in these events. Thanks to Brian and Conor for Fiserv for joining them on the day and helping out.

A special word of thanks to Dan and Hazel Quirke who came and spoke to our Future Leaders about the Dillon Quirke Foundation. All monies raised this week will be donated to the Foundation.

Well done to the Future Leaders, a huge amount of preparation and organisation goes into running these events but it was thoroughly enjoyed by all.