News - November 2009

HEADLINES:

* STUDENT COUNCIL 2009-2010
* ST GERARDS DAY 2009
* MUSIC FESTIVAL 2009
* YOUNG SCIENTISTS EXHIBITION JAN 2010
* CHILDLINE BREAKFAST 2009
* SENIOR SCIENCE SCHOOLS QUIZ
* CHEADLE HUME VISIT
* ST GERARDS BALL
* CROSS COUNTRY NEWS
* 1st YEAR DEBATING

Student Council 2009-2010 (2nd November 2009)

Many congratulations to all of the following students who have been elected to the Student Council for the Academic Year 2009 2010

Student Council 2009-2010:
Theo Jebb - Chairperson
Kevin Olohan - Secretary
Ben Blunnie
Madison Duffy
Hilary Repko
Simon Wilson
Oisin O’Neill
Keith Carroll
Russell Boland
John Caffrey
Cillian Doyle
Hugo Gallagher
Olivia Flanagan
Daniel Dennis

St. Gerard’s Day 2009

St. Gerard’s Day was a unique occasion for St. Gerard’s School as we blessed our new senior school and refurbished school chapel.

The school is privileged that Most Reverend Bishop Eamon Walsh celebrated our St. Gerard’s Day Mass with us. Bishop Eamon is a former Chaplain and teacher in the school and was delighted to share the occasion with us.

Bishop Walsh based much of his sermon on the words of the First Reading from the Book of Jeremiah.

“I have plans in my heart for you; plans for peace not disaster; plans to give you a future and a reason of hope.”

I thank all of the students and staff of the school for making St. Gerard’s Day such a special day. It is heart-warming to see so many of the school community participating in the Sugarloaf- Run and at liturgy together as a whole school community, for the St. Gerard’s Day Mass.

It is such occasions that testify to the spirit of joy that is within the school.

Tom Geraghty
Headmaster

Music Festival 2009

Many Congratulations to all who participated in the wonderfully entertaining Music Festival (see results below).

A special word of thanks to all of the staff who gave so generously
of their time to make the evening such a success.

A special word of thanks to Ms Ciara O’Connell, Ms Diane Owens & Ms Jackie Olohan for their work over the last number of weeks in the preparation of this excellent school event.

RESULTS:

Instrumental Section
1st - Ben Blunnie
2nd - Hayley O’Sullivan
3rd - Iain Meeke

Vocalist Section
1st - Hilary Repko
2nd - Niall McLaughlin/David Mulroney
3rd - Eden Kavanagh/Maia Nunes

Group Section
1st - Aaron Lynch & Band
2nd - Four Seasons Medley
3rd - Fear No Pain

Young Scientists Exhibition January 2010 (9th November 2009)

Many congratulations to the following students who have had their projects accepted for the BT Young Scientist Exhibition in January 2010.

Aaron Spencer-Higgins/Sean Thomas
Gahim Website Builder

Neil Counihan/Declan Keaney/Alan Smith
Skin Cancer! The risks and do you care?

Gareth Byrne
The Great St Gerard’s Dust Buster

Every success to all of the students over the coming weeks and we look forward to their completed projects.

A sincere word of gratitude to all members of the Science Department for encouraging the students to participate at such a high level.

Childline Breakfast 2009

Well done to all of the students, prefects and staff who so generously gave of their time and effort to organise the Childline Cheerio’s Breakfast.

This is a most worthwhile cause and we thank everyone for their generous support.

A special word of thanks to the catering department for the preparation and organisation of the event.

Many thanks to all of the staff and prefects who organised the Dining Hall.
and helped in such a positive way to make the event the success that it was.

Senior Science School’s Quiz (16th November 2009)

Many congratulation to the 6th Year Team of:

Ben Blunnie, Daniel Cooney and Theo Jebb

who came 6th in the Leinster Science Teachers Quiz (59 teams participated). The will now take part in the national finals in Trinity College

Well done also to the team of Louise Byrne, David Mulrooney and James Maher

who came 7th – just missing out on the National Finals

A sincere word of thanks to Ms Catherine O’Dwyer for all of the dedicated work which she put into preparing the team for the above competition.

Cheadle Hume Visit (16/11/09)

Well done to all the boys and girls of 1st Year who were wonderful hosts to our friends from Cheadle Hume over the weekend. I congratulate you on the way in which you welcomed, entertained and hosted your guests.

Congratulations to all teams on the excellences of your performances over the weekend. It was a wonderful occasion and well done to all involved. Mr. Geraghty.

St. Gerard's Ball In aid of Cystic Fibrosis Ireland & Unicef (16/11/09)

€40,000 was raised on the night for these worthy causes. Congratulations to all who supported the Ball by attending and who kindly donated items for the auction, raffle and goody bags.

Wicklow Schools Cross Country Championships November 2009

St Gerard’s School hosted the Wicklow Schools Cross Country Championships on 16th November and all the runners had a fantastic day. The first and second year squads were joined by a number of enthusiastic third, fourth, fifth and sixth years. Much thanks to all the Transition students and staff who were a great help on the day!

Particular congratulations must go to the Laura Finnerty for lead the U13 team across the line in 5th place which placed the U13 girls team 1st (Louise Gilmore 6th, Lauren Lynch 7th, Aine McCabe 10th and Fioadhna Campbell 11th). Mark Gallagher put in powerful performances to cross the line in 6th position in the U13 race with Darragh Sheil and Niall Byrne and Adam Simmonds performing well to help their team to finish 3rd. In the U14 Girls race, Gerard’s team finished 2nd in a very competitive field with all off the team finishing in the top 15,( Claire Foley 6th, Karla Gallagher 8th, Shannon O Brien 9th, Laura Gallagher 12th and Sophie O Reilly 15th.

Cormac Tierney put in an outstanding performance in the U14 race finishing 7th overall, closely followed by Mark Prendergast in 12th position. Not to be out shun the senior students also but in gallant efforts with U16 girls consisting of Zoe O Shaughnesssy (5th ), Clare Lavelle (8th ), Emer O Reilly (9th ), Lisa Chadwich (10th ) and Alannah O Caoimhe (13th ) finishing first team overall. Sarah Cantwell 6th, Sheenagh Walker Ayers 7th, Izzy Spencer Higgins 8th, Miriam Burke 11thdashed around the course to put their U19 in 2nd place.

View Cross Country Sports Page

1st Year Debating (24/11/09)

Every good wish to William Eddershaw & Edward Clarke (1st Year) who will be representing the school in the Belvedere College Literary and Historical Society Debating Competition on Wednesday the 24th November. We wish both students every success