Congratulations to everyone in Year 8 who entered the Art competition to design the front and back covers for the “Welcome to Aquinas” booklet

The winning entries have now been chosen

The front cover will include designs by:

Meidhbin Browne

Christopher Madden McKee

Sarah White

Katherine Nevin

back cover by:

Sara Lisa Raju

Click on the images above to view the covers.

Congratulations to AS level Art and Design student

Grainne McGrath

who was awarded a “Highly Commended” certificate in the

FRED J. MALCOLM  2008 Awards for Jewellery Design.

Both Grainne and Miss Gilmore attended the awards afternoon on Thursday 15th May.

2nd place (9-12yr group)     Anna Murray – Year 9
2nd place (9-12yr group)     Anna Murray – Year 9
3rd place (9-12yr group)     Sile Martin – Year 8
1st place (13-15yr group)    Michael Mullaly – Year 9
3rd place (13-15yr group)    Michael Molloy – Year 9
4th place (13-15yr group)    Michael Quinn – Year 9

Click on the image below to read about Emma Martin’s entry to the Belfast City Council Road Safety Competition.

Did you miss your chance to see the sell out show? Well take a look behind the scenes to see how the set was created.

 Just follow the yellow brick road to Oz.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!
The following Year 8 pupils’ designs were selected for the cover of the
YEAR 8 WELCOME BOOKLET
 
ROISIN GUTHRIE
BARRIE LYNCH
PATRICIA MAGEE
EMMA MARTIN
CAOIMHE McCARTHY
CLAIRE McCRUDDEN
ANNA MURRAY
SARA TILLY
BRYONY WATERS

Click image to view full size cover.

Meadhbh Caldwell and teacher Ms Gilmore were invited to attend the Fred J Malcolms jewellery awards ceremony on Wednesday 18^th April. At the ceremony Meadhbh got highly commended for her jewellery designs. Below are some images from the ceremony. Click on the image for larger version.

Three Aquinas pupils collected their awards at the Presentation Luncheon in Equality House on Wednesday 28th March 2007. Click on the image below to learn more.

BELFAST CITY COUNCIL ROAD SAFETY COMPETITION
Orla Fitzpatrick - 2nd Prize in Class C
Cliodhna Quinn & Shannon Clarke - Highly Commended in Class C
Cassie Moane, Roisin Tinneny & Blathnaid Ni Smaolaigh - Highly Commended Class D

These pupils, together with their parents are invited to attend the award ceremony at BELFAST CITY HALL on Monday 5th March.The evening will commence with refreshments @ 7pm and the presentation of awards @ 7.30pm. All winning and Highly Commended posters will be on display.

Lion’s International Peace Poster Design competition

Congratulations to the following pupils who participated in the 2006-2007 Lion’s International Peace Poster Design competition. The competition was sponsored by the Lion’s Club who awarded certificates to Hannah Smyth,Helen Morgan, Sarah Smart and Patrick Nevin. Gabriella Norney was awarded 2^nd place in the Aquinas entries and Sarah O’Neill was awarded third place. Bryony Waters won the local competition and has been awarded a beautiful plaque.Well Done Everyone! Click on image to view the winning entry.

In March last year, the school applied for inclusion on a DV Pilot run by C2k.  We were successful and to facilitate us in our work, we received an eMac Computer, DV Camera and keyboardThe project, called Environment Matters was launched in Year 9 Geography classes in May where we discussed local and global environmental issues such as climate change, rainforest deforestation, pollution, recycling and litter.  At the same time, the ICT Department taught the pupils the skills of video editing.  Later, around June time, the Year 9s were divided into groups (based on the Art classes) of four or five.  This allowed the English Department to begin creative writing tasks where each group had to produce a story based around an environmental theme.

These tasks were finished by September and now the Art and Design Department was able to bring the stories to life by constructing sets and plasticine models which was facilitated by the school in having two ‘collapsed timetable’ days.

To learn more  and view the winning films click below