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BBC News School Report
Posted on March 10th, 2010
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National Poetry Day
Posted on November 6th, 2009
Concern Cecil Woodham Smith Creative Writing Competition 2009.
Posted on May 29th, 2009
Concern received over 800 entries from places far and near: Japan; Niger; Liberia; India; USA; UK and Ireland. Entrants were asked to let them know what they would write in a letter to President Obama on one of three critical issues: world hunger, climate change in the developing world or child labour.
Aquinas had tremendous success in the Junior Competition with first prize going to Eoghan Curran (Yr11) and Joint second prize going to Anna Lyttle (Yr11).
Congratulations!
You can find out more about the competition and the issues highlighted by clicking on the image below:
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Shakespeare Festival 08
Posted on December 17th, 2008
Year 8 and 9, and year 13 took to the stage Friday, 12 December for the school’s annual Shakespeare Festival, opened by Mrs Press, in the assembly hall. The adjudicator for the day was our very own Ms Sheila Mc Connellogue, with Professor Mark Thorton-Burnett from Queen’s University lending his assistance. Their comments to the audience at various intervals throughout the day left no doubt over the value of performing Shakespearean scenes for contemporary schools.
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A Master of Horror Comes to Aquinas
Posted on October 10th, 2008
This year we were absolutely ecstatic to secure a visit from the much-sought-after author Darren Shan. Horror readers will know he is the bestselling writer of The Saga Of Darren Shan and The Demonata Series. His books have been translated into twenty languages in twenty-eight different countries and have sold over 9,000,000 copies worldwide.
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National Poetry Day
Posted on October 9th, 2008
To celebrate National Poetry Day Aquinas held it’s annual Poetry competition.
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Poetry Competition
Posted on October 4th, 2007
As part of the celebratations for National Poetry Day a Poetry competition with the theme of ‘Dreams’ was held. To view the winning entries click below.
Senior School 11-13
First place: Corle Magee ‘Dreams’
Second place: Bridget Flangan ’Dream’
Third place: Owen McEvoy ‘Daydreamer’
In the Junior School (Yrs 8 -10)
First place: Lorcan O’Connor 9S ‘Dreams’
Second place: Tara McFadden 9D ‘Titanic’
Third place: Ciaran Foster 8E ‘The Ghastly Garden’
Garth Nix visits Aquinas
Posted on October 4th, 2007
Year 10 Animation Project
Posted on January 21st, 2007
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
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