Our Parent Teacher Meeing will be held on Wednesday, January 27th. Teachers will be available at the following times to discuss students’ progress and performance: 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon and from 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. There will be no classes at the college on that day. Please bring your son’s / daughter’s Christams Report with you.
Go to News and Events/Photo Gallery for more pictures of Colours Day, Friday Sept 4th 2009.
Congratulations to all our Junior Cert students on their wonderful results received on Wednesday last. Well done. Keep up the effort with your studies.
Congratulations to Barry Whelan, who has been selected for trials with the U16 Irish International Umbro Cup Team. The trials will be held at Clonshaugh in late June. Best of luck, Barry
Mr Nicky Brennan, Leas Uachtarán, CLG, was guest speaker at this year’s Student Awards Ceremony at Grennan College, Thomastown, when students, parents and staff met to acknowledge the achievements and successes of students throughout the past year. Mr Brennan presented awards and medals to students for their academic and sporting success. In his address he congratulated the recipients on their achievements and urged them to remain focussed on their goals, and to learn to say “no” to the temptations and distractions with which they will inevitably be faced in the years ahead.
Ms Ann Downey, camogie legend and current trainer with Kikenny Senior Camogie team, presented Leinster Championship and All Ireland Runner Up medals to the Senior Camogie team.
Medals were also presented to the following teams: U18 Senior Ladies Soccer Leinster Champions and All Ireland Finalists, Senior Hurling Leinster Champions and All Ireland Finalists.
Other award winners were:
Sportstars of the year: Niamh Donnelly and Adrian Burke (1st yr.); Meighan Farrell and Eoin Manning (Junior) and J.J. Lennon
and Sinead Stapleton (Senior).
Attendance Awards: Cian O Mara, Niamh O Shea, Liam O Shea, Gerard O Neill, Barry Whelan, Shona Doyle, Claire Forristal, Grace Clarke, Owen Begley.
Class Awards: Shane Butler, Katie O Neill, Bency Babu, Kayleigh Malone, Shona Doyle, Teresa Cassin, Caragh Stapleton and Rioch Walsh.
Best Junior Certificate 2008: Kieran Cummins.
Best Leaving Certificate 2008 (Berkeley Cup): Katie O Hara
Arts & Culture Award: Sorcha Reilly
Berkeley Shield, sponsored by the Parents’ Association: Owen Begley.
Overall Student of the Year: J.J. Lennon.
| On Friday, September 5th students exchanged their uniforms for the black and amber jersey in preparation for Sunday’s attempt by the Kilkenny Senior Hurlers to achieve the elusive three in a row All-Ireland Senior Hurling Finals.Throughout the previous week all classes had participated in a poster competition to mark the occasion. For the privilege of wearing the Black and Amber to classes students donated the sum of €2 towards the school’s sports fund.
There was great excitement on Friday as students assembled for the results of the Black and Amber Dress Competition along with the results of the Poster Competition. Valuable prizes including Kilkenny tracksuits, Kilkenny GAA wall hanging, hurleys, sliotars, black and amber hoodies etc, etc. were awarded to the following: |
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Transition Year Class at Grennan College applied to do a Radio Broadcasting Workshop with RTE 2FM’s Executive Producer Maggie Stapleton in September (07).
We were one of thirty schools chosen to take part in the Radio Workshop out of the 350 schools that applied.
Having done the Workshop we were told that if we made a Programme Proposal Document the Producer and her team would consider us as being contenders for a one-hour Radio Show on 2FM in April. The slot is called Transition Year Radio and we at Grennan College were delighted to get notification early in January 08 that our efforts to get a Radio Show had been successful.
Our show was recorded in the week 21st – 25th April and the 2FM’s Roadcaster arrived in Grennan College on Thursday 24th April. Zoe Walsh was out presenter, our Producer was Hannah Bailey and Production Co-ordinator was AnnMarie Malone. We interviewed many local stars and Artistes, among them Ms Angela Downey our Geography teacher and famous Camogie legend, Brian Cody Senior hurling manager, Mike Haley and Gary Comerford of Camphill’s Watergarden. We also interviewed the Course Directors of the two renowned courses that are part of Grennan College’s PLC line up – Alexandra Meldrum Grennan Mill Craft School and Bridgette McCarthy Grennan Equestrian Centre.
Local musicians and bands were not forgotten in our show. Ciaran McCarthy and Ken Walsh gave us interesting insights into the Lives of Up and Coming Young Bands “Chemical Addiction” and Thomastown Band “Southern Discomfort”. Their demo songs – Dark Light and Brian Jones are featured on the one hour show along with discs chosen by our TYs – like “Heartbreaker “ by Will.I.AM and “Always where I need to be” by the Kooks.
This experience was very exciting and valuable to Grennan Colleges Transition Year Group.
Students saw at first hand how to plan, research, produce and present a Radio Programme.
