Students enjoyed the fun and energy that poet and filmmaker, Luke Morgan, brought to the creative writing process during his workshop last week. Our young writers wrote pieces that impressed everyone, including themselves! We are gathering material for The Edna O’Brien Award competition – open to all – closing date for entries March 24th – winner receives the perpetual Award, 100 euro, and a place on a summer writing workshop.
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Scariff Community College was extremely successful again at the indoor rowing competition. Every person competed excellently and enjoyed their experience on a day when the standard was very high. The 3rd Year boys and TY/5th Year boys were unlucky to finish 4th in their races. 1st year girls and boys had amazing silver medal finishes and the second year girls finished top with a gold medal in their category. Well done to all involved, it was great to see students supporting and cheering each other on.
Gold medal winners Claire Minogue, Hannah Tuite, Aisling Murnane, Rachel Danaher and Caitlin Curtin
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We saw many great games at the Clare girls Badminton Competition in Ennis Community College today. Our u14 team played well and enjoyed themselves but didn’t come away with a title, but our u16 and u19 teams were superb, battling it out in their finals to come away with county titles. They will join the boys at the Munster Competition on March 10th in UL
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Badminton remains strong in East Clare with our u14, u16 and u19 boys teams all winning today and qualifying for the Munster Finals on March 10th in UL Sport Arena. Well done to the lads and sincere thanks to Mary Browne and Aisling Ryan of Clare Badminton for organising all the matches.
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Students from our TY group joined with older members of our community this week in Scariff Library to share in a Narrative 4 Story Exchange. As part of the “Interwoven” exhibition running currently, stories focused on celebrating our boglands and our deep connection with them. This event marked a very meaningful coming together of young and old. Special thanks to Natalie el Baba, Ian Kelly and Shulagh Colleran.
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We are delighted that a group of our enthusiastic TY students are doing the Get Going Get Rowing coaching course again this year. Having been trained by Rowing Ireland coaches on Thursday, they will now go on to coach our 1st yrs in PE classes. #getgoinggetrowing #claresportspartnership
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As part of our campaign to raise money for our planned Astro Development at the school our Astro Committee has contacted many local clubs and organisations in the area seeking financial support for our project. This weekend Whitegate GAA Hurling and Camogie Club very generously presented a cheque for One Thousand Euro towards our development. Pictured at the presentation are Aideen Burke, Siobhan Considine Officers Whitegate Camogie Club and Hurling Club Officers John O’Brien, Niall Heffernan and Kieran Gibbons with Darina Sheridan Astro Committee SCC
Go raibh míle maith agat .
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Huge congratulations to sixth year student, Emily Chen, who yesterday, was presented with the very first Edna O’Brien Award for Writing in Scariff Community College. The gathered audience of students and writers listened in awe as Emily read her palindrome poem, “They Say”, one way and fellow student Femke Nijs read it in the opposite direction.
The school are very grateful to bestselling novelist Roisin Meaney who spoke beautifully on the craft of writing and the power of poetry, before she presented the award to Emily.
The award, a magnificient bog oak sculpture, was funded by Creative Ireland and by local artist …
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A group of First Year students pictured who are taking part this week in Gaeilge 24. The students are taking on the challenge of ‘Labhairt as Gaeilge’ for 24 hours. Well done to Sophie Sheedy, Ciara Nugent, MJ Buckley, Cian Howard and Darragh O’ Donnell. This event is being organised by Ms Claire Burke
The aim of this challenge is to encourage young people to try speak Irish non-stop for one whole day, 24 hours: at home, at school, in shops and businesses, around the town, in sports clubs and with friends. This challenge helps to open the mind of young …
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We are so thankful for all the support to everyone involved who helped us to make this a fantastic night and in the process fundraise a whopping €21,007 for our AstroDevelopment Fundraising -the commitment of the East Clare community and beyond to our project is so encouraging. Míle buíochas ó chroí do gach duine. Thank you to Ms Colleran for capturing some beautiful images of the night. Photo Gallery
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