HazelNut, the AIB Build-A-Bank Hazelwood College Transition Year entrants, are pictured at the regional final, where they narrowly missed out on qualification for the National Final. Pictured are (from left to right) Maria Cremin, Tara Fitzgibbon, Laoise Bennis, Bank Mascot Mr Chip, performed by Aaron Walsh, Mary Cussen and Cathal Walsh.
Hazelwood College student Mairide Bennis with the students of her first year Home Economic class after being presented with her hamper prize for her success in the Uncle Ben’s Cookery Competition.
Tara Reidy, a first year student in Hazelwood College, was recently announced as one of twenty runner up winners in the O’ Egg Recipe Challenge. This national competition was organised by the Farrelly family, who are Ireland’s leading free range artisan egg producers based in County Cavan. Recipe entries had to incorporate the O’ Egg products of liquid whole eggs or liquid whites, which are available in the chilled fridge cabinets in SuperValu and Centra throughout the country.
This O’ Egg product provides the same flavour and nutritional content of shell eggs while avoiding wastage from cracked eggs in the box, the mess and hassle of picking out egg shells from the bowl. It is time, effort and hassle free for the novice and adventurous cook. This newly launched product is pasteurised thus ensuring a long shelf life of 21 days ( 7 days once opened) and can be frozen successfully.
Tara’ s recipe entry of Chocolate Yogurt Cake was emailed in last December and a lengthy process of adjudication followed with the judges cooking and tasting each recipe entered to ensure that the recipes chosen were successful and as well as meeting the criteria of appearance, flavour and texture.
Tara was amazed and delighted when she received the good news of her winning entry and was thrilled to receive her prize of a signed copy of Rachel Allen’s cookery book.
Recently, Michael Keyes, a 6th year student at Hazelwood College, Dromcollogher competed in the Irish Chemistry Olympiad. This is a chemistry competition where students from Northern Ireland and the Republic are selected to take part. Michael won a silver medal in DCU on Saturday 15th February. This is a phenomenal achievement. Michael will now go forward to compete in a training camp over the Easter holidays where two students will be selected to represent Ireland in the World Chemistry Olympiad in Hanoi in Vietnam in July. We wish Michael all the best and congratulate him on his achievement to date.
Fifth year Home Economics students from Hazelwood College attended a very successful hands on – one day cookery program to help them complete their leaving certificate cookery tasks in Cloughjordan House Cookery School and also visited Cloughjordan Wood-Fired Bakery in Tipperary recently.
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Hazelwood College Transition Year Students with the support of Dromcollogher Credit Union have developed www.dromcollogher.com as their entry to the National Junior Spider Awards.
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Dromcollogher.com is a community based website funded by Dromcollogher Credit Union. It aims to be a central point of information for local community groups, associations and businesses as well as being the primary website of Dromcolloger Credit Union. Access to the site will be given, free of charge, to any group or volunteer who has appropriate information to publish on the site.
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Currently all of the content visible on the site, images etc. have been developed and sourced by a team of 20 Transition Year students at Hazelwood College, all of whom had no previous experience in web design and development. It has been a fantastic learning experience for the students, several of whom hope to continue working with the site to help maintain it in the future. We are grateful to the staff of Dromcollogher Credit Union who trusted us to take over their domain name and allow us to develop this site.
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The site is currently in a ‘live preview’ state and will be further expanded in the coming weeks. Any comments/suggestions would be welcome. Please email: [email protected] and we will try our best to accommodate them.
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Best of Luck to the Transtion Years of 2013/14 in the National Junior Spider Awards.
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Hazelwood College Transition Year students recently took part in a workshop entitled “SongSchool”. The Songschool workshop gave students a first hand insight into life as a professional songwriter / musician and an overview of song writing and the music business. Students wrote, performed and recorded their own songs during the workshop.
Should you be sufficiently impressed :) all songs are available for download, just click the download link, All Rights Reserved
On January 30th, Hazelwood College’s athletics team travelled to Pallaskenry for the North Munster Schools Cross-Country Championship. The treacherous weather conditions were evident as we drove to the location, and we knew it would be a tough day for all. Despite the inclement weather our first triumph was Eimear Lenihan in the Junior Girls Competition, who ran phenomenally, keeping a steady pace at the front for the duration of the race. Thanks to her persistence, she eventually secured third place. This was a fantastic result.
This certainly wasn’t Hazelwood’s only success on the day as our senior boys secured a silver team medal. They were Peter Mulcahy, who achieved 6th position, Cillian Fahy, who achieved 7th position, Sean Flanagan, who achieved 9th position and Seamus Flanagan who achieved 20th position. They ran their hearts out, showing tremendous pace and endurance, constantly keeping together as a group, and after winning a silver team medal, they secured and qualification the National Schools Cross-Country Championship to show for their hard work.
The senior girls also did Hazelwood proud with three coming in the first 15, a spectacular result which saw Hazelwood win a second silver team medal and also saw the senior girls’ team qualify for the National Schools Cross-Country Championships. This senior team consisted of Denise Forde, who took 7th position, Emer Cunningham, who achieved 9th position, and Selena Kiely, who attained 11th position.
The intermediate girls, who also qualified as a group for the Munster’s Cross-Country Championship, put on a spectacular performance, never giving up until the end. This team was Mairead Lordon (13th qualifying as an individual), Tara Fitzgibbon (17th), Laoise Bennis (18th) and Ellanna Mulcahy (20th), all just outside the first 15, who qualified for the National Cross-Country Championships.
A number of other Hazelwood students ran on the day, but unfortunately despite their best efforts were not successful, most finishing the race just a few places short of qualification. Mr Grant stated on the day that he was “extremely happy with the outcome of the day and very proud of every student that ran”.
The students that qualified will now move on to the finals in Cork CIT, on Thursday the 13th of February 2013, and we are confident that they will once again do the school proud.
Picture 2: Making their debut at the North Munster Schools Cross Country Championship were Hazelwood College first year students, left to right, William Boyce, Cormac O’Sullivan, Corey Knipe and Jack R. McCarthy.
Picture 3: Hazelwood College student and third place Junior Girl in the North Munster Schools’ Cross-Country Championships Eimear Lenihan with her coach Mr Kevin Grant.
Picture 4: Hazelwood athletes Kevin O’Leary (left) and Sean Madigan (right) at the North Munster Schools’ Cross Country Championship
Picture 5: Some of Hazelwood College’s female athletes at the North Munster Schools’ Cross-Country Championships, including the members of the Senior Girls’ Silver Team Medal winning team. Pictured are left to right: Rachel O’Reagan, Emer Cunningham, Ellanna Mulcahy, Tara Fitzgibbon, Laoise Bennis, Mairead Lordan, Allison Healy, Selena Kiely and Denise Forde.
Irish Wheelchair Rugby star, Derek Murphy is presented with a commemorative cup, after his astonishing achievements in the European Wheelchair Rugby Championships, which took place in France last summer, by Hazelwood Gaeilge teacher and former Munster & International Ladies’ Rugby player Ms Louise Beamish. Pictured are (left to right) Hazelwood College Principal Mr Brendan Burke, Hazelwood College Gaeilge teacher and former Irish International Ladies Rugby player, Ms Louise Beamish, Derek Murphy and Head of Sport at Hazelwood College, Mr Tom Halpin. Derek was part of the Irish Wheelchair Rugby team that secured third place in the competition. Congratulations to him and all his teammates on an excellent result from all at Hazelwood College.
On January 29th last, in Newport, Our Hazelwood girls took on the gallant local St. Marys Newport team in the Munster Junior Plate Quarter- final, under Hazelwood Coach Ms Sarah Fogarty.
The match began at a hectic pace, with Hazelwood College dominating much of the possession and eventually snatching the first score of the match a goal from Hazelwood’s Cathy Foley. However, Newport fought hard for every ball, never giving up and bringing the score-line to Hazelwood 1:2 to Newport 0:3 as the half time whistle blew.
The second half was certainly a battle, opening up with a skilful point from Newport’s, immediately answered by another Hazelwood from Bríd Flanagan. Newport resisted vigorously and fought tooth and nail but some outstanding teamwork by Hazelwood players and some individual skill from Ellanna Mulcahy and Sarah Shanahan saw Hazelwood through finishing the game on the narrowest of margins, Hazelwood 2:4 to Newport 1:6.
Conditions on the day were not ideal, and credit must go out to both teams and referee Jim Lees for a very entertaining match. The Hazelwood girls will now proceed to play St. Colum’s in the Munster Junior Semi-Final.
Picture 1: Hazelwood College’s Munster Junior Plate Camogie team who were recently victorious in their Quarter Final against a strong St. Mary’s Newport team. Picture are back row (Left to Right): Helena O’ Sullivan, Cathy Foley, Aoife Murray, Emma O’ Callaghan, Jenni Prunty, Micheala O’ Donnell, Megan Fitzgibbon, Bríd Flanagan Laura Stack, Mary-Kate Fehin. Front Row (Left to Right): Emily-Rose Mulcahy, Chloe O’ Brien, Sarah Shanahan, Ellanna Mulcahy, Tara Fitzgibbon, Aoife McMahon, Maebh McCarthy. Missing from photo: Cliona O’ Callaghan, Trina O’ Callaghan, Roisín Cunningham, Íde Cunningham, Aisling Cunningham, Aisling Enright, Eimear Lenihen, Noelle Lenihen, Abby McDermott
Picture 2: Hazelwood College’s Cathy Foley (right) supported by Niamh O’Brien (left) in the course of their Munster Junior Plate Quarter Final victory over St. Mary’s Newport
Picture 3: Hazelwood College Camogie Star Sarah Shanahan prepares to strike the ball during Hazelwood’s recent victory over St Mary’s Newport.