Hazelwood College

Annual Variety Show – Ticket Details

Annual Variety and Talent Show

Hazelwood College Annual Variety Show takes place on the 26th and 27th March 2010. This year the variety show will be followed by a performance of excerpts from the show Dirty Dancing.

In the past this show has regularly sold out on the night, which has led to the disappointment of people being turned away. In an effort to prevent this from happening this year it has been decided to sell tickets in advance. It is expected that there will be no tickets available at the door on the night.

Tickets available at school reception from Monday 15th March
Adults €10
OAP/Children €5

Doors open each night from 7pm – Ticket Only.

Hazelwood into Munster “A” Hurling Final

Hazewlood College 2-9
Roscrea CC 1-10

Hazelwood College reached their first ever Senior Hurling “A” Munster final after a hard fought victory over reigning champions Roscrea CC. Hazelwood got off to the perfect start, with a Jamie Coughlan point followed quickly by a goal from Jimmy kiely in the first 5 minutes. Roscrea were not knocked off their stride and opened their account through their free taker Jamie Bergin. Points were then swapped, Jamie Coughlan scored from a placed ball before wing forward Sean Cleary fired one over from Roscrea. Hazelwood then hit a purple patch scoring 1-2 in a three minute spell, 1-1 from Jamie Coughlan and a superb point from Hazelwood’s other Jamie Coughlan bursting forward from wing-back. A this stage Hazelwood were leading 2-4 to 0-2 but a Roscrea team with seven county Minors from Offaly and Tipperary were not going to lie down. Jamie Bergin scored two more from placed balls for Roscrea. A Michael Fitzgibbon point for Hazelwood was sandwiched between Roscrea points from Eoin Ryan and Jason Fitzpatrick to leave the score at half-time 2-5 to 0-6 points in favour of Hazelwood. Eoin Ryan quickly opened the second -half scoring through an Eoin Ryan free but Hazelwood responded with three frees of their own. Eoin Ryan and Jamie Coughlan then traded frees in a second half which was a tough low scoring affair. This left Hazelwood six points up with six remaining. These six minutes that were all about Roscrea attacking and Hazelwood fighting tooth and nail to keep them out. Roscea scored 1-1 in this period and dropped two late 65’s in around the square in search of a winning goal but they could not break down a Hazelwood defence that had played well throughout. Tadgh O’Flynn and Sean O’Riordan deserve notable mention as well as the hard working midfield pair of Michael Fitzgibbon and Seamus Sheehan. Hazelwood now go forward to meet Causeway Comprehensive in the Munster Final on Saturday March 13th in an attempt to back up last year’s victory at “B” level with a Munster win in the A grade. The venue is yet to be decided.

Team and Scorers:

Kevin O’Callaghan, Sean O’Riordan, Barry Lynch, Billy Naughton, John Barrett, Tadgh O’Flynn, Jamie Coughlan (0-1), Seamus Sheehan, Michael Fitzgibbon(0-1), Jerry lane, Paddy Sheehy, Kevin Noonan Keith Lacey, Jamie Coughlan (1-7, 5 frees, 1 ‘65) Jimmy Kiely (1-0)

Subs: Micheal Brosnan, Padraig Lane, Ian Carroll, Brian Noonan, Daniel Egan, Paddy Hassett, Matthew Whelan, Diarmuid Coleman, Darren Boyce, Shane Carroll, David O’Donnell, Cian Mulcahy Danny McCarthy

Hazelwood Persona

The newest versions of the web browser Firefox can be styled to make them more interesting and personal. A Hazelwood College Persona has been developed for use on school computers which use Firefox. You can try the Hazelwood Persona for free …here…

Annual Variety and Talent Show

Hazelwood College Annual Variety Show takes place on the 26th and 27th March 2010. This year the variety show will be followed by a performance of excerpts from the show Dirty Dancing.

Tickets on the Door each night from 7pm. You are advised these shows usually sell out each night and you should arrive early to be guaranteed entry

Plúirín Sneachta agus na Seachtar Fir Beaga

As part of the transition year Irish programme the T.Y. 2 class performed an Irish play go huile is go hiomlán as gaelige!

The play – Snow White and The Seven Dwarves was a great success. When we were first told we would perform a play in Irish we weren’t very optimistic to say the least! But with a bit of work we pulled it off. We decided to put a modern twist on the beloved fairytale and took it into our own hands to write the play.

We did the play as a way of promoting the Irish language and culture in the school. We performed the play for 1st and 2nd years and they all enjoyed it. We charged each student €2 and donated the proceeds to the victims of Haiti.

We all had great fun while rehearsing for the play as well as learning the auld cúpla focal!

Katie Lordan
Transition Year

Faster Broadband for Hazelwood

As part of our continuing efforts to keep our IT department up to date with the lastest in Technology we have now increased our broadband speeds through our provider BBnet. All classrooms now have a high speed 5MB download connection and the staff of the school can avail of easy access to school files and records from home through our high speed 3MB upload connection.

Every classroom in Hazelwood college has a broadband connection, multimedia projector and at least one computer as a minimum. There are in total almost 200 computers and laptops available to all students and staff in the college.

In the coming weeks we intend to offer hazelc.ie email addresses to all students in the school. This email will be based on the popular Gmail email system from Google and will allow student access to their files from anywhere in the world.

Students and staff already set up with addresses can log in …here… to access their files

Thanks

Hazelwood College first year students Ashling Mc Carthy,Stephanie
Kirwan, Julia O’Doherty and Sharon Roche with the cheque for €1693
euro which they raised from a non-uniform day in aid of the victims of
the earthquake in Haiti.

Dear students and staff of Hazelwood College,

On behalf of the staff and patients of Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti, our thanks to you all for your very generous donation of €1,693. All donations received will go directly to help with the cost of caring for current needs and rehabilitation of the victims of the earthquake.

We have been blessed with hundreds of committed volunteers since the Earthquake struck who have paid their own way to go and help out. Our volunteers continue to work 16 to 20 hour days, at least 50-60 are scheduled per week in the coming weeks.

Our census at the hospital is currently around 400 patients despite discharging over 80 patients to local missions, families in Milot town who have offered to share their homes and some patients that we have helped return to Port au Prince. We are still receiving transfer patients from the hospital ship USS Comfort, patients that require specialized care that only Hopital Sacre Coeur can offer.

The infections have been severe for many of these patients, so stabilizing these infections is the first of many challenges. We are also focusing on wound care and the long process of rehabilitation. Physical and occupational therapists are working to get the patients up and moving around. Dr Lovejoy, an orthopedic surgeon who was there the week after the earthquake, is assembling a prosthetic lab in a container that can be shipped to our hospital. This will allow us to produce artificial limbs on site for the many amputees. Whether it’s learning to use a crutch, getting fitted for a prosthetic device, the hospital has many weeks & months ahead of rehab care for these patients. Our hospital has been there for 25 years and will continue to be there with the Haitian people on the long road to recovery.

Our sincere thanks,

Denise Kelly
Executive Director
CRUDEM Foundation Inc.
www.crudem.org

Sign Language – Transition Year

Pictured are the Hazelwood College Transition Year class who are currently taking a class in sign language. They are pictured here with their sign language teacher Mr Ger Boyce.

Trevor Sargent Visits Green Schools Action Day

Hazelwood College Green Schools Action Day

Report by Katie Lordan, Transition Year

The Green Schools Committee of Hazelwood College recently held a very successful Green Day as part of their quest for a green flag for the school. The Green Day was a day of action where all the students in the school got involved. The aim of the day was for each department in the school to contribute a project which incorporated the theme of recycling or helped the environment. We hoped that after the day students may be more aware of the little things that can be done to help our environment.

Each department did a fabulous job at coming up with ideas for the day. To name but a few, the P.E. department went around the school and marked where the rubbish black areas were, the English department held a fantastic book sale and the Art department designed a beautiful collage made from old magazines and painted a very scenic picture. There was a great atmosphere in the gym and all the students had a great time. Our Green Day was topped off by a visit from Trevor Sargent T.D.

Mr.Sargent was in Dromcollogher as he was presenting awards to students from the Organic College. He was taken on a tour of the gym by members of the Green Schools committee. He was very impressed by the hard work of the Green Schools Committee and was also interested in what the students of Hazelwood College contributed to the Green Day.

It is the Green Schools Committee’s aim to obtain a green flag for our school which we hope will set a good example for the rest of our community. Currently we are very dedicated to recycling as much waste as possible. We have bins for plastic bottles, tin foil, general waste, food waste, paper and glass.

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Members of Hazelwood Colleges Green Schools Committee, School Principal Mr Brendan Burke and Deputy Principal Mrs Elizabeth Dolan with Mr Trevor Sargent TD who visited the school and viewed the students work recently.

Green Schools Co-ordinator Ms Mairead Daly with David Finn,
Transition Year who acted as MC for the action day.

Transition Year

Hazelwood College Transition Year students, Megan Aherne, Deborah Daly and Maighread Noonan doing some research in Newcastle West library.