Hazelwood College

TY Tunes In

Part of the Transition Year 08/09 Updates ty0921

Hazelwood’s TY students showed that they are a class act on the radio. The usual day time show “The Jukebox” on West Limericks 102 radio station was hijacked by the TY1 students of Hazelwood College. The students had a wide variety of music, news local and worldwide and a lot of laughs along the way. The usual presenter Ronan was in studio to give them a hand. This live programme was set up by the radio programme after being impressed by a few students who had gone on air the week before, again on Ronan’s day time show.

Flower Power

Part of the Transition Year 08/09 Updates

Flower Power

We the transition year students of Hazelwood College have took part in many interesting and exciting events over recent weeks. One of which was a one day course on herbal medicine. We undertook this with Christine Best, a medical herbalist from Tralee, Co. Kerry. This herbal medicine course took place for the first half of the day in the organic gardens of Springfield Castle, Broadford, Co. Limerick. Here we learned various different medical uses for different types of plants, herbs and even the occasional wild growing weed. We learned that even something as simple as a dandelion can be of use medically. A dandelion is a brilliant aid for the liver and urinary problems. The dandelion is also extremely nutritious because of its plentiful supply of Vitamin C, Iron and Potassium. Over the course of being at the gardens we picked different plants, herbs and weeds and then brought them back to the school for the second part of the day. When we arrived back at school we went to the Home Economics room, where we learned how to make herbal teas and infusions, how to produce peppermint and orange lip balms, ointments and therapeutic creams with comfrey and in turn made our own products to take home. We also made a home Spa treatment, a bath bomb using citric acid powder, rose water and dried rose petals. We as a group all immensely enjoyed the day and learned of many interesting facts, and above all had a great time.
Written by:
Susan O’ Brien and Michelle Browne

CSPE Oireachtas Visit

A second year group of CSPE students in Hazelwood College, Dromcollogher were treated to a special visit from the Oireachtas Education Officer Ms Raftery who carried out an exciting workshop based on Irish Democracy and the work of the Oireachtas. The students learned much about voting and how important it is for every eligible citizen to have his say at election time. One Student remarked “ I cannot understand why any person with a vote, would not go to cast that vote. After all that one vote could make a huge difference”.

Local TD John Cregan gave a short presentation and took questions from the students afterwards. The Oireachas Education Officer was most impressed with the warm welcome bestowed from the school and wished all the students well for the future.

Bonding in Ballyloughran

Part of the Transition Year 08/09 Updates

Bonding in Ballyloughran
On Tuesday the 9th of September, all transition year students headed to Ballyloughran for our first trip of the year. The first activity we participated in when we arrived was canoeing. Great craic was had by all, this included having races and the horror of toppling out of our canoes! Some did not participate but got involved by taking photographs and just having a laugh at the whole spectacle in general! After the canoeing we all joined in and took part in the orienteering. Finally we all headed indoors to do rock-climbing, which even our teacher Ms Beamish took part in – thanks to some strong words of encouragement! Some people found the thought of climbing a 30ft wall a bit daunting but thanks to support from the rest of the class most people made the climb up the wall. Once we finished the rock climbing we were able to play a bit of soccer. It was just like the old derby. Limerick V Cork. But I suppose you can’t be good at everything and Limerick won! All in all it was a great day and everyone enjoyed it. A great way to start Transition Year.
By
Donal O Callaghan, Gary Hanley, Stephen O Carroll

Transition Year Students being Kept Busy

Hazelwood College Transition Year Students being Kept Busy

Since their induction day in early September, the two Transition Year groups in Hazelwood College have worked hard, developing personally and socially, as well as on a vocational and educational level. Students have developed general, technical and academic skills as well as interdisciplinary and self-directed learning. The students have achieved a lot and have gone on many educational trips. Some of their activities are outlined here. The first trip out was to Ballyloughran. Here students had great fun getting to know each other better.
Many weeks of dedicated work with Margaret, Mike and co. in West Limerick FM 102 has worked out well. As a result the students will continue working on putting together their shows. The student’s visits to the station in Newcastle West were also accompanied by many visits to the library. Students are very grateful for the informative tours they received from Aileen and other staff members. All students became aware of what a valuable resource the library can be to them in their journey through education.
Mary Martin taught First Aid to students over six weeks. These proved to be fun and very valuable lessons. The students are now awaiting certificates. Catriona from AIB is a familiar face in the school. Following interviews, six students were selected to participate in the Build a Bank Campaign. They currently have the school bank up and running. They will be competing at the regional finals in Galway on March 3rd .
Build A Bank: Donal O’Callaghan and Danielle Curtin guiding Declan Stack in choosing the right bank account for him.

Physical activity is of paramount importance in the college. Students have completed a GAA coaching course with Noel Hartigan. Students also completed a Boxercise course which was both fun and helpful for personal safety. On a bright fresh morning in early October the students enjoyed a trip to Springfield gardens in Broadford. Here they met Christine Best from the herbalistix clinic of herbal medicine and holistic health. Various plants and their properties were examined. Then various creams and make up products were made back at the Home Ec. room This trip was facilitated by teacher Ms. O’Flaherty.
A trip to Tralee Institute of Technology with Mr. Kiely was thoroughly enjoyed. Students were introduced to aspects of Multimedia, Games Development and Web Technology. Two two-day trips to Curraghchase on a Lucca Leadership course with Paul Moriarty and co. proved very successful and were enjoyed thoroughly by all students. The exercises and drills they took part in were very unique and helped bring the groups closer together. One student said “it helped me to become more involved in activities and conversations. It also helped me to be more confident”.
A trip to Friarsgate theatre in Kilmallock with Ms Murphy Reidy, to see Psycho Spaghetti was thoroughly enjoyed by all. The following week the transition years got an opportunity to put their own acting skills to use when they worked with the Stop and Stare theatre group to put on a performance for all of Hazelwood College’s first year students. On open day and at careers night in the college in early November, the transition year students worked extremely hard to prepare for the many visitors. The transition year’s excellent social skills shone through as they brought groups on tours of the college’s facilities. Student in the Concern debating team have worked hard and had a successful year having recently defeated students from Mallow and Charleville. But sadly they were knocked out by Mercy Mounthawk in Tralee through a very controversial decision.
In late November, after lots of preparation, phone calls and letters, the students went on their first week of work experience. This is a very important element of their diverse programme. The variety of subjects taken by students include Irish, English, Mathematics, Computers-ECDL, Chemistry, History, Woodwork, Technical Graphics, French, German, Engineering, CAD, Physical Education, Home Economics, Art, Geography, Religion, Career Guidance, Physics, Drama, Car Maintenance, Music, Business. With an equally busy time-table ahead, some transition years look back and recall some of their activities.

More Updates to follow

The law in our lives

On Wednesday 28th January 3rd year pupils from Hazelwood College were provided with the opportunity to emerse themselves in the legal system in Limerick City. With the assistance of the court clerk Ken Butler a thoroughly enjoyable and thought provoking experience was provided.

They gained first hand information on the workings of the court and the different sentences handed down. Several real life cases dealing with offences such as possession of a dangerous weapon, assault, possession /sale of drugs, theft and behaving in a drunk and disorderly manner were witnessed. Seated in the public gallery all listened and watched attentively to the mechanics and procedures of the court proceedings. Key people such as judges, barristers, solicitors, prison officers, court clerks, journalists and the stenographer were all present and accounted for.

Pupils were greatly impressed by the impartiality and common sense shown by the judge. The experience allowed the pupils to see how the laws of the country are enforced through the courts and that failure to obey will lead to some form of penalty or punishment as evidenced. Short hearings were arranged for future dates so the court finished up early and the judge spoke very kindly to the pupils stating that he hoped to see a few of them back in wigs in later years. Here’s hoping… !

Experience of All Ireland Basketball Final from Hazelwood College supporters

After a winning streak, our under19 girls Basketball team departed for the National basketball Arena Tallaght to face Clonlaslee Vocational School Co. Laois.
January 27th , 6.30 am the atmosphere in Hazelwood was electric as five coaches departed for Dublin on that cold January morning. It was a long journey but well worth our while, the ambience at the match was ecstatic. The match was brilliant our Hazelwood supporters by far outnumbered the Clonlaslee gang. There was great emotion from the Hazelwood supporters including the Mexican wave and raising the roof with shouts of support for the team in between each quarter. When Hazelwood scored a basket the cheering in the Arena was ear splitting. We were flying our Hazelwood flags high with pride watching our fantastic U19 girls basketball team.
Even though we weren’t quite as successful as we would have hoped that most definitely didn’t affect our supporters in the slightest. We were still proud of our fantastic girls for getting to the All Ireland Final and getting the opportunity to play in the National Basketball Arena Tallaght.
Beimíd ar ais arís!!

Hazelwood Victorious in Cliffhanger Munster Final

Hazelwood College 3-13
Clonakilty 2-14

Hazelwood College emerged as winners in the nail-biting Senior Munster hurling Final held in the new Mallow GAA complex on Monday. Paddy Sheehy, with literally the last puck of the ball, popped up from Centre-back to score a goal in injury time and secure an historic win for the Dromcollogher School. The Game was played at a fierce pace right from the start with Hazelwood quickest out of the traps. They were leading 0-4 to to 0-1 after ten minutes, Jamie Coughlan opening our account with a pointed free, quickly followed by a great score from midfielder Henry O’Gorman before Coughlan added another two points, one from play and one from a placed ball. Clonakilty responded with two points to bring the margin back to the minimum. Jamie Coughlan sprung to the fore again scoring two fine goals, either side of a Clonakilty point. The first was a fine individual effort, finished with an unstoppable shot after beating his man. The second followed fine interplay between himself and fellow Newtownshandrum man , Gerry lane who was operating in the corner. The last ten minutes of the first half were pretty much all Clonakilty, they racked up 7 points to Hazelwood’s one, which was again provided by Jamie Coughlan to leave Clonakilty leading by a single point at half-time on a scoreline of 0-12 to 2-05. Hazelwood were playing with a reasonably strong breeze in the second half and slowly took control of the game. Jamie Coughlan contributed another four, Henry O’Gorman now on the wing scored another, Patrick O’Regan scored a gem of a point from Midfield, while fellow Feenagh/Kilmeedy man and captain Peter Irwin Scored two fine points. In the first 27 minutes of the second half Clonakilty had only managed a single point, hazelwood looked to be cruising with a 6 point lead. However the game was far from over, Clonakilty scored two goals to leave points level with time up. Agonisingly for the watching Hazelwood supporters Clonakilty then took the lead with a point in injury time, the game looked over but Paddy Sheehy Seized his chance as the ball broke from the Clonakilty full-back and pulled first time – rocketing the ball to the back of the net, with that the referee blew the final whistle to scenes of great celebration. Hazelwood now march on to the All-Ireland final in March after the Ulster champions declined to compete further. The other semi-final sees New-Inn of Galway play a combination of Grauigenamanagh and Thomastown of Kilkenny.

Hazelwood College panel is as follows:
Keith Lacey (Drom/Broadford), Laurence Clarson (Newtownshandrum), Tadgh o’Flynn (Milford), Padraig Cunningham (Kileedy), Seamus O’Connor (Milford), Paddy Sheehy (Tullylease) (1-0), Bryan Hannigan (Feenagh/Kilmeedy), Henry O’Gorman (Milford) (0-2), Patrick O’Regan (Feenagh/Kilmeedy), Peter Irwin (0-2) (Feenagh/Kilmeedy), Padraig Nolan (Feenagh/Kilmeedy), Seamus sheehan (Liscarroll), Gerry Lane (Newtownshandrum), Jamie Coughlan (Newtownshandrum) (2-8, 0-6 frees), Jamie Coughlan (Newtownshandrum)
Subs: Darren Lane (Newtownshandrum), Timmy O’Carroll (Drom/Broadford), Ciaran Morrissey(Newtownshandrum), Chris Moxey (Kileedy), Conor O’Brien (Milford), Paul Cantillon (Liscarroll), Micheal Brosnan (Drom/Broadford), Mikey Brosnan (Liscarroll), John Nix (Feenagh/Kilmeedy) Ian Carroll (Liscarroll),

The first photo here is of Seamus Sheehan in action against Clonakility’s Colin Smith.

Second photo is our Captain Peter Irwin (Feenagh-Kilmeedy) receiving the cup from Sean Cooney, fixtures secretary of vocational schools Munster council

Third photo is of the Hazelwood College u/18 hurling team who had thrilling victory over Clonakility Community College on Monday in the Munster Championship.

Hazelwood Win Historic Football Final

Hazelwood College: 3 – 07
Doon C.B.S: 2 – 02

Date: Thursday, 22/01/09.
Venue: Mick Neville Park, Rathkeale.

Congratulations to Hazelwood College’s first year football team on winning their first ‘Limerick Colleges’ football final. This was a great performance by the whole panel and is a well deserved reward for their hard work and training during the year. The final was a great spectacle with Hazelwood deciding to play against the wind in the first half. Hazelwood got off to the perfect start with a goal in the opening minutes scored by Dylan Kelly. Dylan kicked in a high dangerous ball which deceived the Doon goalkeeper and landed high into the back of the net. Damien Lacey, who was dangerous throughout, scored a good point from the right wing after good support play by Sean Flanagan and James O’Brien. Doon replied with a point but this was soon cancelled out by a free from Damien Lacey which was rewarded after a Hazelwood player was fouled going through on goal. Play at this stage was very intense with both sides trying to get on top. Michael Barrett, Eamon Shanahan and Lee Daly were towers of strength at this stage for Hazelwood. Halfway through the first-half Cillian Cagney who was having a good solid game at centre back picked up an injury and was replaced by James Donegan who went on to give an exhibition in the backs for Hazelwood. Doon and Hazelwood exchanged points, with Damien Lacey again the scorer. With five minutes remaining Hazelwood broke up a Doon attacking movement in the half-back line. The ball was worked up to the Hazelwood full-forward line through James Donegan, James Butler and Jason Sheahan with the ball eventually being given to Damien Lacey who rounded the Doon goalkeeper to score Hazelwood’s second goal.

Half time score: Hazelwood 2-03 Doon 0-02

Hazelwood continued as they left off in the first half with a point from Damien Lacey after good support play from James O’Brien and Ronan Lehane. James Butler who was causing havoc for the Doon half-back line all day hit a purple patch and scored a point and followed it up with a fine individual goal. At this point Hazelwood were really on top with the full-back line of Peter Mulcahy, Philip O’Flynn and Denis Murray giving away no opportunities to the Doon full-forward line. However, with ten minutes remaining Doon threw everything they had at Hazelwood and scored two good individual goals which would have been more but for the efforts of Shane O’Callaghan in goals. Hazelwood immediately replied with two fine points from Dylan Kelly and Ronan Lehane. Shortly afterwards the ref blew the final whistle to the joy of the Hazelwood panel and their supporters.

Gerry Bennis presented the cup to James O’Brien who in turn thanked the team / supporters / management and gave three cheers to Doon. Hazelwood College now march on to the semi-final of the Limerick VEC first year competition.
Team trainers Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Kiely would like to thank Darren Coleman (LCAII) for all his help and assistance with the team preparation.

Team: Shane O’ Callaghan (Freemount), Peter Mulcahy (Deel Rgs), Philip O’ Flynn (Milford), Denis Murray (Killeedy), Lee Daly (Tullylease), Cillian Cagney (Ballygran), Eamon Shanaghan (Deel Rgs), Michael Barrett Drom/Broadford), Sean Flanagan (Deel Rgs), Dylan Kelly (Deel Rgs), James O’ Brien (Drom/Broadford), Jamie Butler (Deel Rgs), Damien Lacy (Drom/Broadford) Ronan Lehane (Liscarroll), Jason Sheehan(Tullylease)
Subs: James Donegan (Drom/Broadford), Colm McMahon (Ballygran), Killian O’ Riordan (Deel Rgs), Sean Fehin (Freemount), Micheal Browne (Drom/Broadford), John McDermott (Ballygran), Daniel Leahy (Drom/Broadford), John Matthews (Drom/Broadford), Timothy O’ Connell (Liscarroll), Diarmuid Buckley (Freemount), Daniel Ahern (Killeedy), Darragh Kiely (Feenagh/Kilmeedy), Declan Stack (Drom/Broadford) Eoin O’ Sullivan, Cillian Fahy (Drom/Broadford) unavailable due to illness

The successful first year football team.

John Cregan presents the cup to first year football captain James O Brien with trainers Denis Mc Carthy and Brendan Kiely.

Hazelwood College Capture Two Sporting Titles in Two Days!!

It was an extremely busy week at Hazelwood College with both the first year footballers and Junior Camogie team capturing County and Munster titles respectively. The footballers had a great victory over Doon, while the Camogie team quenched Laurel Hill’s hopes of lifting the Junior Camogie Munster Championship Cup with an epic win of 3-6 to 0-2. Next week will continue to huge emphasis on sporting finales as our u/19 basketball team travel to Tallaght to compete in the All Ireland Basket Ball competition on Tuesday, while the u/18 hurlers are facing either Kanturk or Clonakility on Saturday in the Munster Vocational Schools final. Congratulations to both teams were successful in the past week and the very best of luck to our second two teams competing this week.