Author: Hazelwood College

The Leaving Certificate 2 Biology class will travel to Fota Wildlife park on the 24th October.

Pictured are the Hazelwood College Concern Debating Team who defeated SMI, Newcastle West in the first round of the competition last week. Debating has become an important part of school life. Last years team beat off local competition to make it through to the last 16 in the country.

The Leaving Certificate Applied 2 class will travel to Killaloe Activity Centre on 15th October. While there they will take part in a variety of Land and Water based activities such as Kayaking, Windsurfing, High Rope Course and Team Challenges

The Leaving Certificate Applied 1 class will attend a Personal Development Course run by the Limerick Youth Service starting Friday 12th October for the following four weeks

Award winning poet Maurice Riordan visits Hazelwood College

5th Year Student Triona Sheehy reports on the visit of Maurice Riordan to Hazelwood

For many teenagers poetry readings can be intimidating places and as a result few get to experience poetry as the poet intended it to be heard. When Maurice Riordan, winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award, recently made a visit to our school there was an atmosphere of barely disguised excitement and uncertainty. The poet however, was completely at ease discussing poetry, both his own and that of other poets such as Patrick Kavanagh, Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas. He read from his own award winning collection, The Holy Land’, and listened as we, the students, gave our own opinions and interpretations of his verse. For many this was our first encounter with poetry outside of the set textbook. Maurice’s poetry is certainly alive and kicking. His poems are a homage to his late father who was, and still remains, his muse. They also have an immediacy of emotion that never lapses into sentimentality. His poetry was well received by all three groups from Transition Year, Leaving Cert 1 and 2, who attended the reading and afterwards debate raged about what was, in each person’s opinion, “the best bit”- an argument that no-one could possibly win.

The Leaving Cert Applied 1 class will be travelling to Kilfinane Outdoor Education Centre on the 8th and 9th October. This trip provides the new class with an oppourtunity to bond together as a group. While there they will take part in a number of activites including Rockclimbing, Hillwalking, Canoeing and Orienteering.

Hazelwood College History Students to tour Poland

Next March senior history students from Hazelwood College will fly to Poland to experience their history syllabus first hand. In the course of the tour students will follow the progress of the holocaust – the most infamous example of genocide in history. Students will tour the ghetto and later the notorious concentration camp of Auschwitz where they will see the possessions of the victims who met their deaths there. Students will also go on a walking tour of Krakow and see sites such as Wawel Cathedral.

The Leaving Certificate 1, Leaving Certificate Apllied 2 and Transition Year classes will attend a careers exhibtion at the Limerick Racecourse Patrickswell, on October 2nd.