Author: Hazelwood College

Heroines Blaze Brilliantly

Hazelwood Heroines Blaze Brilliantly in Basketball Battle

Hazelwood College’s Senior Ladies Basketballers, including sixth year veterans Katie McCarthy, Rachel O’Reagan and Julie and Katie O’Shea sought to end the year and in the case of the sixth years names their second level basketballing experience with a final triumph in the South West Division B Shield last Friday. Their opposition was Coláiste Nano Nagle, an experience and skilled opposition. After a slow start, Hazelwood’s determination to win became irresistible and Hazelwood’s heroines pulled of a comprehensive 48-20 point win, under the guidance of Ms Grainne Phelan and Ms Tricia Bridgeman. For the sixth years it was a final victory, before the one hoped for in June!

Handball

Hazelwood College First Year students Anthony Linehan (left) and Jack Shanahan (centre) are congratulated by Hazelwood College Principal, Mr Brendan Burke (right), after their recent victories in the 60×40 and 30×20 First Year Munster Colleges Handball Finals. Congratulations to both from all at Hazelwood College.

Phase 3 Extension Update #4

As September fast approaches here is a photo montage of the last 3 months on site at the new extension. The interior works in most rooms are approaching completion with only minor tasks left such as connection of light fittings, sockets etc. Furnishing has commenced in other rooms. The heavy construction has moved onto external groundworks and finishes. Currently the building is on track to open on schedule when we return in September.

Hazelwood Heroines Put Final in the Basket

Tenacious Hazelwood Heroines Put Final in the Basket

Hazelwood First Year Girls’ Basketball team took to the court in UL to battle it out for the title of the South West Girls’ Final winners 2017. They were up against a tough Villiers School Limerick, side.
The girls started off well with great scores and defence and kept this intensity up throughout the match. With 3 minutes left Hazelwood were firmly in front leading 20-11 but Villiers came back to trail by only 3 points with only 20 seconds remaining. A Villiers player threw up a shot from the halfway line but the buzzer had already gone and Hazelwood had clung onto their small lead to win the South West Regional Girls’ Basketball Final

First Year Hazelwood College South West Girls’Regional Basketball Final winning team Back row from L-R Ava Noonan, Zara O’Connell, Caoimhe Cunnigham, Ella Donegan, Savannagh Harty, Yvonne Stack, Katie Burke, Caoimhe Horan.
Front row from l-r Muireann O’Callaghan,Niamh Galvin, Niamh Fahy,Caoimhe McCarthy, Hannah O’Sullivan, Roisin Daly, Ellie May Sweeney

LCETB Sports

Picture a: Hazelwood College students Gerard O’Donnell (left) and Karem Amer (right) at the recent Limerick and Clare ETB Annual Sports Day, where they won silver in the U18 Shot Putt event.

Picture b: Mairíde Bennis, Hazelwood College TYP student, pictured in action in the Limerick and Clare ETB Annual Sports Day

Picture c: Sixth Year Hazelwood College student Kevin J O’Leary took time from his studies to participate in the Limerick and Clare ETB Annual Sports Day as part of Hazelwood College’s U18 Bronze medal winning Long Jump team with Ethan Knipe.

Picture d: Ethan Knipe pictured participating in the Limerick and Clare ETB Annual Sports Day as part of Hazelwood College’s U18 Bronze medal winning Long Jump team with Kevin J O’Leary.

Picture e: Andrea Suarez, Hazelwood College Fifth Year student visiting from Spain for the school year 2016-17 got a taste of Irish sporting treasures while participating in the Limerick and Clare ETB Annual Sports Day

Picture f: Brian O’Callaghan in action for Hazelwood College in the recent Limerick and Clare ETB Annual Sports Day

Picture g Pictured are Hazelwood College students who participated in the Limerick and Clare ETB Annual Sports Day. Pictured are (from left to right) Kevin J O’Leary (200m event), Andy Quaid (100m event), Ethan Knipe (100m event) and Colin O’Brien (400m event). Together in the Boy’s Medley they won Bronze.

Picture h: Hazelwood College students pictured at the Limerick and Clare ETB Annual Sports Day. Pictured are (from left to right) Íde Cunningham, Andy Quaid, Eimear Lenihan, Ethan Knipe, Brid Flanagan, Colin O’Brien, Chloe O’Brien and Kevin J O’Leary. The students were all members of the U18 team for Hazelwood College. In the U18 team, the girls Sprint Medley came in a brilliant 3rd place. The girls in this race were Bríd Flanagan, 100m, Íde Cunningham – 100m, Chloe O’Brien – 200m and Eimear Lenihan – 400m. The U18 Mixed Relay came in 3rd place, the team consisted of Chloe O’Brien – 200m, Kevin O’Leary 200m, Eimear Lenihan- 400m and Séan Madigan – 400m. Their impressive haul secured overall Bronze position for Hazelwood College.

Picture i: Megan Nolan, TYP student from Hazelwood College pictured at the recent Limerick and Clare ETB Annual Sports Day.

Bunratty Visit

Hazelwood College First and Second Year History students are pictured during their recent fieldtrip to Bunratty Castle and Folk Park. The students were immersed into the everyday life of their ancestors, whether they were lords of the castle or skilled craftsmen and women.

Hazelwood College Second Year History students Ella Noonan (left) and Maeve O’Connor (right) are pictured on top of Bunratty Castle during a fieldtrip there.

Terrific ‘Troy Test

Hazelwood College U15 Final Spot Secured in Terrific ‘Troy Test

Hazelwood College 2-13
Castletroy College 3-7

Last Wednesday, Hazelwood College U15 team faced off against the mighty Castletroy College in the U15 Limerick Colleges’ Semi Final. In the eleventh minute, a Tristan Sheerin goal laid down a marker of Hazelwood’s determination to progress to the final. Hazelwood built on this with seven unanswered points, including four frees by David Boyce. After the restart Castletroy managed, through Diarmuid Hegarty and Ronan Lyons to take 3-1 in a purple patch for Castletroy, leaving just two points in the difference. Despite a concerted Castletroy siege on Hazelwood’s goal line, Hazelwood were able to take important points from centre forward, Ciaran O’Sullivan and a long range free by Conor Shanahan, which ultimately secured their passage to the final.

Hazelwood College U15 County Colleges’ Semi-Final Winners are pictured after their recent victory over Castletroy College. Pictured are back row, left to right : Daniel O’Connor, Tristin Sheerin, Eamon Carmody, Sean Madden, David Galvin, Ciaran O’Sullivan, Eoin Galvin, Thomas Sheehan, Shane Dillon, Ruairi Hannigan, David Noonan, Killian Cahill, Conor Shanahan, Eoin Enright, Conor Stack, Dylan Murray, Sean O’Connor, Jordan Kirwan.

Front row left to right : Ian Kelly, Cian White, Ben Mulcahy, Ronan O’Connor, Jamie Hennessy, Mark Buckley, TJ Kelly, Cathal Broderick, David Boyce, Brian Ahern and Shane Harnett.

Irish Junior Maths Competition

Brian O’Callaghan (left) and Emma O’Flynn (right) first year Hazelwood College students are pictured before they participated in the Irish Junior Maths Competition.

Hazelwood College’s Brian O Callaghan 1C is pictured after receiving his 3rd place trophy and certificate in the nationwide Irish Junior Maths Competition run by the Association of Irish Mathematics Teachers on Friday 12th of May. Congratulations to Brian from all at Hazelwood College.

Hazelwood Duo Charmed in China

by Ronan Cahill and Máiríde Bennis

Recently, Hazelwood College Transition Year students Ronan Cahill and Máiríde Bennis travelled to Shanghai University via Amsterdam. The trip was in conjunction with UCC Confucius Institute. When we arrived there we got on a 2 hour bus journey to the university, which brought our total travelling time to 24 hours since we left Cork. On the first day we went to a tea culture show which was interesting but was a very long process. The first meal we ate was in the Sheraton Hotel, it was a lunch buffet. Ronan tried wasabi and loved it! Wasabi is a traditional Chinese sauce which is very spicy. The next day we went to an ancient water village in Zhujiajiao. The village was over 400 years old and smelt very bad due to the polluted river. Throughout the 2 weeks we studied Chinese calligraphy and Mandarin Chinese. The classes were 2 or 3 hours long apiece. Calligraphy was very technical and it was hard to get the brush strokes right. In Chinese we learnt basic words and phrases so we could order food and talk about our family. We also went to a Chinese acrobatic show which was surreal.

We also had some Taiji classes in which we learnt basic self-defence, and the Chinese martial art of taiji.
We also went on an overnight trip to Suzhou and Hangzhou where we visited an ancient Chinese temple, which was over 1000 years old. In Hangzhou we went on a river cruise and saw a water light show. We visited a silk factory and saw the process of making silk from the worms to the shop.

The Oriental Pearl tower was amazing. We went up to the second highest floor because the top floor was closed. The glass floor was mesmerising. We also had to do a social evening performance, Máiride did Irish dancing and Ronan sang in a group.

There was a lot of Western food available in the supermarkets. We were told not to eat street food because we didn’t know the reputation of the business or how clean their food was. We tried dumplings, wontons and noodles. It was very spicy but no unbearable. We also had some unusual things like chicken legs and beef jerky. The food at the buffets that we went to was really nice they served things like crab curry and seafood pie.
Overall it was an unbelievable experience and we both agree that we would go back in a heartbeat.