Last week nearly 60 first year students from Hazelwood College were part of the 1700 strong contingent who successfully broke the record for Irelands largest Haka. The haka record event marked the beginning of Limerick Mental Health Week.
Picture 1: Hazelwood College 1st years with Munsters Jerry Flannery at the Haka event
Picture 2: Hazelwoods Shane O’Callaghan and Orla Cunningham with Munsters Ian Dowling at the Haka event
Careers Exhibition 2008
A careers exhibition will be held in the college on Thursday 13th November 2008, from 6.30 to 9.00pm.
Exhibitors will include those listed below and more to annouced closer to the date. Contact the school for further information:
University of Limerick
University College Cork
Limerick Institute of Technology
Cork Institute of Technology
Tralee Institute of Technology
FAS
Shannon College of Catering
Pallaskenry Agricultural College
Failte Ireland
St Johns College Cork
Colaiste Chiaran Croom
Desmond College Newcastlewest
The Leaving Certificate Biology Class will travel to Fota Wildlife park on 1st October to take part in an Ecology course and day of study in preperation for their State Exams
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The Leaving Cert Applied 1 class will be travelling to Kilfinane Outdoor Education Centre on the 29th and 30th September. 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.
This year the exam classes are divided up on the following dates to take part in study skills courses. This year the second years will also participate in the courses to help develop the skills required for study earlier in their education.
Tuesday September 30th – 2nd Years
Wednesday 1st October – 3rd Years
Tuesday 7th October – Leaving Certificate Ordinary Level English Students
Thursday 9th October – Leaving Certificate Higher Level English Students
The Leaving Certificate 1 and 2 classes will travel to Croke Park on the 18th September to visit the annual Higher Options Conference. The event will be backed up with a Careers and Higher Options exhibition in the school on the 13th November 6.30pm to 9p.m.
More information about Higher Options 2008 can be found at: http://www.irishtimes.com/education/higheroptions/
Here is a selection of Junior Certificate woodwork projects submitted as part of the State Exams. Students must design one project from a choice of six (three higher level and three ordinary). The projects is submitted with a book outlining the research, designing and manufacturing processes the students undertook while creating their piece. Together the book and the project is worth up to 66%. The selection shown shows both higher and ordinary level projects
Welcome to the 96 new first year who joined us this year. Below are pictures of the group click on the photos to enlarge them
Construction Studies
Leaving Certificate 2008
Projects
Below are the projects submitted by the Leaving Certificate Construction Studies class as part of their State Examinations. Each project is accompanied with a book containing details of the design process, research and experiments undertaken by the students in designing and building their project.
Hazelwood College Excel at ITT Challenge in Tralee
Last Wednesday evening, some of the finest young minds in Kerry, Limerick and Cork ascended on Tralee IT for the ITT Challenge Problem Solving Competition. A team from Hazelwood College, “Amazing Atoms†including Michael Byrnes, Maire Flanagan and Anita Lucey won the competition with a remarkable performance. They solved all of the problems and puzzles with a perfect score of 75 in a record time. This left organisers, teachers and members of the other teams in admiration and awe of their mathematical skills. Despite only being second year students all three of these students have also been finalists in the ESAT BT Young Scientist competition. Michael is a past pupil of Balllingarry National School, Maire is a past pupil of Broadford National School and Anita is a past pupil of Milford National School. The team won a laptop computer and printer for the school and received a €50 gift voucher each. A second team from the college “Hazelwood Heroes†made up of Suzanne Sheehy. Megan Mathews and Michael O Flynn also performed very well to achieve a top ten finish. A third team “Bright Sparks†of Stephan Kelliher, Eilis Lenihan and Owen Lordan also did well considering the fact that the team included some first year students.
Pictured are Hazelwood Colleges “Amazing Atoms†Anita Lucey, Michael Byrnes and Máire Flanagan who amazed all those around by winning the ITT Problem Solving Competition with a perfect score.
