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The annual first year excursion to capanalea takes place in the week of 25th September. Over the week two groups of first years will travel to Cappanalea near Killorglin in County Kerry. The aim of the trip is to give the students a chance to learn about their new collegues and make new friends. Each trip will stay at the centre for two nights and three days. While there they will take part in many activities such as Rock-Climbing, Hillwalking, Canoing, Orienteering, Team Buildings Games, Night Hikes etc.

On Friday 15th September students from Leaving Certificate Applied 1, Leaving Certificate Applied 2 and Leaving Certificate 2 who require Safe Passes for their Work Experience modules will take the nessecary Safe Pass Course allowing them to work in the construction Industry in Ireland.

The training modules incorporated within the safe pass programme are:

– The reasons for promoting safety
– Health and Safety at Work Legislation
– Accident reporting & Emergency procedures
– Accident prevention
– Health and Hygiene
– Manual Handling
– Working at heights
– Working with Electricity, underground and overhead services
– Use of hand held equipment
– Safe use of vehicles
– Noise and vibrations
– Excavations and Confined Spaces

Attached are some pictures taken at the recent Hazelwood College Summer Camp. The first picture shows participants of the camp during an outing to UL. The second shows activites which took place in the school.

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The pictures below were taken at the Hazelwood College open day on Saturday last. The first picture shows students in the school language laboratory with the CEO of Co Limerick VEC, Mr Sean Burke.

The second picture shows past pupils Cormac Egan, Sinead O Connor and Anne Fitzgerald.
Cormac is now going into his second year studying Maths at UCC, Sinead is commencing her training in Primary Teaching and Anne is beginning her studies in Educational Psychology, both in Mary Immaculate College.

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Open Day
Achieving our full potential

Saturday September 9th
10.00a.m. to 1.00pm

Leaving and Junior Certificate Projects will be on display

All Welcome

The Leaving Certificate Applied class as part of the their social education class took a trip around the local area visiting local sites etc. as pasrt the the ‘My Community Module’. Plenty of notes were made and photographs taken for disscussion back in school.

The Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme class will visit the local famous Irish Dresden factory on Tuesday 12th September to prepare for project workas part of the Leaving Certifiacte Exams.

The Leaving Cert Applied 1 class will be travelling to Kilfinane Outdoor Education Centre on the 28th and 29th 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.

Here are some photographs that were taken recently at the Hazelwood College Debs Ball which was held in the Earl of Desmond Hotel in Tralee.

All photos were taken by William Whyte photography Cork .
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Picture 1: Derry McCarthy and Mary O Connor.

Picture 2 : Leaving Cert II student Una O Sullivan with Liam Cronin. Liam has now gone on to study Arts in UCC.

Picture 3: Eugene Hough and Sheila O Flynn

Picture 4 : Sean Collins with Leaving Cert I student Sinead Kiely. Following his excellent results Sean is now going on to study architecture in UL.

Picture 5: Darren Kiely and Niamh Cronin

Outstanding Results for Hazelwood College Students

The day of the Leaving Certificate results was a proud day for all involved with Hazelwood College with students receiving excellent results in all subject areas. Most noticeable was the large number of A grades in higher level subjects along with a 100% pass rate for Maths. In total, at higher level there were 30 A grades, 60 B grades, 81 C grades, 20 D grades and 3 E grades. At ordinary level there were 6 A grades, 39 B grades, 42 C grades and 11 D grades. These students are now looking forward to furthering their studies in areas such as Architecture, Psychology, Engineering, Education, Business and Nursing among others.