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Great Results for Hazelwood College in the ‘Artists for Tara’ Competition

Great Results for Hazelwood College in the ‘Artists for Tara’ Competition

Two Hazelwood College Students were prizewinners in the Artists for Tara Competition which was held recently. This was a nationwide competition whereby students were asked to create paintings or write poems and stories in response to the proposed motorway through the Hill of Tara. Triona Sheehy, a second year student was a prizewinner in the artistic section. As a result her work was exhibited from the 11th to the 13th of March at the Artists for Tara Exhibition in Temple Bar, Dublin. Another second year student Marion Browne was highly commended in the writing section of the competition.

Picture 1:
Shows Marion Browne who was highly commended in the written section of the competition with her teacher Mairead Daly

Picture 2:
Shows Triona Sheehy who was a prize winner in the art section of the competition with her teacher Maria Curtin

Broadband @ Hazelwood College


Today the final connections were made in the school to prepare for the arrival of Broadband in the coming few months. All rooms in the school are now fully networked with internet access for all studetns and staff inthe school. Currently we have over 115 computers and laptops in the school and the number is growing all the time. Now each of these has internet access in any room in the. This will be of great benefit to both students and teachers in their study and preparation for exams and delivery of course content.

Pallaskenry College

Pallaskenry Agricultural College

Niall Blake from Pallaskenry College will visit the school on 16th March @2.30p.m. to speak to Senior Students about careers in farming.

Transition Year – Faraday Lecture University of Limerick

The Faraday Lectures

The Transition Years attended a lecture in the University of Limerick today. The lecture was called “The Faraday Lecture” after the scientist Michael Faraday on whose work all modern day robotics and physics is based. While being a lecture it was very practical based showing students examples of modern day robots and robots of the future based on Faraday’s principles.

Brief biography of Michael Faraday

Faraday, Michael (1791-1867):
Coming from a poor family, Faraday was apprenticed at the age of fourteen to a bookbinder: “he was allowed to spend as much time reading books as he did binding them.” One of the books he found himself regularly binding was the Encyclopedia Britannica. After six years of book binding, to his very good fortune, Faraday, at the age of 21, was introduced to Sir Humphrey Davy; he went and joined Davy at the Royal Institution as Davy’s personal assistant. (A story describing the relationship of Davy and Faraday would prove to be a mighty interesting one.) At any rate, Faraday led a very illustrious career as a scientist. (In those days they called themselves natural philosophers; and indeed, Faraday was a philosopher: his researches are pointed to as illustrative of the power of the inductive philosophy.) Though there developed quite a dispute over the point, Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of electromagnetic induction (1821), and described certain elements and chemical compounds such as chlorine and benzene.

University of Limerick – First Years

University Of Limerick Access Office

Class 1A will visit the University of Limerick today as part of their Access Projects. All first year students in the school complete a research project on the University it’s courses, facilities and requirements for access to the University. Over the next four weeks each of the First Year class groups will visit the University for an Orientation Day