Category: Transition Year

D-Day for our fantastic debating team!!!!

After weeks of preparation and hard work we couldnt be prouder of our fantastic debating team and their teacher Ms Shanahan as they head to Dublin today to take on CBS Mullingar in the All -Ireland Semi- Final of the Concern Debating Competition. Hazelwood will be opposing the motion ” The current world aid system is ineffective- its time to shift the power”. Whatever happens this evening at the Camden Court Hotel in Dublin- this team have everything to be proud of for many years to come finding themselves in the top 4 of Irish Secondary schools. The future is incredibly bright for these young people. Best of luck to all the team- as we wait with baited breath to hear how they get on

Student Enterprise Regional finals

Well done to the TYs who represented Hazelwood College at the Student Enterprise Regional finals in Castletroy Park Hotel today

Congratulations to Ornagh, Aisling and Nicole whose company Hook n Style picked up the Best Display Award at the Limerick Student Enterprise Competition

Best of Luck Debaters

Wishing our Concern Debates Team the very best of luck for their All Ireland quarter final debate on Wednesday evening in Limerick against Laurel Hill.

Update Amazing news!!!!!!!!

THEY WON!!!!!!

Top four in the country and an All Ireland semi final awaits . .

Incredible Debating News!

Incredible news! Top 8 in the country in a competition that started with 180 schools and through to quarter final stages of the Concern Debates competition. Another fantastic win over a strong challenge from Cross and Passion College Antrim proposing ‘In the age of social media activism young people often engage in virtue signaling over genuine commitment to social change’. Congratulations to this fantastic group of young people