Hazelwood TYs enjoying their driving lessons at Munster Driving Campus. A great days learning and a brilliant introduction to safe and responsible driving
Category: Transition Year
121 Digital Learners
121 Digital Learners from the local community who attended Hazelwood in order to learn how to master their digital devices with the help of their tutors – the TY students.
TY Art
TY art class attempting to make coil pots this week.Looks like fun!
Limerick Student Enterprise Awards
What a day at the Limerick Student Enterprise Awards yesterday where Quaid Candles, Cene Letter Art, JBM Sports and The Cruelty Free Chocolate Company did a fantastic job. Congrats to Chloe, Evelyne, Nikita and Ellen on being awarded the Best Marketing Award. However, the icing on the cake was when first year student Evan Quaid was announced as the winner of the Junior Category. A fantastic achievement! Evan now heads to Dublin to represent Limerick in the National Finals in May. Watch this space!
Ty’s @ Zipit
Some photos of the recent Transition Year trip to Zipit Forest Adventures in Cork.
Road Safety
Road Safety Authority -Shuttle Exhibition.
Hazelwood was delighted to welcome the RSA Shuttle to the school recently where Senior Students and staff alike faced the harsh reality of life on our roads.
What can you do on the Shuttle?
- practice your driving and hazard perception skills on our simulators (car, motorbike, bicycle)
- enjoy a fully interactive road safety educational experience
- experience simulated virtual situations in our virtual reality pods and experience first-hand the dangers of driving and texting and driver fatigue
- practice safe cycling skills on our state of the art bicycle simulator
- See how driving environments and speed affect your braking distances on the brake reaction timer
- practice the driver theory test on board
- Test your fancy footwork by dancing to the Safe Cross Code in the activity zone
- Take a road safety quiz in the activity zone
- Learn about tyre safety. Remember, your tyres are the only contact with the road
Ballinruane
The Transition Years who took on the hill at Ballinruane, Kilmeedy as part of their PE class.
Hazelwood Goes Orange
Hazelwood recently glowed orange in an effort to raise awareness of Mental Heath Issues and to promote help seeking behaviour. Armed with the slogan “Its Ok not to feel OK; and its absolutely OK to ask for help”, students and staff dressed in orange and engaged it well being activities ranging from a Cycle-athon (In a bid to cycle against Suicide) to a Yoga workshop.
Ski Trip 2018
Some photos from a wonderful school tour to Andorra for some skiing and then on to Barcelona.
Legally Blonde Jnr Audience Pictures
Here is a selection of audience photos from the recent performance of Legally Blonde Jnr. Thanks to Eamon Doody, Sky View photography for providing us with the pictures. Well done to the over 100 students who were involved in this years production. All aspects of the show were produced by the students, including stage lighting and sound, set design and management, right through to acting and performance. Thanks also to Catherine Upton for her help with the choreography.
