Hazelwood College Transition Year students (left to right) Mariah Culloty, Íde Forde, Grainne Fitzgibbon and Vanessa Daly prepare for a fund raising event to allow them to travel as part of the Youth Section of the Limerick Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. They are pictured here as they prepare to hold a Coffee Morning in the Hall in Broadford on Sunday, April 21st, from 9:30am to 1pm.
The school Bank team have launched their own website as part of their entry to the National Finals of the Schools Build a Bank Competition.
Best of Luck to the girls.
Your can visit the site by clicking on the image below
Hazelwood College’s Transition Year students recently completed a walking tour of Shannon, Ireland’s first planned town. The purpose of the tour was to study how Irish planner’s thoughts and ideals have evolved over the past sixty years. Students learned how urban planning and design changed from Shannon’s early days as a dormitory town to its current 21st century design. Students saw how housing changed from the original apartment based living of the early airport workers to the introduction of families and children in the 1960s, when the government tax breaks encouraged large industry, right through to the compact urban jungle of the Celtic Tiger era. The students also learned about how Shannon, lying almost 2 metres below sea-level, defends itself from the daily threat of flooding through a network of embankments, culverts and pumping stations.
Hazelwood College’s Concern Debate team continued on their winning ways when they beat Charleville CBS on a 2-1 scoreline after successfully proposing the motion that “The UN belongs on the scrapheap of History”. The team made up of Grace Morey (captain), Billy Foley, Ellah Grufferty and Alannah Matthews, all Transition Years, faced a mature and experienced Charleville team in the final debate of the Concern Debates league phase.
The team, who had been preparing since the start of the new term, were supported by several other Transition Years. The Chief Adjudicator praised both teams for their effort and the range of skills shown, before delivering the result to a jubilant home team and their supporters.
Three students, Bríd Flanagan and Laoise Bennis from first year and Paul Kirwan from third year, representing Hazelwood College, Dromcollogher are among the 65 successful semi-finalists for a new national ‘Homecook Baking Games’ competition. The three made it through the initial stage, where over one thousand entries were received. Students were challenged to create delectable baked products using a Homecook product such as cooking chocolate, dried fruit, decorations, marmalade, lemon juice etc. Each of the semi-finalist entries, which were chosen by the judges based on creativity, nutritional content and affordability, are currently being collated into a 32 page semi-finalist cookbook which will be available in the March edition of Easy Food Magazine, which goes on sale in newsagents nationwide from 31st January next. Foodies everywhere will be invited to vote for their favourite recipe by three methods: by post to VOTE BAKING GAMES, Zahra Media Group, 1st Floor, Zoe House, Church Road, Greystones, Co. Wicklow, by email to [email protected] or on the website www.homecookbakinggames.com.
The public are asked to vote for their favourite recipe by logging onto www.homecookbakinggames.com. By scrolling down the web page Paul’s recipe for Shortbread Delight, Laoise’s recipe for Coffee and Walnut Cake and Brid’s Peanut Butter and White Chocolate Blondies will be evident. The eight students with the highest number of votes will be chosen to prepare, cook and serve their baked product in front of a panel of celebrity judges. The students of Hazelwood College are asking the public to vote immediately for their recipe entries and support them in their quest to reach the final in the Baking Academy in Dublin.
To help you vote we have provided direct links to each students entry below
Please note you vote by entering your email address, each email address can only be used once
Vote for Paul Kirwan’s Shortbread Delight …here…
Vote for Laoise Bennis’s Coffee and Walnut Cake …here…
Vote for Bríd Flanagan’s Peanut Butter and White Chocolate Blondies …here…
Picture 1: Hazelwood College Transition Year Student Darragh O’Brien (centre) participates in a ‘Strength and Conditioning Course’ under the supervision of trainer Trevor Sexton (left) and fellow student Lyon Lenihan (right).
Picture 2: Transition Year student Rachel Collins learns about slings as part of a First Aid course all Transition Year students participated in, under the supervision of the Irish Red Cross.
Picture 3: Members of the Hazelwood College Concern Debating team (left to right) Alannah Matthews, Grace Morey, Julia O’Doherty and Lara Grufferty, after defeating Presentation Convent Listowel. Hazelwood College’s Concern debaters narrowly lost to St. Mary’s Charleville before drawing with Mercy Mounthawk. They continue in the Concern Debating League in the new year.
Picture 4: Chloe O’Connell (left) and Catherine Corbett (right) participate in the regular ‘Integrated Dance’ sessions which include Hazelwood College Transition Year students and the residents of Rathfredagh Cheshire Home
Picture 5: In the course of Hazelwood College’s Transition Year Induction Day, held at Ballyhass Lakes Activity Centre, J.J. Browne (left) managed to chat to his class teacher Mr Noel O’Grady (right) in the course of the activities.
Picture 6: Some of Hazelwood College students prepare to go kayaking in the course of the induction day for Transition Years.
Picture 7: Hazelwood College Transition Year student Ryan Coffey gets to grips with some of the activities during his induction day at Ballyhass Lakes Activities Centre.
Picture 8: Lyon Lenihan, Transition Year student at Hazelwood College, is safely strapped in and aiming for greater heights in the course of the obstacle course at Ballyhass Lakes Activity Centre, during the Transition Year Induction Day.
Picture 9: Lyon Lenihan, TY2 at Hazelwood College, examines a nettle as part of his ‘Alternative Medicine’ programme of studies given by Ms Christine Best, a local herbalist.
Picture 10: Íde Forde (left) and Áine Fitzgibbon (right) brew up their own unique concoctions as part of the ‘Alternative Medicine’ programme given by Ms Christine Best to all Transition Year students at Hazelwood College.
Picture 11: Darragh O’Brien, TY2 student at Hazelwood College, participates in the First Aid Programme given by the Irish Red Cross.
Picture 12: As part of the Transition Year Programme, students at Hazelwood College participated in a series of Zumba Dancing Sessions.
Picture 13: In the course of the their Business Module, Hazelwood College’s Transition Year students embarked on a ‘Build a Bank’ competition. As part of their advertisement drive, customers Loretta Hanley (centre) and Ciara O’Shea (right) were greeted by a very festive Callum Donoghue (left), who is part of the ‘Build a Bank’ project.
Picture 14: Callum Donoghue (centre) was in festive cheer as Hazelwood College’s ‘Build a Bank’ team continued their work before the Christmas break. Among the customers of the programme were Becky Sheehan (left) and Íde Hennessey (right) both fifth years at Hazelwood College.
Picture 15: Another group of Transition Year Business students created their own mini-company, which appealed to all those who had a Christmas sweet tooth. Among those who worked to create the ‘Sweet Selection Cone’ were (left to right) David Fenton, Sinead Coleman and Darragh O’Brien.
Hazelwood College Transition Year student Sam Long was confirmed last Thursday as having secured a four day trip to Strasbourg, to witness, first hand, the workings of the European Parliament. Sam won one of the twenty four coveted spots, reserved for Irish students, in a competition sponsored by the South and East Regional Assembly. The competition focused on the civic awareness of students. Sam was assisted in his entry by his teacher Ms. Margaret Griffin.
Sam, and the other 23 Irish students and three supervising teachers, will visit Strasbourg in the spring and attend sessions of the European Parliament, before participating in Euroscoia, which is a youth parliament comprising of students from all twenty seven member states. Euroscoia members debate issues relevant to young people from across the European Union and the role of the institutions of the European Union in charting a course to improving the lives of its citizens.
The trip, which is thanks to the sponsorship of the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly, promises to be a rewarding experience and will allow Sam to increase to meet students from across Ireland and across the European Union, while also developing his knowledge of the political, civic and social outlook for Ireland and of Europe..
Hazelwood College Transition Year students studied first aid, under the Irish Red Cross, in order to learn potential life saving skills. Pictured are left to right: Billy Foley, Irish Red Cross Instructor Ger Doody and Amanda Collins.
Hazelwood College’s Transition Year students recently completed a Public Speaking Programme under the direction of Marian Hartnett, of Toastmasters Ireland. Pictured are (Left to Right): David Fenton, Sean Coffey, Íde Forde, Sinead Coleman, Catherine Corbett, Áine Fitzgibbon, Mariah Culloty, JJ Browne, Alan Cronin and Charlie Dickens with Marian Hartnett in the Toastmasters Programme.
Hazelwood College began their 2012-13 Concern Debates campaign with a victory over Presentation Convent, Listowel. Hazelwood’s team, Julia O’Doherty (Captain), Alannah Matthews, Grace Morey and Lara Grufferty successfully proposed the motion that ‘The world has more to fear from President Romney than from President Obama’.
In a robust and charged debate, Hazelwood and Listowel gave an expert demonstration of debating skills. Throughout the course of the evening, the competition was on a knife edge. Despite the debate being the first in this year’s competition, the standard on both sides was very high, especially in refutation and rebuttal. Hazelwood’s team, all Transition Years, will face St. Mary’s, Charleville in the coming weeks.
