Pumpkin Carving
TY Ag Science students learned about the relevance of the pumpkin in modern Irish agriculture and then used their creative skills to carve out the pumpkins. The pumpkin pulp was then sent to the Home Economics class and used for…
Category Agricultural Science
National Tree Day
For National tree day, TY students planted an oak tree on the school grounds with Kay Maguire and Eamon Smith from Ballinamore Tidy Towns.
Bee keeping for Biodiversity
We were delighted to welcome local bee kepper PJ McLoughlin along with Kay Maguire to our school on 17th May. PJ visited Ms. Colums Agricultural Science class as part of Biodiversity week. PJ explained to students the process of what…
Pumpkin Project
Ms Colum’s science classes began by examining the pumpkin (from investigating measurement, weight & circumference, counting number of seeds, looking at plant cells, genetics through variation of pumpkins) and then developing their artistic/craft skills they designed and carved out their…
Leaving Cert Agricultural Science Class “Farm Walk and Talk”
On Thursday 8th March 2018 Ms. Colum and the Leaving Cert Agricultural science class attended the “Farm Walk and Talk” in Mountbellew in Galway. Students got the opportunity to gain practical experience in Dairying, Grassland management, Beef rearing and Calf …
TY Trip to Ploughing Sept ’17
Transition Years enjoyed a day at the Ploughing in Tullamore on Thursday 21st September. They completed a series of fun challenges throughout the day and met a few celebs along the way…..
Biodiversity workshop
On Friday 6th May Nicola Winters from Green Sod visited the school. Nicola gave a really interactive presentation to 1st year science and 5th year Agricultural Science classes. Students learned more about the area of biodiversity, it’s importance, how we…
Science Gallery FIELD TEST Exhibition
‘Our ability to produce food and products for growing populations on a finite amount of land with limited resources is unquestionably one of the great challenges we face globally. It may not be foremost in our minds when we do…
Student Council Promotion
Our student Council are busy helping us promote Certified Irish Angus Beef
Colouring Competition Winners
Congrats to the two first year students who won the Certified Irish Angus Colouring Competition. They were presented their prizes by Principal Mr. Leyden