On Tuesday 11th December 2012 Mary Mc Keon from North West Simon Community visited the school to talk to Transition Year Home Economics students about the role of NW Simon Community. Students learnt all about the important services that this…
Transition Year students completed a card making module on the lead up to Christmas. Students created a variety of different Christmas cards using a variety of art & craft techniques. …
As part of their study on Interior Design in the home, 2nd year Home Economics students completed a project based on redecorating a bedroom using a shoe box to model their finished rooms. Marks awarded were included as part of…
Congratulations to 2nd year students Aoife Curran, Hannah Banks & Shaneen McGovern and 5th Yr student Ciara Bohan who entered the Home Cook Baking Games Competition before Christmas. Over 1000 entries were received and Easy Food Magazine then chose the…
To showcase the wonderful produce grown by the Agricultural Science class, the Home Economics classes used the various vegetables grown in the school garden by making a big pot of vegetable soup, lots of delicious potato wedges and with the…
As part of Halloween cookery first years made their own healthy version of the barm brack and then compared their version to a commercially bought brack to link in with consumer studies section of the course. Students then participated in…
5th and 6th year students learnt all about yeast and made their own dough and tomato sauce to make their own pizza’s prior to their school tour to Italy.
On Tuesday 23rd October 2012 as part of the TY Home Economics course the transition year students completed a pizza making workshop using their own fresh yeast pizza dough and homemade tomato sauce. Students thoroughly enjoyed the workshop and it…
On Friday 19th October the 5th year Home Economics class went on a trip to local butcher Michael Scollan’s premises. As part of the Leaving Certificate curriculum students study the topic of meat in depth and so to link in…
