Category Home Economics
Une conversation en francais sur la cuisine francaise
Thank you to our French Assistant Isee Guiste who gave a presentation all about the type of cuisine popular in her region in France (Provence- Alpes in the South East of France) to our 1st year Home Economics group. Through…
Irish Heart Foundation Presentation
On Monday 2nd October Caoimhe Rudden (Schools Officer for the Irish Heart Foundation) visited the school. She gave a highly informative presentation to 5th and 6th year Home Economics students on the area of heart health and the importance of…
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…..
Home Economics Field Trip (May 2017)
On Tuesday 16th May, 5th Year Home Economics students visited Rosderra Irish Meats in Stradone, Co. Cavan. They got to see all the theory from their class in action in a meat processing factory situation. HACCP, how Bord Bia’s Origin…
Healthy Living Week 2017
On Monday staff and students signed up to the ‘step it’ challenge with Ms Stenson. To mark the change in the new food pyramid fruit was given out at break time (fruit and veg is now the main shelf of…
Grow It Yourself
Lots of activity in the polytunnel at the moment. Ms Colum’s Science and Ms Stenson’s CSPE classes have been busy planting and once the lettuce grew the Home Economics classes used them during cookery. Check out our progress…..
1st year Homemade Pizza Workshop
1st years learned all about the properties of yeast when making their own pizza’s recently. They made their own pizza dough and tomato sauce complete with toppings and as you can imagine there were no leftovers to bring home that…
Self Help Africa Workshops 2017
Thank you to Hugh Bergin from Self Help Africa who visited our school during the year to give a series of workshops to 1st, 2nd and TY students. The workshops explored issues such as gender inequality in our world, climate…
Getting into the Christmas Spirit
From making delicious Christmas Chocolate Yule Logs and festive Christmas Table Displays, students certainly got into the Christmas spirit in Home Economics class this December. 🙂