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St. JoSeph’S

Secondary School

Newsletter May 2018

Vol. 18 Issue 4 Proud of our Past, Confident of our Future

Dear Parents/Guardians and prospective Parents/Guardians, Our end of year Newsletter for the 2017/’18 school year contains lots of information on what hap-

pened in St. Joseph’s during the school year, both academically and in the sporting arena. Our

school enrolment is increasing year on year and the new school year in September 2018 will see

the student population increase from 780

to 830 students. September will also see

the senior management team change with

Deputy Principal Mr Savage taking up the

position of Principal.

St. Joseph’s has a fine tradition in school

sports and our teams have competed suc-

cessfully again this year. This includes

our U15 soccer team winning its first sil-

verware in the history of the school and

our chess team becoming All Ireland

Champions. There are other sports suc-

cesses detailed in this Newsletter together

with extra curricular and co-curricular activities. Of particular note was the hosting of our first Cul-

ture Week in this school year.

We are continually improving our services for supporting our students so that they can achieve to

their full potential. We provide supervised study each evening after school, on Saturday mornings

and during school holidays. We are oper-

ating a Homework Club for 1st and 2nd

year students each week. These addition-

al services have been made possible by

the hard work of our Parents Council in

fundraising to subsidise supervised

study and fund our Breakfast Club.

The school website contains up to date

information on many aspects of the

school and for prospective parents/

guardians there is a link to a short infor-

mation video. The school’s website ad-

dress is: www.droghedacbs.ie

Best wishes,

David Madden.

Principal.

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Peadar Mc Cann

Annual Awards

30th April 2018

Ben Matthews 6.5 presented with the Peadar Mc Cann Award for Creative Arts by guest of honour and past pupil Dr Gene Carolan.

Past pupil Scott Murphy presented with the Jim Mooney medal for English by Ms Mc Gowan.

Luke Mc Carthy, Sean Carolan and Conor Mc Kenna awarded Junior Cert Gold Medals for Excellence with Deputy Principal Mr Savage. Sean was additionally awarded the Peadar Mc Cann Junior Cert winner for the top JC results in 2017.

Class of 1978 past pupils Gerry Kelly FMFM, Stanley Buckley and Professor Patrick Flood DCU presenting the Br Mc Kenney Cup to 5th year student Cathal Doherty for excellence in Physics.

Construction Studies teacher Ms Murphy presents the Leav-ing Cert Award for Construction Studies to James Tester 6.5.

Leaving Certificate Technology Award winner Anthony Kent 6.1 with Technolo-gy teacher Mr Farrell and Deputy Principal Mr Savage.

Leaving Certificate 2017 overall winner past pupil Scott Murphy with fellow past pupil Dr Gene Carolan and Deputy Principal Mr Savage.

Niall Keane, son of the late former Deputy Principal Noel Keane, presents the Noel Keane Cup to Seán Rice 6.5 as Business Student of the Year.

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Academic Achievement Awards

1st years

Back: Mr Savage, Tadhg Dunne 1F, Peter Meegan 1R, Luke Moran 1N, Mr Mathews. Front: Temitayo Laiyemo 1T, Eoghan Sayers 1S.

2nd years

Back: Femi Laiyemo 2S, Daniel Butterly 2T, James Ford 2F, Mr Sharkey. Front: Niall Collins 2R, Stephen Kinch 2N, Alex Smith 2U.

3rd years Back: Mr Ryan, Niall Moore 3F, Liam Vainio-Matila 3T, Ronan Collins 4R. Front: Cillian Tracey 3N, Adam Leech 3S.

Transition Years

Matthew Leech TY3, Conor Mc Kenna TY2.

5th years Back: Seán Carolan 5.1, Ryan Mc Evoy 5.5, Ms Mac Namee, Aaron Sharkey 5.4. Front: Neil Holdcroft 5.3, Ron Bondoc 5.2.

6th years

Back: Mr Stephenson, Christian Shaw LCA 2, Luke Byrne 6.5, Joe Linogao 6.1. Front: Luke Campbell 6.4, Rian Akpitanyi 6.3, Matthew Askins 6.2.

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With over thirty countries represented in 1st year alone, St. Joseph’s Secondary School has a rich

and diverse range of nationalities permeating their student population. We celebrated this diversity

with a special Culture Week from April 23rd to 27th in the school and it was sponsored by Drogheda

Credit Union.

Students who hail from countries such as

Nigeria, Latvia, Germany and the Philippines

are valued members of the school community

and they celebrated their contributions dur-

ing Culture Week.

The week began with an inter-faith ceremony

for all 1st Year and TY students and was attended by

representatives from the Board of Management, Parents

Council, trustees E.R.S.T and the sponsors Drogheda

Credit Union.

Throughout the week students engaged in various work-

shops provided by Boomerang Youth Café, Give Racism

the Red Card and ‘Create School’. Fund raising events took place including a World Cup Final for

1st Years, a Basketball play-off, Food Culture Day and a non-uniform day.

Students’ works of art, technology and poetry were displayed whilst language students delivered

presentations in various languages. The week also celebrated the official launch of the India Project

and students travelling to India later in the

year delivered a number of presentations on

the nature and purpose of their trip.

Not to be left out, our teachers attended a

presentation by Lizzy Noone from Worldwise

Schools who talked about development edu-

cation. All in all it was a busy and engaging

week as we came together to applaud all the

diverse members of our student body. Credit

to Deputy Principal Mr Traynor and teachers

Ms O Doherty and Mr Lynch for co-ordinating

the Culture Week.

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Athletics

Joeys Intermediate athletics team make

All-Ireland Finals.

St. Joseph’s inter (U17) team put in a

memorable performance at the Leinster final on the

21st of February to secure a coveted spot at this

years All Ireland.

Having qualified as silver medallists from the North

Leinster zone where they trailed an impressive Mul-

lingar CBS by 50 points an All-Ireland seemed an

unattainable goal.

However such was the desire and hunger from the

Drogheda sextet Tadgh Donnelly (6), Peter Meegan

(14), Tom Cummins (24), Neal Hodgins (44) total

score tied them for second spot. Frank and Hugh

Mc Clean 45 & 55 also ran splendid races over the

4500m at Santry.

Back: Cillian Tracey, Emran Yasser Moustafa, Eoin Reynolds, Bethany Odukoya, Rory Fitzpatrick, Kristofer Tarvids, James Andrews, Callum Thomson, Kacper Olszewski. Middle: Joshua Reilly, Adam Heavy, Jack Kennedy, Rodney Omosigho, Robert McDonnell, Owen Murphy,, Steven Adeyemo, Felim Ryan, Adam Pervaiz, Conor Kirwan, Kevin Silvester. Front: hane Lynch, Aidan McCormack, Patrick McGeary, James Feehan, Lee Grifferty, Charlie Mohan, Farrell Olalere.

Back: Hugh McClean, Tom Cummins, Tadhg Everitt Thomson, Peter Meegan, Neal Hodgins, Eoin Flanagan, Emmet Delaney, Cathal O’Reilly, Mark Oduberu, Frank McClean. Middle: Ms Daly, Aaron Garvey, Bailey Kerr, Abubakar Cisse, Emmet Murray, Eseosa Omoregbe, Lee Grifferty, Aidan McCormack, Oisin McCann, Max Butterly, Jamie Donagh, Mr Stephenson. Front: Zac Levins, Stephen Kerr, Rhys Fordham, Tristan Rowe, Aaron McGlew, Ciaran Connor, Liam Flynn, David Moro-ney.

Back: Ms Daly, Hugh McClean, Eseosa Omoregbe, Frank McClean, Mr Ste-phenson. Front: Peter Meegan, Tom Cummins, Neal Hodgins.

Students Council

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Basketball

1st Year Basketball Team. Back: Emmanuel Okafor, Jude Woods, Tadhg Martin, Franz Ferdinand II Queypo, Ahmed Oyelola, Layne Coulter. Middle: Tadgh O’Reilly, Mehbub Hussain Syed, Muhammad Ahmed, Leanne Patrick Ison, Jaimie O’Mara, Roberts Ruta. Front: Thomas Flanagan, Alans Upenieks, Igor Debski, Daniel Kolesnikovs, Fateem Kekere-Ekun.

Under 14 Basketball team. Back: Daniel Back Herke, Ciaran Agnew, Angus Cardosa, Sam Reilly, Joshua Nino Flores, Alex Carolan. Front: Felim Ryan, Steven Adeyemo, Stefan Okobi, Carl Louise Soriano, Colm Smith.

Under 16 Basketball team. Back: Mr Graham, Donal Oseni, Arturs Smirnovs, Arnas Simkus, Denzel Ebose, Conor Brennan, John Patrick Hughes. Front: Sultan Alatise, Angus Cardoso, Eoin Hackett, Ciaran Agnew, Nikita Koush.

Senior Basketball Team. Back: Ross Barromeo, Ryan Benedo, Eniola Odusanya Smith, Lloyd Olalere, Seán Butter-ly, Luke Kelly, Joshua Reilly Front: Tolani Oyelola, John Prendergast, Denzel Ebose, Joshua Sokan, Michael Collins, Dave Dumaplin.

Denzel Wbose Senior and Ciarán Agnew Junior Player of the year in Basketball.

U 16 team captain Eoin Hackett with the trophy for North Leinster ‘A’ division win-ners trophy presented by basketball coach Ciaran Mc Groggan.

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School trip to Stratford-upon-Avon. William Kavanagh 3R

For our Junior Cert English we have been studying the

Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet. So over the

Easter break our teacher Ms Hackett brought us on a

trip to Stratford-Upon-Avon. We were all full of excite-

ment boarding the bus at 3:30 am on our way to the

home of Shakespeare. Once we landed in Birmingham

and dropped off our bags at the hotel we went on a boat

trip around Stratford which was a bit of a laugh. Straight

afterwards we headed to a Shakespeare workshop

where we had lots of screaming and shouting as we

practised and rehearsed important dialogue and key

scenes from the play. We were wrecked after it.

On the second day we went to Shakespeare's birth-

place and took a tour of where he lived, which included

actors acting out scenes from his different plays and

we even got to take part in them. Later that night we

went on a spooky ghost walk around Stratford.

We were up early for Cadbury World the next morning

where we stuffed our faces with chocolate followed by

paintballing with smoke grenades, camouflage paint

and buckets of muck.

Photo left: Deputy Principal Mr Savage with recipients of Leaving Certificate gold medals for excellence in the 2017 Leaving Certificate. Back row: Mr Savage, Scott Murphy, Louis Flana-gan. Front row: John Holdcroft, Shane Mc Quillan, Joseph Corrigan, Michael Mc Cardle. Photo above: Caretakers Niall Leonard and Jim Murray with Michael Traynor 5.2 who re-ceived the Jim Hanlon Civic Award for his work with the Green Schools Committee.

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The Sam Maguire Cup made a surprise visit to the Principal Mr Madden’s retirement function hosted by the Board of Management in Donegan’s, Monasterboice. Pictured with Sam are PE teacher Ms Bugler who plays for the Dublin Junior Camogie team and her club St Oliver Plunketts Eoghan Ruadh , Principal and life long Dublin supporter Mr Madden and Mr Crummey SEN coordinator, Lucan Sarsfields, whose sons Chris and Paul are members of the Dublin Senior Hurling team.

1st year recipients of the Determination to Succeed Award. Back: Luke Mc Dermott 1F, Husifa Bin-Mukhtar. Front: Piyapat Saoyood 1R, Adam Pervais 1S.

2nd year recipients. Back: Kevin Mc Donnell 2F, Farrell Olalere 2T, Alex Carolan 2F, Mr Sharkey. Front: Conor O Dwyer 2S, Andrew Victory 2R, Daire Collier 2N.

3rd year recipients. Back: Mr Ryan, Dean Mc Weeney 3N, Arturs Smirnovs 3R, Front: Maciej Czajowski 3F, Sean Abarico 3T, Godwill Njecwe 3S.

5th year recipients. Back: Ms mac Namee, Seán Crabtree 5.5, Cian O Connor 5.4. Front: Jason Andrews LCA 1, Dave Dumaplin 5.3, Kenneth Fallon 5.1.

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Green Schools by Michael Traynor 5.2 and Seán Carolan 5.1

Littering in the River Boyne: An Issue We Can No Longer Ignore. The River Boyne is one of the de-

fining natural features in the town of Drogheda. It is a river that has played an integral role in the

development and history of our town. Yet it is somehow beyond our capabilities to adequately

maintain and keep clean this vital asset in our community. You need only to take a look over any of

the bridges spanning the river and you will likely witness plastic bottles, non biodegradable pack-

aging and even the occasional shopping trolley carelessly thrown into this river which not only is

an asset to the people of the town, but is a vital ecosystem that is home to several species of ani-

mals and plants

The Green Schools Committee in Saint Joseph’s Secondary School decided to carry out an investi-

gation into the issue of littering in the River Boyne in

various locations across the town but it was primarily

focused o the area surrounding Mell Football Pitch

and Saint Dominic’s Park. On various dates in February

2018, members of our Green Schools Committee trav-

elled down to the river bank and photographed a truly

disgusting amount of litter that was present,

The photo right reflect the complete lack of regard or

consideration for others or for the natural life that in-

habits the river that is held by some members of our

community. But as well as just identifying the problem of littering in the River Boyne we have also

tried our best to come up with a series of solutions to the problem.

Possible Solutions To This Problem: One solution that the Green Schools Committee came up with

was an increase in the financial penalties that are handed down to those who are caught perpetrat-

ing this crime. We believe that the current fine of €150 does next to nothing to deter people from

carelessly discarding their potentially hazardous waste into the river. We believe that if we are go-

ing to properly stop people from ruining this great natural feature, the financial implications need

to be severe and have a lasting impact.

However, increasing the fines imposed on those who litter is pointless if those who litter are never

caught and prosecuted. It is for this reason that we believe that another possible solution for the

problem of littering in the River Boyne is an increase in the amount of CC TV cameras and litter pa-

trols present along the river bank. These are absolutely vital in tackling issues of littering in any

area. People need to know that if they are going to litter than they will be caught, they will be identi-

fied and they will face the consequences.

Another area that needs to be considered in tackling littering problems in Drogheda is an increase

in the amount of adequate waste disposal areas in the town itself, particularly in housing estates

surrounding the river. Much of the litter in the River is centred around these estates yet there is lit-

tle to no means for people to properly dispose of their waste. If there are no bins around, then you

might considering dumping that litter in any way you can, which in many cases means carelessly

discarding that litter into the River Boyne. Even in

the town centre, there is a noticeable lack of waste

bins in many areas and it is no coincidence that

these areas are areas with large amounts of litter.

Even where there are bins, these are often over-

flowing which leaves people with little choice but

to throw that litter in another place.

A Final Word: One thing that we have discovered

while researching this problem is that it is not go-

ing to solve itself, people don’t just grow out of littering. We need to educate people on the danger-

ous effects of littering on their communities, we need to pressure our local and county councils

and urge them to implement these solutions that we have highlighted and any other that may pre-

sent themselves.

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Chess Club

All Ireland Chess Champions 2018.

Our school chess team won the National Chess Championship for Secondary Schools in Roscrea on Friday 27th April. Photo below right includes chess coach Mr Brendan Reilly, TY stu-dent Paul Zeihmer, 5th Year Nikita Koush and Conor Reynolds and 3rd year Luke Munster. The finals were hotly contested by schools from the other three prov-inces with St Joseph's winning ahead of joint second place schools De La Salle Waterford and Rochestown College, Cork.

Digital Champions visit Samsung St. Joseph’s Secondary School Digital Champi-ons had the opportunity to visit Samsung offic-es in Dublin in April. Students participated in hands on workshops learning about VR and AR training and learned about the evolution of Samsung technology. Throughout the year stu-dents have been creating apps as part of this initiative. One group focused on an app to pro-mote literacy outside of the classroom and the other app was based on tourism for the local area. Congratulations to all students who participat-ed from Ms. Kirke and Ms. O’Connor Photo Back: Ms. Kirke, Conor McKenna, Matthew Leech, Kristapus Daugela, John Prender-gast Front: Kian Fay, Jack King, Cian Byrne, Jesús Monte Lope and Ms. O’Connor.

Back: Mr Brendan Reilly chess coach, Conor Reynolds, Nikita Koush, Paul Zeimher, Sean Patrick Moore, Luke Munster. Front: Ciaran Flynn, Sean Aberaco, Josh Sheerin, Bobby Brady.

All Ireland Champions. Conor Reynolds, Luke Munster, Nikita Koush, Paul Zeimher.

All Ireland Champions. Back: Mr Brendan Reilly, Paul Zeimher, Nikita Koush. Front: Conor Reynolds, Luke Munster.

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India Project Ten students and their teach-

ers are hard at work preparing

for the India Project. For many

years now teachers, students

and parents from St Joseph’s

have been involved in the set-

ting up and development of a

school in Schillong, Northern

India, for underprivileged chil-

dren who would not otherwise

receive an education. This in-

volvement has meant fund-

raising and visiting the school

in October. Our fundraising

helps keep the school open.

The boys are fundraising in

the local community between now and October and your support for this extremely worthwhile pro-

ject is greatly appreciated.

The photo below features Mr Peter Kerr who is Leinster and Boyne Rugby Club Community Rugby

Officer, CCRO. Leinster Rugby have very kindly donated a jersey signed by the Leinster players.

The jersey will be raffled and there will be big now that Leinster have win the European rugby title.

Teachers and students who are travelling to India in October 2018. Back row: Mr Traynor Deputy Principal, Ms Conlon, Enda Mc entaggert, Joseph Savage, Shaun Smith, Ms Bugler, Mr Graham. Front row: Luke Rochford, Liam Matilla, Evan O Reilly, Ronan Collins, Cian Rafferty, Ryan Corrigan.

Back row: Mr Traynor, Enda Mc Enteggart, Geraldine Gilsenan, Brona Reilly, Eddie Bourke, David Madden, John Moore, Cian Rafferty. Front row: Shaun Smith, Ryan Corrigan, Evan O’Reilly, Luke Rochford, Ronan Collins, Joseph Savage.

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NASA Space Camp Scholarship Photo right: Maths teacher Ms Antonia Williams with fifth

year student Séan Carolan who is travelling to the US this

summer. Séan was awarded a Student Achievement Aca-

demic Scholarship to Space Camp in Huntsville Nasa Pro-

gramme, Alabama. Sean is one of 120 students worldwide

to receive this scholarship.

Edmund Rice Community Awards Project The Edmund Rice Community Project is an

awards programme which our TY students

took part in. Each class group chose a differ-

ent community project which embodies the

ethos of our school. Our three projects were

with Saint Vincent de Paul, The Irish Blood

Transfusion Board and also organising ‘Lá na

Gaeilge’. On Monday, 23rd April, a selection

of students from each class made a presenta-

tion on the work to date to Mr Eddie Bourke

from Edmund Rice Schools Trust, Mr Traynor

Deputy Principal and retired teacher Mr. Noel

Moore. The community work undertaken by the students which has been guided by the strong

vision and mission set out in the Edmund Rice Schools Trust Charter. Every group explained how

it makes a contribution to the local community and how it relates to our school and community.

Back Row: Mr Traynor, Mr Eddie Bourke, Shane Lynch, Emmanuel Oki, Seán Murphy, Bailey Holcroft, Nuala Uí Cheallaigh, Mr Noel Moore. Front Row: Jake Connor, Timo Riehm, Felix Jacob, Seán Black, Jordan Behn, Adam Reilly.

Mr Mathews presents the Paddy Hallinan Trophy for Gaelic Football to first year student Keefer Carolan.

Mr O Neill presents the U14 Gaelic Footballer of the Year to third year student Esosa Omorgrebe.

Mr Mac Namee presents the Junior Gaelic Footballer of the Year to fifth year student Andrew Collier.

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James Ford 2F.

Music Generation is a music programme that encour-

ages Primary and Secondary school students to par-

ticipate with a collaborative approach in learning to

play an instrument. The programme provides you

with a choice to learn the drums, keyboard, piano and

guitar. Music Generation is suitable for all levels of ability. Whether you are a beginner or an ac-

complished player, they will teach you new songs, skills and how to work as a band. I thoroughly

enjoy Music Generation and I hope to see it becoming a bigger part of the school community for

‘generations’ to come!

Mr Mathews presents the Senior Footballer of the Year trophy to sixth year student Alan Connor.

Back: Pairic White, Lorcan McKenna, Dillon Mc Donagh, James Ford, Coinneach Farrell, Carlos Boedo Herrero, Jesús Monte Lope, Thies Hassman Middle: Tytus Walkowiak, Ciaran O’Sullivan, Fionn Manley, Hamza Yasin, Tadg Reilly, Emmet Saurin, Keane Kavanagh Smith, Mr Savage. Front: Peter Meegan, Aaron Hennessy, Eric Chiper, Conor Kirwan, Jamie Clinton Hodgins, Michael Collins.

Green Schools Merit Awards presented to; back row: David Moroney 2N, Luke Mohan 2R, Mr Sharkey green schools coordinator. Front row: Dillon Mc Donagh, 2N Jonathan Everitt 2U.

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Gaelic Football

U 14 team. Back: Cian Yelland, Niall Collins, Leo Kelly, Cathal O’Reilly, Dara McDonnell,, Cillian Smith, Oisin McCann, Rory Fitzpatrick, Kyle McElroy, Alex Caro-lan. Middle: Mr Farrell, Rhys Fordham, Harry Murphy, Eoin Brennan, Matthew Burnell, Connor McGinnity, Michael Leddy, Mark Houlohan, Connor Dunne, Eseosa Omoregbe, Mr O’Neill. Front: Eoghan Maguire, Stephen Kerr, Liam Flynn, Tadgh Martin, James Breen, Stephen O’Reilly, Keefer Carolan, Eoin Flanagan, Charlie Mohan.

U 16 team. Back: Conor Walsh, Ryan Holland, Ryan Walsh, Ciarán Finnegan, Connell Rice. Middle: Mr Murphy, Adam Boyle, Emmet Delaney, Oisin McCann. Owen Murphy, Andrew Collier, Mr Mac Namee. Front: Kyle McElroy, John O’Connell, Jay Hughes, Cian Gorman, Evin McConnon.

1st year team. Back: Zach Levins, Alex McLeer, Leo Kelly, Tadgh Martin, Tristan Rowe, Aaron McGlew, Hugh McCormack, Aaron Garvey, Ciaran Branigan. Mid-dle: Mr McCole, Jack Martin, Liam Flynn, Stephen Kerr, Cillian McCormack, Ross McLaughlin, Kyle Meegan, Sean Brodigan, Reece Fordham. Keefer Carolan, Sam Reilly, Mr Mathews. Front: Peter Winters, Emmanuel Aedogan, Daniel Harmon, Jamie Donagh, Conor McGuirk, Adam Fay, Patrick Keane, Tadhg Gallagher, Ben McCabe, Max Gardiner.

U 18 team. Back: Matthew Reilly, Ciaran McCann, Ryan Walsh, Rian Aikpitanyi, Niall McDonnell, Nathan Sutherland, Conor Sweeney. Middle: Dan McCabe, Neil Holdcroft, Conor Walsh, Cathal Doherty, David Lally, Adam Booth. Front: Sean Kerrisk, Thomas Clarke, Shane Hickey, Alan Connor, Daire Nally, Marty Walsh.

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Rugby

Junior rugby team. Back: Gary Hilliard, Eoin Flanagan, Kyle Nelson, Aidan McCormack, Lee Grifferty, Christian McCloskey, Patrick Keane,, Rory Fitzpatrick, James Keogh, Farai Chari. Middle: Ms Hackett, Steven O’Reilly, Owen Murphy, Oisin Dunne, Tom Johnson, Dara McDonnell, James Feehan, Luke Roch-ford, Joe Sayers. Front: Tadhg Martin, Coinneach Farrell, Cian Johnson, Enda McEnteggart, Ben Savage, Joseph Agbeyomi.

Past pupil, rugby coach and DKIT student Adam Brodigan presents Marc Maruhin with the 2nd year Rugby Player of the Year and Evan O Reilly with the 3rd year Rugby Player of the Year at the Peadar Mc Cann Annual Awards Night.

Gaeltacht Scholarships This year’s recipients of scholarships to the Gaeltacht are photo’d with Irish teachers Ms O Connor

and Ms Uí Cheallaigh. Back row: Ms O Connor, Sean Carolan, Felim Ryan, Dominic Connor, Ms Uí

Cheallaigh. Front row: David Lally, Neil Holdcroft and Peter Finnegan. The scholarships were gener-

ously funded by the Board of Management,

Parents Council and a past pupil.

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Mr Farrell presenting the Golf Player of the Year Award to second year student Charlie Mohan at the Peadar Mc Cann Annual Awards Night.

Back row: Ms Moore, Max Butterly, Mark Holohan, Liam Markey. Front row: Lee Grifferty, Charlie Mohan.

Golf

Counsellor Oliver Tully, Louth County Council and retired teacher of St Joseph’s, presented St Joseph’s Students with their awards from the Annual School Golf Day held at Baltray golf course. Back: Mr Oliver Tully, Ms Moore, Jay Hughes, Adam Boyle, Aaron Sharkey, Connell Rice, Sean Kerrisk, Evan Mc Connon, Mr Farrell. Front: Max Butterly, Mark Holohan, Lee Grifferty, Charlie Mohan, Liam Markey.

St. Joseph’s Green Schools team helped out the Drogheda Tidy Town initia-tive in cleaning along the Newfoundwell Road during May. Photo left. Back: David Moroney, Dillon Mc Donagh, Tadhg Cairns, Ethan Martin, Luke Mohan, Ciaran Greáney. Front: Michael Traynor, Patrick Keane, Jonathan Everitt, Sean Carolan.

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Junior Hurling Team. Photo right: Mark Holohan Junior Hurling Player of the Year with Mr O Brien. Photo below. Back: Rory Fitzpatrick, Emmet Murray, Destin Bisimwa, Conor Dunne, Christian McCloskey. Middle: Mr O’Brien, Mark Holohan, Eoin Murphy, Lee Grifferty, Charlie

Mohan, Stephen O’Reilly, Luke Mathews, Luke Murphy. Front: Emmanuel Adeogun, Aaron Mc Glew, Jamie Donagh, Paddy Keane, Shane Reilly, Alex Mc Leer.

Peadar Mc

Cann Awards Night

Ms Kirke presents the Senior Musician of the year Award to Jordan Kelly 5.3.

Ms Foy presents Junior Musician of the Year to James Ford 2F.

Basketball coach Ciaran Mc Groggan presents Denzel Eboze 5.3 with the Br Hunt Sports Star of the Year.

Music Award recipients. Back: Ms Flood, Javier Chapela Ortiz, Jacob Levins, Alan Thornton, Joe Linogao, Mr Savage. Front: Dominic Connor, Cian Fitzpat-rick, Enda Mc Enteggart, Darragh Halpin.

Josh Sheerin 2R is presented with the Characteristic Spirit of the School Award by Ms O Doherty.

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Soccer

U15 North Leinster Soccer Champions

St. Joseph’s Secondary School made

Soccer history in the U15 North East

Leinster Final. The venue was the MDL

in Navan and the team was looking for

its first piece of soccer silverware in

the school’s history.

Back: Jordan Deegan, Kamal Ibrahim, Michael Leddy, Cian Yelland, Carlos Boedo Herrero, Farai Chari. Middle: Mr McKinney, Mark Oduberu, Oluwafemi Laiyemo, Patrick Abako, Alex Agbonifo, Timothy Ivare, David Massaqui, Eseosa Omoregbe, Mr Graham. Front: Aidan McCormack, Owen Murphy, Patrick McGreary, Antho-ny Farrell O’Donnell, Eoin Flanagan, Kyle McElroy, Matthew O’Brien.

Ms Daly presents Esosa Omorgrebe 3R with the Athlete of the Year Cup.

Mr Farrell presents Esosa Omorgrebe 3R with the County Louth U14 Gaelic Football Shield.

Mr Mc Kinney presents the U15 North East Leinster Soccer Cup to team captain Timothy Ivare 3S.

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Swimming & Water Polo

Back row: Ms Williams, Ciaran O Sulli-van, Robert Mc Donnell, Eoghan Say-ers. Front row: Tom Mc Gowan, Conor Far-rell, Luke Moran.

5th year Prefects The Senior Prefects work as representatives of the school and have many duties. This year the Pre-

fects have assisted first year students and organized events for them such as the annual Christmas

Quiz. They have also assisted with school events such as parent-teacher meetings, athletic

events, the T.K Whitaker Evening and Culture Week. The final event of the year was to organize the

First Year trip to Fantasia, which was an enjoyable experience for all the first years.

Front: Robert McDonnell (Student Council Representative), Callum Thomson (Senior Prefects Chairperson), Jack Kennedy, Shaun Crabtree, Séan Mutombo Middle: Rodney Omosigho, Jamal Ibrahim, Séan Carolan, Kacper Olszewski, Shane Lynch, Adam Heavey. Back: Stan Goodwin, Liam Murray, Jack Duff, Glyn Kenny Absent from Photo : Harry Lipscomb, Nathan Maguire.

Ms Daly presents Senior Athlete and Junior Athlete Awards to Peter Meegan TY3 and Esosa Omorgrebe 3R.

Mr Mac Namee presents the Healthy Living Award to Eniola Smith 6.4

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Camino Trip Easter 2018 by Rory Fitzpatrick, 2T Tuesday March 27th on a sun-

ny Spring morning a group of twenty three second years set off for Dublin airport to travel to walk the last

144 km of the French way of the Camino de Santiago. We were accompanied by four teachers and Mr Mad-

den and his wife. We arrived at the airport and we were split into five groups and each group was as-

signed a teacher. After security we were then given

free time until the plane was ready to board. Our flight

took off at 1.05 pm and landed in Santiago at 4.20 pm

Spanish time. It was beautiful and sunny. We collect-

ed our bags and we set off on a three hour bus trip to

a small town called Triacastela. We arrived in our al-

bergue at about 8.00pm. An albergue is the Spanish

term used for hostel. We unpacked our bags and

went to the adjoining restaurant for a three course

meal. After having dinner we went back to the albergue, handed up our mobile phones and at 10.00 pm we

were ready for bed and lights were turned off. We were looking forward to our next day and the first day of

walking on the famous French Way of the Camino. The next morning we were woken up at 7.30 am .This is

the time we were woken up at every morning! We had our breakfast and set out walking at 8.30 am. We set

out on a 19km walk from Triacastela to Sarria. Along the walk each day we were given some time to stop

into the local shops and cafés. We arrived in Sarria at about 1.00

pm. We went to our albergue and showered. After the walk each

day we were given free time until 5 pm. Every evening we would

meet with the teachers to see that were we okay then we were al-

lowed back out until 6.30 pm. We would then meet up and go for

dinner. Thursday 29th

we set off walking on the 21 km walk from

Sarria to Portomarin. This was the longest route and the most in-

teresting day. It was most challenging as there was lots of uphill

walking. We walked though through

the countryside and through some

very small villages. On Good Friday

30th

we walked from Portomarin to Palas Del Rei, 25km. First we walked

through a forest where a famous movie was filmed. Then about 6km in to the

walk it started to snow! After 13km we got the news that the Spanish police

officially closed the Camino route. We got the tastiest hot chocolate while

watching the snow fall! When we arrived in Palas De Rei we had hot showers

and changed. Later that evening we had dinner and then went to bed. Easter

Saturday morning 31st

to our delight we woke up to sunshine and great

walking conditions. The route was from Palas Del Rei to Melide, 14km. This

walk was the shortest. The walk was

a really enjoyable day as the weather

was lovely, we chatted along the

way. When we reached Melide a lot of

the shops were closed. This was a

great fun evening as there was a funfair in Melide. On Easter Sun-

day morning we went to 10.00 am mass in a small local church. The

mass was in Spanish. After mass we started walking from Melide to

Arzua. This walk was 15km.The walk was quite short. When we

reached Arzua, we changed our clothes and we went in to the local

town. We had dinner that evening, once again had great fun. Monday, April 2nd

after our breakfast we set

off for Pedrouzo. This was a 19km walk. I really enjoyed the walking. When we reached Pedrouzo we were

delighted! This was the last evening and the curfew in the albergue was 11pm. The next morning we were

woken at 6.00 am, went for breakfast and began walking at 7.00 am. We were walking through a forest in

pitch black! This was like an obstacle course trying to avoid the puddles. On the way to Santiago we

passed the airport. We could see the planes really clearly. We arrived in Santiago at noon. We went to the

cathedral and we then went to the Camino passport office to get our Camino certificates. At about half

past one it was time to go to the airport. We arrived at the airport and we took off at 5.30 pm and arrived in

Dublin at about 7.00 pm Irish time. In my opinion it was really a fantastic trip and I would highly recom-

mend it! Many thanks to Mr Madden, his wife and all of the teachers for bringing us on a fantastic trip.

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St. Joseph’s are the real kings of Digital. A team of eight transition year students from St. Jo-sephs won a major prize in the AIB Build A Bank Chal-lenge finals which took place in the RDS hosted by Anna Geary and Jonathan McCrea. We were among the 48 teams from schools around the country to be selected from 131 original entries for the competition which is one of the longest running schools programmes for 15-16 year old student in Ireland. The AIB Build a Bank Challenge is a year-long programme for Transition Year students, giving them the opportunity to run an opera-tional bank while exploring innovation, creativity and business management and marketing. The St. Joe’s team consisted of Stan Goodwin (Branch Manager), Conor McKenna, Shane Lynch, Jake Connor, Niall McGinnity, Eoghan Ryan, Paul Ziemher and Luke Rock. They were ably supported by teach-ers Ms McEneaney, Ms Murray and AIB Student Officer Michelle Meegan.

Seachtain na Gaeilge

Seachtain na Gaeilge in St Joseph’s was a flurry of activi-ties ‘as Gaeilge’ for our students. We held céilithe, tráth na gceist, played cluichí and watched gearrscannáin. This busy week ended with another successful ‘Lá na Gaeilge’ on Fri-day 16 Márta. This immersive language day was organised by class TY C who ensured that the day was a great success and also raised funds for Saint Vincent de Paul. Many of our students took part in the day using their lan-guage skills for 24 hours, some only had a cúpla focal and others could be heard communicating go líofa sa teanga. A great effort was done by all.

Dublin senior Gaelic footballer Ciaran Kilkenny visited St Jo-seph’s in the week leading up to Dublin’s first Leinster champi-onship match against Wicklow in May. Ciaran took part in a Q&A with the Joe’s U16 and U18 Gaelic football players.

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Grease the Musical

The Transition Year students per-

formed this amazing show at the Barbi-

can Centre on Wednesday 9th May and

Friday 11th May. Grease is a

1971 musical by Jim Ja-

cobs and Warren Casey. Named after

the 1950s United States working-

class youth subculture known

as greasers, the musical is set in 1959

at fictional Rydell High School, Chica-

go. It follows ten working-class teenag-

ers as they navigate the complexities

of peer pressure, politics, personal

core values, and love.

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August 2018 27th school re-opens October 2018 1st school closed 4th Open Night 26th last day of term November 2018 assessments/exams 26th third year parent/teacher meeting December 2018 4th sixth year parent/teacher meeting 21st last day of term 24th December to 6th January Christmas closure January 2019 7th school re-opens 21st fifth, TY, LCA1 parent/teacher meeting 25th full school closure, JC staff training day. February 2019 4th second year parent/teacher meeting 6th start of the pre exams for third and sixth years 18th to 22nd mid term break March 2019 18th Bank holiday April 2019 9th first year parent/teacher meeting 15th to 26th Easter closure May 2019 6th Bank holiday 23rd sixth year Graduation Mass 31st last day of term June 2019 3rd bank holiday 5th start of the State exams

School Calendar

2018/19

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