Day / Date March

Event Time

Mon 22 JPIC Walk for Water DayStudent Enterprise Awards 2pm (pg 2)6TH Year Mocks finish

All Day

Tues 23 Class resumes for 6th Years

Weds 24 3rd into TY online Eve

7pm

Advance Notice: Friday 16 April Students & Staff invited to wear multicoloured trousers to mark the introduction of trousers into our uniform from September 2021 (See page 2)

This Monday is Aidlink's Walk for Water Day.

For details liaise with Headstrong / Miss Delahoy

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Loreto High School Beaufort

Tuesday March 23rd 2021

The JPIC group have asked TY students to do the Walk themselves in their own time and fundraise for Aidlink.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hi all, JPIC Committee here! This Monday the 22nd of March is World Water Day. Every year, Aidlink host an annual fundraiser, Walk 4 Water. Each participant will go on a walk around their local area to raise awareness for water poverty. Some participants choose to fundraise for their walk. You can Walk 4 Water on March 22nd which is World Water Day, or any time over the next week. You can send any photos of you completing the Walk 4 Water to the JPIC email, which is JPIC2020-2021@loretohighschool.com. There is more information in the document attached. Hope to see you all participating!Best wishes, JPIC Committee.

Student Enterprise Awards:

Several 1st & 2nd year students have been participating in Business Club throughout the year. Students had to come up with potential business ideas & turned them into physical products/services. There were lots of fantastic and creative ideas, and students worked very hard both in school and online. Two groups were then nominated to enter the Student Enterprise Awards which took place on Monday 22nd March at 2pm. The students involved in the competition were:

Intermediate category: Hannah Lyons (2P) with her business idea QuickVet - a website that allows you to make online appointments with a vet or find your nearest available vet clinic with times that suit you. Hannah took inspiration from online doctor appointments and realised no such service exists for pets.

Junior category: Lauren Neville (1T), Veronika Fitzsimons (1S), Aisling Flynn (1S) & Grace Foley (1S) with their business idea Puddle Pups - an umbrella to keep your dog dry and clean during bad weather. They want to customise these umbrellas to the customers liking e.g. name/initials/etc.

We are proud of all our entrants . A special congratulations goes to Hannah Lyons, who

‘She’s wearing the trousers’ LHS 2021

Well done to 4th Year Student Orla O’Brien who after two years consultation with all stakeholders spear-headed the introduction of trousers to our school uniform. The trousers will be available as an option in addition to our school skirt from September 2021.On Friday 16 April, all students are invited to wear multi-coloured trousers to mark this change.

Alison Campbell’s Book Corner:

Parent’s Book:

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received best video and overall intermediate category winner for her Entry.

Ms. Matthews & Ms. O'Reilly

Competition Run by Loreto Education Centre:

The Push by Ashley Audrain

What if your experience of motherhood was nothing like what you hoped for - but

everything you always feared?

'The women in this family, we're different . . .'

The arrival of baby Violet was meant to be the happiest day of my life.  It was meant to be a fresh start.  But as soon as I held her in my arms I knew something wasn't

right.  I have always known that the women in my family aren't meant to be

mothers.  My husband Fox says I'm imagining it. He tells me I'm nothing like

my own mother, and that Violet is the sweetest child.  But she's different with

me. Something feels very wrong.  Is it her? Or is it me?  Is she the monster?  Or am I?

The Push is a heart-pounding exploration of motherhood, obsession and the terrible

price of unconditional love.

Junior Book:

Shades of Scarlet by Anne Fine

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When Mum gives her the notebook, Scarlet should be happy. It's beautiful, with its

shiny scarlet cover and its blank pages full of promise. But Scarlet is absolutely not in the mood for a peace offering. Does Mum really think she can tear their family apart and expect Scarlet to be happy about it?

And it's Dad's fault too. Why didn't he fight to keep them all together? Now Scarlet has to start a new life, and none of it was her choice. Scarlet decides there's only one thing she can write in the notebook. The

truth, about everything...

Senior Book:

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds

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A bag of chips. That's all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad's pleadings that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the pavement?

There were witnesses: Quinn - a varsity basketball player and Rashad's classmate who has been raised by Paul since his own father died in Afghanistan - and a video camera. Soon the beating is all over the news and Paul is getting threatened with accusations of prejudice and racial brutality. Quinn refuses to believe that the man who has basically been his saviour could possibly be guilty. But then Rashad is absent. And absent again. And again. And the basketball team - half of whom are Rashad's best friends - start to take sides. As does the school. And the town. Simmering tensions threaten to explode as Rashad and Quinn are forced to face decisions and consequences they had never considered before.

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