A Guide to Surviving School Life
The following link is to an essay written for English class by 5th year student Caragh Collins-Smith. It is a guide to surviving school life as a teenager that was so well written and packed with so much useful advice, we decided to post it here for everyone to read.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sNUgI3wvLK28TyaVB5hoOYhYHQ8v-EFPBQsNxtmEDoo/edit?usp=sharing
Outstanding Achievement Award in JC Business Studies
Congratulations to Olivia Rowe (5th Year) and Ciara Clohessy (6th Year) who recently received a certificate from Maynooth University for their Oustanding Achievement in Junior Certificate Business Studies. This is a fantastic achievement and reflects Ciara &...
TY Graduation 2017/2018
A graduation ceremony with family and friends was held on Tuesday 22nd of May celebrating the achievements of this year's group. The class spent a lot of time preparing for the ceremony and readying the hall. Certificates for ECDL, Gaisce, Community Care, Music and...
Bienvenue La Source
On Wednesday the 3oth of May, our French students will have the opportunity to meet 71 students from a secondary school in France. La Source is situated south-west of Paris (on the way to Versailles). The students are in 4eme (second year) and they are visiting...
Teachers Graduate from TL21
Congratulations to the teachers of the college who graduated from the professional development programme TL21 last week. The graduation came after two years of hard work for the group who choose to research ways to make St Mac Dara's a more positive school....
Weekly Update 16/5/2018
Summer Exams Summer Exams for 2nd and 5th years ended yesterday. We would like to acknowledge the impecable behaviour of all our students throughout this process. Exams are currently being corrected and will be returned to students over the coming weeks. Reports will...
Young Environmentalist Peoples Choice Awards
Class Lagan have reached the final of the above competition after making a superb presentation to the judging panel last week. Their project is entitled ‘Gairdín Faoi Uisce – One Wave at a Time’. A short summary of the project is detailed below; “Plastic is a man-made...
Weekly Update 9/5/2018
Summer Exams This is a busy time of the year in the school calendar. First Year summer exams were completed last Friday the 4th of May. Second and Fifth Year summer exams started today (the 9th of May) and will finish next week. Both of these exam timetables are...
Dublin U16 Champions
Congratulations to the Boys Under 16 team who won the Dublin Under 16 "C" Championship yesterday in Abbotstown. The team gave a fantastic performance and won on a scoreline of 1-15 to 1-4 against a talented Col Choilm Swords team. This win follows on from both the...
Under 16 Gaelic Football Final
Tuesday the 8th of May is another big day for our school Gaelic Football Teams. Earlier this year the Under 14 Boys Team won the "C" Championship Final and the Under 16 Team now have the opportunity to do something similar. They play against Col Choilm from Swords in...
Charity Ball Drop
Congratulations to the LCVP Team who ran a fantastic Charity Ball Drop this morning. Please find a report of the day's events below; "On the beautiful Friday morning of the 4th of May, the 5th year LCVP students set out through the fields of Tymon Park to set up our...
Weekly Update 25/4/2018
Summer Exams First Year Summer Exams will begin on Tuesday 1st of May. Students received their timetable last week. Second and Fifth Year Summer Exams will begin on Wednesday the 9th of May. Both of these timetables can be found here;...
Leinster Medley Relays
Congratulations to all of our Athletes who took part in the recent Leinster Medley Relays. The team once again represented the school with distinction giving their all across the days events. We are also delighted to say that we continued our recent record of success...
Weekly Update 18/4/2018
Student Website Team The use of this website by parents and students has increased significantly over the last year and there has been a growing demand for new content and updates. With this in mind the decision was taken to form a Student Website Team who would have...
U16 Boys Qualify for Dublin Final
Congratulations to the Under 16 Boys Gaelic Football team who had an excellent victory over Clonkeen College last Friday to qualify for the the Dublin "C" Championship Final. The team is a mix of players who play for local clubs such as St Judes and St Mary's but also...
CBA 1 Business Studies
The Junior Cert Business Studies 1st Classroom Based Assessment is currently ongoing. Students began work on the 12th of March and will have until the 20th of April to submit their Group Project. This page has been set up to remind students of some of the tasks that...
TY Trip to the GPO
Thank you to TY students Chris Thomas and Uainin Lindsey for providing the following report from the TY trip to the GPO. "On Thursday the 22th of February, our TY class went on a history trip to the G.P.O. A lot of us had never been inside the building before so it...
TY Expo Green Schools
Thank you to TY students Chris Thomas and Uainin Lindsey for providing the following report from the TY Visit to the Green Schools Expo. "On Thursday the 22nd of February, our TY class went to the Green Schools expo, which was taking place in the RDS. When we arrived,...
Weekly Update 14/3/2018
History Association Day Thanks again to all the students and teachers who participated in last weeks History Association Day. We now have a full gallery of the day available to see at the following link. https://www.stmacdaras.ie/history-association-day/ Festival of...
Seachtain na Gaelige
Tá spórt agus spraoi i gColáiste Pobail Mhic Dara Naofa do Sheachtain na Gaeilge faoi láthair. Tá go leor imeachtaí ar súil ar nós Tráth na gCeist, Díospóireachtaí agus Ceolchoirm le haoí speisialta James Patrice, ambasadóir do Sheachtain na Gaeilege i mbliana. Lá...
Bishop Galvin Science Visit
6th class students and teachers from Bishop Galvin were visitors to our science lab for the last two Wednesday afternoons. During this time they got hands on experience using scientific equipment and got a taste of what they will experience as first year students in...