Our TY students had a fantastic time on Achill island last week. It was a very active trip with them up as early as 6am and enjoying the outdoors. Well done to them all on embracing the challenges and enjoying it all. Thank you to the teachers that accompanied them.
What do students learn? Students work on a business problem with students from other schools. Over the course of three days, they explore the areas of enterprise and innovation, and learn how to pitch their proposals in a “Dragon’s Den” environment. The Lean Canvas methodology used by many start-up companies provides students with the tools […]
The TY students that will do art for LC next year went on a tour of ‘Shaping Ireland’ at the National Gallery today. Thank you to our wonderful tour guide Sarah. She brought us through the five rooms showing us photography, paintings, sculpture and video work. This exhibition spans 250 years of Irish Landscape Art. […]
Today our TY’s produced some imaginative landscapes using Adobe Photoshop. The task was to have a location, fruit/veg plus a mode of transportation in the finished composition. They did so well and even flattened all the layers in order to change the format to a jpeg. Well done on emailing your jpeg as an attachment. […]
TY students enjoying a fantastic trip to Rome during Easter holidays. Highlights so far have included visits to the Vatican City, Pompeii and Vesuvius and Cinecitta theme park. Tomorrow will include The Colosseum, Roman Forum, Spanish steps, Trevi fountain and a city tour followed by lunch, shopping and return to Dublin!
