On Friday 19th May, First, Second and Third students and their tutors and Year Heads went to Tayto Park in Ashbourne on a Positive Behaviour trip.

Students and teachers had a great time and it was judged as the highlight of the year by many students. The photos below show some of the attractions.

Sixth year students with their Leaving Certificate teachers went to Wicklow for their Study trip. This is part of their Leaving Certificate program and the project forms some of the overall marks in their Leaving Certificate Geography course.  No student fell into the river although some got very wet.  A great day was had by all.

As part of the First Year Creative Writing Week there was a poetry competition and a quiz.  A photo of the winners is displayed above.

The fifth year LCVP students visited the Glanmore Foods factory on Monday 7th March.  Glanmore supply all our school lunches and school lunches to many schools around the country.  The trip was organised by a committee from the LCVP classes.

Students found the trip very interesting and they have a heightened appreciation of all the work and care that goes into making their lunches.  The students are preparing a Summary report on their visit which forms part of their Leaving Certificate portfolio.

Mr Dowling’s 2O English class attended a creative writing workshop on Monday the 7th March. It was facilitated by Fighting Words who were founded by celebrated Irish writer Roddy Doyle. 

The experience was a very enjoyable one as a group dialogue exercise was followed by individual story writing. Under the watchful eye of very helpful mentors each student was able to use the dialogue exercise to create their own stories. 

At the end of the session each student had the opportunity to read their stories aloud to the rest of the group. This experience will strongly help 2O’s creative writing in the future.

Third year students, as part of their CSPE course, organised a visit to Store Street Garda Station with their Tutor Ms Rainey and their Year Head Mr Reilly.  They were shown all around the station by Chief Superintendent Patrick Leahy.  They saw the interview rooms, medical centre and the cells and talked to a number of Gardaí about their work.  Students found the trip really interesting.  Now they just have to write up their reports!

The students in the Return to Learning Class visited the National Museum in Collins Barracks on Friday 4th March for a hands-on History Workshop.  They got an introduction to the museum and then a workshop where they got to handle artefacts from the Museum’s stock.  The student had to work out what each object was and to decide how it should be displayed.  Following the workshop they were free to go around the museum to research items for their forthcoming history project.  Some of the students had time to visit the -just open- 1916 exhibition in the adjoining building.  The trip took place under the Guidance of Ms Janet Allen the History tutor.

Two teams from CPCC won prizes at this year’s Awards. The Finals were held in IT Tallaght.

Twenty students from First Year entered projects in the Awards under the guidance of Ms McNamee and Ms Jones.  Students had to display their enterprise projects, explain them to a panel of judges and passing students from the IT.  

Our prize-winners won the Best Display and Best Multi-Media awards respectively.

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