Gaisce and Edmund Rice Awards

Best of luck goes to sixteen students from Transition Year who are at the moment completing their activities for their Edmund Rice and Gaisce Awards.

Examples of some of the activities the students have done to achieve their award are involvement in green school committee, running chess club, coaching athletics team, setting up and running school credit union. The awards will be presented to the students over the next few weeks.

In September, senior students will have the opportunity to enter for next year's awards.

'Bottle-Tops' Collection

St. Aidan's C.B.S. is engaged in a cross-border appeal to collect plastic bottle tops. A company that supplies electric wheelchairs are donating a wheelchair to a child if its weight could be matched in plastic bottle tops.

To date our students have collected enough to donate three wheelchairs. Mr. A. O'Neill is co-ordinating this excellent project which managed to bring together the efforts of schools North and South in helping out with this deserving cause.

Tesco Tokens

Our campaign to collect Tesco Tokens for school IT equipment is in full swing and Mr. Hastings is delighted with the response to date. Class 2 South has collected most to date -however, there is still time to win the prize for most tokens collected so get cracking!

One to Watch

Peter Sweeney (Transition Year) is currently being coached for the 2008 Olympics. Last December Peter competed as part of the Irish Taekwondo squad in Germany and won an individual gold medal. He is a 1st Dan Black Belt for the last four years and will be going for his second Dan when he turns sixteen.

Congratulations TYPA

TYPA Mini-company (Centies) won the Most Original Idea Award at the recent Trade Fair Exhibition for Dublin Schools. Well done to all and especially to Br. Duffy for all his good work.