The Thomond Times

February Edition 2021

JCSP 2KM Photography Competition

The Year Ahead The JCSP library ran a photo competition for the month of February. The students were
challenged to take photos based on different prompts every day. The photos had to taken
Second Term within 2km of the student’s house. The idea was to get students out enjoying the beauty of
Wednesday 6th January their ennvironment. There were so many great photos it was difficult to choose the best ones!
to Friday 26th April 2021 The winners of the JCSP photo competition are Ashleigh Lam, Edmund Carmody, Padraig
Midterm 2
O’Farrell, Veronika Solovjova and Lucy Smyth. Here are some examples of the lovely photos
15th to 19th February 2021
School Closed they entered. These photos based on the prompts: Hidden, Up, Spring, Flight and Wall.
Tuesday 17th March Congratulations to our young photographers who worked hard taking interesting photos
Easter Holidays every day in February! They have all won €20 one for all vouchers.
Monday 29th March to
9th April 2020

Third Term
Monday 12th April
to Monday 31st May 2021
School Closed
Monday 3rd & 4th of May

Parent Teacher Meetings

2020
Due to Covid-19
restrictions, we will not
be holding parent/teacher
meetings until we receive
further advice from the
Department of Education.
Free Online Access to
Textbooks...

With schools going to

online learning next
week, students and
parents can get free
online access to second-
ary school textbooks
For more information,
simply follow the links
below:
Thomond Community College
For books by CJ Fallon
click
takes Part in Ireland Reads
On February 25th, staff and students at Thomond
https://my.cjfallon.ie/
Community College took part in Ireland Reads. Ireland
dashboard/student-
Reads is a national reading event that encourages everyone
resources
to sign up to show support and squeeze in a read on the
day. In Thomond Community College, we encouraged eve-
For books by EDCO click
ryone to send in a photo to share what they were reading
https://www.edco.ie/
to be in with a chance to win a prize. We had lots of entries
and it was very interesting to see all the books the students
For books by Folens click
and staff were reading. There was a wide variety of fiction
https://www.folens.
and non-fiction! Well done to the winners of the Ireland
ie/.../parents-teachers-
Reads day raffle! We had two student winners: Mikala
get-access-to... .
Hickey Quaid in TY and Chloe O’Connor in Second Year. We
also had two staff winners - Ms Hickey and Ms
For Books by Gill
Harrison. They have all won €20 book vouchers.
Education click
Have a look at some of the books we were reading and
https://www.gilleduca-
get some ideas for your next read. Ms. Bingham-Shee
tion.ie/secondary
 Students Recreate Movie Posters at Home

Well done to playwright, Lily Mai Ryan!

Recently, students from all over Ireland
were challenged to write a play in one
page as part of a national play-writing
competition. Well done to all the second
years in Mme André’s English class who
took part in the competition.
We are very proud that Lily Mai Ryan,
a second year in our school, has been
awarded second place in the National
Write a Play competition. Well done to
Lily Mai who was won a a €20 one for all
voucher for her play! The play is called
The Covered Up Murder and you can have
a read of it here.
Ms. Bingham Shee

Cur síos ar an gCianfoghlaim ‘Covid 19.

Ba mhaith linn COMHGAIRDEAS a rá lenár scoláirí ar fad.Tá áthas agus bród orainn mar Roinn. Rinneadh dul chun cinn ion-
tach le linn na géarcheime Covid ‘19 ar an gcianfhoghlaim. Ta orainn fanacht sa bhaile faoi láthar .Tá spórt agus imeachtaí
breise ar ceal.Tá ranganna ar líne agus tá gach uile duine ag déanamh sár iarracht ar réimse leathan áiseanna ar líne.
Seo a leanas samplaí:
Google classroom, Ms Teams, Zoom, Aipeanna foclóra, Aipeanna Examinations.ie, Aipeanna Study.clix.ie,
Seomraí Breakout

E-leabhair
Athrú mór duinn go léir.
Ach,taimid fíor -bhródúil
asaibh le linn an tréimhse
fíor -dheacair seo.’Ar scáth
le chéile a mhaireann na
daoine ‘ mar a deirtear.
Maith sibh,
Roinn na Gaeilge
Seachtain na Gaeilge
Tá Roinn na Gaeilge ag tnúth le Seachtain na Gaeilge a chéil-
iúradh I mbliana arís.Beidh béim ar imeachtaí ar líne de bharr
shrianta na paindéime .Ach fós,is féidir le gach duine páirt a
ghlacadh ,is cuma cén leibhéal Gaeilge atá acu -’Is fearr Gaeilge
bríste ná Béarla cliste ‘.
Tá Imelda May [ceoltóir],Declan Hannon [captaen fhoireann
iománaíochta Luimnigh ],agus Bláthnaid Treacy [an chraoltóir ]
ainmnithe mar ambasadóirí ar Sheachtain na Gaeilge 2021.
Tabhair aire
Fan Slán
Ms.Ware, Roinn na Gaeilge
 LCA Photography in their Local Environment

Photos submitted by Chole O’Callaghan (above) & Jaelyn Williams (below)

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