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Annual Variety and Talent Show

Hazelwood College Annual Variety Show takes place on the 26th and 27th March 2010. This year the variety show will be followed by a performance of excerpts from the show Dirty Dancing.

Tickets on the Door each night from 7pm. You are advised these shows usually sell out each night and you should arrive early to be guaranteed entry

Plúirín Sneachta agus na Seachtar Fir Beaga

As part of the transition year Irish programme the T.Y. 2 class performed an Irish play go huile is go hiomlán as gaelige!

The play – Snow White and The Seven Dwarves was a great success. When we were first told we would perform a play in Irish we weren’t very optimistic to say the least! But with a bit of work we pulled it off. We decided to put a modern twist on the beloved fairytale and took it into our own hands to write the play.

We did the play as a way of promoting the Irish language and culture in the school. We performed the play for 1st and 2nd years and they all enjoyed it. We charged each student €2 and donated the proceeds to the victims of Haiti.

We all had great fun while rehearsing for the play as well as learning the auld cúpla focal!

Katie Lordan
Transition Year

Faster Broadband for Hazelwood

As part of our continuing efforts to keep our IT department up to date with the lastest in Technology we have now increased our broadband speeds through our provider BBnet. All classrooms now have a high speed 5MB download connection and the staff of the school can avail of easy access to school files and records from home through our high speed 3MB upload connection.

Every classroom in Hazelwood college has a broadband connection, multimedia projector and at least one computer as a minimum. There are in total almost 200 computers and laptops available to all students and staff in the college.

In the coming weeks we intend to offer hazelc.ie email addresses to all students in the school. This email will be based on the popular Gmail email system from Google and will allow student access to their files from anywhere in the world.

Students and staff already set up with addresses can log in …here… to access their files

Thanks

Hazelwood College first year students Ashling Mc Carthy,Stephanie
Kirwan, Julia O’Doherty and Sharon Roche with the cheque for €1693
euro which they raised from a non-uniform day in aid of the victims of
the earthquake in Haiti.

Dear students and staff of Hazelwood College,

On behalf of the staff and patients of Hopital Sacre Coeur in Milot, Haiti, our thanks to you all for your very generous donation of €1,693. All donations received will go directly to help with the cost of caring for current needs and rehabilitation of the victims of the earthquake.

We have been blessed with hundreds of committed volunteers since the Earthquake struck who have paid their own way to go and help out. Our volunteers continue to work 16 to 20 hour days, at least 50-60 are scheduled per week in the coming weeks.

Our census at the hospital is currently around 400 patients despite discharging over 80 patients to local missions, families in Milot town who have offered to share their homes and some patients that we have helped return to Port au Prince. We are still receiving transfer patients from the hospital ship USS Comfort, patients that require specialized care that only Hopital Sacre Coeur can offer.

The infections have been severe for many of these patients, so stabilizing these infections is the first of many challenges. We are also focusing on wound care and the long process of rehabilitation. Physical and occupational therapists are working to get the patients up and moving around. Dr Lovejoy, an orthopedic surgeon who was there the week after the earthquake, is assembling a prosthetic lab in a container that can be shipped to our hospital. This will allow us to produce artificial limbs on site for the many amputees. Whether it’s learning to use a crutch, getting fitted for a prosthetic device, the hospital has many weeks & months ahead of rehab care for these patients. Our hospital has been there for 25 years and will continue to be there with the Haitian people on the long road to recovery.

Our sincere thanks,

Denise Kelly
Executive Director
CRUDEM Foundation Inc.
www.crudem.org

Sign Language – Transition Year

Pictured are the Hazelwood College Transition Year class who are currently taking a class in sign language. They are pictured here with their sign language teacher Mr Ger Boyce.

Trevor Sargent Visits Green Schools Action Day

Hazelwood College Green Schools Action Day

Report by Katie Lordan, Transition Year

The Green Schools Committee of Hazelwood College recently held a very successful Green Day as part of their quest for a green flag for the school. The Green Day was a day of action where all the students in the school got involved. The aim of the day was for each department in the school to contribute a project which incorporated the theme of recycling or helped the environment. We hoped that after the day students may be more aware of the little things that can be done to help our environment.

Each department did a fabulous job at coming up with ideas for the day. To name but a few, the P.E. department went around the school and marked where the rubbish black areas were, the English department held a fantastic book sale and the Art department designed a beautiful collage made from old magazines and painted a very scenic picture. There was a great atmosphere in the gym and all the students had a great time. Our Green Day was topped off by a visit from Trevor Sargent T.D.

Mr.Sargent was in Dromcollogher as he was presenting awards to students from the Organic College. He was taken on a tour of the gym by members of the Green Schools committee. He was very impressed by the hard work of the Green Schools Committee and was also interested in what the students of Hazelwood College contributed to the Green Day.

It is the Green Schools Committee’s aim to obtain a green flag for our school which we hope will set a good example for the rest of our community. Currently we are very dedicated to recycling as much waste as possible. We have bins for plastic bottles, tin foil, general waste, food waste, paper and glass.

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Members of Hazelwood Colleges Green Schools Committee, School Principal Mr Brendan Burke and Deputy Principal Mrs Elizabeth Dolan with Mr Trevor Sargent TD who visited the school and viewed the students work recently.

Green Schools Co-ordinator Ms Mairead Daly with David Finn,
Transition Year who acted as MC for the action day.

Transition Year

Hazelwood College Transition Year students, Megan Aherne, Deborah Daly and Maighread Noonan doing some research in Newcastle West library.

Hazelwood College through to Final

Hazelwood College Senior Girls Football

Hazelwood College 2-9
St. Augustines, Dungarven 1-9

This semi-final, which was played in Bansha on a glorious day, was as tough as it gets but Hazelwood came through with flying colours to reach the Munster Final for only their second time in colleges football.

The girls from Dungarven set the pace early on and had two points on the scoreboard before the Dromcollogher outfit settled with Denise O’Connell slotting over a free kick ten minutes into the half. Two more points followed from play- Emma Browne from 30 meters out and a close range score from Denise O’Connell. Dungarven were then awarded a free kick 40 metres from the goal and the ball found its way into the back of the net.

Hazelwood continued to press and were unlucky for two goals- the ball coming off the back of the crossbar on one occasion from an Emma Browne shot and Ashling O’Brien hitting the upright close in. With five minutes to go the pressure did pay off and the same two girls took a point each. Some sloppy play from our full back line gave two frees away which were pointed by the Dungarven girls leaving the half time score of 1-5 to 0-5 in favour of St Augustines.

Hazelwood started well in the second half and again Denise and Emma scored a point a piece. From a poor kick out the ball once again reached Emma Browne and a 45 meter lob (like Beckhams) beat the Dungarven goalie and Hazelwood were ahead for the first time. One of Dungarvens better players leg tripped Katie O’Sullivan going through to score and was given a ten minute rest by the referee- Denise O Connell pointed the free.

At this stage Maire Flanagan took control of the game and kept the pressure on the Dungarven backs which resulted in a penalty when Vickie Harnett was brough down in the square after going clear of her marker. Tara Hurley stepped up to take it and cool as a breeze hit the top left hand corner. Dungarven had a few points from frees prior to this but another point from Emma put Hazelwood four clear. Dungarven pointed again late on but the final score remained at 2-9 to 1-9. Best for Hazelwood were Maire Flanagan,Tara Hurley, Mairead Geary, Niamh Greaney, Katie O’Sullivan, Denise O’Connell, Ashling O’Brien and Emma Browne.

Hazelwood team: N. O’Brien, S.Forde, M. Geary, N. Greaney, T. Hurley, M. Flanagan, L. Hanley, C.Meaney (c), N. Kiely, K. O’Sullivan, E, Browne, V. Harnett, H.Lenihan, A. O’Brien and D.O’Connell

Subs used: N. O’connell, G Shannon and A o’Flynn

Other subs; K. Hodgson, B Ryan, N. Mc CArthy, S Moloney, C Enright, C O Leary, A O’Connor, K Dillane, N Cagney, K O Leary and E Noonan

Sugarcraft Class

The Transition Years had the opportunity to witness Frank Broderick of Brudair’s Bakery craftsmanship in cake decorating during a recent demonstration. They got their chance to showcase their new skills in Home Economics class, when they baked and decorated their own Christmas cakes.