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The Leaving Certificate 2 class and the Transition Year class will travel to the Higher Option Conference at the RDS Dublin on Wednesday 20th September.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2006

This year’s Higher Options Conference on entry procedures to third level colleges in Ireland and the UK. will take place in the RDS, Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Now in its twenty-first year, the conference has become the definitive and centralised forum of third level choices for Irish students. It also has the official sanction of the Irish Department of Education & Science.

Last year over 200 institutions from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales and Europe participated. These institutions included universities, colleges of further and higher education, agricultural colleges, art colleges, institutes of technology, nursing and paramedical schools, year-out organisations, professional bodies and central admissions bodies such as CAO and UCAS. We are hoping to welcome even more participants this year.

The conference takes place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, September 20 to September 22 inclusive, in the RDS Exhibition Centre, Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 .

The format of the conference is the same for each of the three days, to cater for the thousands of final year students who travel from all over Ireland to attend; additionally the conference centre will open this year on Thursday evening to accommodate the increasing numbers of mature students and parents who have expressed an interest in attending. Bookings from schools are not completed until mid-September, but we anticipate in the region of 25,000 students, guidance counsellors, and parents over the three-day period.

The annual first year excursion to capanalea takes place in the week of 25th September. Over the week two groups of first years will travel to Cappanalea near Killorglin in County Kerry. The aim of the trip is to give the students a chance to learn about their new collegues and make new friends. Each trip will stay at the centre for two nights and three days. While there they will take part in many activities such as Rock-Climbing, Hillwalking, Canoing, Orienteering, Team Buildings Games, Night Hikes etc.

On Friday 15th September students from Leaving Certificate Applied 1, Leaving Certificate Applied 2 and Leaving Certificate 2 who require Safe Passes for their Work Experience modules will take the nessecary Safe Pass Course allowing them to work in the construction Industry in Ireland.

The training modules incorporated within the safe pass programme are:

– The reasons for promoting safety
– Health and Safety at Work Legislation
– Accident reporting & Emergency procedures
– Accident prevention
– Health and Hygiene
– Manual Handling
– Working at heights
– Working with Electricity, underground and overhead services
– Use of hand held equipment
– Safe use of vehicles
– Noise and vibrations
– Excavations and Confined Spaces

Attached are some pictures taken at the recent Hazelwood College Summer Camp. The first picture shows participants of the camp during an outing to UL. The second shows activites which took place in the school.

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The pictures below were taken at the Hazelwood College open day on Saturday last. The first picture shows students in the school language laboratory with the CEO of Co Limerick VEC, Mr Sean Burke.

The second picture shows past pupils Cormac Egan, Sinead O Connor and Anne Fitzgerald.
Cormac is now going into his second year studying Maths at UCC, Sinead is commencing her training in Primary Teaching and Anne is beginning her studies in Educational Psychology, both in Mary Immaculate College.

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Open Day
Achieving our full potential

Saturday September 9th
10.00a.m. to 1.00pm

Leaving and Junior Certificate Projects will be on display

All Welcome

The Leaving Certificate Applied class as part of the their social education class took a trip around the local area visiting local sites etc. as pasrt the the ‘My Community Module’. Plenty of notes were made and photographs taken for disscussion back in school.

The Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme class will visit the local famous Irish Dresden factory on Tuesday 12th September to prepare for project workas part of the Leaving Certifiacte Exams.

The Leaving Cert Applied 1 class will be travelling to Kilfinane Outdoor Education Centre on the 28th and 29th September. This trip provides the new class with an oppourtunity to bond together as a group. While there they will take part in a number of activites including Rockclimbing, Hillwalking, Canoeing and Orienteering.