Hazelwood College Transition Year students receive instruction in surfing recently, as part of their Transition Year Programme.
Hazelwood College Transition Year students (from left to right) Kieran O’Sullivan, Ray O’Connell, Eamonn Forde and Adam Tachoua are pictured here participating in surfing in Kerry recently.
Picture a: Hazelwood College Transition Year students pictured with their awards at the Hazelwood College Annual TY Graduation night. Pictured are (back row left to right) Marguerite Nolan (TY Leadership Award), Kennedy O’Sullivan (TY Ethos Award), Letitia Cotter (Transition Year Student of the Year), Áine Bennis (TY Work Ethic) and Transition Year Co-ordinator Ms Cliodhna Ryan. Front row (left to right): Amy Buckley (TY Work Award), Aoife McMahon (TY Ethos Award) and Shanon Buckley-Lynch (TY Ethos Award).
Picture b: Amy Buckley with her TY Work Award (left) and Shanon Buckley-Lynch with her TY Ethos Award (right) pictured at their recent Transition Year Graduation Awards.
Picture c: Transition Year students (from left to right) Aoife McMahon (TY Ethos), Kennedy O’Sullivan (TY Ethos) and Áine Bennis (TY Work Ethic) pictured with their awards at the Transition Year Graduation.
Picture d: Marguerite Nolan Hazelwood College Transition Year student pictured with her TY Leadership Award.
Picture e: Hazelwood College Principal Mr Brendan Burke, Letitia Cotter (TY Student of the Year Award Winner) and TY Co-ordinator Ms Cliodhna Ryan pictured at the recent Hazelwood College TY Graduation Night.
Hazelwood College students recently attended the SciFest science fair hosted by Limerick Institute of Technology. Here are some photos from the day.
Picture a: Hazelwood College Transition Year students (from left to right) Aoife Kiely, Eoin Donegan, Laura O’Connell pictured above with their project, “To investigate whether e – cigarettes are beneficial after quitting regular cigarettes”. The three students entered their project for SciFest, which is a series of one-day science fairs for second-level students hosted locally in schools and regional level in third level colleges.
Picture b Transition Year students from Hazelwood College (from left) Aisling Cunningham, Nicola Madden and Bríd Flanagan are pictured with their project, ‘Defrost the Frost’ at Limerick SciFest, which was held in Limerick Institute of Technology recently. Their project set out to investigate the speeding up of the defrosting process of frozen foods.
Picture c Hazelwood College Transition Year students (left to right) Jamie Singleton, Andy Quaid and Paul Power are pictured at Limerick SciFest, which was held at Limerick Institute of Technology recently, where their project, an investigate if there is a correlation between the type of music people listen to and their academic results was among those displayed.
Picture d Hazelwood College second year student Elaine Kennedy is pictured with her entry to Limerick SciFest recently. The project, which won an award of Highly Commended was an investigation into the use of pesticides.
Picture e Hazelwood College second year science teacher Ms Martina Matthews congratulates Elaine Kennedy on the receipt of her Highly Commended Certificate for her investigation into the use of pesticides at the recent Limerick SciFest, which was hosted at Limerick Institute of Technology recently.
Picture f Hazelwood College second year student Elaine Kennedy, being awarded her Highly Commended Certificate at Limerick SciFest recently, for her project investigating the effect of the use of pesticides.
Picture g Hazelwood College students Roisín Noonan, Ciara McCarthy (both second year) and Aoife O’Callaghan (first year) are pictured with their project “Does Wisdom Come With Age?” for the recent Limerick SciFest. Their investigation focused on whether people were influenced by outside factors and whether different age groups would respond differently to a same question. The project won a trophy in the Maths and Science category of the competition.
Picture h Hazelwood College Science students (from left to right) Ciara McCarthy, Roisin Noonan and Aoife O’Callaghan are congratulated by their Science teacher Ms Martina Matthews on winning a trophy in the Maths and Science category of Limerick SciFest, held recently in Limerick IT. The students investigated the factors that affect how people in different age groups respond to questions.
Picture I Hazelwood College students Ciara McCarthy, Roisin Noonan and Aoife O’Callaghan are presented with their trophy in the Maths and Science category of Limerick SciFest recently.
Hazelwood College’s ‘Build-a-Bank’ Minted Bank team pictured recently at the AIB ‘Build-a-Bank’ National Final. Pictured are Hazelwood College Transition Year students (from left to right) Kennedy O’Sullivan, Áine Bennis, Amy Buckley, Fionn Roberts, Aoife McMahon and Letitia Cotter.
As part of Hazelwood College’s link with the Confucius Institute at University College Cork, two students undertook a study trip to University of Shanghai. During Transition Year students at Hazelwood College study Chinese as part of the Confucius Institute’s second level. From the group two students were selected to travel to Shanghai.
Here are some photos from the trip
Picture 1: Hazelwood College students Ben Long (left) and Áine Bennis (right) pictured in the course of their recent study trip to China, which they completed in conjunction with the Confucius Institute, UCC, where they were able to develop their Chinese knowledge and skills.
Picture 2: Hazelwood College students Ben Long (left) and Áine Bennis (right) are pictured in Shanghai in the course of their recent study trip to Shanghai, which was organised by the Confucius Institute, UCC.
Picture 3: The hotel where Hazelwood College students Ben Long and Áine Bennis stayed with other Irish students on the Confucius Institute, UCC, organised study trip to Shanghai, where they were able to develop their knowledge of Chinese.
Picture 4: One of the tourist sites visited by Ben Long and Áine Bennis as part of their study trip to Shanghai with the Confucius Institute.
Picture 5: A view of the outskirts of Shanghai, which Hazelwood College students Ben Long and Áine Bennis visited as part of their study trip there, organised by the Confucius Institute.
Here are some photos from the Transition Year and Leaving Certificate Applied Christmas trip to Limerick.
Hazelwood College students Andy Quaid (left) and Áine Bennis (right) show off their skills on the ice on their recent trip to Limerick on Ice.
Hazelwood College Transition Year Programme students and Leaving Certificate Applied students are pictured after cutting a dash across the ice recently at Limerick on Ice.
The Transition Year class recently climbed Torc Mountain in Kilarney, Co. Kerry, as part of Hazelwood College’s Mental Health Week activities.
The students set out from the base of the Waterfall at Torc in Killarney to get to the top of Top Mountain, a 5km climb of 535m (1755ft).
A number of fit students with an enthusiastic Mr. Lambe undertook to set a record to get to the top of the climb, and set out at a steady jogging pace. This in turn set a challenging pace for the remainder of the group.
The first of the climbers reached the top in approximately one hour and fifteen minutes with the last of the climbers arriving twenty five minutes later. These times were especially impressive considering they were a full thirty minutes faster than last year and one hour faster than the slowest group in recent years to get to the top.
The walk took the steep tourist climb from the base of the waterfall to the top of the waterfall. From there the students followed the Old Kenmare Road between Torc and Mangerton mountains until they reached the south face of Torc. From there it was a trek along the OPW constructed trail to the top where a fantastic 360′ panoramic view was nowhere to be seen. In what was unfortunate luck shortly before reaching the summit heavy cloud cover and rain set in, and to further add to our unfortunate timing the rain and cloud cleared shorthly after we commenced out descent.
Regardless an enjoyable trip was had by all in our annual Mental Health Week challenge.
Here are some photos from the day … and one of the view we missed as promised!
Here are some photos from the recent Harvest and Seed Saving Day in the school garden. Transition Years got a little more than they bargained for when the harvest included a family of frogs and a newt who had become resident in the schools’ organic vegetable garden over the summer months.
Keeping their eyes on the ball! Transition Year II students pictured with Colm Cooper recently as he visited Hazelwood College to launch the AIB Build a Bank group within the school. Also pictured are Hazelwood College teachers Mr Kevin Grant (far left) and Ms Ciara Broderick (far right)
Hazelwood College Transition Year Programme and Leaving Certificate Applied students are pictured as they attended the National Ploughing Championships recently. They are pictured with their teachers Ms Maria Curtin (far left) and Ms Christine Brennan (far right).
