See below some of the activities in Monaghan Collegiate School in Autumn /Winter 2010
In the slide show below are some of the activities from the school open night in October 2010

Bank of Ireland County Enterprise Award Regional Finalist...Joanne Wylie
Bank of Ireland Community Enterprise Award Regional Fianlist ...Nikola Buccholz

Bank of Ireland winners with their Business teacher: Mrs A. Gilmore and Tranisition Year
Co-ordinator Mrs V Shekleton

Transition year group which won the Regional Final and then went on to get 3rd place in the All Ireland Final of the AIB Build a Bank competition

3rd year C.S.P.E. trip to the Houses of the Oireachtas on 21st Oct (Mr. Pollock & Mrs. Gilmore)

5&6th year art students @ Market House to visit 'Artist's Proof' exhibition (Mr. Pollock)


Junior Certificate students celebrate their excellent exam results
on the 15th September 2010

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Barry Flynn from Monaghan Rotary Club making the presentation to
the winner of the Monaghan Rotary Club Youth Leadership competition Joanne Wylie.
Also in the photo is Mr Johnston Reid.
Candidates from the secondary schools in Monaghan took part in the interviews for the Rotary Youth Leader. Joanne then represented the Monaghan Club in the Regional Finals where she won 1st place.
Joanne participated in a week long Leadership Development Programme, where she spent 3 days in Belfast and Dublin before setting off for the European Parliment in Strasbourg to play a part in the Euroscola Programme in March 2011.
She joined 600 other students from most counteries across the European Union.

Transition year students, with a few of the local Garda,
who collected money in Monaghan town for the Special Olympics
on Friday the 1st May 2009.
Total Collected €2,000

Click the arrow below to view some of
the Transition year activities :

The Mongol Rally Car at Monaghan Collegiate School on friday 15th May, after a few signatures!! For a donation of €1, each student got to sign the car. Money raised was for orphans in Africa and Mongolia.

Ulster Schools Champions 2009/10 U13 + U19

U13 team

Monaghan Collegiate School students went forward to represent Ulster in the
All Ireland finals in April 2010 where both teams won bronze medals


U19 team

Leaving Certificate Students at a History Seminar
in T.C.D. March 2010

Students from St. Macarten’s College and Monaghan Collegiate School have been involved in a Peace III project over the last few months in which they have been researching people from Co.Monaghan who served in World War One.

We researched soldiers from both Protestant and Catholic traditions who fought and died in the Great War.

Twenty students and four teachers visited Belgium in late March and experienced a day as a soldier, visited battlefields, trenches, dugouts, wargraves and museums.

Pupils and their tour guide at the grave of Francis Ledwidge and
in the “Yorkshire” trench near Ypres/Ieper

At the AVVVK museum in Diksmuide, Flanders

Pupils in the Platoon experience in Passendaele

A visit to the grave of Robert Templeton from Ednaferkin, Ballybay who died near Ypres

Clik the slide shows below to get an idea of the work completed by both our
Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate students

Susanna was awarded a scolarship to the Gaeltacht
on the 17th April '08
Pictured with Mrs Mc Kenna and Mr Mc Donald (Irish Teachers)

AIB regional Winners of the Build A Bank Competition 2008

Monaghan Collegiate School Student Council Members 2008/09
1M Michaela Treanor
1C Aaron Maxwell
2M Karl Moffett
2C Ahmed Gamal
3M Darren Stevenson
3C Samantha Martin
4M Dylan Maxwell
4C Emmy Marshall
5M Mohamed Gamal
5C Annique Van Niekerk
6M Jonatha Gibson
6C Christopher Mollan (abs from photo)

Key Programme

Some students in action on the key programme

The key programme combines training with outdoor activities for students aged 14-16. Twelve transition year students are involved in this project--
The main topics involved are:-
Communicarion and teamwork
Personal Budgeting and Goal Setting
Career planning and interview skills
Operating a small Business

Go to website below for more information about this project:-
http://www.yeni.co.uk/programmes/default.asp

Lions Club Young Ambassador Competition was won by Jayne Whyte in 2007

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Junior Certificate exam students with their results 2010

T.Y students enjoying some outdoor pursuits
This is just one of the activities participated in during the year.

04/09/09 Visit to the school by the Bulgarian Ambassador and members of the Monaghan Rotary Club. The official party were entertained by the students in music and song before the official welcome took place.

Some activities in the Hme Economics Room

Students from Monaghan Collegiate School & St. Macartan’s College have come together under the Peace 111, World War 1 Project. Pupils will analyse the role of Monaghan people from both sides of the community during the Great War. Weeks of research will conclude with a visit to some of the battle sites where men from this country fought and lost their lives.

Pictured above are Caroline Millar, Head Girl, Monaghan Collegiate School, Mr. Raymond McHugh, Principal, St. Macartan’s College, Bishop Michael Jackson, Church of Ireland Clogher, Bishop Joseph Duffy, Diocese of Clogher & Mr. Michael Hall, Principal Monaghan Collegiate School at the Cross Community Project Launch, prior to the opening of the Frank McGuinness acclaimed play - ‘ The Sons of Ulster Marching towards the Somme”.
Further information on this project is available from Mr. Hall, Principal & Mrs. Wendy Sloan, History Department, Monaghan Collegiate School.

Transition Year pupils are currently participating in a ‘Youth Link Cross Border Project’
As part of the project pupils had the opportunity to attend a ‘live in’ workshop at Lisnaskee Share Centre last September. Staff and pupils alike enjoyed the experience and the programme is showing promising and exciting results for pupils. More details will follow later in the term.

Well done to the Leaving Cert Science Students who took part in the Regional Finals of the ISTA Senior Science Quiz in Dundalk Instituteof Technology on November 11th, 2009