International Day at Monaghan Collegiate School
An international day was held on Monday,16th March, at Monaghan Collegaite school. The event was organised by Transition year geography students with the assistance of their teacher Miss Wright. Over the last few years an increasing number of international students have been attending the school. To allow these students a chance to promote their country, they wre given the opportunity to have a display. Each stand portrayed their country through maps, pictures, art, food and music. Fifteen countries took part: America,Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Ireland, Lithuania, New Zealand, Nigeria, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, South Africa, Tenerife and Thialand
The event was opened by Mr Seymour Crawford T.D. The students were entertained by fellow students singing and playing various musical instruments. The pupils, staff and guests finished off the afternoon with a Ceili, led by guest local Irish dancer Mrs Paula Mc Corry, which set the mood for St Patricks day. Congratulations to transition year for organising such a wonderful inter-cultural event

Line Dancing

Congratulations to Hayley McKenna 5 yr, Rebecca Treanor 2 yr & Éimear McSkeane 1 yr on their recent successes in the All Ireland Line Dancing Competitions in Mayo on the 23rd May 2009.

These Collegiate Dancers are part of the ‘Shuffling Boots’ Line Dancing Group and the girls and their team mates have been practicing very hard to achieve their success as a group and as individuals: Hayley obtained a 4th place, Rebecca a 3rd place and Éimear a 2nd place in their relevant sections

Rachel Alcorn, pictured in Trinity College, with
John Mc Getrick, Chairman, MHI and Brian Howard, CEO, MHI

Congratulations to Rachel Alcorn a native of New Zealand who has been studying at Monaghan Collegiate School this year. Rachel was a finalist in the national ‘Design a Poster’ Mental Health Ireland Competition 2009.
Her design was used on the front cover of the Mensa Health magazine. Rachel studied Art for the first time this year under the tuition of David Pollock We wish Rachel every success with her future studies on her return home to New Zealand.

Second Year pupils Jodi Clarke and Rachel Hall participated and won awards in the Monaghan Mental Health competition. Congratulations to both of the girls and we hope you will continue to flourish and develop your talent for Art.

Other Activities

During the year students will receive an opportunity to participate in Cross~Border Activities, they also may participate in County Monaghan Dail na nOg and Comhairle na nOg.

Monaghan Collegiate School has successfully competed in competitions run by the Monaghan Rotary Club, winning Young Rotarian of the Year, County Monaghan, on a number of occasions.

Homework Club

Homework club operates after school for 4.15 pm to 9 pm four evenings a week. The Homework club provides an excellent opportunity for pupils to improve their social and study skills in an atmosphere conducive to study.

Scripture Union

Scripture Union is run by a committee of students who have a passion to share God's love in school.It is a place where we can get together, have fun and learn about what God has done for us.It is a time where we can share the gospel with other students. We meet once a week, usually lunchtimes on fridays. Sometimes we watch DVDs, have speakers, play games, drink tea,eat sweets and popcorn etc.... so come along and find out about your creator while having fun with your friends. Visiting guest speakers are invited to attend from time to time.Some of the speakers in 2009/10 included Rev Ian Berry, Rev Daniel Martin, Pastor Steven Matthews,Mr Elliott,Jonny Porter, Lizzie Allister, Darren Mulligan,Mark Allister,Steven Niblock, Jill Condell, Gregory Nelson and many more.

Poster displayed in school advertising the SU
Poster was designed by Stephen Greer
( One of the 6th yr committee members)

P.E.

Extra-curricular P.E. Activities are an integral part of School Life. They are undertaken at three levels to offer opportunity to all pupils.

• Purely recreational activities are available at lunch time to allow pupils to engage in informal activities on a regular basis with friends. Team traning takes place at lunch time and after school as required.
• Inter-year competitions are held throughout the year to enable a wide range of pupils to engage in representative competition. There are table-tennis, soccer, basketball and badminton tournaments held each year.
• There are a number of school sports teams which compete in Regional Inter- School competitions and are regularly successfully at Regional & National Level: Basketball (girls), Horse Riding (boys and girls), Rugby(boys), Soccer (boys) and Table Tennis (boys and girls)

The students pictured below have been training with the Ulster Regional development squad for the past 8 weeks. At the end of this training programme there was a blitz between all the regional teams in Ulster. As a result of their performance Dwayne,Warren, Christopher and Ashley were chosen to train with the Ulster U-17 Rugby Squad.
This is a magnificent achievement for the school to have 4 students chosen to join the 22 player squad.
Rugby


Dwayne Mc Mahon,Warren Brown,Christopher Harrison and Ashley Hawthorne