Excitement is building for St Josephs College Fundraiser Race Night at Thurles Greyhound Track on Saturday 19th March. Tickets are being sold by students and are also available to buy from the school. We look forward to a great night with students, parents and teachers. We hope to see you there!
St. Joseph’s College students Emma and Harry Stapleton, taking part in Interschools at Tipperary Equestrian Centre on 31st January. Emma and her horse Grey Lass have accumulated 25 SJI points. Harry has so far gained 15 SJI points.
Our BT Young Scientists Experience by Nicky Cooney and Anthony Ryan
We entered the BT Young Scientists Exhibition in October along with 4500 other students and we got accepted in November, which was thrilling news. We worked hard through the months on our project which is called Safe Watch. Safe watch is a project to enforce age ratings on movies by using facial recognition. We used a web cam and a raspberry pie (mini computer)to detect the face and recognize it. For example , if a nine year old walks into the room and the parents are watching an 18 movie the tv will shut off and turn back on once the child leaves the room.
We started the week on Wednesday with an opening ceremony , with Michael D. Higgins giving an exceptional and inspiring speech. After the opening ceremony we headed back to our stand and awaited our first judge who was Peter Taylor. We were nervous, but he was very nice and seemed genuinely interested in our project .Through the week we got a special visit from IFCO(Irish Film Classification Organisation). David Power came from the IFCO and was very interested in our project and he gave us great feedback on our project and invited us to the IFCO. Intel came to our stand which was also very exciting. They gave us an invitation to come and see their company also.
We learned so much from the BTYSE. We met so many people and they were all so nice. The highlight of the week was meeting the representatives from Intel and IFCO. We are really looking forward to visiting them and we hope to expand our project in the future.
Our teacher Ms Gorey helped so much with our project , giving us great advice. We would like to give a special thanks to her and to all the people who helped out with the project.
Walk & Talk
Every Tuesday we have a walk and talk for all students in the school led by the TY’s. It commences at lunch for 10 minutes. We started off with the Transition Years asking two pupils to walk with them and have a chat, and then those two pupils ask another two pupils to walk with them and have a chat. Eventually, all students were walking and talking. The aim of this was to get students talking and to create a more positive atmosphere around the school for the upcoming Cycle Against Suicide
Fit Club
A fitness club is commencing on the first Thursday after mid-term. It will be on during lunch at 1:30-1:40 in the gym.
Borrisoleigh Cycle Club
Any students wishing to train and cycle with the Cycle Against Suicide Borrisoleigh Cycle Club are organising training sessions at the weekend.