Debating Success for Calasanctius!

Two Calasanctius teams competed in the Connacht round of the Matheson Junior Debating Mace competition on 1st March and achieved huge success on the day.  Cathal Connolly won the Best Second Year trophy and two first year students, Laoise Claffey and Laura Finn, won a place in the grand final, coming in the top four teams out of twenty.  All three will advance to the National competition which will be held in UCD on the 5th April. 

Debating club is run by Ms Dobbyn on Mondays at 130pm in Rm 129 and all students are invited to come along and help Cathal, Laoise and Laura practice for the national competition. 

Here's what one of the organizers had to say about them:

Thanks so much for sending your wonderful students to the debate last night. They were all engaging and persuasive speakers: intelligent, insightful and without a shred of arrogance. I was most impressed with how well the girls did overall. Cathal too, is a very accomplished speaker too…an absolute credit to you and your school. 

Sive Reviews

Matchmaker,Thomasheen Sean Rua (Simon O Gorman) and Mena Glavin (Derbhle Crotty) challenge Nanna Glavin (Brid Ni Neachtain) in a scene from Sive.

The Abbey Theatre production of Sive has kicked off and the reviews are out! My Leaving Cert group, who are studying it as part of their Comparative Study, and I are excited to be traveling up to Dublin to see it later in the month.

Here's a taste of what's to come:

Irish Times Review

Irish Independent Review

Irish Examiner Review

Thank your Teachers!

The teachers who inspired me?

Mrs Cooke and Mrs O'Brien of the Dominican College, Taylor's Hill - they made words and literature come alive. They are the reason I'm an English teacher - thank you both ladies.

New Debate Club

I'm delighted to announce the launch of a new debating club in Calasanctius College meeting every Monday at 1:30pm in Rm 129.

We will start coaching interested students in the skills of debating and public speaking and hopefully have some teams ready to enter some competitions in the autumn.

So whether you want to develop your self-confidence, channel your argumentative side in a 'healthy' way or simply to use logic to thwart your enemies come to the debate club on Monday!


Ms Dobbyn.

Camelot!

If you've been wondering why there's been a serious lack of updates to the blog lately it's due to the many rehearsals for Camelot, this year's school musical, which have been taking place since the beginning of September.  I've been part of the directing team this year and it's been a full-on roller coaster ride since then till this week when the show is finally unveiled to the public on Wednesday.

We have a super talented cast who have worked incredibly hard so make sure you get in to see the show if you're in the neighbourhood of Oranmore Wednesday, Thursday or Friday of this week.  The show runs nightly at 8pm in the Nano Nagle Hall in the school.

Tickets are available from Ms Kelly's room at lunchtime and more information can be got from the school office on (091) 794564.

In short, there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For happily-ever-aftering than here
In Camelot!

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The Tempest

God this poet is good...

May I introduce you all to Kate Tempest:

And on her take on Shakespeare:

A bit about her life:

More info in this article in The Guardian: Kate Tempest.