HUNDREDS of students from across Northern Ireland will again have the enviable opportunity to launch, promote and sell their own innovative products at the Young Enterprise ‘Big Market’ next month.
St George’s Market will be taken over by in excess of 700 students, aged 17 and 18, on December 5. They have been taking part in this year’s Young Enterprise Company Programme.
Read all about it on the Irish news Website. Link
Pupils from Aquinas Grammar School (from left) Issac Yang and Martin Carroll, are joined by their Mandarin teacher Guifang LI at the MAC in Belfast today (Tuesday, November 27) for the Belfast heat of the HSBC British Council Chinese Mandarin Speaking Competition. The winners of today’s competition will be announced next month, and they will be put forward to the final at the British Museum, London in February 2019 with the overall winner winning a week in Bejing. For more information on the HSBC/ British Council Mandarin speaking competition, visit nireland.britishcouncil.org or follow on Twitter: @BCouncil_NI.
On Saturday the Aquinas team took first place in the TRI Inter Schools Showjumping Final, winning them first place overall in the TRI Inter Schools league (a league of 32 teams from all over NI) http://www.themec.co.uk/results/view/652- see Novice 85 results.
The prize giving for the league will be at a TRI Inter Schools evening event in January.
Congratulations to the Aquinas team (Ellen McEvoy, Indie, Jean McComish, Buddy, Jean McComish, Indie, Ellen McEvoy, Buddy)
They will be travelling to Gormanstown in Dublin on the 5th of January to stay overnight and have match play against the Republic team and English school teams. In preparation for Europeans in March 2019 when the girls will be travelling to England. Grainne Sweeney will be receiving her first international cap, and Anna O’Keefe will be receiving her second. Best of luck girls!
A big thanks you to all the pupils, parents and staff for the generosity in all the contributions to our Christmas Appeal. 57 parcels of gifts and toys were collected and 65 food hampers were distributed to vulnerable families in our city. We thank SVP and Bryson Children’s Services for all their hard work throughout the year.
On Saturday the Aquinas team took first place in the TRI Inter Schools Showjumping Final, winning them first place overall in the TRI Inter Schools league (a league of 32 teams from all over NI) http://www.themec.co.uk/results/view/652- see Novice 85 results.
The prize giving for the league will be at a TRI Inter Schools evening event in January.
Congratulations to the Aquinas team (Ellen McEvoy, Indie, Jean McComish, Buddy, Jean McComish, Indie, Ellen McEvoy, Buddy)
Aquinas is hosting the 2019 Careers Insight Evening on Wednesday 23 January from 6-8pm and is for pupils from Y10 to Y14.
The guest speaker will be Diane Morrow (co-founder of the MTech Academy). The event will open at 6pm with a talk from the speaker and there will be an extensive range of exhibitors providing advice and guidance. For further details of the exhibitors please download the brochure for the evening by clicking this link or the image below:
Two of our Year 8 pupils, Sri Laasya Kunderu and Nora Egri, competed in the Mount Charles ‘Big School Cook Off’ Co. Antrim schools final on Monday 21st January 2019. They cooked and presented a tasty and appetising meal using Northern Ireland produce within the budget allowed and the two girls were highly commended for their effort and contribution to the competition.
Left to right: Qiwei He( Yr10), Angus Brady (Yr11), Michael Girvan (Yr12) & Aoibhe Lovell (Yr10).
Aoibhe Lovell (Yr10), Qiwei He( Yr10), Angus Brady (Yr11) and Michael Girvan (Yr12) represented Aquinas in the annual RSc Top Of The Bench competition hosted in Queen’s University Belfast. Each year, teams of four 13- to 16-year-old students, compete for the Top of the Bench trophy. The competition was fierce with 12 teams from throughout Northern Ireland taking part.
The competition consisted of three rounds including quizzes, presentations and practical experiments. The competition concluded with a drama filled table quiz were we lost to the team from Dalriada school.
It was an excellent night with the four students doing Aquinas proud. Well done team!
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Shayna Gail Velasquez was awarded the silver prize in the International 13th Toyota Dream Car Competition.
Shayna received her award at a ceremony in Epson over the mid-term break. Shayna won a Samsung Galaxy Tablet among other items and spent the day with the other prize winners at Toyota Headquarters.
Shayna’s artwork (Toyota Dream Car) is called the Toyota Quantum 2080 GT, named after one of her favourite Toyota GT models. Her design is about a time travelling machine which could travel into the future (year 2080) to document breakthroughs in medicine and space exploration that could help the present civilisation.
Well done Shayna!
Aquinas recently returned from their exchange programme with Melbourne Central Catholic High School in Florida. This is the third trip we have taken to the Sunshine State since 2015.
The programme came about from a chance email on Mr McAufield’s basketball trip in 2013 as well as a visit to MCC by Mr Kelly and Father Grant later that year. The pupils had an action packed 10 days and the hospitality offered to Aquinas pupils and staff was second to none.
The MCC pupils and faculty also visited Belfast in September 2018. Life long friendships and many happy memories!
Ash Wednesday services had the launch of the annual Trócaire Lenten campaign. This week marks the start of Ireland’s largest fundraising campaign, the Trócaire Lenten Appeal, which will see more than 1 million Trócaire boxes reach households and schools across the country.
This year’s Trócaire Campaign focuses upon the loss of land in the developing world and how it is leading to devastating consequences for millions of families. Trócaire representatives Maria O’Kane (Campaigns Officer) and Martina O ’Donoghue (Programme Director in Uganda) visited Aquinas on the 6th March, on Ash Wednesday. Martina O’ Donoghue spoke to Aquinas pupils about how Trócaire’s work in Uganda to allow people secure access to land and other vital resources; to make the Ugandan Government more accountable and responsive to its citizen’s demands in the areas of health, education and water; and to combat gender based violence against women.
This year, the Lent box tells this story through three young girls. Maria is from Guatemala where vulnerable communities are being violently evicted by large businesses and left with nothing. In Uganda, Patricia has lost her home because her father died. Her mother, like many others, lacks any basic rights to her land simply because she is a woman. While Maya, who now lives in a refugee camp in Lebanon, was forced to flee her home with her family to escape the Syrian war.
Aquinas pupils are challenged to raise funds to help to provide food, shelter and medical care, as well as to fight for justice and land rights in this year’s annual Trócaire Lenten campaign.
Set in the Italian Alps and close to the Swiss border, the town of Bormio boasts stunning scenery. One hundred Aquinas pupils and ten staff embarked on a one week trip to the area from 16th March to 23rd March and had a marvellous experience.
This was helped by a 10mm snow fall on the first night followed by six days of sunshine and blue skies. The hotel was situated right at the bottom of the ski run with access to the ski lifts a matter of few short ski-shuffles! The pupils enjoyed the fantastic variety of good Italian food and quality teaching from the local Italian Ski School. Many firm friendships were reinforced and new ones made over the week. Many thanks to the staff who gave so willing of their time.
The first 20 seconds of the video below shows Bormio in general – the rest is specifically of Aquinas.
15 members of Aquinas staff and friends are running in memory of our late, beloved colleague, Dr Joseph Rea.
We are hoping to raise some money for NI Hospice who were of great support to Joe and his family.
Cash/cheque donations are also being made to RoadSafe NI in memory of our late colleague and friend Karl Heaney.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Aquinas-Grammar1
A2 Chemistry Practical arrangements for Thursday 9th May
The session will take place at 9.30 – 10.45
(Students are asked to be in position for 9.15)
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N13 CLEARY Eimear JOHNSTON Sean MCCANN Aoife MCCUMISKEY Cormac MULHOLLAND Conor SALMON Karen TURKIEWICZ John WATT Conor |
N12 CAHILL Aoife DEVLIN Matthew GIRVAN Rachel HANRAHAN Anthony MCERLEAN Conor MCSORLEY Clare MUTHU Shruti MORGAN Conor |
It is very important that all candidates embarking on public examinations take heed of the rules and regulations around the sitting of these formal tests.
These rules are written to help students so that no incident of malpractice ever occurs.
Be aware, that the penalties awarding bodies like CCEA can apply include:
• a written warning;
• the loss of marks for a section, component or unit;
• disqualification from a unit, all units or qualifications; or
• a ban from taking assessments or exams for a set period of time.
Take time to read the information on the two sheets below. Thank you.
Information for candidates – written exam
