Archive for February, 2010
Medecins Sans Frontiers Haiti Appeal
The NT1 class present a cheque for €1717 to Medecins Sans Frontiers' Haiti Appeal. The money was raised by NT1, who organised a raffle in the school, and by the staff of the school who held a table quiz for staff and friends. Cian O'Mahony
Leaving Certificate Construction Studies
A sample of projects for Leaving Certificate construction studies. Douglas Community School offers the choice of cabinet-making, model-making or building details. Sean Fahy
Mile Challenge Update
Douglas Community School athletes competed in the latest leg of their Mile Challenge series recently at Cork IT track. The first year race was won by Jack O' Mahony with a superb time of 5.34 and he was followed home closely by Liam Harris 5.38, Kevin Horan 5.42 and Jamie O' Connell 5.43. Other great runs came from Luke Varian, Rory Barry, Stephen [...]
Project Uganda Update
Two DCS teachers, Rosanne O'Callaghan and Neil Bronks, have returned from a successful visit to Uganda and will be putting together a report on this in the coming days. This report will be posted here as soon as possible. The next and most significant part of the project will be the visit of two Ugandan teachers to DCS for a week in April. [...]
Basketball
U16 A team After having a very successful year in second year the school was upgraded to A level school. This was going to be a challenge for the school teams. First to play was the U16 team. The boys started a heavy training schedule training at 7.30-8.30 twice a week and on afternoons each week. The national league coach from Blue Demons [...]
