‘General News’ Archives
German Debating Competition
This year's German debating competition kicked off just before mid-term. As usual, Douglas is stepping up to the challenge. Its team this year consists of Cian O' Mahoney, Robert McCarthy, Sergei Pobulding, Sean Creagh, Jonathon Wallace and Brian O' Connell. The knock out competition began this year with the motion (Students shouldn't work [...]
Young Scientist Sponsorship
At the end of the last school year Mr Cian O'Mahony sought sponsorship from industry to help promote the sciences in *Douglas Community School*. Amongst those companies who have made donations to date are Minteq Europe Ltd, Mineral Technologies GN Resound Horner APG Bourns Electronics GE Healthcare Pfizer Ireland [...]
The Young Scientist
This year there are twenty seven students involved in the young scientist award in the school. There are nine teams of three. Douglas Community School has been involved in the competition since the 1970's. In 1991 Douglas had a winner Mark Andrews. In recent years we have had a number of category award winners. Half the students entered get to [...]
P.R. Team
There are four members on the debating team with one sub. These members are Rory Murphy, Aidan Murphy, Fabien Dubois, and team captain Andrew O'Reilly. There is one sub called Daniel O' Sullivan. Their next debate is on Tuesday the fourteenth of November at eight p.m in our own school. The topics upon which they deal with are the United Nations, [...]
Douglas Non Uniform Day
Douglas Community School raised 870 Euro for Encephalitis Ireland recently with a Non Uniform Day . Mr O' Connor's First Year Class. Stefan Kelleher, who made a 'big' effort.
