‘Student Activities News’ Archives
Students Open DCS School Bank
Six fifth year students have recently opened a school bank. The bank will be run by Jack Newton (Manager), Nikesh Chopra (assistant Manager), Conor Dowling (Auditor), Aidan Heffernan (Marketing), Gary Black (Teller) and Aaron Hurley (Teller) and is co-ordinated by Mr Alan White. The bank will be open every Friday from 1.00 - 1.30pm. Since [...]
DCS Students Enjoy French Breakfast
The teachers of Douglas Community School French Department organised a special treat for students recently. Classes were brought for a French breakfast, where the menu and interactions were all en Francais.
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
Web Design at DCS
A group of 20 Transition Year students have just started a module in Web Design in the school. Run by four past pupils who are currently in University College Cork; the Douglas Community School students are learning how to write HTML code. They will each design their own webpage with pictures, links, music and videos. Watch this space, as we hope [...]
Seeking to Retain Robotics Crown
On 11 February four second year Douglas Community School students will attempt to defend the title of Lego Mindstorms Robotics Champions won last year. The team of Jordan Smith, Daniel Mason, Michael McLaughlin and Eoghan O'Brien have been hard at work learning the new skills involved in robotics and model construction. They then had to build [...]
