Extra curricular activities
Colaiste Chiarain provides an extensive extra curricular programme. Students get the opportunity to represent their school at many different levels both individually and through team activites. Much success has been attained through the years and the school proudly displays a wide range of trophies/awards in its display cabinet. The extra curricular activites are as follows:

The Irish European Union Science Olympiad (IrEUSO)

Adam Connolly – Physics Gold Medal Winner

The Irish European Union Science Olympiad (IrEUSO) is an individual, subject based (biology, chemistry or physics) science competition for students who are sixteen years of age or younger on the following December 31st. It is held annually in Dublin City University (DCU) in November. Finalists qualify through the Junior Certificate Examinations and are nominated by their Principal Teacher. The selected students have achieved grades in the top 0.5% nationally in Science and Maths.
The top three students are awarded gold medals, the next three silver and the next three bronze. The gold & silver medal winners represent Ireland at the annual European Union Science Olympiad (EUSO) at Easter. The bronze medal winners are on the reserve list.

Maths Week 9th-16th October 2011

Events will be took throughout the week in the school with competions within the school and maths games and puzzles during break time. There is a maths website for the school to compete against other schools on the website www.mangahigh.com/ireland

To see some more information on it go to www.mathsweek.ie

Winners of the Maths Week

Congrats to all involved

6th year- Julie Boyle(1st)

5th year-David Bowes(1st), Adam Connelly(1st), Mathew Foren (2nd)

3rd year-Conor Mulligan(1st), Justine Manzano(2nd), Chritina Jupe(2nd), Courtney Sleith(3rd)

2nd year- Tom Davis (1st), Tyler Moodley(2nd),Oisin Finegan(3rd)

1st year- Saoirse Sunderland, David Kelly(2nd), Ajomide Adebambo(3rd)

5th year(Adam Connelly,Mathew Foran, David Bowes)

1st year (Ajomide Adebambo,Saoirse Sunderland, David Kelly)

Link for Maths Resources

Sport Success

16 GAA Players Awarded MBNA GAA Scholarships at NUI Maynooth 

Sixteen GAA students from NUI Maynooth were last night presented with prestigious MBNA GAA Scholarships by Bryan Kelly, Business Finance Officer with MBNA Ireland and Professor Tom Collins, President of NUI Maynooth.
Since their inception in 1998, the MBNA GAA scholarships have supported over 200 students to achieve their academic and sporting potential.  Alumni of the programme are from across the country and include an astounding 24 All-Ireland medal winners, 6 All-Star Awards and almost half of the recipients have played Senior inter-county Championship for their county.
The programme assists talented students to achieve their academic potential while providing access to expert coaching, fitness training, sports psychology, health and nutrition advice, and performance analysis and lifestyle management assistance.
Previous recipients of these awards include Mark O’Shea (Kerry), Mary Kirwan (Laois), Alan Brogan (Dublin), Helena Lohan (Mayo) and Brianne Leahy (Kildare), Derek Hardiman (Galway), and Claire Donnelly (Dublin).

About the MBNA GAA Scholarships:
The MBNA GAA scholarships, which are awarded to students who have the potential to reach a very high level of performance competing at national and international level, provide access to expert coaching, fitness training, sports psychology, health and nutrition advice, performance analysis and lifestyle management assistance.

Swimming

Philip and Fiona Duffy

Philip had broken the Irish Senior Schools record for the 100m Butterfly at the Leinster Schools Championships in December.  Colaiste Chiarain has been officially entered in the record books! They both competed very successfully in the Irish Senior School Swimming Championships in Cork on 13th and 14th Feb.  Philip won gold in both the 100m Butterfly and the 200m Individual Medley and has been selected for the WISE International was held in Scotland 19th-21st March  2010 National Schools Teams from Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England will be competing against each other. Philip competed in the in the 200m Individual Medley and came 2nd , placed 2nd in the 200m Breaststroke and achieved  6th in the 200m Butterfly. In the team event  4x100 Medley Boys team relay they came 3rd and set a new Irish Junior record. In the 4x100 Freestyle Boys team relay they achieved 3rd. The overall finish was England 1st, Scotland 2nd, Ireland 3rd, and Wales 4th.

Fiona won a silver medal in the 200m Individual Medley and very narrowly missed selection for the WISE. In the Leinster and Longcourse Championships Fiona received 5 medals 3 Silver and 2 Bronze.

Canoeing
In the school since its establishment we have enjoyed many sporting achievements. Eoin Rheinisch is a past pupil and Irish Olympian came fourth in the Canoeing in the Beijing Olympic GAMES IN 2008. He was ranked 8th in 2006 and earned 6th place in the European Championships in 2007 and finished ninth in the World Championships last year. 

Tom Brennan in 6th year is a member of the national Sprint Squad and competed in the World Wild Water Championships and the World Marathon Championships last year.

Athletics

David Matthews was awarded an Athletics scholarship and represented Ireland in the 800m at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996. Yan Butler Rees was a member of the U17 Irish School team and represented Ireland in the 1500m steeplechase in Blackpool in 2000. David McCarthy was a European Junior Championship finalist in the same year in the 400m in 2001. He then won a bronze medal in 2004 and the World Indoor Championships in Budapest as a member if the Irish senior men’s 4 x 400m relay team.

Gaelic Football

Competing in the Dublin Colleges section of the Leinster schools competition we won two U16 B championships titles. Some students represented their county such as Ronan Quinn. Brian Fahy, Aidan McHugh, Enda Murphy. Hugh Lynch and Hugh McGrillen are currently playing for the Lilywhites.

Hurling

We became the 1st Kildare school to win a leinster hurling  title and players such as Conor Cunningham, John Doran, Paul Keegan, John Houlihan and Aidan Ryan wearing the county jersey.

Soccer

Teams have made the Leinster final appearances. Students Gerard Heffernan and Susan O`Conner achieved international status at underage level.

Basketball

Sports Offered in the school

ACTION ZAMBIA
Pictured left is the staff room in the local community school. Class sizes
of 90 are common. Many schools operate a shift system where classes are run three times a day. This makes efficient use of the scare resources and also in this way a family can allow all their children to go to school at different times during the day and still have some children available to work at other times. This school provides daily food for the students.Women from the local community cook food over a wooden
fire. This may be the only meal that the pupils get in the day.
Pictured left are some of the children we met
in one of the many compounds that surround Kalomo. There
was great excitement as they loved having their picture taken and
seeing themselves in the camera. By the time we left the compound about
50 children were following us, holding our hands. Many of the dwellings have small stalls outside where they try to sell tomatoes, maize etc.
There is no social welfare in Zambia.

Our online blog gives
more information: www.actionzambia.wordpress.com

Student Council

The student council for the year 08/09 commenced on the 18th September 2008. The members for the coming year are: Daniel Gallery (Chairperson), Lauren Jordan (Dep.Chairperson), Ellen Gaffney (Sec), David Griffin, Keith Norris, Lorna Murphy, Avril Dolan, Shelagh Letford, Rachel Byrne, Christina Mahon, Jill Watkins, Naomi Duggan, Dara McGlynn, David Byrne, Ruairi Hannon, Adam Conolly, Mark Tyrell. The student council discuss a number of issues raised by the students of this school and try their best to resolve all problems brought to their attention.
So far some of these are
• After a meeting with Mr Sweeney it was decided that “black keds” could be worn for this year.
• Ordering rolls from Mace in the mornings and having them delivered at lunch has now started again.
• The toilets are now being repaired for a number of reasons (yet again)!
• The toilets are also now going to be open promptly at the start of 11:15 break.
If any student wishes to bring any issues to our attention do not hesitate to approach any of the members of the student council listed above.

Gluais
Gluais is a youth leadership programme run for ten students in fifth year. It supports young people who are the potential leaders of the future.

Soroptimist International –Girls Public Speaking Competition

Congratulations to Julie Boyle and Niamh Tracy on their excellent performance in the local round of the Soroptimist Public Speaking Competition. Niamh won the local round and goes forward to the regional final on the 5th of February 2011 in Bray, along with Aisling Byrne from St Wolstens Community School, Celbridge. Niamh`s topic was “I was told whistling wasn’t ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy”- under the heading of Civil Rights and the Status of Women. We wish her every success in February.