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St. Laurence College Inaugural Golf Classic

We are currently organising our
Inaugural St. Laurence College Golf Classic. (read more)

Chaminade Day -- Awards Presentations
(for excellence in attitude and behaviour) 
The Chaminade Awards

The purpose of the Chaminade Awards is to recognise the excellent attitude and behaviour of our students who help make St. Laurence College a special place. These awards are called after the founder of the Marianists Order, Blessed Fr. William Joseph Chaminade. The criteria for the awards were greatly influenced by the characteristics of Marianist education. Tutors nominated two students from their tutor group. The chosen students are role models and ambassadors for their class group and the rest of the school community. They represent all the good work that their class is doing on a daily basis.

Retirements 2008

 

In January, the college celebrated the retirement of Mr. Patrick Pender and Ms. Pat Fitzpatrick.

First Years Hear the Story of St. Brigid and Make Their Crosses
Minister for Education and Science, Mary Hanafin, opens and dedicates our refurbished Design and Communication Graphics Room in January 2008.
           
BT Young Sciencists Exhibition 2008

Students from the College contrbuted two projects to the exhibition.

Sam Hall, 5th year student, studied passes in Rugby and found out that many passes delivered at high speed are forward. This can be explained by Vector Theory, as the ball has motion in a forward direction from the player running as he passes.

Experiments and measurements were carried out with the help of some rugby-playing 7th years and players from Seapoint Rugby Club.

At the Exhibition a former UCD and Galway Corinthians forward shows interest in Sam Hall's project.

3rd years (Craig Flynn, Josh Hall and Darragh Hughes) completed a project called "Bet You Lose".

They investigated betting and specifically the margin a bookie has in multiple football bets. A multiple bet is where a punter bets not only on say Manchester United to win but rather on Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal all to win.

Whereas a punter betting on single can expect to get 85% of what he bets back in the long run, this becomes 72% (0.85 x 0.85) for doubles, and less than 50% for 5-game accumulators.

They analysed a couple thousand such bets and concluded that it was very bad value betting on multiples - hence "Bet You Lose".

Both projects got a lot of attention at the exhibition and Sam Hall in particular was very articulate and informative in explaining his work to judges, members of the public and the Minister for Education.

photos by Mr. McGennis

 

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Sundry Items
  Retirements 2007 Click here for more. Maths Quiz and St. Brigid Crosses
Official Opening of Our Refurbished Home Economics Room
At a ceremony on Chaminade Day 2007, the Minister for Education, Mary Hanafin officially opened our newly-equipped Home Economics Room. The picture on the left shows: back row: Bro. Gerry, Mr. Billy Finnegan, architect; Ms. Katrina Mahon, Home Economics teacher; front: Ms. Aileen Aherne, Home Economics teacher; Ms. Mary Hanafin, Minister for Education; Mr. Michael Redmond, Principal and Martin Duggan, Chairperson of the Board of Management.
November Mass 2007
Each November the St. Laurence College community joins the church in praying for the peaceful and eternal repose of those who have died. This year the Eucharist for deceased pupils, past pupils, staff and family members was celebrated on Thursday November 22nd in the Church of the Apostles, Willowvale, Ballybrack.

St. Brigid's Crosses 2007

Click here for more pictures and story of this year's Making of the Crosses

Spanish students attending the College in 2006
Many of the students made contact with St. Laurence College through Marianist schools in Spain.

 
Students Honoured for Achievement
Pictured are the students of the College who achieved the top places in the Junior Certificate results in 2006. The occasion of the photograph was their being honoured for their achievement and presented with gift tokens by their Year Head last year Mr. Ronan Coffey. Congratulations.
Our Young Scientists 2007
2nd years Craig Flynn, Corey O' Neill, Craig Barnes and Darragh Hughes received a Special Commendation in the Junior Group for their project at the Young Scientist Exhibition that closed on Jan. 13th.  The project was entitled Lucky Goals: use of aspects of Maths to give an advantage in sport. Their project was featured in an article in the Irish Independent on Wednesday Jan.10th and listed in the Irish Times on Saturday Jan. 13th.  Craig Flynn was interviewed for radio FM 104, and this was broadcast on their 4 and 5 o'clock news on Thursday.  Congratulations to all four students and to Mr. Tony McGennis their teacher. Picture left: Students with Tony McGennis and Minister Mart Hanafin. Below with Principal, Mr. Redmond.
Third Year Girls Working to Learn
Ms. Anne McCarry, Deputy Principal, presented Gift Vouchers to three Third Year students for their full-hearted involvement in the Afternoon Study Programme during the first term. The programme is a 90 minute study session held after class on Monday to Thursday.