6th year Graduation Photos: 6th year Prize Giving

5th year Prize giving photos: 5th year Prize Giving

3rd Year Prize giving Photos:  3rd year Prize Giving

2nd year Prize giving Photos: 2nd Year Prize Giving

1st year Prize giving Photos: 1st year Prize Giving

Main Awards: 2023 Prize Giving

2023 Dragons Den

This year's Adrian Kelly, Dragons den took place on Tuesday the 16th of May, and saw 10 amazing mini companies battle it out on stage to be crowned winner. The companies involved were flyby diner by Shannon Wiggins, makes and bakes by Ceara by Ceara Monaghan, Emmas gems by Emma Flynn, RC clothing by Rihanna Corbett, grass magnet by Finn McGoldrick and James Doran, S’more Scents by Sophie Morgan, Ella Kierans, Oisin Kelly and Megan Smith, Awesome hair by Shauna McFadden, Ornagh Smyth and Rachel Donaghy, Crochet-it by Erin Connolly and Deirbhile Burns, Cobra Chess by Qais Beidoun and Duke Mbekwe and Baked by Eimear by Eimear McMahon.

2023 European Trip to Verona, Venice and Lake Garda

Largy College win the DKIT Best Senior Life Sciences Project at Scifest 2023.

James Doran, Kylah Gormley, Karolis Rute, Donna Burns & Kevin Dapkus entered Scifest this year which took place in Dundalk IT on Tuesday 9^th May. Schools from all around the region assembled in the Institute of Technology and set up their projects. The students then had to present their projects to several judges.

Congratulations to 5th year students Karolis Rute, Kevin Dapkus and Donna Burns who are after winning the Best Senior Life Sciences Project at Scifest@College today in DKIT on “A STEM Programme for Primary School teachers to ease the transition from Primary school Science to Junior Cycle Science”.

Largy students had great success at the Monaghan Student Enterprise Awards last Tuesday the 14th of March. Students from Largy won the Junior, Intermediate and Senior Categories, along with special awards for Sustainability and Social Media. Chocolate explosion won the Junior Category with 4 first year girls producing and selling hot chocolate bombs. Spin n' Stitch took the intermediate category (https://instagram.com/spin.andstitch?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=) which were seasonal ornaments made by two 3rd year students. Chapped (https://www.instagram.com/chapped_minicompany/) lip balm won the overall senior category, made and produced by a group of TY students. These 3 groups will now represent Monaghan in the National Final in Croke Park in May. This is the first time Largy will represent Monaghan in all 3 categories in the national final. There were also winners for Largy in other compeitions with Fly by Diner (https://www.instagram.com/fly_by_diner/) winning the sustainability award, and Baked by Eimear (https://www.instagram.com/baked.by.eimear/) winning the Social Media Award. Largy was also represented by Emmas Gems (https://www.instagram.com/_emmasgems/) and Ceara's Cake Jars (https://www.instagram.com/cearas_cake_jars_ty/). Well done to all students involved. We are very proud of all our mini-companies as they were up against some fierce competition and represented the school very well. 

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Chapped - Winner of Senior Category
Spin n' Stitch - Winner of Intermediate Category
Chocolate Explosion - Winner of Junior Category
Fly by Diner - Winner of Sustainaility Award
Baked By Eimear - Winner of Social Media Award
Ceara's Cake Jars
Emma's Gem's

Calling all past pupils! Tell us what you are at now. Please take a minute to complete this survey and let us know what you've been up to since leaving our school.

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Attention Parents and Students for the September 2021 Intake to Largy College. We have now launched our new website, Promotional video (ON HOME PAGE OF WEBSITE)- and now a groundbreaking 360 Virtual tour of our modern, state of the art facilities.

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Update Re: School Transport Application

As you are aware Bus Éireann operates the school transport scheme on behalf of the Department of Education.   Applications for the next academic year are currently being received from parents.   As we currently operate school bus services to your school, I am requesting your co-operation to forward the information below to families of pupils heading into 1^st year in September 2023.   It would also assist if you could display the information on your school’s website or Facebook page.   By doing this we will reach a much wider audience and applications could be received more timely in Bus Éireann.

For the 2022/2023 school year we received 1485 amount of applications for Co. Monaghan and currently we have received 550 new applications 

• Applications for School Transport for the new school year are currently open and can be accessed online at https://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=522
• Details of the scheme are also available on Bus Éireann’s website and https://www.education.ie/en/Parents/Services/School-Transport/
• The closing date for new applications is Friday 28^th April 2023
• Existing school transport applications will automatically roll over into the new school year
• Payments or medical cards will be accepted from 3^rd April 2023 until the 9^th June 2023

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Photos taken by Pauric O'Reilly

All TY students have the opportunity to take part in The Be Well Programme and the YES Programme, which is scheduled to take place in the new year. Can I ask parents to click the link below to Sign the consent form for the Programme.  

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https://form.jotform.com/203523584720351 

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Congratulations to 2nd year students, Dara Courtney, Sean Clerkin & Joshua Brandon who received their excellence in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Award for their project “A Four Seasons Photovoltaic Self-Charging Rover – the Mars PSR”. The project generated plenty of interest on the day from the judges, the general public and Richard Bruton, TD. 

The students have been working on the Mars PSR for months and started by designing and making a protype using equipment found at home or in the lab. Then the second prototype design was completed on Solidworks. For the National Final Sean decided to impress the judges more by learning how to use a new CAD programme called Onshape to design the 3rd prototype of the Mars PSR. They decided to use solar cells on this design. Solar energy is often used to power space missions because it is the only source of energy that does not need to be launched with the spacecraft and can power the spacecraft for several years. Joshua ensured that the solar cells were working to power the PSR. 

While relying on solar panels may seem risky in such a dusty environment on Mars but doing so lessens the amount of mass at launch, lowering cost and complication for the mission and therefore they decided to use solar cells, Joshua ensured they were wired up properly in order to function. It was decided that they needed to make some type of a vacuum system that would blow off the dust that clogs around the moving parts. NASA have had limited success themselves with this idea, but the students wanted to try something anyway and Dara made various protypes of hoover systems that could attach to a Mars Rover. The first two prototypes were designed to suck the dust from the Rover but the 3rd prototype for the final was reconstructed so that it would blow the dust from the solar panels. The finished design also included a microbit to take temperature, light intensity readings and a compass. 

The project had already won the ‘ESERO Discover Space Award’ and ‘Scifest 2022 Runner-Up Best Project Award’ in Dundalk I.T back in April, when they were only in 1st year, which was a remarkablet. achievement.

Largy College Science Week 2022

For Science week the 1^st year students completed a project based on one of the new Junior Cycle Learning Outcomes: ‘Students should be able to design, build and test a device that transforms energy from one form to another in order to perform a function; describe the energy changes and ways of improving efficiency’. The projects were of an excellent standard. The winners from each class were presented with their trophies and the overall winner was presented with the perpetual shield. There was also a quiz for 1^st years in their classes and various other activities with prizes given for all.

The 2^nd year students completed a project based on one of the new Junior Cycle Learning Outcomes also: ‘Students should be able to develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe predictable phenomena observable on Earth, including seasons, lunar phases, and eclipses of the sun and moon’. The projects were of an excellent standard with all students in the year producing finished pieces. The winners from each class and overall winners were presented with their trophies. There was also a quiz for 2^nd years in their classes and various other activities with prizes given for all. Congratulations to all the winners of the quizzes –

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Congratulations to all Largy College Leaving Certificate and LCA2 students who received their results today.

22% of students achieved over 500 points. Tadgh Cosgrove achieved the top result of 590 points in this year’s Leaving Certificate and Joe Maguire received the top LCA result.

Best Overall Result - Tadgh Cosgrove	Top 3 Results - Hannah Cooper, Tadgh Cosgrove and Chloe Brady
Students that achieved over 500 points - Back row: Ciara Gavan, James O'Harte, Aidan Leonard, Keelin O'Grady, Tadgh Cosgrove, Chloe Brady. Front row: Megan Agnew, Hannah Cooper, Hanna Gornyska, Leah Cosgrove, Alicia Greenan.	Top LCA result.

Well done to everyone who entered the Photography Competition through out the year. It was a great success, and we got some beautiful photo’s in throughout each theme. 

There was fierce competition, but one photo that stood out to all, and was the outright winner. The winner of the Photography Competition 2022 was Erin Connolly in 3^rd year and recieved a Tablet.

Top 5 Chosen by the Staff and Students

Well Done to all 6th year students that graduated on Thursday 26th of May.

 Congratulations to all of today's prize winners. Well done on your achievements and hard work throughout the year. 

1st Year Awards

2nd Year Awards

Well Done to all Transition year students on their Graduation. 

Congratulations to Ciara Clerkin who won the 4^th to 6^th year category of the National Final of Scratch 2022 organised by the Irish Computer Society (ICS) which took place on Wednesday 18th May in the Computer Science Building of the University of Limerick.

Scratch is a visual programming language that encourages the development of essential coding skills through fun and interactive learning. It challenges students to create stories, games and animations using software. It encourages innovation and creativity while giving them a taste of possible future careers in the growing IT sector. Ciara made an educational game called Lieutenant Leek. This is a game that can be used by teachers and parents when trying to encourage healthy eating from the food pyramid with children. You play as Lieutenant Leek, a leek whose goal is to reach the top of the food pyramid to put a stop to the sugary foes wreaking havoc across the food pyramid. Each level is based on each stage of the food pyramid, which Leek needs to collect the daily requirements for. Sugar cubes block his path, he must knock them off the stage by shooting tomatoes at them to proceed!

Ciara was delighted with her win, “I plan to go to college next year to study computing and games development so I would like to express my gratitude to the The Irish Computer Society and Lero for running and sponsoring this competition because it has further inspired me to keep studying in the last few weeks of 6^th Year towards my goal and it has encouraged me to make more games!”.

 Ciara was interviewed by two Scratch judges about her project, and she had to be prepared to answer questions about her game. Ciara’s game generated great interest from other students at the competition and she had queues waiting to play it on the day which would have impressed the judges too! Congratulations Ciara, this was a remarkable achievement, and we wish you the best of luck as you prepare for your Leaving Cert exams in a few weeks’ time.

TY Students enjoyed an adventurous day exploring the Marble Arch Caves. The amazing underground limestones caves in the Marble Arch Global Geopark are made from 330-million-year-old limestone and have several water reserves and rivers running through them. Scientists have explained this network of caves as a natural passage created when water dissolved the soft limestone rock of Fermanagh, from the Owenbrean, Aghinrawn and Shruh Croppa rivers of Ireland. This process also created stalactites and stalagmites within the caves; cone shaped rocks that have taken millions of years to form. For our TY Geography students this brought their studies of Limestone and Carbonation to life. Our students completed the afternoon with a hike of Cuilcagh Boardwalk Trail, also nicknamed the Stairway to Heaven Walk which is located in Co. Fermanagh. The route meanders through one of the largest expanses of blanket bog in Northern Ireland, traversing over tracks, boardwalk and staircase. A steep climb is required to reach the viewing platform on Cuilcagh Mountain which provides breath taking views of the surrounding low lands. All students felt a great sense of achievement and enjoyment with the completion of the day’s activities.

2023 Dragons Den

This year's Adrian Kelly, Dragons den took place on Tuesday the 16th of May, and saw 10 amazing mini companies battle it out on stage to be crowned winner. The companies involved were flyby diner by Shannon Wiggins, makes and bakes by Ceara by Ceara Monaghan, Emmas gems by Emma Flynn, RC clothing by Rihanna Corbett, grass magnet by Finn McGoldrick and James Doran, S’more Scents by Sophie Morgan, Ella Kierans, Oisin Kelly and Megan Smith, Awesome hair by Shauna McFadden, Ornagh Smyth and Rachel Donaghy, Crochet-it by Erin Connolly and Deirbhile Burns, Cobra Chess by Qais Beidoun and Duke Mbekwe and Baked by Eimear by Eimear McMahon.

2022 Dragon Den

Our TY students had the opportunity to showcase their enterprise talent in a Dragons Den Competition held in school. Students had to submit a business plan for their company and on the day present a power point presentation to the judges. Following the pitch, the Dragons had the opportunity to question the entrepreneurs on all aspects of their business before deciding which company they would like to invest in.

The judging panel comprised of Lisa Nolan from Aslan Business Coaching, Emmet Colleran of Colleran Accountants, Mark McArdle from McArdle Office Supplies, Shane O’Connor from Eldron Property & Adrian Kelly qualified solicitor and business coach.

First prize, a laptop, was won by Holly Agnew. Her company Sweet Sensations sells quality baking mixes. The product is a delicious bake at home Brownie-Mix, handmade and presented in a 0.5 litre glass jar. It makes for a wonderful gift for both adults and children alike and can be personalised to suit the customer's specific needs. Each jar comes with specified ingredient quantities and easy-to-follow instructions to ensure a successful experience.

Rachel Cooper and Niamh Crawley came second and won a tablet for their company Cozy Hats. This innovative company makes heatable hats that contain heat bags made from rivet wheat grains to keep the head and ears warm throughout the day and has a lavender scent that is used to reduce anxiety.

Rebecca Murphy also won a tablet when she was placed in third place for her company OakCrafts which specialises in producing handmade wood burned pieces of work and quality pet portraits using graphite pencils. Both the sketches and the wood have a varnish finish. Customers can request designs and/or quotes to be burned onto a piece of wood. The sketches are also done by request of a customer and will have a varnish finish with a frame included 

Well done to our prize winners but also to the other 6 companies that competed. The standard was exceptionally high and as a result all 9 companies were awarded with gift vouchers to celebrate their hard work and participation.

Also Congratulations to Holly Agnew & Rebecca Murphy who both also won awards at the Student Enterprise Awards Monaghan. Holly won 'Best Presentation' for her company and Rebecca won Runner Up in the 'Innovation Awards' for her company. Finally, congratulations to Rachel Cooper who won an Intergenerational Award, in a competition led by the Age-Friendly University Office in Dublin City University. 

Largy College scoop top awards at Scifest 2022 in DKIT

Three 1^st year students: Dara Courtney, Sean Clerkin & Joshua Brandon entered Scifest this year which took place in Dundalk IT on Tuesday 10^th May. Schools from all around the region assembled in the Institute of Technology and set up their projects. The students then had to present their projects to several judges.

Dara, Sean and Joshua had a project entitled “A Four Seasons Photovoltaic Self-Charging Rover – the Mars PSR”, on display on the day. We were absolutely delighted when it was announced that their project won the ‘ESERO Discover Space Award’. Furthermore, the students also scooped one of the biggest awards ‘The Scifest 2022 Runner-Up Best Project Award’! Despite Largy’s successes in the past in this competition – it was a remarkable achievement this time for 1^st years to win these awards. By winning the runner up award this means that the students now qualify to have their project considered for participation in the Scifest 2022 National Final which will be held on 25^th November in the Marino Conference Centre in Dublin. Some of the judge’s comments on the day were: “very impressive well thought out project and was presented excellently”, “very informed and well researched project” and “excellent prototyping and assembly”.

As a group they all share one common interest and that is anything that is Earth and Space related! They decided to do a project in some way related to Mars – which seems to be the buzz ‘go-to’ planet now! Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system, and it's the only planet where we have sent rovers to roam the alien landscape. What inspired them to make this vehicle was the current expedition of the NASA Perseverance Mars Rover.

The students have been working on the Mars PSR for months and started by designing and making a protype using equipment found at home or in the lab. Then the final design was completed on Solidworks. They decided to use solar cells on this design. Solar energy is often used to power space missions because it is the only source of energy that does not need to be launched with the spacecraft and can power the spacecraft for several years. While relying on solar panels may seem risky in such a dusty environment on Mars but doing so lessens the amount of mass at launch, lowering cost and complication for the mission and this is why they decided to use solar cells. It was decided that they needed to make some type of a vacuum system that will blow off the dust that clogs around the moving parts. NASA have had limited success themselves with this idea but the students wanted to try something anyway and made various protypes of hoover systems that could attach to a Mars Rover!

They also made a base from Papier Mache that was the same colour as the surface of Mars and they added some coloured sand to give a close resemblance to the surface of Mars as possible. The Rover is built with materials that will not rust on Mars and it is light weight and will be easily transported to Mars if it were to be a full-scale model. The solar panels were facing all sides for the most sunlight exposure. It’s a 4 season Photovoltaic panel rover so it can take energy from the sun all Martian -year-round. 

Best of luck to Dara, Joshua and Sean if they get through to the National Final. They will be working on their project over the summer months and they should know by October if they have been selected. Excellent achievement – well done!

Delphi Adventure Resort

50 TY and 5^th Year students enjoyed a fantastic 3-day residential trip to Delphi Adventure Resort from Wednesday 27^th April – Friday 29^th April. Delphi Resort is Ireland's leading outdoor activity resort, it is set on a 300 acre site located in the heart of the scenically breath-taking Delphi Valley, near Leenane, Co. Galway, Ireland. Our students participated in activities such as High Ropes, Aerial Trek, Ziplining and Kayaking. The students faced their fears while thoroughly enjoying the experience. The glorious weather was an added bonus to an action-packed wonderful stay.

Largy College Wellbeing Week 2022

Largy College’s Prefect Council organised our first “Wellbeing Week” from 4^th - 7^th May. The purpose of this week was to promote a positive sense of wellbeing for students and staff.

The week started off with “Thankful Tuesday” as students all contributed to a wall display where they listed the things in their lives that they are most grateful for.

Our 3^rd Year students had a “Cake and Chats” session in the afternoon while our 5^th Years had an indoor picnic. Some of our 5^th Year Prefects also played music over the intercom system for the week at lunchtime.

“Wellness Wednesday” saw our 2^nd Year students being grouped up (outside their normal friendship groups) to go for a walk and get to know other people within their year a little better. Our 1^st Years practiced some mindful colouring and impressed us all with their art work. As it was our shorter school day the Home Economics department kindly shared cooking videos online for students to carry out at home in the afternoon if they wished.

On “Triumphant Thursday” our LCA students took a break from their upcoming interviews, tasks and exams to have some downtime and treats. Four of our TYP students Kylah, Kayla, Sarah and Megan taught our 1^st Years the “Saturday Night” dance which they performed as an entire group. An additional dance was performed by 1^st Years Chloe, Jessica, Kate and Ruth. Well done to all for this, both videos can be seen on our website.

Wellbeing Week concluded with “Feel Good Friday”, students could nominate a friend (anonymously) who had helped or supported them. There were awards for each year group in this category.

Our TYP students had the opportunity to reflect over the great experiences they have had this year over a cuppa and some treats. Finally, our 6^th Year students got a break from their upcoming exams with an afternoon tea.

This was the inaugural year of “Wellbeing Week” in Largy College and hopefully this will be an annual event that we can build on in the years ahead. Thank you to all staff and students for their help in the organising of the week.

Muffins: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/199aea4a-4982-42b9-ba0a-571dee8d6767

Brown Bread: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/a83eef9f-f30c-44a6-9bf6-4e08bbe22e0e

Chicken Curry:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12WTZIp-Uidq0QsEu9UOzLTVHe-f5UTWM/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12XdqCWddyYDZmQASku4rpVy1wDPeFuLf/view

Omeltte: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12WIE1cVuzT2mWzdnFXdICRUCV-jA-CPT/view

Sausage Rolls: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/57c3cca2-5969-47fd-8924-6cf46fc7f4b1

Congratulations to Holly Agnew and Rebecca Murphy who both won awards at the Student Enterprise Awards Monaghan. 

Holly won 'Best Presentation' with her company Sweet Sensations and Rebecca won Runner Up in the 'Innovation Awards' which was sponsored by Monaghan County Fund. 

Sweet Sensations

John McEntegart (Monaghan LEO), Holly Agnew, Pamela Kerr (Monaghan LEO) and Mr Curran

OakCrafts

John McEntegart (Monaghan LEO), Rebecca Murphy, Pamela Kerr (Monaghan LEO) and Mr Curran

Keep up to date with our Enterprise Pragramme Here: https://largy.ie/index.php/transition-year/enterprise

Now Enrolling for Special Class for autism, starting September 2022. There are 6 places availible. Please find the Admissions' Policy and Application forms below. 

Admissions' Policy addendum for Special Class: Addendum_to_the_Admissions_Policy.pdf

Please find the link for Form A and Form B below:

Form A: Largy_College_Application_Form_Form_1_-_Amended_for_Special_Class.pdf

Form B: Largy_College_Acceptance_Form_Form_2_Amended_for_Special_Class.pdf

Attention Parents and Students for the September 2021 Intake to Largy College. We have now launched our new website, Promotional video (ON HOME PAGE OF WEBSITE)- and now a groundbreaking 360 Virtual tour of our modern, state of the art facilities.

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• 1. Mr. Seamus Roche

2. Leah Murphy

3. Ben Rooney 

4. Chloe Wall

5. Ellen McCarron

We would like to thank all if those who entered the first ever Largy Photography Competition! In total there were over 100 photo's entered into the competition. The theme of Autumn was well representated in all photos.  The standard was very high and the judges found it very hard to narrow it down to one winner. Below you can find the top 5 pictures submitted and a quick video of all enteries. Follow our competition here: https://largy.ie/index.php/extra-curricular/photography-competition

1. Bethan O'Neill

2. Pauric O'Reilly

3. Fionn McFadden

4. Killian McFadden

5. Dervla Flanagan

All entries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gx5923RR8M

Open night for Largy College will take place this Thursday the 21st of October, starting at 7pm