The Student Council for the School Year 2011/2012 has now been elected. Students in the CBS , through the Council, can become involved in the affairs of the school by working in partnership with school management and staff for the benefit of the whole school.
The Student Council consists of:
6th Year: Stephen Hally and Donagh Kavanagh
5thYear: Eamonn Ryan and Darragh Coleman
TY: Adam Houlihan and Sean Kiely
3rd Year : Robert Shine and Donagh Looby
2ndYear: Mark Allen, Patrick Ryan and Aiden Kirwan
1stYear: Tiernan O Connell, Mark Phelan and Kealon Daly
Liaison Teacher: Ms. Brenda Hunt
CBS Dungarvan received the news during the week that our application for participation in a Comenius School Partnership had been successful. The Comenius Project is part of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme. The title of the project is Chemistry as a Cultural Enterprise and it will involve our 5th year Chemistry students working closely with other students in Austria, Italy, Netherlands and Cyprus. As part of this programme our students will be involved in a number of week long exchange visits.
This is a wonderful opportunity for CBS students to experience Chemistry lessons in other European classrooms. University courses and Industry today involves Professionals working closely with colleagues in other countries and our students will now have a taste of this type of international team work. It is a two year programme and the first meeting is scheduled for mid October 2010 in St Veit in southern Austria.
Dungarvan students Joseph Foley, Philip Coffey and Gary Hurley generated widespread interest at the Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering Exhibition at Cork Institute of Technology on Thursday last. Their research into the compression and tension forces that act on the I-beam members of a model Truss Bridge using state-of-the art datalogging techniques was highly commended by CIT engineering personnel and by visitors alike. Their monitoring of the forces on the bridge in real-time as a model car traversed the track was achieved using load cells. This type of analysis would help engineers avoid another Tacoma Bridge type disaster according to computer wizard Joseph Foley. Acting School Principal Mr John Murphy who is a staunch advocate of datalogging technology and is a Lead Tutor with Discover Science and Engineering expressed great satisfaction at the manner in which the CBS students communicated with visitors to the exhibition. Dungarvan CBS is the only secondary school ever to present at the exhibition. The CBS boys will now present their project to a general public audience in the Boole 4 Lecture Theatre in UCC on Thursday 21st May at 7pm. On this occasion a team from each of eight schools from Cork and Waterford will deliver a fifteen minute lecture on their chosen research topic under the project banner Sensors in Transition.
Both Boyle's Law and and Walton's contribution to particle physics constitute significant sections of the Irish Leaving Certificate Senior Physics syllabus and a number of enterprising CBS students under the guidance of their school Principal, Mr John Murphy,decided to put a recent consignment of Vernier equipment, including their new GPS sensor,to good use. Their novel and interesting project involved making Boyle's and Walton's work more meaningful by visiting their respective places of birth and while there using the Vernier equipment to investigate some of the scientific theories of these two brilliant men.
At Lismore Castle, situated on the banks of the River Blackwater, birthplace of Robert Boyle, the Vernier LabQuest and pressure sensor were both used by the students to collect data and verify Boyle's Law.
At Abbeyside in Dungarvan, the birthplace of ETS Walton, the Vernier Radiation Monitor was put to work to measure background count rate at the very spot where the father of particle physics first saw the light of day! And as a coup de grace, on the journey between Boyle's and Walton's birthplaces, the students employed the new Vernier GPS sensor and Labquest to graphically retrace their steps on Google map. The image below shows the route they took. The colour of the path represents the speed they were travelling, while red indicates higher speeds and violet slower speeds.
Annual Students’ Mass
Our annual Mass was held in the Friary Church on Monday, September 21st. School Chaplain, Fr. Paul Waldron, officiated at the Mass which was concelebrated by our new Parish Priest, Fr. William Ryan.
First Year Parents’ Night
A very pleasant function was held in the school on Thursday night, September 25th to allow the parents of our new First Year classes to familiarise themselves with the whole business of life in Dungarvan CBS.
Golf
Congratulations to the West Waterford Senior Cup Golf Team on reaching the All Ireland Final; all the more so because all the members happen to be pupils or past pupils of Dungarvan CBS: Gary Hurley, Mark Shanahan, Philip Walsh, Philip Spratt and David Curran.
Study Skills
A Study Skills workshop for 3rd Year,5th Year and 6th Year students was held in our school on October 13th and 14th, 2009. On the night of October 13th, a Seminar for parent(s)/guardian(s) on this topic was held in the school .
Oysterhaven
On Friday 18th September, Mr Kelly and Mr Morley and all our first years headed off on their annual trip to Oysterhaven in Cork. Upon arrival at 10 am the students were handed over to the capable hands of the Oysterhaven team who have co-ordinated this day on behalf of Dungarvan CBS for over six years. The purpose of the day was to give our first years an opportunity to get to know one another and hopefully foster bonds that will last well into adulthood. Morning activities were water based including rafting and kayaking. In the afternoon activities were land based where the students were taken through an assault course where the order of the day was "mud"!