Arklow CBS School News For Week Ending 21st October 2022
Date for the Diary
Arklow CBS Parents’ Council have organised a Music Night fundraiser on Friday 18th September at 8.30pm in the Arklow Bay Hotel. It is sure to be a fun filled night with music by Black Cherry, DJ Donal and Séan Fox and lots of fabulous raffle prizes. Tickets €15 are available from the school office, CBS EasyPayments or on the door on the night.
Upcoming County Final
Congratulations to all of our students involved with both AGB and Aughrim minor Gaelic football teams on their recent semi-final victories. The sides will now face each other in the minor county final on Sunday 31st October. Best of luck in the final!
Maths Week
This week we celebrated maths week in school. As part of that students were asked to solve three brain teasing maths puzzles and to submit their answers to Mr. Lally or Mr. Doyle. Prize winners will be announced next week.
Junior Cycle Results
The State Examinations Commission have announced that this year’s Junior Certificate results will be released on Wednesday 23rd November.
Paired- Reading for Pleasure Programme
Transition Year students paired with First Years in a Reading for Pleasure Programme for the first time this week. Last Monday first year students visited the library in Arklow where they became members and withdrew books. Following this, First year students are now reading these books with the help from their transition year mentor while creating a booklet with chapter summaries and learning new vocabulary.
Gaelic Football News
Congrats to the second year Gaelic football team who won their second league game on Tuesday with a comprehensive win over Ramsgrange Community School. The game was played on the AGB pitch. While the score was very positive, stronger opposition will test the lads as they progress in the competition! Senior and Junior training continues every Tuesday after school.
Tennis News
Congratulations to Transition Year student Josh Storey on being crowned Arklow Tennis Club U16’s and U18’s champion 2022. Super achievement, well done Josh!
Basketball News
Arklow CBS played local rivals Gaelcholáiste na Mara and came out with a comprehensive victory that puts them one step closer to reaching a playoff place. Standing in their way will be Gorey Community School on the 8th of November where victory will put the Arklow Boys through. Thursday’s game was another step closer and it was an excellent team performance which saw the CBS safely to the win. The first quarter saw a dominant performance rewarded with a 15-4 score line. Patrick Dickenson led the line with a superb performance which saw him net 9 of the scores, with three of those points coming from free throws.The second quarter put the result in little doubt with 12 points to 2 in favour of the CBS. Jeddy Osuji was the main scorer in that quarter 8 points. The CBS kept the score board ticking over in the final two quarters to win on a show line of 39 points to 8. MVP on the day was Patrick Dickenson with 15 points, followed by Jeddy Osuji with 8. Completely the scoring was Nazar Sykal and Tony Xue with 4 points each and with 2 points each were Yehor Sykal, Hugo Merino and Niall O'Donovan.
Soccer News
Our u15 soccer team played their second game of the year on Thursday playing in the first round of the Leinster Cup. The lads left a stormy Arklow and travelled down the motorway to a dry Kilmore to play a big and physical Bridgetown College team. The CBS boys started off slow scoring two goals, which we’re followed up by two good Bridgetown goals. Leaving the game 2-2 at halftime. Thankfully Arklow started to come to life in the second half by putting away their chances, which helped to bring them to a comfortable 7-3 victory.
Camino de Santiago
A huge well done to first year student Ross Landy on his impressive achievement of finishing his Camino walk. Ross completed an amazing 130km trek enduring horrendous weather along the way!
School News
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