Congratulations to first year student Jack Caffrey who was the overall winner of the third two finalists in the National Scratch Coding Competition held in the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick on Wednesday 25th April. 
Scratch is a visual programming language that enables students to create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music and art and is developed by the MIT Media Lab. Jack's project was a platform game with different characters to choose from and various levels to explore. Well done Jack! 
​#techweekirl #KWETB

Students have been very busy during Healthy Living Week attending Breakfast Club each morning and participating in events such as Soccer Tournament, Sumba, Basketball Tournament, Badminton, and Circuits at lunch time. 
Sports day will take place on Friday 27th April and students will participate in a number of activities including a 5k run.

There will be an information evening for parents in September 2018 on the new Junior Cycle Award.
 
Subjects are coming on board in phases
 
Current 3rd years– English
Current 2nd years– English, Science & Business Studies                                                             
Current 1st years– English, Science, Business, Irish, Languages & Art
Incoming 1st years- English, Science, Business, Irish, Languages, Art, Maths, Music, History & Geography
 
 
Assessment
 
Students will do a class room-based assessment (CBA) in 2ndand 3rdyear. They
Class Room Based Assessment (CBA). They will also do an Assessment Task (AT) in 3rdyear and a state exam at the end of 3rdyear.
 
Important Information for 2ndYear students about Class Room Based Assessment
 
 
CBA1 in English is an oral presentation
CBA1 in Business is a project based on the idea of enterprise in action
CBA1 in Science is an extended experimental investigation
 
Important Dates for 2ndYears 
 
Business projects are completed between March 12th and 20th April.
 
Science investigations are completed between March 20th and May 18th.
 Oral presentations are completed between  27th April and 18th May 2018. Students will be given the exact date and time of their presentation by individual teachers.
Results
 
All CBAs are taken at a common level and no gradesare given. One of the below descriptions is awarded instead. The majority of students will receive in line with expectations.
 

• Exceptional
• Above expectations
• In line with expectations
• Yet to meet expectations

 

On Friday last, the 2nd Year Art class took a trip with Ms. O'Sullivan and Ms. Meldrum to the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. The Art students have been focusing on the life drawing section of their Junior Cert, and so we visited the National Portrait collection. The students learned about the the portraits, both the people in the and about the artists who painted them. They then chose their favourite portrait to do a sketch of as part of their classwork. A great day was had by all!