Month: November 2021

History Trip to Derry

On Monday 22 November, Leaving Cert History students embarked on a trip to Derry with Ms. Reale and Mr. Hodgins. On arrival, they enjoyed a guided walking tour around the city walls where they learned of Derry’s past and in particular the “Siege of Derry 1688”. This was followed by a visit to the “Apprentice […]

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Chess Tournament

Students in CBS Roscommon took on twenty-eight other schools in an online chess tournament last week. Aaron, Axel, Ciaran, Craig, Danny, Mikus and Antoni succeeded in making it to the National finals on 6th December. Best of luck to all students and many thanks to Ms O’Connor for co-ordinating the event.

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Anti-Bullying Course

The CBS will be hosting an Anti-Bullying workshop delivered by Dublin City University Anti-Bullying Centre FUSE team. This is a free parents webinar for all FUSE participating schools, which includes the CBS. This will take place on Tuesday, December 14th from 7 pm to 8 pm. Details to register will be sent out to parents.

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Senior Football

Well done to our Senior Footballers who defeated Scoil Mhuire Strokestown yesterday in the Roscommon School A championship. The result now means we are qualified for the Final of the competition.

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CSPE Courthouse Visit

CBS Second Years visited Roscommon Courthouse as part of their CSPE course. They received a tour of the courtroom and a talk on the both the role of the court and the people who work there. They also had the opportunity to stage a mock trial and witness how such proceedings would take place. Students also […]

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BT Young Scientist Press Brief

CBS Transition year students Brian O’Connor, Adam Murphy and TJ Smyth have been selected to compete in the Virtual Finals of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition in January 2022.  Their research project is ‘Investigating the student experience of learning during a pandemic’. This project was one of 550 selected projects out of a total of 1400 […]

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The Simon Community

Last Friday, a representative of The Simon Community held a workshop for the TY’s of CBS Roscommon. He spoke to the lads about homelessness, causes of homelessness and what the Simon Community do to help people who suffer from homelessness. It was a very insightful talk and opened the TY’s eyes to how prominent homelessness is in Ireland. They heard about ordinary people who suddenly found themselves homeless, and the impact […]

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Junior Football

CBS Roscommon Junior footballers met Garbally last week in Rockfield in Oran. The game started off strong for CBS Roscommon with them securing a few points early on. Garbally came back strong and scored 2 goals. CBS reacted quickly and scored a few impressive points and two goals, and began to pull away from Garbally.  In the second half it looked all CBS with scores coming from the strong forward line. Garbally couldn’t stick with CBS and by the second […]

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Stand Up Awareness Week

Last week marked Stand Up Awareness Week where schools across the country joined in supporting of the LGBTI+ community. In class this week our students engage in some lessons which provided greater knowledge and understanding on this topic. We recently looked at the importance of our core values:  respect, tolerance, acceptance and equality –  in […]

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