This week was hugely successful for the TY’s and we can’t wait to tell you all about it!

Fame

The long awaited week of performance, singing, costume and non-stop rehearsal finally came! The “famed” TY musical students put on the performance of the year from Tuesday to Thursday of the fabulous musical Fame! This musical told of a group of talented teenagers who attend PA, the Performing Arts High School and just like their characters the TY’s are extremely talented. Weeks of hard work and a huge amount of dedication and commitment finally paid off as the girls took to the stage to perform on opening night! These talented girls have been rehearsing and getting ready from well before Christmas with the help of their brilliant dedicated musical teachers Ms.Reilly and Ms.Finnegan! Their rehearsals could be heard from around the school and it is safe to say that all years (especially the other TY’s) couldn’t wait to see the full show! Cast 1 and 2 between them dazzled and amazed all three of the nights as well as at the matinee show for St.Pius GNS and their energy and enthusiasm never faded! A huge well done and congratulations to the girls and a massive thank you to Ms.Finnegan and Ms.Reilly for all their hard work and time. We think it is safe to say we have future stars in our midst! We will now hear from a couple of cast members about their favourite musical moments!

Rebecca Morgan (Carmen Diaz)- I have so many  favourite moments from the musical. The dress rehearsals and backstage in the lecture theatre when everyone sang all their songs and the closing night was the best. I loved the atmosphere and we all felt like a big happy family. Side stage was so funny, especially before the opening and the chants were the best of course! 

Sophie Worth (Iris Kelli)- My favourite moment was the weekend rehearsals because this was when the musical really came together and the excitement of the show started. I also loved the tech rehearsals, getting mic'd was great! 

Jasmine Moran (Joe Vegas)- My favourite moment was singing the Teachers' Argument backstage and doing the dances, and also everyone laughing at my lines. It made me so happy!

Aisling O’Reilly (Ms.Sherman)- My favourite part was working on the Teachers Argument with Alyx Harmon who played Ms.Bell and getting on the balcony part of the stage was surreal. The getting ready was great and I loved getting into character between the hair, makeup and costume 

Eabha Garry (Iris Kelli)- I loved the pizza party because it was a great way to start the musical week! I loved the tech runs because it was great prep and we got to see the whole show come together!

Julianne Walsh (Grace Lamb- Lambchops)- The highlight of my musical experience was getting to dress up as if we were living life in the 80’s and for me dressing as grungy as possible! The makeup and my eyeliner was certainly a new experience, I had a team of MUA’s (my fellow cast members!) to do my makeup before shows! It was an unforgettable experience and I have such great memories from it!

Junk Kouture

OLS are delighted to have “All Dolled Up” , a stunning dress designed and made by Louisa Rath, Alex Quirke and Ella Dixon representing them in the National Junk Kouture final! This will take place on the 4th of May in the 3 Arena and tickets went on sale this week. We can’t wait to see the TY’s come out to support and we wish the girls the absolute best of luck!

Sign Up’s

On the google classroom this week the TY’s were given the opportunity to sign up to help coach an additional needs programme in Faughs GAA club. They are contacting local schools to see if any TY students would be interested in helping out, no experience needed, just Garda vetting.  It would be for an hour on a Sunday lunchtime, in six week blocks. If this is something you would be interested in please contact Frank in Faughs for more information at Childrensofficer.faughshurling.dublin@gaa.ie

Payment for the safeguarding course is now available on easy payments so make sure if you have signed up to log on and pay to ensure that you can take part in the course! 

Barcelona Trip

A final reminder to everyone attending  to ensure that you have all the correct documentation to hand for the trip. What you need can be found on google classroom. We hope that everyone has a thoroughly enjoyable trip and we can’t wait to see the photos and hear all about it when you all get back!

Finally well done to everyone for all the hard work they put in this term, we are very proud of all our TY’s! We hope you all have a lovely restful Easter break and see you back for the final term where we have lots to come!

Saibh Gormley and Maria Hennelly

Contributed to by: Rebecca Morgan, Sophie Worth, Jasmine Moran, Aisling O’Reilly, Eabha Garry and Julianne Walsh

Our TYs were presented with their Junior Cycle Profile of Achievement today, a document formalising their Junior Cycle exam results, Classroom Based Assessment (CBA) successes and their learning over the 3 years of Junior Cycle in Other Areas of Learning. Congratulations to all!

Please see a message for parents/guardians of 6th Year from Ms Kinsella: https://youtu.be/HpkHCJHIXFk 

We wish all our 6th Years the very best with their orals over the coming days!

What a hectic few weeks! 

In the sporting world, we offer huge congratulations to Joy Ralph on receiving her U17 Irish Cap for soccer, to Molly Mullally, the new National Indoor Under 19 Triple Jump champion and our own U14 Gaelic Football teams who have progressed to the next stage of the Leinster championship! All wonderful achievements!

Our Active School Flag class, the Charity Committee and the Greens Schools Committee have been busy this term - see the pdf update attached!

Our Senior A hockey team took on an U21 team from Our Lady's Club for a most enjoyable display of current and past pupil skill and competition!

Today, poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin visited OLS to talk to the 5th Years. She is one of the prescribed poets on their Leaving Cert course and after reading some of her work, Eiléan answered really insightful questions from the students about her poems and the craft of writing.

Well done to our TY Musical and Enterprise classes for a magical musical week!

Our 3rd and 6th Years have been flat out with practical exams and project submissions this week - well done to all involved and best of luck to our 6th Years over the coming 6 days with their oral exams - you've got this!!

Click into the gallery for some more images!

Happy Easter to the OLS community!

Please see the attached letter from the Principal.

Many thanks.

The 3rd Year Mock Examination reports are now available on VSware. 

Congratulations to our fifteen UCD Entrance Scholars who were recognised at an award ceremony in UCD this week. The students from the LC Class of 2022 are: 

Emily Aasen, Aisling Cahill, Laura Dunne, Catherine Galvin,

Sarah Howard, Roisin McDaid, Aoife McCarthy, Niamh Murray,

Roisin O’Neill, Aislinn O’Shea, Orla O’Toole,

Lorna Sheehan, Julie Vaughan, Ellen Ward, June Polgolla 

The 6th Year Mock Examination reports are now available on VSware. 

Please read the attached letter regarding an upcoming 1st Year trip.