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THE IRISH TIMES MEETS LCC
A massive thank you to all staff members and 6th year students who were involved in the Irish Times interview and video article, recorded over a four hour period on 19/05/21. These include Diane Birnie, Grainne Malone, Jason Carey, Elaine Brady, John Grimes, Una Howley, Marion Freeman and Emma Geraghty with Stephen Brett, Andrew Purcell working behind the scenes to keep things running smoothly. Thanks were expressed to the wider DDLETB support teams that have worked closely with us during the last year and in particular to the Digital Support Team led by Sam Conroy. A special thanks to the Prefect Team, mentioned in the article and to the students who took part in the SPHE class that was described. The mini life stories of our students are wonderful and their quotes do your heart good. Their maturity and positive outlook on events of the past 18 months were reassuring to hear and their display of resilience and confidence was positively commented on throughout the morning by the IT educational editor, Carl O’Brien and videographer Enda O’Dowd. The video piece highlights an SPHE resilience class designed by Emma Geraghty and co-presented with Marion Freeman. This content has also been adapted and presented to 1st year students as part of our whole school approach to student pastoral care, health and wellbeing – ‘Aontas’.
Incoming 1st year information evening
We held a very successful incoming 1st year information evening on Tuesday 19th January 2021. Over 100 people attended our Teams Live Event. All of the relevant information can be found on our dedicated webpage: Incoming First Years and the recording of the information evening can be viewed here.
Important Letter for Parents/Guardians 9th December 2020
Please read important letter for parents/guardians here:
LucanCC presents “Supporting your child in school during Covid-19” with Psychologist Evan Costigan.
6th/5th/3rd Year Parents/Guardians! LucanCC presents “Supporting your child’s in school during Covid-19” with Psychologist Evan Costigan.
The National Parents Council presents:
A series of conversations with Dr Colman Noctor Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist. Click on the link below for more details.
Addition to Code of Behaviour for Covid-19 protocols
Students and Parents/Guardians please note:
The Board of Management have approved the following additional policy provided by the Department of Education relating to students following all arrangements in place for the health and safety of our students. It can be read in full here: Lucan CC Covid-19 Health and Safety Policy
Lucan Community College’s 2020 graduates return
Some of Lucan Community College’s 2020 graduates paid us a visit last Wednesday afternoon. The Parents Association were collecting the balance of money for Debs tickets (postponed until November with additional backup dates if needed).
Ms Mellet arranged to distribute memory envelopes that some of the students had written in 1st year to their future 6th year selves. There were smiles and laughter as students read out some of their 1st year hopes and dreams and Ms Clarke, Year head and other teachers popped out to say socially distanced hellos.
In his letter to future self Stanko wrote: “I would like to get enough points on the LC for my dream job – Air traffic controller” and is now off to study for this career in DCU.
Ciara asked herself – “did I fail Junior Cert Tech Graph” and was relieved that she hadn’t. She wasn’t so sure if her aspiration to improve her hand writing had been successful as yet though.
Lorcan had wondered: “Will I be the next Usain Bolt”. Not yet he smiled!
Students also sought out teachers to pass on thanks for their support during the remote learning period and throughout their time in school and lovely cards and emails of thanks were received.
Our guidance team was in contact with most of the class of 2020 and were supporting students as they made choices for the year ahead. We are delighted that most of our students are now on a path to further study, training or starting employment. Well done for weathering the storm of Leaving CertIficate 2020.
LC Update for 2020 Graduates
Dear 2020 Graduates of Lucan Community College
I wish to inform you that the school stage of the Calculated Grades process is now complete and was submitted to the Calculated Grades portal last Saturday.
Your teachers put a lot of thought and effort into completing the process and school management worked hard during June to ensure that all parts of the process were carried out and results entered exactly as instructed by the Calculated Grades section of the Department.
May I thank you and your parents on behalf of the school community for the manner in which you dealt with the final weeks of term and the absence of inappropriate pressure or interference in the calculated grades process. It was a challenging role for teachers to take on – but it was made that much easier by the knowledge that you put your trust in them to be fair, unbiased and professional.
My congratulations to your Student of the Year Emma Fallon and your Overall Student of College Alex Hanley (announced by video on our school website) and to all of the finalists and nominees.
We will post out your school reference and your Year Book in the coming weeks and we hope that they bring a smile to your face and a renewed sense of pride in all you accomplished during your time with us. When school restarts and circumstances are clearer, we will start to plan for a graduation and prize-giving event and will be in touch again. As your school email addresses will no longer be active in the new school year, communication will be by text message through your parent/guardian mobile phone.
We hope that June has been a more relaxing month for you and that everything will work out well for you in the coming months until the results are released and in the coming years as you map out your future.
It was a pleasure knowing each and every one of you.
Take care,
Diane Birnie
THANK YOU- to local businesses and the parents association.
‘Thank you’ to all the local businesses and to the Parent Association for your amazing support and hard work.
Press release-National Parents Council
Dear Principals,
In these unprecedented times we appreciate your efforts in keeping all of our young people safe.
As we received news we will endeavour to circulate it to as many as we can. If possible we ask you to circulate this announcement from IEPA to your Parents/Guardians to help in any way possible to lessen the impact of not being is school as much as possible.
If there are other measures that we can do to help you in any way please let us know.
Kind regards,
Aideen Nicholson
National Parents Council
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Final Leaving Cert exam today for our Politics and Society students. Well done to our students for their calm and steady engagement in the exams. So proud of you all. A big thank you to the large team of people who kept things running smoothly during June. A great achievement!
Final Leaving Cert exam today for our Politics and Society students. Well done to our students for their calm and steady engagement in the exams. So proud of you all. A big thank you to the large team of people who kept things running smoothly during June. A great achievement!