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Christmas Movie (Short).mov Merry Christmas to all from Loreto Balbriggan  #cominghome #christmastimeiscomingclose #maryward #paststudents #lorbal #tyfilm #joy Music and lyrics by Laura Masterson and Shauna Carroll. Directed and edited by Cleo Gallen, Andrea Hickey, Aoife Hickey, Tatiyana McKay, Abigail O’Leary
Market Day is Coming – Share in Our Success For the last few weeks budding entrepreneuring TY students across all seven form classes have been facing a mammoth challenge. It takes vigour, determination and intelligence and the weak will be divided from the strong! No, it's not the Loreto Hunger Games - it's Fingal County Business Enterprise!  Now that the challenge has been firmly laid down and as deadlines draw delicately closer, we (TY Class of 2018-2019) are building our own business empire one step at a time. Here are three ‘insider trading’ tips on how to build TY business success:  ·     Team Build by drawing pigs o    Personalities clash, heads roll, and greed quickly becomes individual. Not everyone can be the big boss so delegating responsibility to a wider team who knows each other’s strengths and weaknesses is vitally important in getting ahead of the competition. Yes, some of us students have team members located in different form classes, but overcomin

EU Contest for Young Scientist

Our Visit to the EU Contest for Young Scientists On Monday, the 17 th of September, a group of very lucky students from 1 st to 4 th year stood in the school courtyard, shivering with the cold, waiting to go to the EU Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS).  Ireland was very lucky this year to host this prestigious competition, and we were excited for it as well, despite the bitter cold as we stood waiting outside. Finally, warm coaches arrived to take us to the RDS, where the exhibition was being held. Our excitement began to build throughout the journey. The exhibition was better than we had hoped! We met some past – pupils on arrival, such as Diana Bura, Khadija Gull and Renuka Chintapalli. We strolled around the exhibitions all morning, marvelling at each project, and yearning to some day reach this impossibly high standard. We learned how these students were innovating and changing the lives of many.  Among my countless favourites, a project I particularly liked was