If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means,
and if you find truth you will become invincible.
We look forward to welcoming Niamh Smyth, TD to our school this afternoon to unveil our Creative Engagement Project for this school year titled “In Our Place of Learning“. Ms. Smith will also unveil our new Well-being spaces throughout the school.
Wednesday 25th November saw a group of Royal School Cavan pupils travel to their sister school in Armagh to partake in this year’s Royal Schools Debate. All 5 Royal Schools converged to dispute a number of topics ranging from sport to freedom fighting. Royal School Cavan was represented by myself, Tiwani Akinlabi, and Maxwell O’Keefe, who proposed that ‘In sport, winning is everything’. We put forward a valiant effort, giving our Dungannon opponents a hard time. Unfortunately, we were beaten in a close battle at the quarter final stage.
A short break was given before the semi-finals, and the victors were the two Armagh teams, one of schools to have a debating club. The topic for the final was undisclosed, and was revealed 20 minutes before the final. An intense debate based on whether ‘you should take the road less travelled’ ensued, but in the end, the Armagh 1 team prevailed. A big thank you to Royal School Armagh for it’s hospitality.
Article by: Tiwani Akinlabi
Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys TD will visit our school next Monday to unveil our Peace Sculpture which was created by TY stduetns in conjuction with Creative Engagement, NAPD. View our gallery below and also read about how the project came about and its meaning. A video about our project can be viewed here.
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Our sculpture is entitled “Heiwa”, this is the Japanese for “Peace”. This idea came from many weeks of brainstorming, constructing and deconstructing. As a school we are very lucky to have a diversity of cultures such as Japanese, German, Lithuanian, Nigerian, Dutch, Egyptian, Spanish, Canadian, Malaysian and Filipino. In particular there are five Japanese pupils here for the year and two of these were directly involved in the creation of the sculpture.
During art class, Miname and Shoko taught us how to do the Japanese art of origami. We were fascinated by this craft and its meaning.
The story goes that after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, there were many children suffering from leukaemia. One girl in particular believed that if she 1000 origami cranes she would fight the battle against leukaemia. Unfortunately she didn’t survive. As a result, Japanese pupils make origami cranes and deliver them to the site of the bomb.
Artist Joe Mallon and Ms. Burns encouraged the core group to experiment with wire, cardboard, thread and found objects. We decided to make 18 origami cranes out of stainless steel and decorate them with fired porcelain pieces. Every TY pupil played a vital role in this to make each piece unique, individual and eye-catching. Finally we displayed the cranes on stainless steel tubing at the front of the school where they represent the different cultures in our school
We learned many key skills such as problem solving, teamwork, building in clay, decorating clay and firing.
Extra Curricular activities that are available for the year 2019 -2020 are posted under the tab School Life >> Extra Curricular.
The theme for this year was Happiness is… Congratulations to our second and first place winners.
Congratulations Leanne Bell and Anita Armstrong who are one of the top 50 groups to get through in the ‘One Good Idea’ project, for their project ‘Wind of Change’, promoting and educating the community about wind energy.
The three activities were Pop Up Picnic, Tree of Gratitude and Worry Balloon Release.
