January 2018

The Parent Teacher Association is hosting a ‘Wellness Mindset’ session for parents and staff on Thursday, January 25^th at 7pm.

During this academic year, Year 14 Business Studies classes have worked on two projects as part of their GCE. These projects allowed them to create and develop a business. They sold candy canes and chocolate santas at christmas time as part of the A2 coursework. The profits made from these projects was then donated to the Foyle Hospice, a local charity. The total amount raised by the department, with the help of the entire school, was £410.14. We are delighted to be donating the money raised by the Business Studies Department to such a worthy cause.

The PTA were delighted to have Shauna Quigley deliver a ‘Wellness Mindset’ session to parents yesterday evening.

Year 8, 13 and 14 Geography students planting trees in the school grounds on the 19th January 2018.

Year 9 students received their YCT 1 Mandarin Certificates on Friday 19th January.  Lumen Christi College had the most students entered for this exam in Northern Ireland and of the 116 students who participated in the exam, 16 of them got full marks and received special certificates for outstanding performance from the Confucius Institute NI.

Declan Maher successfully completed his Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award in 2017 – receiving his award from Lawrence McBride (Far+Wild Director) and Mrs Harkin (Lumen Christi College Duke of Edinburgh Co-ordinator).

Year 12 French students attended a preparatory workshop in Loreto Secondary School, Letterkenny, facilitated by Ms Niamh Lynch, previous-winner of the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad. The workshop gave students the opportunity to work through challenging linguistics puzzles by practising their problem-solving strategies and linguistics skills. Niamh also passed on her own top tips for deciphering the perplexing linguistics puzzles. Almost 4000 students will compete in the first round of the AILO 2018 competition in schools across Ireland on 31st January. Our four Year 12 students; Leo Doherty, Orlaith Kelly, Anitta Sibin and Alexandra Thompson, will now act as Language Leaders and mentor our junior students in preparation for the competition. Good luck to all our competitors!

Key Stage 3 Art and Design students designed posters to celebrate Chinese Year of the Dog 2018. A selection of posters were entered into a Mandarin competition with one of our Year 10 student achieving first prize in Northern Ireland. Two additional students also won an award and all three students will attend the celebration ceremony with their Art teacher in Belfast in March 2018.

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The Principal and Staff invite Primary 7 pupils and their parents / carers to our Open Evening on Monday 22nd January 2018 from 4pm - 7pm.

Principal's Address: 4.00pm in College Assembly Hall.
Guided tours of departments will be provided by pupils.

Parents of current pupils will be available to share their experience with visitors.

Please contact the college on 02871362595 to advise of any provisions required for anyone needing disability access arrangements on the Open Evening.