Some second year students in Coláiste Bhaile Chláir are celebrating Christmas early. Over the past few weeks students have been making Christmas shoeboxes as part of the Team Hope’s project in which they deliver shoeboxes full of Christmas presents to disadvantaged children in Eastern Europe and Africa. Students in Coláiste Bhaile Chláir wanted to go… Read more »
Claregalway’s Coláiste Bhaile Chláir has been selected as a 2014–2015 Microsoft Showcase School, having been recognised as a global leader in successful integrations of technology with teaching and learning. The school was selected by Microsoft for its excellence in transforming its learning environment to deliver more personalised education to students, using mobile and cloud technology to… Read more »
Science Week 2014 Coláiste Bhaile Chláir is running a number of science related activities this year again to mark Science Week 2014—the theme this year is The Power of Science. Science Club is up and running with students decorating the school in Wild Science Facts and getting stuck into some slimy experiments to show the… Read more »
A site has been purchased for the expansion of Claregalway’s secondary school which will ensure that the school campus will be able to cater for a projected enrolment of 1,000 pupils in five years’ time. The site of about fourteen acres has been purchased on lands beside the existing Coláiste Bhaile Chláir in Claregalway Corporate Park. Principal Alan… Read more »
Students and teachers alike at Coláiste Bhaile Chláir have ditched the text book There was a time when teaching without a textbook would have been impossible. That time is gone. Today, Claregalway College in County Galway has made the impossible become true—with the help of Microsoft. “Our school is two years old” says Principal Alan… Read more »
The following essay was written by first year Coláiste Bhaile Chláir student Louise Mahoney The school community in Claregalway secondary school is very strong. With roughly 400 pupils in first and second year, there is a lot of sharing, communication and co-operation needed to keep the school running smoothly. Mr Mongey and all the staff have… Read more »
Maths Week Ireland All students at Coláiste Bhaile Chláir are participating in Maths Week 2014 from 11–19th of October. Maths Week Ireland promotes, awareness, appreciation and understanding of maths through a huge variety of events and activities. All first year students are getting to visit NUIG to attend an Information Technology lecture and a maths… Read more »
Hello! We are Fatima and Ariadna, two Spanish students. We are here in Ireland for a month to learn English in the Claregalway Secondary School and every Saturday we go to different places. Last weekend we went to the Aran Islands. We woke up at 7:00am because the bus arrived at 7:55am. We met with… Read more »
Coláiste Bhaile Chláir students crowned Young EdTech Innovators of the year Our young entrepreneurs spent a gruelling five weeks working on their technology solutions for teaching and learning problems. At the end of which one group went forward to represent the school to face the Dragons Den and compete in the Young EdTech Innovators of… Read more »
Three in a row Coláiste Bhaile Chláir have completed the treble and have won the February, March and April schools challenge! The top 500 MATHletes from across the country competed in-person at Provincial Finals on Saturday 10th of May, for a place in the national final. The finals were hosted by Dublin City University (Leinster),… Read more »
New School Bank for Coláiste Bhaile Chláir Coláiste Bhaile Chláir are delighted to announce the introduction of our School Bank in association with Bank of Ireland Mervue. Our school bank will be set up and run by five of our students and a bank official from Bank of Ireland. Over 50 students applied for positions… Read more »
Coláiste Bhaile Chláir is the February winner of the All-Ireland Secondary Schools Challenge Cup on mathletes.ie. MATHletes Challenge 2014 is a maths tournament for Ireland based on the Khan Academy approach to learning and teaching maths. Students compete online through the Khan Academy website. Students in the Schools Challenge can work on Khan Academy both… Read more »
