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There was a great sense of celebration this week as Mr Daly, joined Charles Smith of the Irish Angus Producer Group for a special visit to the farm that's home to the 5 Certified Irish Angus calves won by Grace Warren and Hollie Mae Power Sinnott, in the prestigious Irish Certified Angus Schools Competition at the National Ploughing championships🥳🐄![]()
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The calves names are Poppy, Fernado, Charlie, Benny (after Mr Daly!😂) and William. The 4 bulls and 1 heifer are being reared alongside Hollie Mae’s grandfather’s herd of Angus cattle, offering the perfect setting for the girls to carry out their competition project. They are weighing in at 511kg, 541kg, 481kg, 425kg and 578kg⚖ ![]()
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Grace and Hollie-Mae who were selected as finalists in March 2024 when they were in TY. As part of the competition, they are tasked with rearing 5 Angus calves while also preparing an in depth project on comparison of Irish beef sector vs the rest of the world, while looking at multi species topics such as sustainability, traceability, and food production🥩🍽![]()
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During the visit, Grace and Hollie Mae proudly introduced the calves to Mr Daly and Mr Smith, outlining their daily care routines and sharing insights into their broader project work. The dedication and passion shown by the girls left a strong impression👏![]()
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Mr Smith commended the students, saying, 'It’s a pleasure to see such commitment from the next generation of farmers'. Grace and Hollie Mae are doing exceptional work, and their care for these calves is clear to see.![]()
We’re immensely proud of the girls' accomplishments so far in this competition and grateful to Hollie Mae’s grandfather, along with their teacher Ms O Dwyer for supporting them😁![]()
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As the girls continue to rear the calves in the lead up to the final judging at Croke Park in March 2026 , there’s no doubt their project is already a source of great pride for our school and their families📚![]()
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The girls will continue to rear the calves over the summer and pay visits to local primary schools in June to prompt their project. The girls will continue to care for and feed their calves to get them ready for slaughter in ABP Slaney Meats in Bunclody in mid August🐮
Vote Now!🔔🗳 Help FCJ Secondary School Build a Sensory Garden with AIB Community Funding!🌸🌼🤩 ![]()
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FCJ Secondary School is competing in the AIB Community 1 Million Fund to develop a Sensory Garden. This garden will enhance learning and provide a therapeutic experience for students in our new special classrooms and the wider school community🎓🏫🌹🌺🌷![]()
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Please cast your vote for FCJ Secondary School using our charity number 20147389 via the AIB link: aib.ie/personal-forms/community-fund. Every vote brings us closer to building this much-needed resource. Your vote can make this dream a reality!☑️✨![]()
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We envision the Sensory Garden to be a calming, engaging space that will also be accessible to other schools in the Bunclody area, benefiting a wider community of students🌳😁![]()
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We also kindly ask you to share this link with family and friends📲 Your support and generosity are greatly appreciated in helping us create this incredible space for our students and the wider Bunclody community. Thank you!👏
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Apart from Bacon and Cabbage, is there anything more traditionally Irish than the brush dance?!☘🇮🇪🤔 Well the FCJ Trad Group were rattling the floorboards in the Bunclody Day Care Centre before they finished up school last week💃🎶🎻🎹 This was their final visit of the year, having made multiple trips to provide music, dancing and fun to the many people that avail of the great services there😁 Everybody there has gotten such enjoyment from our Trad Group. A huge thanks to Ms Kearns who coordinates the Trad Group and facilitates these outings all in her free time!👏![]()
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Along with this, congratulations to the Trad Group members and talented Irish dancers who recently competed in the CRN All Irelands for their dance school, Wexford Academy. Mae Quigley, Aoibhe Jordan, Eva Power and Emily Slevin were members of winning 8 hand and Freestyle teams🏆 Mae also placed 4th in her individual award and Emily (Pictured here doing the brush dance) was an outstanding 2nd in her individual championship. Well done girls!🥳![]()
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#tradgroup #bunclodydaycarecentre #irishmusic #irishdancing #brushdance #welovetrad #DiddlyAye
The eve of the exams. It's that age old feeling that 6th and 3rd Years get at this time each year🧑🎓 But do you know what, each year they all get through it💪![]()
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Remember, you have prepared well for this. The study, the revision, the notes, the class tests and the homework are finished🧑🏫📚📝 Granny might even have a candle lit for you😉 Use your time wisely in the exams, leave no blanks and leave nothing behind you. YOU HAVE THIS! ✔️![]()
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The best of luck from us all, we'll see you in here bright and early in the morning. Don't forget to set the alarms!!😄⏰![]()
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#LeavingCert2025 #JuniorCycle2025
No doubt our 6th Years are spending every waking minute getting the final bits of study completed📝📚 With the Leaving Cert exams due to start in a few days times, here are a few snaps of the people that got them there, the teachers👩🏫👨🏫![]()
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How lucky we are in our school to have such hardworking and passionate educators✅💯 As Mr Daly said at our Graduation ceremony last week. After your parents and guardians, it is your teachers that are the biggest adult influence in your life, a sentiment that we take very seriously!😊![]()
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#SubjectTeachers #inspirational #onesignificantadult #farewellms #Farewellsir
As promised, our coveted Sports Awards!🏆 Here's some great pictures of our sporting winners taken at our awards ceremony the other day!🤩![]()
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These included awards for; Hurling, Camogie, Gaelic Football, Ladies Football, Basketball, Athletics, Golf, Sports Endeavour and Sports Personality⚾️🏐🏀⛳️💪 Well done to all the recipients👏 We know this won't be the last time we hear of your names being mentioned on and off the playing field!🥳![]()
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#GAA #LGFA #wexfordgaa #carlowgaa #lecheileschoolstrust #SportsAwards #martymorrissey
4 students from FCJ took part in the Leinster Youth and Senior Championships which took place in gruelling heat over 3 days in the National Aquatic Centre, Dublin recently🏁🏊♀️ Representing their respective swimming clubs were Sarah Kehoe (6th Year), Sinead Kehoe, Ella Ennis and Lili Markey (5th Year)🌊![]()
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Sarah competed in the 50m and 100m Freestyle and also the 50m and 100m Butterfly. Her sprinting ability was to the fore this weekend as she qualified for evening finals in both 50m events finishing 9th overall in the 50m freestyle with a new personal best time and 5th in the 50m Butterfly⏱👏![]()
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Her sister Sinead was also in action in the 100m Backstroke, 50m, 100m and 200m Freestyle securing top 20 finishes in 2 of her events. Breaststroker Ella Ennis was also in action in the 50m event finishing 11th overall just outside her personal best time⏱👏![]()
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Lili Markey was involved in some of the longer distance events taking a Silver medal in the finals of the 200m Butterfly on Friday evening with a new personal best time. She had also competed in the 400m freestyle on Friday morning finishing 8th in the rankings. Saturday saw her back on the podium with a silver medal in the 400m Individual Medley event and she finished out the weekend with the 200m Individual Medley advancing to the finals to finish just outside the medals in 5th place🥈🥈👏![]()
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The best of luck to the swimmers now as they start their final 10 week prep for National Championships taking place over 5 days in the NAC at the end of July📅💪
Coincidentally, within days of the renowned FCJ Teacher vs Student soccer match last week, Gary Lineker retired from the BBC's Match of the Day😱⚽👨🏫👨🏼🎓 Word on the corridor is, he got wind of the immense quality of football that took place here and he acknowledged that there would never be as good again, so he called it a day. Well at least that's what we think...😅😂 It fair to say, it was a cracker!😁![]()
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#matchoftheday #studentvsteacher #athletes #Ahref #mindthecornerflag #squareball
Our whole school awards took place on Tuesday🏆🤩 Separate to our 6th Year Graduation, at this ceremony the entire student body (Over 1000 students) gathered in our school gym for what was a brilliant display of the success and talent that our students from 1st to 6th year possess🎓 From academics, to sport, to learning and kindness📚💯🤔 ⚾It really makes you proud to see all that our students achieve and are capable of!💪![]()
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We were delighted to welcome back past student, Lucy Mulhall. Lucy was an Irish rugby sevens player, and the former captain of the Women's Irish rugby sevens team, not to mention, an Irish OLYMPIAN!🏉🇮🇪Two major awards are named in honour of two much loved FCJ greats. Firstly, the Sr Madeliene Hayes Kindness Award went to Annie Kavanagh in 3rd Year and the Pat Connaughton Award, named after our late colleague, went to the incomparable, Luke Burke🌟🎭![]()
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Still to come are our sports awards, but for now have a look at these great pictures here⚽🏀🏅🏐🏆 These pictures, along with more you see over the next week were captured by Damien Pohludek, Yvonne Kavanagh, Jan Dunne and Síofra Morris. A huge thanks to them for helping us capture these memories!📸![]()
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#fcjbunclodyawards #Awards2025 #proud #achievement #fcjsisters #lecheileschoolstrust
Other Media
The HSE Visits FCJ Bunclody – Staying Safe in School
Christmas Prayer Service – December 2020
Enrolment/Open Day Video – October 2020
Graduation Speeches for the 6th Year Class of 2020
Our Lockdown Art Gallery
National Modern Foreign Language Award Winner 2020
“Par ma moustache!”
May Awards & Mass – 2019
‘Grease’ The Musical – 2019
