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06 Sept 2025
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Our second year students Caroline Johnston, Meadhbh Mulrooney, Lucy Barton, John Cleere and Gearoid Campion took part in the programme. Along side Ms Tina Foagrty and Ms Emily Bergin
Photo Caption: Our second year students Caroline Johnston, Meadhbh Mulrooney, Lucy Barton, John Cleere and Gearoid Campion took part in the programme. Along side Ms Tina Foagrty, Ms Norma Galvin and Ms Emily Bergin
Students from all partner countries received a gift of a tin whistle each. This was a successful sharing of our musical culture and heritage.
Many videos were made by the partner countries based on history, archaeology, baking, learning a foreign language etc.
Following our evaluation of the Flipped Classroom style of teaching and learning,
We agreed that it was a very successful method of introducing a topic in the classroom.
Our second-year students Caroline Johnston, Meadhbh Mulrooney, Lucy Barton, John Cleere and Gearoid Campion, took part in the programme.
They were fabulous representatives of our school. They proudly took part in all activities. Nothing was too big a challenge for them.
They performed a beautiful musical piece representing Irish traditional music and culture. Lucy sang a lovely Irish song, Siuil a Run, and Gearoid sang The Fields of Athenry. Caroline played the fiddle as Meadhbh played the consartin. Caroline did the Brush dance, joined by John Cleere, who learned the dance two weeks before, and now is definitely proving to be a promising Sean Nos dancer!
The Bulgarians and Slovenians showed their traditional dances. They each taught the visiting students the steps, which was great fun.
The Austrians taught us the Wiener Waltz, which has beautiful, elegant steps. Finally, we watched the fabulous Sicilian dance in their colourful traditional costumes. It was a lovely exchange of culture song and dance.
The Irish shocked the Sicilians by how easily they swam each evening in the Mediterranean Sea, which proved to be quite cold in March. We explained that we are well used to cold seas in Ireland, even in Summer, but they still failed to understand.
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