All The News From Ursuline College Sligo
Ursuline Student Wins Naughton Scholarship
Congratulations to Anya Raftery who has been awarded a Naughton Scholarship. She will receive E5,000 for the duration of her undergraduate studies. This scholarship was established in 2008 to promote and reward the study of Science, Engineering, Technology and Maths...
Immersing in Kenya
TY Immersion Project – Kitui, Kenya Ursuline College TY Students Oda Carty, Lisa Kelly, Méabh Nugent, Aoife McLaughlin, Alannah Gallagher, Tara Parkinson, Aoife Maher and Aileen Stenson who travelled with their teachers Mrs Waters and Ms Murray to St. Columba’s...
Innovation Exchange Day at Abbvie Ballytivnan
On Wednesday 8th May, Class 4D and their teacher Ms. Moran were kindly invited to participate in an "Innovation Exchange Day" at Abbvie Ballytivan Plant in Sligo. The event was hosted by Abbvie in Partnership with Young Social Innovators Ireland. The students took...
ROCKET BLASTS URSULINE COLLEGE INTO RUNNER UP POSITION AT THE CANSAT FINAL 2019
Ursuline College, Sligo sent a strong team to the regional finals of Cansat earlier this year at IT Sligo. Cansat is a European competition where teams have to build a mini satellite module within the confines of a soft drink can shape. It must consist of...
URSULINE COLLEGE SWEEP THE BOARDS AT SCIFEST 2019
6 projects from the Ursuline College competed in this year’s exhibition at IT Sligo. The students performed brilliantly in both preparation and presentation and their talents did not go unrecognized. Every project group won a prize and were delighted with their day....
PUBLIC ACCESS to LAW MOCK TRIALS AWARDS
Congratulations to Tara Parkinson 4C who achieved 1st place in the TV Reporting Category and to Ciara McDermott who was awarded 2nd Place in the Newspaper Reporting category in the Public Access to Law Mock Trial Competition. Well done!
STUDENT ENTERPRISE NATIONAL AWARDS 2019
This first year group represented County Sligo in the Junior Category of the Student Enterprise National Awards on 3rd May in Croke Park. The company name was SALT.E and their product was a mobile phone socket holder. The girls in the photo are Thulini Leyanage...
SUPER – NATURAL JAKE’s VISIT To THE URSULINE
Jake Carter was invited to perform in our school as a whole school fun activity for Healthy Living Week by Ms. Lee and to foster a whole school spirit. Ocean FM came to the school in advance and had all the students dancing and in high spirits as they awaited the...
National Cansat Finalists
Five students from Ursuline College Sligo have qualified for the National finals of Cansat which is being held in Portlaoise later this year. The students are Ellen Woodward, Nuala Kerrigan, Tori Monahan, Maura Madden & Adela Zinschitz who participated in the...
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Noah’s Ark Survived the Floods and received the Novelty prize in St Patrick’s Parade 2019
Well done to all the students who braved the wind and the rain to take part in Sligo's St Patrick's Parade. They sailed along to the sounds of Rock the Boat and boy did they rock!! Well done to Ms Milne for achieving such a wonderful parade entry! They were awarded...
The Vikings return to Sligo
After 1200 years since they attacked the monastery on Inishmurray, the Vikings returned to Sligo. More specifically, they came to the Ursuline Convent. No raiding or pillaging took place but instead, perhaps a recruiting drive to see which of the first year...
World Book Day
Well done to all the students who dressed up for World Book Day! We were very fortunate to have the mobile Library here also as our school was picked to be part of a pilot scheme.
Junk Kouture Appeal
Junk Kouture appeal - please vote for 80s Drama Queen and Golden Blend on the boijunkkouturewebsite western region. Voting opens on Monday 18th Thanks - the entrants would really appreciate your vote!!
Royal College of Surgeons Scholarship
Congratulations to Amy Dykes on her Royal College of Surgeons scholarship which was presented to her in October. We are very proud of her achievement.
First Ever Ursuline Cheerleading Team Travel to Florida
A group of 20 students, the majority Ursuline College are travelling to Orlando Florida this weekend to represent Ireland in Cheerleading. The students are all members of ‘Silverstar’ Athletics Club and are the first ever Irish team to compete at the World...
Bebras National Final Qualifiers
Congratulations to TY students Caoilifhionn Callery, Kelly McGuinn and Jana Simon who have qualified for the Bebras National Final Computational Challenge. The Bebras Computing Challenge introduces computational thinking to students by allowing them to solve...
GAA Writing Competition winners and runners up 2019
Aoife Devlin 4D and Hollie Hannon 4E travelled with family members and teacher Ms Lee to the National GAA Secondary School Writing Awards held in Croke Park on February 5th 2019. GAA President John Horan and Oifigeach Forbartha Gaeilge CLG Jamie Ó Tuama (GAA Irish...
Callan Tansey Essay Competition
Congratulations to Shauna McDonagh who came second, Cathy Harrison who came third and Fatma Dogan who was highly commended in the Callan Tansey Essay Competition. Writers of the Future!
Musical Journey from Vivaldi to John Williams
1st, 2nd and 3rd year students visited the National Concert Hall on Tuesday 22nd.