SMGS News
Lord Mayor's Cup success
Success in the Lord Mayors cup today for SMGS U17 1/2 hurlers. Despite being ten points down at half time,SMGS put in a massive second half performance to draw level right at the end with a brilliant Ruairi Dennehy point.
SMGS qualify for Lord Mayor's Cup Final
Smgs played two games today in the Lord Mayors cup and qualified for next months final.
SMGS win in Maths Teachers Association Junior Competition
Alex Walsh had a great win tonight at the 1st Yr Maths Quiz held in Colaiste an Spioraid Naoimh. Competing against the best maths brains in the Cork region, our Alex took the top prize.
TY Art workshop
Transition Year students of SMGS Blarney enjoying their drawing blitz workshop hosted by Helle Helsner of Crawford Art College on the 18th of April 2018.
3rd Year Trip to Dublin
Last week, Third Years took their CSPE trip to Leinster House and Dublin. Following an early start we arrived at Leinster House for 11 am and got a very informative tour of our parliament.
Kate Lehane wins Silver at Foróige Youth Citizenship Awards
Massive congrats to TY student Kate Lehane who won silver at the Foroige Youth Citizenship Awards for her project 'Battles of the Mind' which uses virtual audio illusions to raise awareness for Mental Health. Minister David Stanton and Mary Lou McDonald were very impressed with it.
Here is the link to her project:
1st Year Basketballers head for play-off.
Best of luck to our 1st year Girls' Basketball team who are travelling to Loreto Clonmel, Co. Tipperary on next Monday April 23rd. This day out is a play-off for the All-Ireland semi final rounds in their league.
Applause for YSI Strictly Come Dancing.
The 12 members of our school 's Young Social Innovators (YSI) team presented their Strictly Come Dancing for Over 60s last Wednesday. After careful planning and organising the event was a huge success, bridging stereotypes between the younger and the older generations of our local community.
1st Year Girls Basketballers are Cork Champions!
1st year Girls Basketballers are Cork Champions!
An exhilarating semi-final performance last Thursday March 15th, we saw our first years progress to the Cork ‘B’ final.
All Ireland Cross Country
Well done to Holly Carroll(2nd year) and Emma Bickerdike (5th year) on qualifying and competing in the All Ireland Cross Country in Waterford. Both girls did themselves and the school proud with Holly coming in the top 25 and Emma coming in the top 30 in their respective races. Well done girls!
Certified Irish Angus Beef Schools Competition.
Nathan Batchelor, Barry Mc Carthy, Edward Murphy & Brian Osborne competed in the Certified Irish Angus Beef Schools Competition today in Croke Park. With 28 schools remaining in the competition, the standard was very high. Results announced in the next few weeks. Fingers crossed for the team and thanks to their teacher Ms O’ Sullivan for her help and guidance.
