Elphin Community College

Leaving Cert Ecology Field Trip

On Thursday November 10^th, the Leaving Certificate class travelled to St. John’s Wood, Lecarrow with their teachers Ms. Fallon and Mr. Hanley. The trip provided students with the opportunity to complete their ecology experiments in a woodland habitat, where they saw the natural flora and fauna of this old Irish woodland. This excellent service was provided by Rebecca and Dawn of the North Midlands Wildlife Education Centre (National Parks and Wildlife Service)

Leaving Certs Travel to Sligo IT Open Day

Our Leaving Certificate students attended Sligo Open Day on Thursday 24^th November. The students were given full access to the college and spoke to the Students Union regarding the possible reintroduction of college tuition. The students attended lectures about the range of courses on offer and got first hand information from staff and current students.

Students Travel To AIT

Transition Year on Retreat
Student on a recent retreat to Adventure Retreats Ireland in Tanagh, Cootehill,

Co. Cavan.

Volleyball News Girls Volleyball
Our Senior girls are in action on Monday 21st November in the National Quarter

Finals against St. Brigid's Clondalkin. This is after beating St. Mary' Secondary

School 25-21 and 25 - 11 in round 2 last week. They also defeated Balla Secondary

School 25 - 12, 25 - 14 to top their group. Well done and good luck girls.

Boys Volleyball Senior B Boys
Elphin Community College vs. Drumbshambo C and B on Thursday 17th November the

Elphin senior B team travelled to Drumshambovto play two of their teams. Elphin's

first opponents on the day were Drumshambo's B team. Elphin got off to a bright

start in the first set. It was a close set, with both teams winning point for point.

Ieuan Weston and Keiran Mc Grath were very effective as main hitters. A run of bad

luck and unforced errors seen Elphin lose the first set, a close 27-25.The second
set followed the same fashions the first. Jack O Donnel and Dillion Beirne were

impressive as they set for Ieuan and Keiran. Unfortunately for Elphin unforced errors

dictated the run of play finding themselves 20-9 down. Despite heroic dives and great

service from James Dwyer and the experience of Michael O'Sullivan Elphin still lost

this set and match 25-13. The second of the matches to be seen was versus Drumshambo

C team. The team started well leading 5-0 and the confidence was up, but bad

decisions and errors meant that elphin lost the lead. Despite this elphin still put

in a good fight and went tit for tat and unfortunately lost the match 26-24. An

unlucky loss for the lads with every player playing well in the set! What was to be

Elphin's final set of the day was another tight set but unfortunately for Elphin

the set didn't go their way and bowed out of this years competition.

Senior A Boys
The senior A boys are in action on Wednesday 24th November in Streete where they

will be in action against St. Raphael's, Loughrea in the National Semi-finals of

this years competition.