Trips Out / Visits
Subject related trips out / visits are encouraged in the school to give the students a more rounded experience of their subject in action.
Examples include:
- Tannagh (Geography Field Trip)
- NUI Maynooth (Biology Experiments)
- Dublin Zoo (JC Science Experiments / Ecology)
- Young Scientist Competition
- Assorted Museums, Exhibitions and Historical Sites (History)
- Factory Visits (LCVP / Business / Woodwork and Engineering)
- Live Dramas and Writing Workshops (English)
- Live Dramas (Gaeilge)
- Art Museums and Exhibitions (Art)
- Musicals, Concerts and Music Exhibitions (Music)
- Film Showings (English / History / French)
- French Table Quiz (French)
- The Ploughing Championships and Local Farms (Ag. Science)
Annual Trips
In addition to specific subject related annual trips, Class Tutors and Year Heads sometimes organise an annual trip for their class groups with group activities.
Educational School Tours
Our school has a long history of continental and educational tours and trips. Our first school tour took place in 1980. A typical continental school tour could include guided city tours, visits to museums, galleries and local attractions, tour of a sports stadium, walking trips and guided nature excursions.
Entertainment activities could comprise football, bowling, skating, restaurants, concerts, football matches and the ever-popular day trip to a theme park.
- Our most recent school tour brought students to Krakow in Poland with excursions to Auschwitz, Schindler’s Factory and the Wieliczka Salt Mines.
- The school has visited Spain, France and Italy on overseas tours.
- French exchanges began with the town of Moulin in 2014 and are an annual occurrence since then.
- A trip to watch Manchester United play at Old Trafford proves very popular every year.
- Trips to see International matches at the Aviva Stadium or the Connacht Rugby Grounds are also very popular.