Athboy Community School

Best of Luck in the Kennedy Cup
Best of luck to first year boys Jamie Bell, Kai Flynn and Caiden Shaw who will represent the NERL Academy in the Kennedy Cup which kicks off today in the University of LImerick.
The NERL have been drawn in group 6 alongside Limerick District, Cavan/Monaghan and Dundalk and District.
The lads kick off their campaign today at 4pm against Cavan/Monaghan.
Best of luck to the three lads and their team mates in the next few days of the tournament.

Best of Luck to Liam O'Brien in British Autograss Series
The school would like to wish 3rd Year student Liam O’Brien well in the First Round of the British Autograss Series this weekend.
Liam races a Junior Special in a motorsport called Autograss. This class of car consists of a steel chassis with a 1200cc engine. He is 2025 Junior Special Champion in Northern Ireland and is currently leading in his class in the All-Ireland series.
He races in large events in the UK called the British Autograss Series which would see over 500 cars across different classes. Liam will be competing with 60 other Junior Special drivers over 5 rounds with the first round in West Waterford Autograss Club this weekend.
Liam had many heat wins last year in the U.K. and came 4th and 5th in two finals. Liam’s local club is Down Autograss. He started out Karting and went on to Autograss which his family had raced previously. He races in tracks in Cork, Waterford, Carlow and in Northern Ireland also. Liam hopes to compete in Drifting (drift masters ) U.K. and Europe when he's older. His sister Eimear is also following in his footsteps as she is now competing alongside him. The British Autograss Series will be live streamed on YouTube on Saturday where all racing can be watched.
Best of luck Liam from all at Athboy Community School.

Best of Luck in the State Exams!
All at Athboy Community School would like to extend best wishes to the Junior Cert, Leaving Cert Applied and Leaving Cert Candidates in the school who start their State Exams tomorrow.

Gaynor Cup Success
Congratulations to first year students Janine and Angie Nicol, Lily Mai Hickey, Emily and Lucy Donnelly and their NERL Academy team mates who kicked off their Gaynor Cup campaign yesterday with a 2-1 win over Kerry at the University of Limerick.
Janine Nicol scored what turned out to be the winning goal just before half time when she reacted quickest to a rebound to force the ball home.
The win puts NERL Academy in a strong position ahead of today's clash with Sligo-Leitrim, where victory would secure top spot in the group and a place in the Gaynor Cup quarter-finals.
Best of luck to al the Athboy girls and their team mates today

3rd year and 5th Year School Tour to Emerald Park
Both 5th Years and 3rd Years enjoyed an end of year School Tour to Emerald Park in the scorching heat of last Monday 25th with their Year Heads Mr. Maxwell and Mr. Fox, their tutors and other teachers and staff members.
A great day out was had by all, a well earned reward for all their hard work during the school year.

Transition Year Graduation Ceremony
Congratulations to the 79transition year students in Athboy Community School who Graduated in a lovely ceremony in the General Purpose Area on Monday May 25th. All around the GPA the students’ art and craftwork and coursework were on display to highlight the richness and variety of the experience the group had throughout the year.
The ceremony, hosted by year head Mr. Hurley and Tutors Mr. Mahon, Miss Farrelly and Miss Vaughan saw each student presented with a folder of all their achievements for the year. We were joined at the Graduation by the Navan Toastmasters, Mary and Michael. Michael spoke about our amazing TY group and how much they embraced the opportunity to learn about public speaking.
A major highlight of the evening was the incredible contribution of the TY Toastmasters participants, who took charge of running the graduation ceremony. Erin Melligan acted as MC for the evening and guided the ceremony with confidence, professionalism and warmth. Throughout the night, the Toastmasters students delivered speeches and presentations which reflected the growth in confidence, communication skills and maturity that the students developed during their TY experience. Their performances were a credit to themselves and showcased the success of the Toastmasters programme within the school.
Earlier that day, the school honoured those who received Subject Excellence Awards across the year group – congratulations to all of the students who were recognised for their commitment and effort.
Work Experience plaques were presented to Padraig Englishby and Linas Archipovas in Ash, Owen McConnell and Emeline Hood in Beech and Tara Fay and Ryan Farrell in Cedar.
Each Tutor along with the Year Head carefully considered the student in each class group who has excelled in their Asset Portfolios and who stand out as leaders, as being role models and as demonstrating personal growth. The Tutor Award for Ash went to Shauna Revington, in Beech it went to Owen McConell and in Cedar the Tutor Award winner is Nikas Tupikas.
The Care Award for demonstrating care, empathy and kindness in all of their interactions with students and staff was presented to Alex Darcy.
The Creativity Award celebrating the student who has shared their creativity, innovation, expression, and fresh thinking for the betterment of the school community was presented to Savanagh Reilly.
The Student of the Year Award linked to the school Learning Code and Asset Portfolios, recognises students who have shown outstanding growth, leadership, and personal responsibility. The TY Student of the Year is Sam Doyle.
Congratulations to all the award winners and to each and every one of the graduating T.Y. class of 2026.

Honour Roll for Third Trimester

There was plenty of excitement in Athboy Community School recently when students were presented with certificates to recognise their achievement in making the School’s Honour Roll for the third trimester of the 2025-26 academic year which ran from before the Easter Break for the eleven weeks until the end of this term.
As part of Athboy Community School’s Learning Code, students have been building up an Asset Portfolio since the beginning of the year. Assets are awarded to students by staff members for a whole variety of reasons such as ongoing hard work, oral contributions in class, acts of kindness, improvement in classwork or homework, promoting a positive school spirit, promoting sustainability, creativity, manners and respect, digital skills, sporting achievements, taking initiative, being good with their hands, extra-curricular activities as well as other talents, skills and achievements.
Students can also earn Citations for more sustained or major achievements which required training, preparation and sustained effort by the student and also Superlatives which required a supreme ongoing effort and training and preparation over a more significant amount of time.
The top 10% in each year group made the School’s Honour Roll and were presented with Certificates of Merit by their Year Head at assembly this week.
In 1st Year, the winners were Mona Molly McFerrran, Sofia Bray, Callun Donohoe Maloney, Benjamin Mitchell, Neveah Walsh, Liam Dempsey, Cillian Brady, Adam O’Sullivan, Tirnin King, Agostino Marini, Diamond Hlongwane, Ellie Mullen, Aaron Flanagan, Charley Hogan and Sean Healy.
In 2nd Year Eabha Smith, Matthew Clarke, Caoimhe O’Brien, Aine Masterson, Sarah Sheridan, Finn Matthews, Kelsey Brennan, Aoife Hand, Karen Farrelly, Joel Philip, Fiach McKeogh and Andryii Chornyi are the Honour Roll recipients.
In 3rd Year, Ciara Boylan, Jack Willoughby, Laoise Hayes, Christopher Corroon, Chloe Pierce, Noah Gorst-Smith, Cayden Adams, Dean Adams, Daisy Mulvaney, Sean Hand, Ellie Hughes, Daniel Fernandez de Velasco, Maisie Reilly, Marat Jachjaev and Sean Farrell make the Honour Roll.
The T.Y. recipients were Padraig Englishby, Clodagh Cunningham, Armandas Bartoska, Isabelle O’Rourke, Ryan Farrelly, and Tara Fay.
In 5th Year the winners were Sophie Bell, Serj Aldous Mamuyac, Saule Lukstaite, Ema Butuvilaite, Emilja Lukosiute, Cian Smith, Liam Baker, Eoin Doherty, Kevin Fox, Niamh Ivers, Saoirse Lane and Stefan Moran. In LCA1, Leah Douglas and Daire Harmon made the Honour Roll.
In 6th Year the recipients were Thomas Flood, Amber McEntee, Cillian Griffin, Keoratile Mokoena, Heidi Donohoe-Maloney, Declan Breeds, Killian Peyton, Lorcan O’Shea and Caoimhe Walsh . In LCA2 the winners were Sofie Tenanty and Sarah Buckley-Doran.
Congratulations to all the students who made the Honour Roll. They were all presented with One-4-All Vouchers courtesy of the school as a reward for their achievements and have been posted on the Honour Roll noticeboard in the school.

Ice-Bucket Challenge in aid of the Irish Cancer Society
Pictured are Antonio Ribeiro Rattigan, Miss Ruth Fitzgerald and Zach Hering from Athboy Community School presenting a cheque to the Irish Cancer Society for €1,080, the proceeds of the annual Ice-Bucket Challenge held in the school where delighted students got to dunk staff members!
The event was organised by Miss Fitzgerald and the Sports Council in the school at the end of March, and the cheque presentation was held recently.

Shannon Watson Memorial Basketball Blitz
On the 19th May, prefects Neila Mc Keogh and Ciara Gavigan ran a basketball tournament in honour of beloved teacher Shannon Watson. The girls had been trained by Shannon and wanted to do something to honour her memory.
They organised the tournament with the help of Ms. Di Lucia. 90 students were involved from 2nd year to 6th year all of whom had a connection to Ms Watson. After two sets of heats, four teams made it through to the semi-finals and then two teams, blue and yellow made it to the final. While both teams put in a great effort, in the end the Yellow team were victorious.
All members of the school community were invited to wear red on the day and a collection was made for the Irish Heart Foundation. A total of €380.75 was raised.
A small ceremony was then held in the school last week where a tree was planted in Ms Watson's honour. It was attended by second years and many of the staff.

Graduation Ceremony
Congratulations to the 91 students of the Leaving Cert Class of 2026 who enjoyed a wonderful Graduation Ceremony on Thursday evening in Athboy Community School.
The ceremony was coordinated by the school Chaplain Miss Halligan and had ‘Nostalgia’ as its central theme. The students were resplendent in their graduation gowns. A big thank you to Year Heads Miss Leddy, Miss McGrory and Miss Quinn for all their input.

There was lovely music from the 1st and 2ndYear Performing Arts classesand Graduation Choir under the guidance of Miss McGowan and Miss Coghlan, with beautiful artwork done by the sixth year students adorning the walls and easels.

Each graduating student received a candle and a scroll in a commemorative pictorial folder before the Graduation Cake was cut by Studentsof the Year Charlotte Colgan and Sofie Tenanty.

Everybody associated with Athboy C.S would like to wish the graduating students all the best for their exams and in their future studies and lives to come.