Published: Thursday, 22nd April, 2010 4:00pm

Academic Achievement Awards presented in Moyne

Moyne Community School students with their awards, and members of the staff.

Students attending Moyne Community School were presented with a range of Academic Achievement Awards recently.

These awards have been established to recognise the academic achievements of pupils in the Leaving Certificate exam.

Students who get an 'A' in a higher level subject or over 500 points are presented with a certificate and a memento of the school. One or both of these achievements is very significant since students are competing against over 55,000 of their peers. It represents the culmination of five or six years of honest endeavour and hard work. The school community is also proud of the role it has played in the academic achievement of its pupils and in shaping the kind of young people they have matured and developed into.

This year 22 students were invited back to the awards ceremony, which took place in the school gym. Parents and guardians were also invited to recognise the fundamental role that they have played in the education of their children. The Board of Management and the Parents' Association were also represented, as was Joe Durkin who sponsored the awards ceremony. Refreshments were served in the school library afterwards where staff, parents and recipients could mingle and chat about old memories and new experiences.

The recipients from the class of 2009 were: Cillian Briody, Thomas Clarke, Shane Crowe, Claire Doyle, Ciaran Egan, Rachel Heslin, Alison Kenny, Michelle Linnane, Breege McBrien, Roisin McConnell, Fergal McGlade, Clodagh McLoughlin, Francis Mollaghan, Robert Morrow, Colleen Norris, Michael Prunty, Cian Sheridan and Aoife Williams.