Post Tagged with: "Mercy Mounthawk"

GOVERNOR of the Central Bank of Ireland, Gabriel Makhlouf, visited Tralee and Killorglin, on Friday to meet with local business people and students as part of the Central Bank’s outreach programme. Throughout the year, the Governor and staff from the Central Bank travel the breadth of the country to hear […]

STUDENTS from Mercy Secondary School Mounthawk, Tralee, secured €500 in funding through the Social Innovation Den hosted by Young Social Innovators in Cork last week. The students, who have been working on projects through Young Social Innovators since September, impressed the panel of dragons with their creative ideas to effect […]

MERCY Mounthawk Parents’ Council hosted a ‘Pakistani Cuisine and Eid Festival’ night in the school on Thursday. The Parents Council launched an Intercultural Programme last November that is taking place throughout the academic year 2019/2020. Parents from different cultures within the school community are hosting a series of cookery demonstrations […]

WHILE the school’s basketballers were rightly feted for their All-Ireland U19 A Schools Cup-winning exploits, another team from Mercy Mounthawk also picked up a national title last week. The first year Spikeball team won the All-Ireland title in NUIG Galway last Thursday. Spikeball is a sport which is adapted from volleyball […]

FOUR sold-out shows by Mercy Mounthawk students were received with wild enthusiasm by audiences at Siamsa Tíre as ‘Hairspray’ proved a huge success. All the hard work of the past four months paid off with amazing acting, incredible singing and a professional production making this arguably the best show from […]

THE best maths students in the county gathered in the IT Tralee South Campus last night for the Irish Maths Teachers Association Kerry final. Ten teams from six schools around the county took part with half of them – three from Mercy Mounthawk and two Presentation — from Tralee schools. […]

IT’S been a long time coming but the top schools basketball trophy is finally residing in Mercy Mounthawk. The boys were crowned Under 19 A All Ireland Schools Cup champions yesterday for the first time when the beat St Patrick’s Secondary School, Castleisland by 81 to 64 at the National […]

IRELAND South MEP, Sean Kelly, paid a visit to Mercy Mounthawk on Friday for the opening of the STEAM Academy at the secondary school. Students in Mounthawk are embracing STEAM educational approach to learning the uses Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics have in everyday problem solving, student inquiry, […]

MERCY Mounthawk students have been working hard over the past few months rehearsing for their latest stage production, with some even coming in the morning after their school debs. With a cast of about 140, taking in students from all years, they will bring the much-loved musical ‘Hairspray’ to the […]

THEY’LL be back in school in a few days, but there was ample opportunity to party at Ballyroe Heights Hotel on Friday night. The sixth year students from Mercy Mounthawk organised the annual debs ball where 310 stylish young ladies and gentlemen had a fantastic night out. They enjoyed a […]

MERCY Mounthawk students will tread the boards again early next year when they stage a production of a much-loved musical. They will bring ‘Hairspray’ to the Siamsa Tíre stage from January 22 to January 25 nightly at 8pm. Mercy Mounthawk has earned a distinguished reputation for its award-winning shows, as well […]

TEAMS from CBS The Green and Mercy Mounthawk in Tralee, emerged victorious from the Kerry final in the Bank of Ireland Money Smarts Challenge, held in the Killarney Convention Centre on Thursday, December 12. A total of 132 students from 15 schools across Kerry took part in the final, comprising […]

MERCY Mounthawk Parents’ Council hosted a ‘A Polish Christmas’ in a home economics room at the school on Thursday night. Guests were treated to traditional Polish recipes from two parents Monika Mikotajczuk and Katarzyna Sas with the help of Monika’s son Jakub and Katarzyna’s  daughter Wanesa. Those present also learnt […]

THE food counter in Mercy Mounthawk was a meat-free zone on Monday as part of a project to highlight climate change. A number of Transition Year students are doing a project to enter in the ECO UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards this year and decided to look at agriculture. “After energy, […]

MERCY Mounthawk Parents’ Council has launched an Intercultural Programme that will take place in the academic year 2019/2020. And to kick it off, there’s a ‘A Polish Christmas’ being hosted by two parents in the school next Thursday, December 5 at 7.30pm. This will be a celebration of traditional Polish […]

A MERCY Mounthawk student emerged as one of two winners in a public speaking competition involving secondary schools from all over Kerry. The Killarney Soroptimist Club held the Kerry Finals of the Soroptimist Public Speaking Competition at Killarney House and Gardens on Thursday. The competition has been running for 38 […]

CURRENT and former students of Mercy Mounthawk were honoured on Saturday for their excellent results in the State exams this year. This is an annual celebration of the academic achievements of the students attended by them and their families. Nine students from the Leaving Cert and four Junior Cert students […]

TWO Mercy Mounthawk students will head to the south of France this winter to represent Ireland at the GTTP (Global Travel and Tourism Partnership) conference thanks to a project on the Rose of Tralee. Fifth year students Michalina Gora and Cora Savage are off to Nice from November 23rd-27th with teacher […]

MERCY Mounthawk students had a successful weekend at the Munster Senior Schools Gala – at the UL Arena on Sunday. Sara Lucid came first in the Girls 15-16 100m breaststroke while Girls 14 – 16 200 Freestyle Relay team of Sara Lucid, Alex Perez, Ava Gannon and Grace Reidy and the […]

PREPARATIONS are well underway for a night of fabulous fashion at Mercy Mounthawk gym organised by the school’s Transition Year students. With a theme of ‘The Roaring Twenties’, hundreds of students and their families are set to enjoy a great show on Thursday, October 24, which will benefit charities M.S Ireland, […]

TEACHER Olivia Dineen had some special guests at Mercy Mounthawk on Friday, when her teammates from the All-Ireland Junior winning Kerry Camogie team paid a visit. The first year students gathered in the Centenary Hall to welcome the ladies as well as members of the Kerry Under 14 side who […]

THE venue was different this year, but the emotions were the same for the sixth year students of Mercy Mounthawk who enjoyed their graduation ceremony on Friday afternoon. Of course they’ll see each other again at the exams, but it was still an emotional occasion at St John’s Church where […]

THESE are heady days for basketball in Tralee. With the fantastic success of Warriors over the past few years, the town has gone basketball crazy, none more so than in the town’s secondary schools which are now producing some of the best talent in the country. Over in CBS The […]

TEAMS from primary schools around Tralee and beyond gathered in Mercy Mounthawk gym on Monday for a tournament aimed at promoting the game of basketball. The sport is enjoying a resurgence in popularity over the past few years thanks to the achievements of Garvey’s Tralee Warriors, so the organisers feel […]

ANOTHER school year is coming to a close at Mercy Mounthawk so it’s an appropriate time to look back on the achievements of students. With that in mind, the annual Awards Night honours students for their academic, sporting, artistic, cultural and civic skills. The school gym was packed on Wednesday night […]

Health Promotion Week  is in full swing at Mercy Mounthawk next week with a great variety of activities throughout providing something for everyone. Health and Leisure degree students in Tralee IT will provide workshops on stress management, lifestyle choices and practical techniques. These workshops on Tuesday and Friday are being […]

TWO students from Mercy Mounthawk will take part in the Munster Schools Debating Final next week. Organised by the UCC Philosophical Society, Sean Hennessy and John McCrohan have won three debates to get to the final which again takes place at UCC and will be Kerry’s only representative. “It’s a […]

KERRY stars David Clifford and Shane Enright were in Mercy Mounthawk this week to present jerseys for the school’s football teams. Under the advice of Shane Enright of Bank of Ireland, students worked to organise a bank to raise funds and Bank of Ireland matched those funds to sponsor the […]

TRALEE has new All-Ireland champions thanks to the exploits of Mercy Mounthawk basketballers this afternoon. After some disappointments over the past few week, the Under 15A boys side went to the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght today and won the Subway  All-Ireland Schools final. They beat Malahide in the semi-final […]

THE latest production from Mercy Mounthawk Secondary School students opened last night in Siamsa Tire and audiences were very impressed by ‘Big Maggie’. Directed by Tony Behan, the students did John B. Keane’s classic justice with powerful performances from the cast and wonderful detail in the stage sets. The students […]