Thursday, 1st May, class 4R attended a special screening of The Remarkable Life of Ibelin at the Irish Film Institute the documentary tells the powerful story of Mats Steen, a young man with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy who found connection and purpose through the online game World of Warcraft. His journey is portrayed through a mix of interviews, home footage, and animation. The group were invited to the event as one of their classmates, Madison Crooke White, completed her TY work experience at the IFI and played a key role in helping plan the screening.
After the film, students took part in an engaging interactive session run by the IFI’s 2025 TY work experience team. 4R represented the school exceptionally well throughout the outing and were accompanied by their tutor, Ms McCarron and Ms O’Reilly.
It was World Book Day on March the 3rd and our pupils vowed to make the most of their free book tokens!
Congratulationsgoes to Roisin Ferguson Maryfield College 1K for her outstanding winning recital of the prescribed poem ‘The Fiddler of Dooney’ by William Butler Yeats and her chosen poem ‘Sonnet 51’ by William Shakespeare. Roisin and her fifteen peers all articulated their poems beautifully and were delighted with the judges decision to award Roisin representing Maryfield an entry to the semi-finals Junior Category in mid November .
Entrants from Transition Year Ruth Lombard and Laura Sweeney articulated well the prescribed poem for the Intermediate Category. “No Second Troy” and their chosen poem from three listed anthologies. Both entrants’ interpretations of these poems were captivating. A difficult deliberation in all categories was admitted by the judges who finally announced. St Michaels Finglas as winners of this heat.
What was amazing was that all students recited from memory their prescribed and chosen poems and their ability to communicate publicly was outstanding. Congratulations to winner Roisin Ferguson and all participants listed below.
Shelby Cullen ,Saoirse Dunne, Roisin Ferguson, Leah Su Whelan Isabelle Callinan, Nina Jashi, Susan Marmion, Sara Coogan, Lorna Lawless, Aoife Swinburn, Ciara Thornton, Elanah Treacher, Emma Tyrrell
Abbey Byrne, Aoife O’Kane, Vilte Vilmaite.
Ruth Lombard, Laura Sweeney
Ms Z. Whyte
