Saint Catherine’s College Senior Prize-giving

Saint Catherine’s College recently held its annual Senior Prize-giving event to celebrate the completion of significant academic milestones by students. Guest speaker for the event was Mrs Faustina Graham, Chief Inspector of the Education and Training Inspectorate. She gave an inspiring and motivating speech and spoke to students about the importance of education in shaping one’s future. She reminded them all to be proud of their achievements and of themselves.

Principal, Mrs Noeleen Tiffney, paid tribute to pupils on achieving such incredible results. She thanked parents and governors for their support and praised teachers for their part in pupils’ success.

The Kingston Cup and The Madeleine Sophie Cup are presented to those students who achieve excellence in A Level and GCSE examinations. This year The Kingston Cup was presented to six students, (Feena McCreesh, Aimee Mullan, Rachel McGrane, Cliodhna Agnew, Leah Faherty and Eve Furphy), who all achieved at least 2A* grades at A-Level, whilst The Madeleine Sophie Cup was awarded to two students (Niamh Cullen and Blaithin Mohan), who achieved an impressive 10 A* grades at GCSE. They are pictured with Guest Speaker, Mrs Faustina Graham, Chief Inspector of the Education and Training Inspectorate and Principal Mrs Tiffney.

Pictured with Mrs Faustina Graham are: (L-R) Lucy Donnelly, joint recipient of The Kinlen Cup for English; Meabh Vallely, recipient of The Minne Cup for Music; Ashton Palmer, joint recipient of The Kinlen Cup and recipient of The Patrick Haughey Cup for Art, Meliat Acaite recipient of The Miriam Mone Award for Moving Image Arts and Leah Faherty who was awarded The McCann Cup for Drama.

Senior Prize-giving celebrated the stellar success of the senior pupils of Coláiste Chaitríona. Pictured with guest speaker, Mrs Faustina Graham, Pastoral Leader for Colaiste Chaitriona, Mrs Edel McKenna and Mrs Catherine Blaney, teacher of A Level Irish are: (L-R) Ruairi Duff, joint recipient of The McCrory Cup for achievement in Vocational Subjects, Ard-Chinnire Cholaiste Chaitriona, Eilidh Méabh Ní Dhufaigh, who offered a vote of thanks on the evening, Lochlainn O’Laifeartaigh, joint recipient of The St Catherine’s Cup for Contribution to School Life and Shona McGleenan, recipient of An Gradam Gaelach, awarded to KS4 pupils who have displayed a high degree of commitment and loyalty to IM education.

Pictured with Principal, Mrs Noeleen Tiffney are (L-R): Leah Faherty and Róise McCormick, joint recipients of The Cormac McAnallen Cup for Excellence and Leadership and Alana Donnelly, joint recipient of The Philippine Duchesne Cup, presented for the Personification of Sacred Heart Values.

Pictured with Mrs Noreen Heenan, Sacred Heart Network Co-ordinator, are pupils achieving some of our special Sacred Heart awards at Prizegiving : (L-R) Rachel O’Donnell, recipient of The Sister Nora Cup and Niamh McVeigh and Grace O’Farrell, joint recipients of The Siena Award for Displaying the Core Values of St Catherine’s College.

Mrs Faustina Graham is pictured with some of our special subject award winners at our recent Senior Prizegiving ceremony. ( L-R) Leonora Latanauskaite, recipient of The Sister Dolores Considine Cup, awarded for Technology and Design; Feena McCreesh who was awarded the Hanna Cup for Mathematics, recipient of The Politics Cup, Molly Denvir; recipient of The Betty McAuley Cup for History, Annie O’Hanlon and winner of The Sister Casey Cup, awarded for Home Economics, Food Science and Nutrition, Eve Furphy.

Pictured with Head of Sixth Form, Mrs Monique Rennie and Sixth Form Pastoral Leader, Miss Gemma Gildernew are: (L-R) Cliodhna Agnew, recipient of The McKinnon Cup for Health and Social Care; Rachel McGrane, recipient of The Sister Genevieve Cup for Business Studies; Roberta Galeckaite, joint recipient of The McCrory Cup for Applied Subjects; Brenna Hegarty, awarded The St Catherine’s Cup for Contribution to School Life and Holly McQuaid, joint recipient of The McCrory Cup for Applied Subjects.

Pictured with Key Stage Four Pastoral Lead, Mrs Ciara Burnett, Head of Key Stage Four, Mrs Louise McGilly and School Governor, Fr Barry Matthews are: (L-R) Sadhbh Ni Choinn and Caitlin Tierney, jointly awarded The Clodagh Marley Cup for Kindness to Others; Meabh O’Neill, recipient of The Andrea Curry Cup for Ethos at Key Stage Four and Niamh McGahan, recipient of The Nicola McKenna Memorial Cup, awarded to a pupil who has shown great strength of character, tenacity and resolve in the face of adversity.

Chair of the Board of Governors, Mrs Teresa Campbell is pictured with recipients of some of the special award winners in the field of Science. (L-R): Niamh Cullen, winner of The Science Rose Bowl for top results in GCSE Science and Sienna Gildernew and Aimee Mullan, joint recipients of The Mother Eliza Croft Cup awarded for excellence in two or more A-level Science subjects.

Pictured with School Governors, Mrs Teresa Campbell and Fr Barry Matthews are (L-R) Anna Greene, recipient of The Prix de Francais, Alana Donnelly, winner of The Physical Education Cup, Kate Daly, recipient of The Physical Education Shield, Bella Crossan, awarded the Mary Parkes Cup for Contribution to Sport in Key Stage Four and Oliwia Walda, recipient of The La Copa de Moore award for A Level Spanish.

Proud school principal, Mrs Noeleen Tiffney is pictured with Blaithin Mohan and Niamh Cullen who each achieved 10 A* grades at GCSE. A stellar achievement for these students who have now started their A Level studies in St Catherine’s College. The girls were joint recipients of the Madeleine Sophie Cup at the recent Prizegiving ceremony.

Pictured with Mrs Faustina Graham are: (L-R) Head Girls, Maeve Hayes and Elsie Druse who offered an eloquent vote of thanks to our guest speaker for the evening and presented her with a small token of our appreciation for taking the time to attend this special school event.