Shimna News

Yesterday, our Year 10 students took part in an ICT Day hosted by CyberFirst. All students were able to take part in 4 interactive workshops and gain a valuable insight into Cyber Security in various real-life settings. The workshops included PSNI Cyber Escape Rooms, CyberFirst Enigma challenges, Mbots and coding, as well as talks on AI, and its influence in the industry. Shimna recently gained the CyberFirst School Silver Certificate, recognising the school’s growing commitm

The girls enjoyed a very competitive morning of netball at Ballyholland C.C. Shimna played against St. Mark’s and St. Louis in the final League games of the season. The Shimna Minors playing first, had a decisive victory over St. Louis, winning 17 goals to 9. Unfortunately Zoe Astruc-Kidd, captain and centre in the team, suffered an ankle injury, and had to come off. With some reorganisation, Isabella Mayers, assumed the captain’s and centre roles performing them very well. C

Students of German have been busy celebrating German Week by taking part in a variety of fun and engaging activities over the past week. Our Key Stage 3 students demonstrated fantastic creativity by designing T-shirts to promote and celebrate learning German. Meanwhile, our Year 11 and Year 13 students visited All Children’s IPS, where they delivered an interactive German lesson to the P7 class. We were delighted by how quickly the P7 pupils picked up German greetings and by

We were delighted to welcome Christina Cuffe from Atlantic Technological University (ATU) today to deliver an information session to our Sixth Form students. She shared clear, sensible and highly informative guidance on course options, study pathways, campus life and the CAO process. Our students left feeling more confident and better equipped to make informed decisions about their next steps. ATU is one of Ireland’s newest and most dynamic universities, offering a wide range

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Open Morning event on Saturday 17 January. It was wonderful to welcome so many families. In addition to running activities across all subject areas, we were proud to give our own students responsibility for leading tours, sharing their experiences and answering questions about life at Shimna.       With it being our first Open Morning in the new school, it was a great opportunity to showcase our fantastic new facilities, including a