Shimna News

Four Shimna year 11 GCSE German students have been awarded scholarships worth 4000 euro each to participate in a Goethe Institut German Summer Camp this August. Seren, Ben, Hania and Viktor will be spending three weeks in Benediktbeuern about 45 minutes from Munich in Southern Germany. The students are very keen Germanists, and each wrote a detailed application in German outlining why they feel they should be awarded a place which was supported by Ms Susay and Susi Olpe our

Well done to our students for getting so involved in a programme that featured athletics, netball, football, rounders and even some...

The weather couldn’t have been better this morning for our annual Shimna Tennis Open. Some great tennis and fantastic rallys resulted in some very close games. We have some very promising young players coming through. Well done to all our players for taking part. Year 8 girls’ winner: Sienna Year 8 boys’ winner: Jonah Year 9/10 girls’ winner: Sophie Year 9 winner: Dara Overall KS3 girls’ winner: Sophie Overall KSS boys’ winner: Jonah Girls’ doubles winners: Sophie and Sien

Miss Higgins writes: “Over the past few months Year 8s have been learning about different types of Norman castles in History and have now...

Mr Magee, ICT Teacher, writes: “Year 10 ICT students have recently competed in an ICT/ Business task during their ICT lessons over the past 8 weeks. Working on a variety of promotional materials for a new healthy snack or drink of their choice, the students created a brand, including naming their product, and used a variety of software packages to design and create an original logo, slogan, TV advertisement, poster, presentation and webpage.” Mr Magee was delighted with how