The real Irish Oral takes place this year from Monday the 16th. April through to Friday the 20th. This is the first week back after the Easter Holidays. Please note that all 6th. undertaking this Oral Exam must be ready to do their exam at anytime during this week. Rough time-tables will be posted nearer the time. This exam is now worth 40% of all Irish marks for Leaving Cert so a great effort must be made between now and then to ensure that as many of the marks allocated to the Oral as earned.
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Past Pupil Kate Allen Mezzo-Soprano and student at San Francisco Conservatory of Music sings at Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts, Washington DC
Posted on 27 February 2012.
Former Past Pupil, Kate Allen, Mezzo-Soprano, performing recently at the Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington DC.See her brilliant performance here http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/videos/?id=M4948
She is about 32 minutes into the clip.
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Human Development Report 2011
Posted on 29 November 2011.
The 2011 Human Development Report has been released. It argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together. The Report shows how the world’s most disadvantaged people suffer the most from environmental degradation and disproportionately lack political power to effect change. See also the good news from Ghana.http://hdr.undp.org/en/
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Mount Temple students help to launch the 2012 All-Ireland Linguistics Olympiad
Posted on 26 October 2011.
The All-Ireland Linguistics Olympiad is a contest in which secondary school students develop their own strategies for solving problems in fascinating real languages from around the globe. Students must use their ingenuity to solve puzzles such as deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics; interpreting Tenji, the Japanese equivalent of Braille; and writing the names of football teams in Chinese. Top students go on to represent ireland at the International Linguistics Olympiad in Slovenia next July
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Subject, teacher and class sites now available on via school website.
Posted on 24 October 2011.
Check out new sites for pupils under Subject Areas under Learning on MT website. Geography, English, History, Science, Maths, Home Economics sites now on-line. More to follow.
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French Assistante
Posted on 24 October 2011.
The French Department is delighted to welcome our new assistante de francais Marie Glévéau who will be working with us until May 2012. She comes to us from Rennes in Bretagne and has already started working with the sixth year pupils and the debating team. To date she has impressed us with her dedication and enthusiasm and we hope that she will have a very successful year with us. Her first film club will take place on Thursday October 28th at 4pm. All sixth, fifth and fourth year students welcome.
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Fourth Year French Exchange
Posted on 24 October 2011.
For the sixth consecutive year, a group of 35 fourth year students will be heading off to Eu in Normandie to spend a week with their French correspondents from March 24th to 31st. The students are in the process of writing their first letters and planning the trip. The French group will make the return journey to Dublin in April.
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French Debates 2011
Posted on 24 October 2011.
Alliance Francaise
Once again, Mount Temple has entered a team in the Alliance Francaise debating competition. This year’s team consists of Shelley Carlyle (Capt.), Danny Bowles, Adam Thakore, Esmay Murray and Aoife Leonard. The team beat Loreto Foxrock in the opening round on Monday 3rd October and Shelley Carlyle won the award for best speaker. The subject for debate was that “Il faut abolir l’annee de transition” with Mount Temple speaking against the motion. The second round will take place on Monday November 14th. All supporters very welcome.
Inter-Class Debates
A new departure this year is our inter-class debating competition, the first of which will take place on Thursday 28th October between Ms McHardy’s fifth year class and Ms. O’Connell’s sixth years. The theme is “Les années scolaires sont les meilleures années de la vie”.
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