St Benildus promotes the Art of Reading

St Benildus College Library is currently hosting a beautiful exhibition called "The Art of Reading". This event is a collaboration between Ms Dowling's TY art class and Ms Downey's TY Librarians. The art students turned old library books into incredible reading-themed sculptures, and the librarians created a magnificent art installation, weaving the artworks among the library books and shelves.

Last Friday, our 1st and 2nd Year Book Clubs met with Library Co-ordinator Ms Downey for doughnuts and discussion of the shortlisted titles for the Great Reads Awards 2025. These awards for Irish debut Children's and YA authors are shortlisted by school librarians and judged by students. The merits of each book were hotly debated, the votes were cast, and we're all looking forward to the awards ceremony next term.

Thanks to Ms Moore and Ms Masterson Power for running these brilliant book clubs on Friday lunchtimes in the Library.

UCD Entrance Scholarships

Congratulations to past pupils Fionn Larkin and Oisín Walsh (Class of 2025), who were awarded an Entrance Scholarship to University College Dublin. Fionn and Oisín both achieved an impressive 625 points in their Leaving Certificate with Fionn currently studying Engineering and Oisín studying Commerce. We are extremely proud of their achievement and wish them continued success in their studies.

Bebras Computational Thinking National Finals

Congratulations to 1st year students Liam McCarthy, Evan Daly, Eoin Heneghan, Mark Tallon, Seán O'Callaghan , 2nd year students Jack Dempsey, Daniel Doolan, Oisin Miller Farrell, 3rd year students Sam Nolan, Adam Larkin and 6th year student Eoin Kavanagh who have qualified for the All-Ireland Bebras Computational Thinking Finals to be held in NUI Maynooth on Saturday April 18th.

In order to qualify for the final all of the above students finished in the top 10% of their respective age categories, with over 2500 participants in total. Well done.

BM Schools Academic Quiz

The Junior Scholars competed in the BMSAQ International schools quiz recently. St Benildus placed eight points above the national average and Darragh Lennon in 3rd year finishing top of the school and top of the country.

Dublin Indoor Championship

Congratulations to 3rd year students Luca Moran and Conor Pimlott who recently had great success in the Dublin Indoor Championship and who will both go on to participate in the Indoor All-Ireland Finals in March.

Conor Pimlott won the U17 Boys 1500m in a time of 4.16 and then Conor completed the double by winning the 800m in a time of 2.03 PB. Luca Moran won the U16 High Jump and Triple Jump and also won bronze in the U16 200m. Everyone here in the College is exceptionally proud of both students and we wish them well for the remainder of the season.