June 2010 - The Abbey Christian Brothers' Grammar School

GraduationThe Class of 2010 are the First toGraduate from the Castleowen SiteOn Friday 07th May we celebrated our first Leavers’ Graduation Ceremonyfrom our new Castleowen site.This was an important event in our school calendar, not least because our students had spent six and a halfyears on Courtenay Hill so this was their second farewell to a school and its community which had giventhem so many memories over the last seven years of their lives.On behalf of the whole staff we hope they will leave our school community with a sense of pride and hope,with healthy memories of everything they have become and dreams of what they are about to become. Wehope they remember that it is the people around them, who have, and will make each of them who they are,and we encourage them to cherish every opportunity, experience and challenge that comes in their way fromthis day on. Believe in yourselves, set yourself targets and become who you want to be!C Mc Grath(Seventh Form Year Tutor)Learning for Life and WorkFirestorm Visit by Newry Fireand Rescue ServiceFour weeks before Halloween, we began theFirestorm project in Learning for Life and Work.In the project, we learned about fire safety,arson and hoax calls. In the sub-topic of firesafety, we discovered that our homes are not assafe from fires as many of us had expected. Wewere taught about how leaving doors open inthe house is extremely dangerous if a fire didbreak out. We then created an escape plan forour homes so that we could use them in case ofa fire in our houses. We then learned about howthe people who are trying to save humans in anemergency are being attacked on their way to afire. We then looked at the next topic: arson. AnPage 1 Abbey WAY June 2010arson fire is when a fire is started on purpose.This project prepared us for the visit fromfirefighters from The Newry Fire Service on May21st.The firefighters that came to speak to usreinforced the information that we had alreadyobtained. They showed us a video on howquickly a fire could start after ash had not beendisposed of properly. After about eighteenminutes, a visible flame ignited and withinanother eight, the whole room had beenengulfed.I really enjoyed doing the Firestorm project asit gave me a real ‘wake-up call’ about how easilya fire could begin. I have gained lots of newknowledge and I have learned that a firefighter’sjob is really hard.Caolan Magee Br9Pictured above are outgoing schoolcouncil memberrs: Darren Loye andMike McGovern (Back row) with theircolleagues JB Farrell (Head Boy) andPeter Rice