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Science Week 2026

13 November 2026

Well done to everyone for getting involved and helping to make science week a huge success. Under the theme of Water: from Molecule to Ocean, we had water based riddles everyday, with hundreds of entries received across the week. 

Congratulations to our winners: 

Mon: Nuadha Breslin 5C and Gideon van den Berg 1B

Tue: Sean Leonard 1F and T.J Carr 5F

Wed: Andy Gavin 4A and Eddie Diver 6E

Thurs: Euan O’Malley 4C and Larry Manning 5B

Special mention to Jackie, Geraldine and Fran in the canteen who guessed the answer correctly everyday, but unfortunately were not eligible for a prize!

Keeping with the theme of water, we held a very competitive skills challenge on Monday, to see who could add the most drops of water to a coin. 

Well done to our winners:

1st place: Cillian Prendergast 2B

2nd place: Sai Shriyans Botcha 2C

3rd place: Darii Kelbas 2A

4th place: Andrej Tomasevic 3B

5th place: Daniel Omo Ojugo 1E

On Tuesday we got creative and designed our own boats. After a somewhat leaky start, they all showed excellent creativity and critical thinking skills and came up with some fantastic designs. 

Congratulations to our winners:

1st place: Ahmed Omer 4C and Ryan Parletti 4C

2nd place: Ibrahim Tipoo 1C and Sebastian Manka 1C

3rd place: Nathan Sanchez 2C and David Omo Ojugo 2C

On Thursday, just for fun, we brought back our annual marshmallow tower challenge, which brought out a real competitive streak. The lads put together some unbelievable structures with first place reaching 39cm high!

Well done to our winners:

1st place: Tom Horan 4C and Conall White 4C (champions four years in a row!)

2nd place: Jack Pritchard 1A and Albert Manoj 1A

3rd place: Ian O’Meara 1F 

Well done everyone for taking part, and we hope our winners enjoy your canteen vouchers.