Happy Birthday Mrs Maguire Timmins!

On September 26th Mrs Maguire Timmins celebrated her birthday. Colleagues brought in cakes, some even baked in honour of the occasion. We wish our English and Careers teacher a wonderful trip around the sun this year!

Happy Birthday Ms Timmins!

Venus in Wilderness, Sept 2013

Thanks Mrs Grace for this great video of Venus on their Wilderness Camping trip!!!


Venus Camping Trip from John Scottus on Vimeo.

Ultimate frisbee trip to Gonzaga

JS girls had a great experience when they were introduced to Ultimate Frisbee at Gonzaga College.

JSS Ultimate Frisbee Blitz from John Scottus on Vimeo.

Careers Evening a Great Success

On a cold October evening the senior school building was a hive of activity, the annual Career's Evening was taking place and all students from 4th , 5th and 6th year were in attendance. The evening took the format of a brief opening of the event given by myself; Emma Maguire Timmins, the Career Guidance Counsellor of the school,highlighting the magnitude of the event, introducing the speakers and emphasising the importance of reflection and seeing life as an exiting journey of discovery and then the main event began!
There were seven separate talks on Science by Dr.Mani Ramaswami, Engineering by Michael Collins, Media by John Boyle, Primary school Education by Elizabeth Breen, Business by Laura Merity, the Defence Forces by Lt.Tom Quigley and Social work by Emma Keogh.

Sports Day for JSS Secondary, May 10th

Active School Week, May 7th to 10th

Click HERE for the Active School Programme

Remember Sports day is on Friday!

Pictures will follow.......soon

Who was John Scottus?

Who was John Scottus? Jakob McKeown Holland, 3rd Class tells us in the following superb presentation:

Much Ado About a Fantastic TY Production

Dogberry AKA the multi-talented Shophie Madden entertains and delights

Event Poster Designed by Aisling Murphy

Beatrice, Benedick and Leonato take a well-deserved bow

Hero has words with her cousin Beatrice

Benedick and Beatrice put aside their cynicism and embrace true love

Get Behind Magic Flute, The Musical

Magic Flute, the Musical will run from Wednesday the 6th to Friday the 8th March 2013 in The Civic Theatre in Tallaght. Expect a musically enchanting extravaganza set in a circus with princes, maidens (awaiting rescue), ninjas (see below), dragons, unscrupulous bankers and the evil Queen of the Night herself  accompanied by choruses and orchestras of Alexandra College and JSS.
A production like this, involving 120 students, requires more funding than can be raised through ticket sales.We raised most of the money via passionate in-house fundraising but are just short of our venue and technical costs. And so we turn to you..... Please sponsor our school production by clicking this Fundit link

Click here to book Tickets

Papagena and Papageno Rehearse

The Ninjas Practice their Martial Arts moves

Active School Flag

John Scottus is in the process of becoming an Active Flag school as an area of active living, healthy lifestyle and physical well being. The award recognises schools that strive to achieve a physical educated and physically active school community. Linda Broaders is spearheading this process which is pretty much “business as usual” for JSS excellent Sports and PE department
Criteria Include:
1 Provision of the correct PE timetable provision as per DES Guidelines
2 Inform and invite the whole school community in participate in the ASF process
3 Commit to a process of self-evaluation and review current provision across 15 areas
4 Plan and implement improvements that will enhance PE and physical activity provision for all students

Watch this space as we endeavour to achieve Active School Flag status over the next few months.

JSS Music Recital, 10th December

Úna Ní Chanainn presented a magical recital for John Scottus parents on the 10th of December in the refreshment room of Northumberland Road. This is a slideshow to give you an idea of the range of talent and interest our small school contains. Children from both Secondary and Primary schools played their pieces beautifully and with confidence. We were treated to performances of the TWO JSS string quartets and a cello quintet in addition to individual pieces. We even had a double bass & cello piece performed for us.

5th of December Cross Country

Wednesday 5th December over 16 students represented JSS at the Athletics Ireland cross country invitational race in Dunboyne. They ran distances of 1000m,1500m and 2,000m. Everyone performed well. Thanks to Mr van de Belt for the video footage.

Magic Flute Sweet Surprise, December 20th

Magic Flute Sweet Treats

Work continues on the Magic Flute. The School Orchestra from Alexandra College were delighted to accept an invitation from Mr Dempsey to participate in this exciting production. A hamper of delicious treats will be raffled to raise much needed funds for this enterprise. Tickets cost 30C each or 5 for €1 and are available at the Secondary School from Mr Kerr at morning drop-off. Buy some soon; If you're not in you can't win!!!

"Le Bon Roi" 13th November JSS

Tears in Le Bon Roi

Brave JSS Volunteers in Le Bon Roi

At the invitation of Mr Kortenhorst, the French Theatre for Schools Group performed “Le Bon Roi”with 1st through 4th year on the 13th November. Several volunteers (including some very reluctant ones!) participated. 

Overall  the experience proved a highly enjoyable way to learn French. Our thanks to Mr van de Belt, JSS official photographer  and Principal Archivist for producing the video presented below.

Come Dine With JSS TY on Friday 9th November

TY celebrated the culmination of their cookery module at Donnybrook Fair Cookery School in style. On Friday 9th at 12.45pm Transition Year students served a delicious lunch in the secondary school and also to teachers and parents in Donnybrook Fair. Everyone was invited to support the TY project in India and help provide good education for poor rural children by paying just €5 for their lunch. TY cooked, plated and served many delicious lunches and raised over €500.

TY preparing to serve

Hungry parents and teachers anticipate a feast for the senses

Many thanks to Mr. van de Belt who created a movie of the Cookery Module below.

Halloween at John Scottus 2012

JSS Artroom News

Miss O'Lomasney’s art students have transformed the Artroom during October with Halloween themed work and more.

New Artroom motto

Artroom in October

Door ArtWork

Second Years' Halloween Tributes

Halloween Pumpkin Heads

Second Year Girls display their Handiwork

Magic Flute Characters

Papageno the Bird Catcher

The Magic Flute is cast and rehearsals are underway.  The 'production team' (Trish Bunyan, Susie Spratt , Valerie McGeough and Fran Dempsey) are working towards the show opening in March at the Civic Theatre in Tallaght.

Queen of the Night

Plans for Magic Flute Costumes Revealed!

Costume designs for the upcoming JSS Musical Theatre Production of the Magic Flute have been leaked to the John Scottus School BLOG. In an exclusive post we offer a sneak preview of the fabulous costumes planned for the Civic Theatre in March. Enjoy!!

JSS Wilderness Camping Trip

Jupiter went to Wicklow in September for the first of the Wilderness Camping trips. Click below to see how they got on.