Coláiste Muire Réalt na Mara Crosshaven

Summer Newsletter 2026!🌞🌞
You will find just some of the highlights of what has been a very busy few months in Coláiste Muire in our Summer Newsletter!
Wishing our Leaving Certs and Junior Cycle students the very best of luck in their exams next week.🤞🎉
Happy reading and wishing all of our staff and students a wonderful summer break!🌞🏖

2026 Summer Newsletter

National Scratch Competition!
Check out this fantastic article about Aisling Fitzgerald from Transition Year,our National Scratch Champion!!!Well done Aisling!!
https://lero.ie/irelands-young-software-programmers-set-high-standards-at-the-national-scratch-coding-finals-2/

Our school sailors wrapped up their watersports term with a fantastic afternoon on the water last Friday. 🌊 Everyone had great fun sailing together, building their confidence on the water while developing their skills and knowledge ⛵️☀️
Royal Cork Yacht Club Irish Sailing

Aisling Fitzgerald is National Scratch Champion!

Huge congratulations to Aisling Fitzgerald from Transition Year who was the Overall Winner at the National Scratch Finals 2026 yesterday in UL, with her project “Truth can be bent”.
There were 335 overall entries into the competition which was made up of 65% male entries and 35% female entries. This is an unbelieveable achievement for both Aisling and her teacher Ms. Minussi. Well done from everyone in Coláiste Muire!!!

🌊🎼Sea Sessions Concert!🌊🎼
Our annual end of year concert took place on May 8th with over 90 students from all years taking to the stage.
The night was a huge success, showcasing the huge talent we have in the school. From our beautiful choir, to our skilled orchestra and trad group, as well as some amazing soloists and bands, we were all blown away by our extremely gifted students. All of the hard work and practice paid off! The concert raised over €700 which will go towards equipment for the Music Department. 🎼
A massive thank you to all who were involved!👏🎵🎸Thank you to Siobhan Russell Photography for capturing some fantastic photographs on the night! The Carrigdhoun Newspaper

Dragon's Den in Coláiste Muire!
1B had their last class of Business Studies today in 1st Year. The students were taking part in a live action Dragon's Den, showcasing all of their amazing and creative ideas for the imaginary businesses they designed in class. There are definitely some budding entrepreneurs in this class!Well done to Ms. O'Brien and her students!

Well done to our Second Year students Allie and Chloe!!What an achievement🎉👏

Well done to Lisa Kelly, Allie Higgins, Clodagh O Hanlon Rebecca O Doherty and Chloe Weste who all lined out for U14 Cork Dearg team today. An unbelievable achievement for the girls and Club they fought hard and came away with two wins from two. Well done to all involved. 💙💛❤️🤍

Well done Lauren!!What a fantastic achievement👏🎉.

The U14 Girls Basketball Team were in action yesterday in the semi finals of the All Ireland Cup against Castleisland Community College. The girls showed great grit and determination but lost out to Castleisland in the end. Well done girls for getting to this stage of the competition, you have done the school proud!!! 💪🏀👏 Crosshaven Basketball Club The Carrigdhoun Newspaper Basketball Ireland