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St. Joseph's Win

Joint First in Ireland

Something Fishy Project 2007

Click here to see the News2Day report on RTE of the presentation in Swords on Friday, December 7th (Real Player)

Central Fisheries Board Press Release

Irish Times Report

Something Fishy Website

Mr Hume thanks all concerned (Video)

St. Joseph's 6th. Class, Ms. McCabe's class of last year win joint first in Ireland for Something Fishy project.

We travelled to the Central Fisheries Board's offices in Swords on Friday, December 7th to receive the award for being joint first in Ireland in the Something Fishy project.

The  boys in the current 6th. class assisted by Ms. McCabe, Mr. Donnelly  and Mr. Hume produced a study on the River Dodder, its fish life, plant life, history and bridges and course of the river.

Ms. McCabe's class visited the river accompanied by three experts from the Central Fisheries Board, representatives from Blackrock Education Centre, George Hook from Newstalk and Derek Evans from the Irish Times. They were introduced to such things as electro fishing and kick sampling  as well as having a guided tour of the plants, fauna and wildlife of the Dodder environs.

Back in the school the boys created art work, powerpoint presentations, edited video and presented their project on DVD.

Another St. Joseph's school from Sligo were our co-winners. We were presented with a digital microscope for being regional winners and €200 for being national winners.

The boys decided to donate their prizemoney to the Airfield Trust.

Ms. McCabe and the winning class with Mark Vaughan, Dublin footballer.

Eric and Daniel, as class representatives, are presented with the Digital Microscope for being regional winners.

Sam and Robert represent the class to receive a cheque for being national winners.

Des Chew from the Central Fisheries Board was a great help during the project.

Seamus Cannon the Director of Blackrock Education Centre said that he was amazed and delighted to see such a high standard of entries to the “Something Fishy” project. "The standard was so high we just could not pick a clear winner after hours of judging”. Seamus went on to say that the project has incorporated a number of key areas in the curriculum including English, Science, Art and History.