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“The root of true achievement lies in the will to become the best that you can become”  Harold Taylor

Blackwater Community School is Committed to Quality Education. This commitment is to education in the broadest sense. We feel in the school that we should reward excellence in all its forms.

We sincerely thank our sponsors for their financial help, which has made these annual awards possible.

Our Awards are divided into four categorties

Scholarships

Gold Medals 

Student of the Year Awards ( For each Year)

Individual Sport Awards

The awards are presented on tow occasions during the year

  • Student of the Year and Sport Awards in May each year

  • Academic Awards in September each year

Click here to see the Academic Awards September 2007

Selection Procedure for Awards

 

Student of the Year

A student will have to receive a written nomination from a teacher to be eligible for an award. These nominations will go before a panel.

The student of the year for each year and the overall senior student of the year will be decided by this panel.

Individual Sports Awards

Winners will be selected by their coaches. The winner will then be submitted to a board.

 

Scholarship

These awards will be of a substantial nature and will be based on points achieved in the Leaving Certificate examination and will be presented in early September.

 

Gold Medals

On the academic front a gold medal for excellence will be awarded in each subject area in the Leaving Certificate class.

Award Recipients and Sponsors September 2007

 

SPECIAL AWARDS
Winner Sponsor
Sergei O Callaghan ENTERPRISE TONY GLAVIN
Jess Maderson CREATIVITY LISMORE DRAMA
John Coleman COMMUNITY SERVICE
Gold Medals
Kevin Moroney IRISH BRIDIE MARTIN
Cliona Morrissey BUSINESS TED KEINRY
Kevin Moroney MATHS MIKE FOLEY
Georgina Barry HISTORY LIAM MULCAHY
Jess Maderson ART ARTHUR MADESON
Seamus Fitzgerald PHYSICS DR LORDAN
John Owens GEOGRAPHY GERARD MCGRATH
Jess Maderson MUSIC WILLIE ROCHE
Kevin Moroney FRENCH NORA FLYNN
Tina Coffey SOCIAL AND SC OLLIE WILKINSON
Siobhan Ahern AG SCIENCE DAN HOWARD
Seamus Fitzgerald CHEMISTRY DON HANRAHAN
Kieran Fennessy CONSTRUCTION MARTIN RAFFERTY
John Nugent GERMAN JOERN WIEBE
Sarah O Brien L.C.V.P. TOM OVERLANDER
David Leahy Bernard Flynn ENGINEERING SEAN TOBIN
Sergei O Callaghan L.C.A. PADRAIG POLLARD
Christian Wiartz APPLIED MATHS DR BARRY
Georgina Barry BIOLOGY AKRAM HANNA
Eamon Begley TECHNICAL GRAPHICS MATT HOULIHAN
Kevin Moroney ACCOUNTING BANK OF IRELAND
Scholarships AND Memorial AWARDS
Jess Maderson ENGLISH TONY BOLGER/JACK MCCARTHY (MEMORIAL AWARD)
 Michelle Browne COMMUNITY SERVICE FLORENCE MCCARTHY(MEMORIAL AWARD)
Georgina Barry EDUCATION MICHAEL MADDEN (MEMORIAL AWARD)
Seamus Fitzgerald  ENGINEERING MOSSIE  HYLAND (MEMORIAL AWARD)
Jess Maderson PERFORMING ARTS JOHN RING (MEMORIALAWARD)
Elaine Daly DILLIGENCE KIERAN FENTON (MEMORIAL AWARD)
Lorraine Begley NURSING KITTY LUSKIN (MEMORIAL AWARD)
Catherina Hennessy MEDICAL STUDIES PATT CANNING (MEMORIAL AWARD)
Niamh Geary SCIENCE MICHAEL MCGRATH
Ellen O Donovan ARTS SHERRY FITZGERALD REYNOLDS
Denis Drislane APP IN CONSTRUCTION TOM HYLAND
Siobhan Ahern CATERING TOURISM BRIDE VIEW
Clionagh Morrissey BUSINESS AIB, LISMORE
Jenny Houlihan LEGAL STUDIES NEIL TWOMEY
Sarah O Brien ART AND DESIGN JOHNATHON ACROYD
Lindsey O Rourke SPORT DAVID WALSH
Sr Margaret Mary Healy Hall of Fame

Highest Achiever Awards

Orla Hayes HIGHEST POINTS JC KAVANAGHS FERMOY
Niamh Coughlan
Conor Geary
Kevin Moroney HIGHEST POINTS LC KAVANAGH FERMOY
Fiona Tobin STUDENT OF YEAR LISMORE /TALLOW/CAPPOQUIN AREA CREDIT UNIONS