Skerries Community College

Skerries Community College is an Irish secondary school located in Skerries, North Dublin. It has over 1,000 students. The school prides itself in sport.

Formation

The school was originally an amalgamation of two of the schools in the town, the Holy Faith convent and the De La Salle school. In recent years it has become a Vocational school.

Over the past years the school has been in the process of building an extension, and two years ago it was completed. It included newly renovated classrooms, a new art room, a new PE hall, and many new classrooms, along with a new entrance.

Sports

Soccer:Boys U-13 Soccer:Boys U-14 Soccer:Boys U-16 Soccer:Boys U-18 Soccer::Girls U-14 Soccer:Girls U-16 Soccer:Girls U-18 Soccer Gaelic football:Boys U-13 Football:Boys U-14 Football:Boys U-16 Football:Boys U-18 Football::Girls U-16 Football:Girls U-18 Football

Camogie:Girls U-14 Camogie:Girls U-18 Camogie

Rugby union:Boys U-13 Rugby:Boys U-14 Rugby:Boys Junior Cup Team "A":Boys Junior Cup Team "B":Boys Junior Cup Team "C":Boys mammy minge munching "A":Boys Senior Cup Team

Cricket: :Junior Cricket:Senior Cricket

Amateur Musicals

The school also prides itself with sucsesful musicals which have been performed in the school since it opened in 1981. Its first show was "Oklahoma" (1981) "The quaker girl" (1982) "The desert song" (1983) "Carousel" (1984), "Calamity Jane" (1985) "The Pyjama game" (1986) "Oliver!" (1987) and "Guys and Dolls" (1988).

They then took a four year break and the shows returned in 1992 with "Annie Get Your Gun" then another two year break and in 1994 they did "South Pacific" then in 1998 (after another four year break) they prouduced "The Sound of Music"

In 2000 they did "West Side Story" then the next year "The King and I" (2001). After that another two year break which afterward saw a production of "Grease" (2003) then in 2004 they did "Skerries musical sound waves V" which is a mixture of songs from different musicals e.g. "Les Misérables" next in the line of shows was "Fiddler on the Roof" (2005), "Bugsy Malone" (2006) and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (2007).

External links

* [http://www.education.ie/insreports/report1_76078Q.htm Skerries Community College - Music report]
* [http://www.skerriestown.ie Skerries Town Fc]
* [http://www.gaelsport.com/html/club/club_home.jsp?c=1970 Skerries Harps GAA Club]
* [http://www.skerriesrfc.ie Skerries Rugby Club]
* [http://a2zsoccer.com a2z Soccer]