Dear Parents and Students,

Oide Subject TPL School Cluster Day

A reminder to parents that, as per our agreed calendar, GCC is closed to students next Monday 2 December owing to teacher training as part of the Oide School Cluster Day.

GCC Board of Management – Election of Parent Nominees

A newly constituted GCC Board of Management will begin its new term in December and the new Board requires two new parent nominees. The nominees, the accompanying information and the voting link can be accessed below. Please note when completing the link, you will be asked to give the name of your child who is attending GCC and the year group. This is for validation purposes to ensure that only GCC parents vote in the election.

GCC Board of Management – Election of Parent Nominees – Glanmire Community College

Pastoral Visit to Glanmire Community College by Bishop Fintan Gavin

Parents are reminded that the Diocese of Cork and Ross is a co trustee of Glanmire Community College. From November 2022 to date, Bishop Fintan Gavin has made 24 Pastoral Visitations to Post Primary schools throughout the Diocese. GCC is delighted to welcome Bishop Fintan to our school on Thursday 12 December, when he will meet our 1st Year students.

GCC First Year Student features in The Echo

Rang Roisin students all entered the Discovery Cork History project under the guidance of their History teacher Ms Reeves. Students were encouraged to send their work to local papers, which led to Dean Horgan featuring in the Echo. Dean’s project was written about his great grandmother capturing the theme of ‘Stories all around us’ wonderfully.

Please click on the link to view the featured article on the Echo’s Throwback Thursday.

The Echo featuring Dean Horgan

GCC Drama, Film & Theatre Studies 

On Monday the 25th of November, a select 25 students interested in the pilot subject Drama, Film and Theatre Studies, went on a day trip to UCC. They began by visiting the Granary Theatre. Here they got an overview on one of the available courses. They also did some drama exercises. Afterwards they went to the main UCC grounds to hear an overview on film and screen media. Finally, the students got a historical tour of UCC. It was an amazing day out!

Charitable Refunds-CHY3 Form 6th Year Students 2024

As you are aware the school makes an annual charitable refunds claim to Revenue based on the voluntary contributions parents make to the school. Completion of the form is part of the enrolment process to the school in 1st Year. Unfortunately, the initial form only covers a student’s first 5 years in the school because not all students will enter TY. Therefore, we are obliged each year to ask the parents of 6th Year students to complete a new form in order for us to be able to claim against their payments.

This morning during tutorial we distributed new CHY3 forms to 6th Year students and asked for them to be returned on Monday morning at registration. The form is just one page (link below) and we hope a short turn around will help maximise the number of forms we receive back. Thanks to you our GCC parents for your help in ensuring we maximise this revenue stream which has proven invaluable to the school over the last number of years.

CHY3 Form & Explanation

GCC TY Progression

Please fill out the following form to indicate your child’s Leaving Certificate programme preference for 2025/26. Please note this needs to be completed by Friday 6 December.

GCC TY Progression Form for September 2025

GCC Activities of the Week Monday 2  to Friday 6 December 2024

Please click on the link below to view the activities for next week Monday 2  to Friday 6 December 2024

Winter Health Advice from the HSE

Please click on the link to view the most up to date Winter health advice from the HSE

HSE Winter Health Advice

GCC Paris Language Tour January 2025 – Information Briefing Tuesday 3 December 2024 

A reminder to parents of 5th Year students going on the GCC French tour to Paris in January, that our information session takes place next Tuesday 3 December in the Multipurpose Room B26 at 4pm. Please click on the link to view the itinerary. We would like to thank Mr Leahy and our team of teachers who are providing this wonderful opportunity for our students.

Itinerary for Parents GCC Paris Language Tour

GCC School Gym

Parents and students are asked to note that our GCC school gym is open Monday to Friday before school for 4th, 5th and 6th year students. Students can use the gym upstairs in the PE Hall every day from 8:00am until 8:45am and it will be fully supervised. Thanks you to our GCC teachers for providing this wellbeing opportunity to students.

GCC Christmas Exams Timetable 2024 

Please click on the link below to view the timetables for our Christmas Exams in December. The schedule includes oral exams for 6th Year students on Wednesday 18 December for Irish and Thursday 19 December for French. 

 GCC Christmas Exams Timetable 2024

1st and 2nd Year students have been given revision guides. These revision guides list all the topics being examined in each subject for the Christmas exams. Please click on the link to view the revision guides.

1st Year Christmas Exams 2024 Revision Guide

2nd Year Christmas Exams 2024 Revision Guide

GCC Homework Club for 1st Year Students

Homework Club for 1st year students is up and running every Friday from 1-2pm in B13. If you would like your child to take part please place a note in their journal for the attention of the class teacher. Homework Club is supervised by a teacher with the assistance of TY Gaisce students.

GCC School Uniform

We would like to remind parents that the GCC school fleece introduced this year is an outer layer to the school uniform. It is an alternative to the school jacket and cannot replace the school jumper. We will endeavour to maintain our high standards in relation to the school uniform and greatly appreciate the support of parents in doing this. Please ensure your child’s belongings are labelled, particularly the school jacket and fleece. This allows lost items to be returned to students efficiently.

Disability Access Route to Education (DARE )scheme

GCC CBA Assessment Calendar for 2024/2025

Please take note of the GCC CBA Assessment calendar for 2024/2025 displayed in the picture below:

GCC School Car Park

We would like to thank parents for their continued cooperation with our entry/exit system to the school car park. A reminder that:

• From 8.30am to 9.10am Monday to Friday the school car park is entry only. The exit lane from the car park will be closed at these times.
• From 3.30pm to 4.10pm Monday to Thursday and 12.30pm to 1.10 pm on Friday the school car park will be exit only. The entry lane to the school car park will be closed at these times.

We would be grateful if parents could remind students:

• to use the pedestrian footpaths and not walk along or between cars when entering/leaving the school
• use the pedestrian gates only and not enter or leave the school via the main gate

We kindly ask parents who are collecting their children from our school not to park their vehicles in appropriately. For example, we ask parents not to park up on footpaths. We are aware of some cars taking up the whole footpath, leaving no space for either our students or members of the public to walk freely by and limiting the access of wheel chair users.

We also ask parents and students to be respectful of the housing estates near the school around drop off & collection times. Cars queuing in school traffic on the Hazelwood Road are blocking the entrances to Old Avenue & Oakfield housing estates. Please leave a gap for residence trying to leave their estates.

We thank you for cooperation in ensuring added safety for our students when accessing the school grounds.

Cycle Against Suicide – Webinar Series

Anxiety is one of the most common challenges of childhood and adolescence. This has been reflected in the registrations to and attendee feedback on previous Cycle Against Suicide webinars delivered by Cycle Against Suicide and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, UCD.

Building on the previous series, Series 2 will take a more in-depth look at anxiety in young people exploring different types of anxiety common in this age group. Each 1 hour session will incorporate content on the causes, symptoms and evidenced-based approaches which support recovery.

December 5th: Exploring Perfectionism and Obsessive-Compulsive Characteristics

These sessions delivered via zoom are free and open to all parents and teachers to participate. Register your participation please do so at:

https://www.cycleagainstsuicide.com/parent-talks/

GCC Upcoming Calendar Events – September 

We hope you have a nice weekend.

GCC Senior Management [Ronan McCarthy (Principal), Patrick O’Mahony (Deputy Principal) Caroline Byrne (Deputy Principal), Seamus Kennefick (Deputy Principal)]