Manor House School

The Manor House Scifest 2018 exhibition took place on 15 May in the PE Hall. The exhibition had 37 projects! Well done to all the 1st years and their six teachers, Ms A Dolan, Ms F Dolan, Ms G Fagan, Mr L Gahan, Ms Catherine Power and Ms A Tracey. All the students and teachers in the school, along with Ms O’Neill, Ms Dunwoody and Ms Fields, visited the exhibition. We were delighted so many parents and family members were able to join us, as well, in the afternoon for the presentation. Many thanks to the six judges, including Ms Catherine Power, Ms Jill Macklin and Anne Lynch from Scifest. The standard was extremely high because every group put in a huge effort.The judges found it very difficult to pick an overall winner. All participants were presented with certificates and ten projects received medals of distinction. The runners up were Caroline Kavanagh, Maeve O’Connor and Grainne Keating, for their project entitled 'Bubbleology'. The overall winning project, deemed to be 'outstanding' by the judges, was “Where can bacteria be found on a daily basis?” Congratulations to Victoria Leder and Alison Grealy.

Congratulations to 2nd years, Ellie Doran, Alannah Kennedy and Patricia Shevel-Bleikss, who were awarded the DCU Award for Physical Science at the DCU SciFest Competition in the Helix on 24 April 2018. Their project was called " How do frixion pens work?"A big thank you goes to their teacher, Ms Fagan, for guiding them.

The Manor House Scifest exhibition took place on 8 May in the school gym. All our first years were involved and we had a total of forty projects exhibited ! Well done to all the girls and the five teachers involved: Ms Power,  Ms Tracey, Ms A.Dolan, Ms Cassidy and Ms Fagan. All the students and teachers in the school visited the exhibition in the morning and we were delighted so many parents and family members were able to join us in the afternoon for the presentation. Many thanks to our judges, led by Mr Rory Geoghegan (from Scifest), Ms Callaghan, and Ms F.Dolan. The presentation was carried out by Ms O’Neill. The standard was extremely high. In fact every single group put in a huge effort and had lots of fun! The judges found it extremely difficult to pick an overall winner. All students were presented with certificates and ten projects received medals of distinction.  The runners up were Ella Connolly, Kate Fitzpatrick and Rhona Sunny with their project, 'What affects your lung capacity?' The overall winning project of was: 'How do frixion pens work?'  Congratulations to the overall winners of Manor House Scifest 2017 -  Patricia Shevel Bleikiss, Alannah Kennedy and Ellie Doran. A big thank you to Ms Catherine Power for pulling it all together. Thanks to Ms Fagan for the great slideshow (below).

The Manor House SciFest exhibition took place on Monday 9 May 2016 in the school gym. All our 1st years were involved with a total of 36 projects! Well done to all the girls and their five teachers - Ms Fullam, Ms Power Ms Callaghan, Ms Cassidy and Ms Tracey. We were very fortunate to be joined this year by Mr. Rory Geoghegan from SciFest, who spent the day with  us. He was very impressed with the standard of the projects! All the students and teachers in the school visited the exhibition in the morning and we were delighted that so many parents and family members were able to join us in the afternoon for the presentation. Many thanks to our judges led by Ms Ailis Dolan and Mr Rory Geoghegan.

The standard was extremely high. In fact every single group put in a huge effort and had lots of fun! The judges found it extremely difficult to pick an overall winner. The runners up were Ciara Stack, Zara Twomey and Grainne Keogh. However the overall winning project, agreed by all the judges to be outstanding was "Make up your mind – are you protecting your skin by wearing foundation/ moisturizer?" Congratulations to the overall winners of Manor House Scifest 2016 - Eabha Murphy, Sabrina Steinberga and Saoirse Daly. The presentation was carried out by Ms O’Neill.  All students were presented with certificates and ten projects received medals for distinction. 

The 2015 winners, Jessica Ormonde and Sarah Challoner, represented our school at SciFest@colleges which was held in ITB on Wednesday 4 May. Theirs were one of over a hundred projects at the regional finals and they came 2nd in their category with their project "Study Smart". Well done girls and good luck to our winners in next year's competition!