Mentors

Trinity Access, with whom we are a school of distinction has Mentoring as one of their core practices. We aim to exemplify this in our school. The mentoring core practice is as follows:

The Mentoring core practice involves various types of mentoring programmes, designed to foster academic and personal growth among all students. It includes, for example, college-focused mentoring, peer-to-peer mentoring, and career-focused mentoring. Mentoring provides all students with a supportive relationship with a more experienced individual who can serve as a role model-such as teachers, community leaders, peers, adults and/or college students. Mentoring is not a once-off activity; it involves a mentor engaging with a mentee/small group of mentees over a length of time.

In Firhouse community college we are embedding mentoring in the school as a whole, with the intentional aim that over the next few years that each and every year group will be involved in mentoring, either as a mentor to others, or as mentees.

Currently we have

5^th Year Mentors

The 5^th year Mentor Team for the year 2025/2026 are:

1.Lauren McGrath

2.Alannah Cooke

3.Muireann Coyle

4.Mary Anderson E

5.Ava Traynor

6.Kate Heavey

7.Keleigh Reilly

8.Jessica Lundberg

9.Kayanna Tobin

10.Ava Cathcart

11.Monica Singh

12.Sanya Sing

13.Paula Afumbon

14.Leah Gleeson

15.Abbey Kavanagh

16.Emily Grant

Events:

Goals:

TY Digital Ambassadors

The TY Digital Ambassador Team for the year 2025 /2026 are:

Events: Safer internet day Feb 2025

Microsoft Dreamspace Ambassador training, as follows :

• Micro:bit 101 - Oct 16th (Wednesday)
• Micro:bit Next Level - Nov 18th (Monday)
• Hour of Code with Minecraft Education - Dec 11th (Wednesday)
• Older Wiser Learner (OWL) - Jan 20th (Monday)
• Safer Internet Day - Feb 5th (Wednesday)
• MakeCode Arcade 101 - March 3rd (Monday)
• MakeCode Arcade Next Level - March 24th (Monday)
• Python 101 - April 2nd (Wednesday)

Goals: Ipad management

• Computer Rooms
• Coding Club
• Training of students
• CBA assisting
• Internet awareness week

STEM Committee

Out STEM committee team for the year 2025/2026 are:

1. Erin Birney

2. Sarah Brady

3. Chloe Byrne

4. Leah Cathcart

5. Jaden Coade

6. Siobhan Connor

7. Stephen Doyle

8. Cassia Duggan

9. Megan Farrell

10. Erica Gleeson

11. Mia Hamil

12. Caitlyn Kearney

13. Sofia Macari

14. Lauren MacKessy

15. Emily Moran

16. Holly O’Connor

17. Isabell Raymond

18. Kelly Tobin

19. Sofie Whelan

Events:

• 14th October STEM week
• 16th October STEM QUIZ
• 1st Decmeber STEAM Wall presentations delivered to all first-year students
• 10th December STEAM Wall quiz
• 26th of March Primary School visit to carry out Experiments
• 15th of April Scifest for all 2nd Year Students
• 5th of May Science Fair for all 1st Year students

Goals:

Students participate in BT young scientists

Raise awareness of STEM subjects

STEM committee will mentor 1^st year students for science fair

· More collaboration with other teachers for STEM week

· STEM team students will take turns leading/organising different events

· Use JSCP initiative to purchase microbits to do coding with the junior students faciltated by the stem students involved in the STEM Inclusion program.

· Work with DA’s to facilitate training Junior students using microbits

· Silver award from Scifest at school fair ( need to host fair 5 times)

· Make smell jars

· Design STEM room

The current staff team are as follows:

These groups have all received training to date and will be instrumental in setting up and facilitating our mentor programs and initiatives going forward.