St Colman’s Home Ec Dept

Official Twitter thread of Home Economics Department at St Colman’s College, Newry. We are responsible for our own tweets only 👩‍🍳🥣🍽

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10A Biology students took their learning into the great outdoors today to master ecological sampling techniques. In the open lawn and the shade of the woodland, they’ve been busy identifying species and measuring biodiversity in our own backyard🌳🌼🪻@st_colmans

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@st_colmans looking forward to planting out the beds this week 👨‍🌾🪏🪴

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9C proved that many hands make light work as they got stuck into prepping our raised beds for fresh spring planting this week 👨‍🌾🪏🫜🙌 @st_colmans

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J2E recently said goodbye to their dear friend and classmate, Conor Fitzgibbon, who's embarking on a new adventure with his family in Dallas, Texas. We're excited to catch up with him soon and hear all about his escapades!
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J3E showing off their amazing vegetable produce! 🥦🥕🥔 We are so proud of our student gardeners who have grown and supplied vegetables to the St Colman’s canteen, literally from plot to plate, for our delicious school meals 🍽️🧑‍🍳 @st_colmans

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A huge thank you to Dr. Christina O’Rourke for delivering an inspiring careers talk to J2E! She shared her edu journey, her PhD in Cell & Molecular Bio/Plant Bio, and her impactful work in NI’s pharmaceutical industry, including Piramal, Norbrook and Almac @st_colmans 🔬🥼🌿💉💊

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Our year 9 students were keeping ‘er lit at the Balmoral Show today. Brilliant company and fabulous weather - a great day out had by all ☀️🚜🐄 @st_colmans

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J2E are delving into the colourful world of chromatography as part of their ‘separating mixtures’ topic in science 🧑‍🔬🎨 @st_colmans

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J3E enjoying an outdoor HE lesson today. They weeded the raised beds before planting out a range of berries and vegetables and will be exercising their green fingers over the coming months, tending to the beds 🧑🏻‍🌾🥬🥦🍓🌻@st_colmans

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J3E enjoying an outdoor HE class tending to our raised beds. They planted out a variety of lettuces, broccoli and scallions, along with strawberries, raspberries and sunflowers. We are looking forward to the fruits of their labour! 🥬🥦🍓🌻🧑🏻‍🌾@st_colmans

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Year 9 student separating salt 🧂 from rock salt 🪨 in Science and updating a log of their experiments in their digital folders 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻 @st_colmans

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J3E looking fiendishly happy with themselves for creating spooktacular chocolate apples in HE today 🍫🍏🎃👻

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J3E were getting into the spirit 👻of Halloween 🎃 today in Home Ec 🕸️🕷️and had great fun decorating their chocolate apples 🍫🍏 @st_colmans

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Many thanks to QUB School of Biological Sciences for hosting their Career and STEM teachers event this morning. A fantastic opportunity to network with staff and postgrads, hear more about the courses on offer and visit the labs 🥼🔬🦠🦈 🌳@QUBbioscience @st_colmans

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Pupils from St. Patrick’s Primary School Newry enjoying their cookery session in the HE dept on PS Activity Day @st_colmans 🧑‍🍳👨‍🍳🥣🧁

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J1E engage in a hands-on chemistry experiment, observing the reaction between marble chips and acid, resulting in the production of carbon dioxide gas 🧑‍🔬🧪⚛️ @st_colmans

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J1E performing the hydrogen test in science class today 🧪💥🧑‍🔬@st_colmans