🎉 ERSS Fundraiser Lotto – Weekly Winner! 🎉 Congrats to this week’s lucky winner! Thank you to everyone supporting our school — your contribution truly helps our students. Want to take part? • 1 line €2.50 • 2 lines €4 • 3 lines €5 • Match 4 numbers to win the jackpot • Jackpot grows every week! Join now by scanning the QR code or visiting: 🔗 https://www.ourfundraiser.ie/org/erss Best of luck in next week’s draw!✍️

This award recognises students who consistently demonstrate excellent effort, a positive attitude, and a strong commitment to life in ERSS. A huge congratulations to this week’s deserving students: ✨ Room 12 – Kevin Chen ✨ Room 13 – Blake Foley Well done to both students on your fantastic achievement. Keep up the brilliant work — we’re very proud of you!

Free Apprenticeship Information Webinar provided by CareerServices.ie We are just sending a quick email to advise that we have set another FREE Apprenticeship Information Webinar date for any students, parents or guidance counsellors interested in learning more about Apprenticeships. 📅 Date: Thursday, 29th January 🕢 Time: 7:00 PM Our expert tutor will cover: An Overview of the Apprenticeship Selection Process Apprenticeship Opportunities (ESB and more) How to Apply Aptitude

Many thanks to Elaine from the University of Limericks Kemmy Business School who visited the TY students today. The boys were informed of the many and varied career options that studying business in UL entails.

Our ERSS delegates at DCMUN had an excellent and highly engaging day, fully immersing themselves in some of the most contentious global issues on the agenda.  In the General Assembly, delegates debated immigration, education in war zones and in the Special Conference students tackled sex trafficking and Government corruption. These challenging topics prompted thoughtful contributions, robust debate, and impressive diplomatic engagement throughout the day.  A particular highli

Our 1st Years took a walk through Carrick-on-Suir today, enjoying the fresh air and beautiful surroundings. As part of Catholic Schools Week, it was a chance to appreciate God’s creation in our local community. #ERSS #ERST #CatholicSchoolsWeek

Our TYs attended Mass to celebrate Catholic Schools Week 🙏 Thank you to Fr Coughlan for being our celebrant and to Noel Casey for organising the Mass. A lovely occasion for our school community. #ERSS #ERST

🤖 2nd Year Science in action! This morning, our students used LEGO robotics kits to design, build and test their own unique creations. From robots built for speed ⚡ to ones that mimic animals like a caterpillar 🐛 — the imagination on show was incredible! They planned, problem-solved, rebuilt and improved their designs just like real engineers. Great teamwork, creativity and resilience all round 👏✨ Well done, lads — fantastic work! 💡🚀 #STEM #Robotics #CreativeLearning #Sc

A strong opening to DCMUN today as delegates listened to opening speeches from our distinguished guests, including Cork Lord Mayor Councillor Fergal Dennehy, Mr Pat McKelvy, Director of Schools with Cork ETB, and Ms Jennifer Cooney of WorldWise Global Schools. We were also honoured to hear from our keynote speaker, Mr Richard Zimmler, who engaged delegates with a thought-provoking address and Q&A session. The Deputy Ambassador of Poland to Ireland was also in attendance for t

📖 Supporting Exam Success at ERSS We are delighted to share our new Exam Revision page, where students can access revision materials and subject supports online. This resource is available to students and parents to support study at home. 🔗 https://www.erss.ie/examrevision

Thank you to Fr Patrick Cahill, our school chaplain, for visiting ERSS today as part of Catholic Schools Week 🙏 Our 1st Years reflected on the meaning of being Catholic ✝️ and were also inspired by a guest speaker from the Youth 2000 programme 🌟 A lovely, faith-filled day in our school 💙

Our ERSS delegates arrived safely at the stunning Cork City Hall for DCMUN and listened to the opening address of the 11th conference. They enjoyed engaging lobbying sessions in both the General Assembly and the Special Conference. We are especially proud that two of our delegates featured in the prestigious MUN Times. Exciting times ahead for Team ERSS! 👏

Best of luck to our ERSS delegates as they take part in the DCMUN Conference! 🌍🇺🇳 Model United Nations is a fantastic opportunity to develop critical thinking, public speaking, diplomacy, research skills, and global awareness. We know our students will represent their countries with insight, respect, and confidence. We look forward to thought-provoking resolutions, respectful dialogue, and fruitful debate over the coming days. Enjoy the experience and make ERSS proud! #ERS

🗓️ ERSS Weekly Schedule | 19th–23rd January A packed week of Catholic Schools Week events, DCMUN, TY activities, clubs and sport. Don’t miss out!

Congrats to this week’s lucky winner! Thank you to everyone supporting our school — your contribution truly helps our students. Want to take part? • 1 line €2.50 • 2 lines €4 • 3 lines €5 • Match 4 numbers to win the jackpot • Jackpot grows every week! Join now by visiting: 🔗 https://www.ourfundraiser.ie/org/erss Best of luck in next week’s draw!✍️ #ERSS

First Year students worked in expert groups to explore their chosen sacred texts before teaching their learning to the rest of the class. A fantastic way to build confidence, communication, and understanding. #ERSS #ERST #EXCELLINGINTEACHINGANDLEARNING

We are delighted to announce our Week 7 Student of the Week for our 1st Year students in Room 12 and Room 13. This award recognises students who consistently demonstrate excellent effort, a positive attitude, and a strong commitment to life in ERSS. A huge congratulations to this week’s deserving students: ✨ Room 12 – Zach Norris ✨ Room 13 – Fionnan Quigley Well done to both students on your fantastic achievement. Keep up the brilliant work—we’re very proud of you!

Well done to our U14 team who advanced to the last 16 of the Munster Cup with a great win against a strong Scoil Ruain Killenaule team today. Our goals came from Zach Norris (2), Dale Redmond (2), Ryan Walsh(2), Jack Norris and Joaquin Garcia. Well done to all.

Our first years are getting to grips with figurative language and having lots of fun with it! They’ve been began with exploring similes, metaphors, and personification, then showing their understanding through drawings and examples of their own. So much creativity and brilliant shown in this sample of their posters.

As part of a climate and resilience module looking at rainfall and flooding TY students competed to create their own flood defences using a limited amount of materials. The team whose defense held out the longest against the flood won. Congratulations to Dylan's team just beating Alex's team by 5 seconds.

✨ Congratulations to our winners of "Student of the Month" for December! ✨ We are proud to celebrate students who have excelled across the three categories – Academic, ERST Spirit, and Extra-Curricular. Each award recognises outstanding effort, commitment, and passion both inside and outside the classroom. 🌟👏 Students were presented with their Certificates and Gift Vouchers by their Year Heads.

Munster Junior Trophy Semi Final ERSS 3-2 St. Mary's Newport A great win for our U17 today as they joined our under15s in the Munster Finals with a hard fought win over Newport today. The weather proved to be very challenging but goals from Jay O'Gorman, Fionn Power and an OG saw us well in control at the break. Newport never gave up and pulled back two late goals. Thanks to Bohemians for hosting today's game. Well done to all involved.

Well done to our u15 soccer team, winning their Munster Minor Trophy Semi-Final today against Saint Mary's Newport. Goals scored by Cillian Power, Tom Gahan, Darragh Revutsky, Jamie Lonergan, Ronan Connolly.

Please see this week’s schedule at ERSS (12th–16th January). It promises to be a busy and exciting week with a wide range of activities, including clubs, sports fixtures, TY events and Jersey Day. We encourage all students to get involved and wish everyone a great week ahead.