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Rugby - 2nd Year Waddell Shield

Winners. - Aaron Carley, Jason Dilworth, Adam Baziz, Jason Brennan, Nathan Furlong, Jordan Hunt, Shane Lybch, Jack Houghton, Ziggy Sniezka, Mihai Poptile.

Leinster Athletics

Congratulations to Chris Vickery who won Gold in the U.16 shot putt on Wednesday last. Chris threw a distance of 13.46m
Also  well done to David McDonald who won Gold in the Junior Boys Long Jump, leaping 6.09m.
A special mention to our Minor athletes who were crowned Best South Leinster Minor Team at the recent South Leinsters in Kilkenny.

All Ireland Gymnastics.

Congratulations and welldone toFirst Year student Diarmuid McDonald whocompetedin the All Ireland gymnastic finalsin Galway last weekend.
He won gold medals in the Mens Four Routine and the Mixed Pairs. It is a fantastic achievement.

Achill, án Gaeltacht agus án Bog

Rugby - Yeats win Waddell Shield

Congratulations to 1st Year Yeats class who won the inter class rugby league today. They defeated Boland 15-6, Meehan 9-5 and Heaney 8-5 to win the coveted trophy.
There squad of players included David McDonald, Callum Cleary, Ben Creane, Andrew Gibbons, Kyle Long, Sam McSherry, Leigh Moran, Conor Roche, Aaron Walsh, Ultan Warren, Dylan Wright and Leon Brennan.

Senior Rugby Team 2012-13

Leading Actress Visits The Boker

Third year students of Wexford CBS were recently privileged to a visit from UK Actress and teacher/director at RADA Alison Skilbeck (Sherlock Holmes, Midsomer Murders, Dr. Who and Polly from The Archers). She teaches in the most famous acting school in the world RADA where Ralph Fiennes and Alan Rickman, Anthony Hopkins,  and Brendan Gleeson are amongst the alumni - she is also on the admissions panel for only 28 places where over 4000 apply- so a good woman to know for any students who wish to pursue acting careers. Miss Skilbeck specialises in Shakespeare and she gave the students some insight into the characters and language of Shakespeare as well as going through some of the key scenes in ‘The Merchant of Venice’. A number of the boys came up to give some stirring performances whilst being directed by Miss Skilbeck, and certainly gained some invaluable information and insight to help them prepare for their upcoming Junior Cert exam this June. Overall it was a great honour to have an actress like Alison come to our school, and work with the lads.

Senior Hurling Team 2012-13

First and Second Year Rugby

Today our first and second years combined to take part in a blitz in Park Lane. We played four games and acquitted ourselves very well indeed.
v Kilmuckridge. Won 5-0, tries from Aaron Smyth 2, Michael Lawlor, Philip Rawson and Adam Baziz
v Good Council. Won 3-0, tries from David McDonald, Michael Lawlor and Matthew Crean.
v Enniscorthy V.S. Won 8-2, tries from Michael Lawlor 2, Cody Murphy, Adam Baziz, David McDonald, Jack O'Leary, Luke Dowdall and Paul Bailey
v Gorey C.S. Lost 4-1, try from Luke Dowdall.
Well done to all who participated. The future looks bright for rugby at The Boker.
First year internal school blitz will take place next week for Waddell Shield.

Positive Affirmations May 8th

Good Deeds
Sean Beale, Aaron Walsh, Paul McManus, Kevin Bierney

Positive Affirmations May 1st

Work Ethic
Liam Hore, Abdullah Amin, Jamie McDonald, David Kavanagh, Josh Healy, Owen Flood.
Extra Curricular
Declan Bridges, James Scallon, Dale White, Conor Cullen, Kieran Murphy, Conor Clancy, Dylan Walsh, Aaron McMahon, Senior Rugby Panel, Jamie McDonald
Good Deeds
Kieran Murphy, Nathan Mullally

7 Gold and 1 Silver - South Leinster Track and Field Championships

We had a very rewarding day out in Kilkenny today as some of our First Years enjoyed their first taste of schools athletics. First up on the podium with gold medals were the Minor 4x100m relay team of Luke and Sam O'Neill, Aaron Smith and Leon Nolan, winning with a time of 51.8sec, just outside the championship record. David McDonald competing at Junior level jumped 6m to take gold in the long jump which he followed shortly afterwards with gold in the 200m. David broke the championship record which was remarkable considering he will compete in the same age band next year. Next up was Leon Nolan in the Minor 500m, he blew the field away and cantered home for his second gold of the day. Sam won his second gold of the day, winning the Minor 75m Hurdles, while twin brother Luke got silver in the Minor 80m sprint.
All now go on to the Leinster Finals in Santry on May 15th.

FAI Youth Inter League Winners

Congratulations to Conor Clancy, Dylan Walsh and Aaron McMahon who were members of the Wexford squad who beat Waterford on penalties to win this national title on Sunday last. Well done lads.

Maths Champion

Well done to our first year students who participated in the finals of the Irish Junior Maths Competition on 26th April. Cathal Crowe, Adam Flaherty, Matthew Currid and Conn McIntyre.
Congratulations to Conn who came in first place on the night and his score was good enough to make him National Champion, a great achievement.

Robin Dempsey Presents Ireland Jersey

Recent past pupil Robin Dempsey, who is currently on contract with Aston Villa dropped into school on Wednesday to present one of his Ireland U.17 shirts. Robin was a key member of this team and also has had a successful run in the Villa U.18's this season. We wish him well in his future career.



Positive Affirmations

Extra Curricular
Dale White, Conor Cullen, James Scallan, Peter Ryan
Good Deeds
Keane Kehoe, Ben McMahon, Ben Barnes, Jack Kavanagh, Marty Mullally, Calum Berry, Pater Ryan

Minor Success v Carlow

Well done to Eoin Roche and Jamie McDonnell who were on the Co. Wexford minor football team that defeated Carlow last night in Wexford Park. Eoin managed to score  a goal and two points, while Jamie was rock solid in defence. Well done lads and best wishes for the rest of the competition.

Cycle Against Suicide

On Wednesday 24th April,  twenty four Transition Year students and two teachers joined the peloton of cyclists who are cycling around Ireland to raise awareness of positive mental health and to try help break the cycle of suicide that exists in Ireland. We joined the route at Oylgate , and what a wonderful occasion it was being part of over 300 cyclists, all kitted out in orange. We pedalled back to Wexford and finished with a huge welcome at the Presentation Convent, where food and soup was on offer. We listened to a talk on the reasons for this event and left knowing that if we encounter problems in life, we need to talk and ask for help, don't try go it alone. Thank you, Ms. Ivers for organising our participation.

China Tour by Jack Egan

Day 1

We were all exhausted by the time we had arrived in Beijing, a two hour flight to Paris, then a ten hour flight to Beijing, (but at least they had TVs on the plane). We arrived at a restaurant for our first taste of real Chinese food, we ate all kinds of chicken, pork, rice and all kinds of other food, and all without the hint of a knife and fork, chopsticks only, lads. After the food we checked into The Tianfang hotel where we were staying, and after being up and travelling for the best part of two days, we finally found our beds.

Day 2

On the second day we were officially welcomed to Beijing in the Great Wall Chinese Centre, speeches were made and we were all given free T-shirts. After the welcome ceremony we went to Nanlougo lane Houtong, a very old street full of ancient building which had been converted into shops. after that we went to Pearl Market, you could buy nearly anything there for absolutly dirt cheap prices, we bought at least five pairs of Beats headphones each for about fifty euro per person, whereas that would have cost at least ten times as much in Ireland, amon the other things bought were lasers, Jackets, T-shirts and silly hats. We had to haggle for absolutly everything there, we didn’t even care what we were buying, we just wanted to haggle, and we got some cool stuff for almost no money on the side.

Day 3

Day 3 was a big one, we checked out of the Tianfang hotel, where there was an incident involving a bottle of Old Spice that we will not go into further, Once we had gotten our baggage sorted by leaving it with the hotel we visited Tiananmen Square, which is truly massive, no single photo can show how huge it really is, after the square we went into the Forbidden City , which is right next to it, inside the Forbidden city there huge buildings which were ideal for taking group photos in front of, the tour took a more than an hour, because the Forbidden City is probably even bigger than Tiananmen Square, we came out the other side eventually and got a bite to eat, then it was on to Wangfujing street, where you could buy Chinese street food, which was very different to say the least from Irish food, The lads ate scorpions, star-fish, beetles, and some kind of unidentified meat on skewers. After we finished with the unusual food we set off to the train station to get to Xi’an.

Day 4

To put it simply, the night train to Xi’an was absolutely terrible, we were six in a room the size of a coffin, and we didn’t have doors, that was the difference between economy and first class, first class had doors. The hostel, on the other hand, was one of the best parts of the trip, it was called the 7 Sages Hostel, and we had a western style breakfast (or theclosest the Chinese chefs could manage), huge rooms (four of us even got V.I.P rooms, my-self included), and brilliant weather to top it off. After an hour or two in the hostel of playing ping pong or doing parkour or martial arts or whatever you did to pass the time, we went to the wall of Xi’an, which surrounds the original, ancient part of the city, once there we cycled the whole 13.7 km of the wall on tandems. There were collisions, there was banter with the locals, there were races, there were even threats, but after an hour and a half of cycling we all eventually made it back to the point we started at on the wall. After a few ice creams we were on the road again to a Muslim snack street. The snack street was like a miniature version of the Pearl market, but with more terracotta statues and food, we didn’t get much time there, unfortunately, and half the time we didn’t know what we were eating there either, but it tasted good and no-one got food poisoning, which was nice.

 Day 5

The first thing after checking out of the 7 sages that we did on day five was go to a factory where they make replicas of the terracotta warriors, they showed us how they were molded from clay in casts, and all the various types of soldiers. Of all the original warriors buried underground, only one was still intact when the archaeologists dug them up, the archer, it only survived because it was crouching, after the factory we set off for the army itself, but you don’t just go to the army, you have to go through alot of buildings first, where there are vendors trying to sell you stuff around every corner, we made it through the shops where parts of the army had been dug up and saw just how huge it was, the pictures speak for themselves, after the warriors we went to a museum which contained weapons and bronze-works found there as well. Once we were done seeing the warriors it was back to the train station and back to Beijing.

Day 6

We took the same night train back, which did not go down well, and checked back into the Tianfang hotel, once we’d rested a bit it was onto the Birds Nest stadium. Time had not been good to her, it was rusted and unused when we saw it, but it was sure big, after a look around we went into the Cube, where the swimming events took place, some of the lads even got to swim in the warm up pool while the rest of mooched around the gift shop and café. Once we left the Cube our journey took us to an incredible acrobatics show, which included motorcyclists, chair climbing, and dancing women.

Day 7

We started day 7 with the Ming tombs, which was the site of many burial grounds for Emperors and Empresses, but the real highlight was the Great Wall, what can I say, it was three miles of stairs, with a great view on top, even though we were absolutely shattered afterwards, it was completely worth it. We went to Kung-Fu class at the Temple of Heaven after the wall, but instead of learning kick-ass martial arts skills, we looked like bunch of fellas who’ve had too many drinks. We returned to the Pearl market after the Temple of Heaven, to give in to our inner consumer.

Day 8

Day 8 started with checking out of the Tianfang for the second and final time, we moved on to the Summer Palace, where the Emperors would spend their summers by the lake in a massive palace that was more of a town than anything, after that we went to a district of streets by another lake, where we bought souveniers and candy floss before moving on to the silk market. Now, the Silk market is like the Pearl market except it’s 10 TIMES BIGGER, 10 TIMES BADDER AND DIRT CHEAP, we spent 7 hours in there but I honestly don’t remember most of it. After we spent all our money in the Silk market, it was off to the airport and a final goodbye to Beijing

Day 9

If you were unlucky then you spent Day Nine on a plane back to Ireland, but if you were lucky then you spent in Paris, where we saw the Champs D’lysees, the Arc D’Triomph and had a breakfast in McDonalds,. Of course we  got up to a lot of shenanigans, like when Jack Crean got himself lost in the Parisian metro, not to mention all the people who shouted at us because they thought we were students who had decided to skip school for the day.

By Jack Egan