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FOLLOWING years of fundraising, Rice College officially opened a new state-of-the-art Home Economics room this week.
Current and past Parents’ Associations drove the fundraising effort and as a result the school is finally in a position to offer Home Economics as a Junior Cycle subject to the current First Years.
A Home Economics teacher, Meagan Bourke, was appointed last summer and a conversion of an existing classroom into a custom designed practical room with 10 stations, disability access and high spec fixtures and fittings took place.
Louis Mulqueen, principal, welcomed the development saying, “The broadening of the curriculum that this room allows, along with the obvious skills that will be developed by our students, life skills, the meeting of the Junior Cycle Indicators of Wellbeing – Active, Responsible, Connected, Resilient, Aware, Respected -is a fantastic achievement for the college.
“We have long hoped that this day would come and thanks to the hard work and dedication of our parents, staff and vision of our BOM, we can now add another subject to our already expansive curriculum.”
The principal also congratulated the students present, who had been busy working in the kitchen since early Monday morning.
He emphasised that they are part of the new history of their school, and that they should be proud of the role they too had to play in making this morning possible.
“In the true spirit of Blessed Edmund Rice, students will be educated for the real world, enabling them to become active, responsible citizens of the future,” he concluded.
