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Well done to our Build a Bank team who participated in the National Finals in the RDS last Wednesday. The team presented their idea Sports Savers highlighting their theme of inclusion for all cultures within CBS.

On Thursday the team along with TY Enterprise attended a future sparks event hosted by AIB where they heard fantastic presentations from Peter Cosgrove and Peter Stringer. They even managed to get a selfie with Stringer himself. This was a fantastic opportunity for all involved and students thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
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CBS KILKENNY
Edmund Rice Schools Meeting

IntroductionThroughout the year the Green schools and Advocacy team at CBS Kilkenny have been working well throughout the year on making our school a cleaner and more environmentally green place to be . We want to thank all of our teachers who have been working with us to really make in impact this year regarding the schools environmental status .We are honored to be here today at Croke Park .

Our Progress ‘
Our Advocacy and Green Schools Teams have worked well together in doing some of the things listed below.
We have worked with our co-ordinator (Mr.Mulhall) find the dat on ou waste disposal and our water usage .This was how we started our year .We felt this was necessary as we needed to understand our situation in the school before we  started any campaigns .
Some of the team members from Advocacy presented to first years on the concept of advocacy and green schools and the problem of plastic . We did this to inform our newest members of the school about what we do as part of the school Advocacy team .
We then created green school/advocacy pledges for all students to sign of which each student said one thing they would change to help the environment they live in  .
The advocacy team then helped start up our plasticfree4schools campaign of which we worked with two young enterprise student to supply the canteen with reusable bottles .
Some of our members went onto the local Kilkenny radio station 88.7fm of which we highlighted some of the changes we are going to bring in to our school to create a greener environment .
Two members of the advocacy team went up to the dail were they supported the edmund rice save our seas programme , and got a talked from an environmentalist .
The advocacy team help raise awareness on homelessness by creating a presentation on homelessness which will be presented to some of the school students later this month .
Our advocacy and green schools committee helped organise the environmental protest help on Friday the 15th of March .
We also created a petition on the cause  which was signed by a large number of our students.
The advocacy team also created many posters that where use the highlight key problems with our environment and were used during the protests .
Thank you for listening

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Dachau
On April 26 the 1945 there  were 67,665 prisoners registered in Dachau. Among them were 22,100 Jews. During this period up to 1600 prisoners were crowded into barracks.

They built roads, gravel pits, drained marshes 37,00 inmates produced armaments private companies bribed SS.

On March 22, 1933, a few weeks after Adolf Hitler had been appointed Reich Chancellor, a concentration camp for political prisoners was set up in Dachau. This camp served as a model for all later concentration camps and as a "school of violence" for the SS men under whose command it stood. In the twelve years of its existence over 200.000 persons from all over Europe were imprisoned here and in the numerous subsidiary camps. 41.500 were murdered. On April 29 1945, American troops liberated the survivors.





The Memorial Site on the ground of the former concentration camp was established in 1965 on the initiative of and in accordance with the plans of the surviving prisoners who had joined together to form the Comité International De Dachau. The Bavarian state government provided financial support. Between 1996 and 2003 a new exhibition on the history of the Dachau concentration camp was created, following the leitmotif of the "Path of the Prisoners".



Dachau was liberated by American troops on April 29, 1945. Among their most-gruesome discoveries were railroad cars filled with Jewish prisoners who had died en route to the camp and had been left to decompose. American and British media coverage of Dachau and other newly liberated camp which included photographs published in magazines and newsreel footage shown in cinema profoundly shaped the public’s understanding of the atrocities that had occurred.


Munich
World War I to World War IIFollowing the outbreak of World War I in 1914, life in Munich became very difficult, as the Allied blockade of Germany led to food and fuel shortages. During French air raids in 1916, three bombs fell on Munich.
After World War I, the city was at the center of substantial political unrest. In November 1918 on the eve of German revolution, Ludwig III and his family fled the city. After the murder of the first republican premier of Bavaria Kurt Eisner in February 1919 by Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, the Bavarian Soviet Republic was proclaimed. When Communists took power, Lenin, who had lived in Munich some years before, sent a congratulatory telegram, but the Soviet Republic was ended on 3 May 1919 by the Freikorps. While the republican government had been restored, Munich became a hotbed of extremist politics, among which Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists soon rose to prominence.
In 1923, Adolf Hitler and his supporters, who were concentrated in Munich, staged the Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic and seize power. The revolt failed, resulting in Hitler's arrest and the temporary crippling of the Nazi Party. The city again became important to the Nazis when they took power in Germany in 1933. The party created its first concentration camp at Dachau, 16 kilometers (9.9 miles) north-west of the city. Because of its importance to the rise of National Socialism, Munich was referred to as the Hauptstadt der Bewegung ("Capital of the Movement"). The NSDAP headquarters were in Munich and many Führerbauten("Führer-buildings") were built around the Königsplatz, some of which still survive.
The city is known as the site of the culmination of the policy of appeasement by Britain and France leading up to World War II. It was in Munich that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain assented to the annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland region into Greater Germany in the hopes of sating the desires of Hitler's Third Reich.
Munich was the base of the White Rose, a student resistance movement from June 1942 to February 1943. The core members were arrested and executed following a distribution of leaflets in Munich University by Hans and Sophie Scholl.
The city was heavily damaged by allied bombing during World War II by 71 air raids over five years.
PostwarAfter US occupation in 1945, Munich was completely rebuilt following a meticulous plan, which preserved its pre-war street grid. In 1957, Munich's population surpassed 1 million. The city continued to play a highly significant role in the German economy, politics and culture, giving rise to its nickname Heimliche Hauptstadt ("secret capital") in the decades after World War II.
Munich was the site of the 1972 Summer Olympics, during which Israeli athletes were assassinated by Palestinian fedayeen in the Munich massacre, when gunmen from the Palestinian "Black September" group took hostage members of the Israeli Olympic team.

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Alex is a Director of Personal Safety Ireland Ltd and the Senior Instructor.  Alexander is responsible for programme content and design of all components of personal safety and awareness, delivering programmes in a group or one-to-one sessions within the Public, Private and Educational Sector.
Alex served as a UK Metropolitan Police Officer for over 20 years.  Alex has a wealth of experience in delivering programmes such as Personal Safety and Awareness, Conflict Resolution, Communication and Assertiveness Skills, Personal Safety Techniques and Giving Evidence and Justification of Actions.
Alex has certification in the following: Policing Safely Senior Instructor, Personal Safety and Awareness Control and Restraint Senior Instructor Train the Trainer  Senior Instructor of Giving Evidence and the Use of Force procedures, Street Awareness and Surveillance Trained Officer, Officer and Personal Safety and Awareness Instructor, Mentoring Officer and Health and Safety at Work Advisor. Physical Training Instructor
Throughout his career in the police service Alex worked with all sectors: Public, Private, Education and Community & Schools.
 
The self defense class was great and i would recommend it i learned a lot and it was so fun.The things we learned could be used for everyday events.
 
 



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​The aims of the trip were to inspire people to come and join UCD when we graduate from school. It was to find more about the courses UCD has but most importantly more about UCD itself.
After we learned more about the courses on offer in UCD we went on a tour of the UCD campus. We found out more about it and what exactly the courses can do for us if we were to join UCD.
The trip was very beneficial but personally I don’t think UCD is the college for me. I found it very large and overwhelming. However, it had a lot of courses to offer and it was very evident from the number of students there that UCD was the college for them. 

​On the 9th of November we had a forensic science workshop for the middle three classes for ty2, 3 and first three for ty1 and 4. The minuet we got into the PE hall for the class we were told to sit down by the advisor and listen to what she had to say. She started by introducing herself and talking about what was going to happen for the next three classes. She told us about the different tables around the room and how they will help us figure out the murder mystery. She told us about the victim to give us a head start and we then went into groups and went off to figure out the cause of death and where the body was found. Myself and the rest of my group went off to each table and wrote down what we thought was the right answers. After about an hour or so we were told to come to the front of the PE hall and sit down. She was going to start talking about the murder and the class of people and to help her out in figuring it out.