Artist Teacher
Extra-curricular work, workshops, and collaborations that extend my practice into communities and shared learning environments.
Facilitating chess club every Friday after school from 1:30-2:20 having our last tournament on 25/09/26 and hoping to compete on the 21/10/26 in Waterford and in Irish Womens Chess Festival in Talbot Hotel Stilorgan Dublin. Click here to see more on the Mountrath Communit School newsletter.
Chess Club
Schools of Excellence
in Creativity Award - (29.09.26)
The School of Excellence in Creativity Award is a Department of Education initiative delivered with Oide Creativity. It is not simply an award for having particularly creative students or doing good art projects; it is a whole-school professional learning and school development programme focused on making creativity part of teaching, learning and the school environment.
By identifying our schools' strengths and weaknesses we devised a plan of action supported by Oide Creativity, Inspectorate
and School Self-Evaluation (SSE) Team.
Robotics club- IQ & VEX robotics
VEX IQ is an educational robotics programme where students build and program robots to complete challenges. It is commonly used in schools and involves a combination of:
Constructing robots using VEX pieces, motors and sensors.
Programming the robot to perform tasks, often using VEXcode.
Problem-solviing how to make the robot complete a challenge.
Testing, identifying problems and redesigning the robot.
Students work in teams and divide responsibilities.
Teams compete inVEX competitions where robots complete specific challenges in the second term.
Basketball u16 & u19
Thursday Afternoon Sports Training: Supporting and facilitating regular student training sessions, encouraging teamwork, participation, discipline and positive sporting development.
U16 & U19 School Games
Facilitate student participation in school games, including accompanying students on home and away fixtures, supporting organisation, supervision, safeguarding and positive team conduct.
Encouraging Student Development & Teamwork – Through coaching responsibility, resilience and school community through participation in extracurricular sporting activities.
Visual, Carlow.
Visual is where all arts come together in my hometown, it has a unique way of being accessible to a wide range of the public including; children, displaced, vunerable, disabled and elderly. Being front desk meant I dealt with a lot of qeuries first hand in offering support, tours and a welcoming atmosphere. My inate teaching abiltiy goes hand in hand with this role as it requires attentiveness and its something that really interest me outside of the classroom.
Participating in Summer School with workshops such as cyanotype-making, papermaking, furniture-making, and nature-based making (e.g., foraging and mandala-making).
camps usually include:
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exhibition exploration
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learning new techniques
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storytelling and creative thinking
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collaboration with other young people
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supervised making sessions
Assisting in these workshops enable a strong sense of community exploring the local environment and shared connection to it.
Working with Technician Niall Cullen at NCAD, Dublin, and working with Mollia Anna King in a furniture building workshop during the summer school program provided me the ability to embrace cross-curricular woodworking and art because they complement each other beautifully in creating spaces for meaningful creation.