Address:	St. Bricin's College, Belturbet, Co. Cavan
Contact:	Ms Mary Sheridan, Principal
	(Niall McGee), Deputy Principal
Phone:	(049) 9522170
Email	info@stbricinscollege.ie
Website:	www.iol.ie/~bricin/

St. Bricin's Vocational School has served the educational needs of the community for many years. It was officially opened on 7th January 1937. At first it had only three teachers and forty six students and prepared students to Group Certificate standard.

With the introduction of the free Post Primary Education and Transport Scheme in 1967, the numbers increased substantially and the Intermediate Certificate examination was introduced. In 1977 a new extension was built and around the same time the Leaving Certificate was added.

Over the years it has grown so now it can provide the full range of Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate subjects preparing students for apprenticeships in trades, entry to Regional Technical Colleges, Teacher Training Colleges and Universities.

As well as the day courses at post primary level, the school has always provided Adult Education evening classes according to the requirements of the community.

SPORT
As well as a range of games held in the school grounds the students participate in GAA Competitions organised at county level where they have been doing very well in recent years. This success is largely due to the amount of extra work put in by Mr. Brady - himself a keen GAA follower.

Since the early 1980's the school has been involved in water sports. At first the interest was in boat building as part of student project work when wooden sailing boats and fibre glass canoes were made. The next stage was getting on to the water and trying out sailing and canoeing. This proved so popular with students that we joined the Irish Sailing Association, and now run sailing courses for our students with the help of fully qualified sailing instructors. We now use Topper sailing dinghies and sail at Eonish, a lake on the Erne near Killeshandra. Our old home made canoes have almost all been replaced with modern plastic ones and we hold canoeing courses on the river Erne in Belturbet with the help of qualified instructors from the Canoeing Association of Northern Ireland.

SCIENCE FAIR
Feb 27th 2004
This year's Science Fair was open to first and second year students and attracted thirty entries. There was a wide range of exhibits including, chemistry, mechanical, physics etc. Students used Internet, books discussion and many varied forms of research to find suitable projects and and there was a strong emphasis on computer for presentation of findings.

'Hyacinth the Humming Hovercraft' - built and demonstrated by second year group.	Minister Dempsey talks to each group about their project
School Trip to Paris - October 2003