ATU ST. ANGELA’S St. Angela’s Students Taste for Success Ugandan Adventure for St. Angela’s Nursing Students

BA (Hons) in Fine Art student Samantha O’Reilly received the Dock Art Centre’s Tina Burke Award 2023 for being the outstanding student on the Fine Art Programme at ATU Sligo. Samantha was also shortlisted for the 2022 RDS Visual Art Awards, with her exhibition making it to the final 25 in Ireland. The RDS Awards provide a curated exhibition and a significant prize fund of over €30,000, as well as vital exposure for emerging visual artists as they move into early professional practice. Some of Ireland’s most respected and successful artists have featured at the awards over the years.

Another production filled year for Performing Arts

Our ever-energetic Performing Arts students had another busy year with incredible productions, stunning exhibitions, and memorable trips as some of the highlights.

Final year Theatre Design students held their graduate exhibition in the Abbey Theatre Dublin, with Dylan Mc Gloin receiving the six-month Yeats Residency. Dylan will now work alongside worldclass directors, designers, and production staff at The National Theatre of Ireland. Students also presented their Romeo and Juliet designs on the annual international trip to The Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Final year Performing Arts students graduation show, The Laramie Project, took place across three nights at The Factory in Sligo. The Year 3 students production, titled 'After Magritte', took place in the Black Box Theatre in ATU

BA (Hons) in Writing and Literature graduate Seoirse Mulgrew now works as a Fast News Reporter with the Irish Independent. Following her studies in ATU Sligo, Seoirse completed an MA in Journalism before securing a position with one of Ireland’s leading news and media publications. Seoirse said, “The degree in ATU Sligo exposes you to a range of writing disciplines and encourages creativity. The work experience also heavily influenced my decision to pursue journalism as I completed this with Image Magazine in Dublin.”

ATU Sligo’s Writing and Literature degree allows graduates to work as writers and pursue careers in publishing, public relations, communication, film, television, marketing and much more. Graduates can also progress to further study in areas such as journalism, publishing, drama and theatre studies, or can complete a Professional Master of Education (PME) to become a secondary school teacher of English.

In Summer 2023, four nursing students from our St. Angela’s campus will visit Uganda through Erasmus+ International Mobility. Both Intellectual Disability Nursing and General Nursing will be represented as Emily Kelly, Sorcha Higgins, Erin Russell and Éabha Heffron work with ‘Bright Kids Uganda’, an organisation based in Entebbe and set up to care for children with disabilities and their families. Students will also work in remote village communities to offer vision assessments and deliver eyeglasses, as well as administering general health checks to village members. In addition, a new health clinic will be stocked with supplies brought by the students, and they will also have the opportunity to present at a Maternal Health Conference there.

In preparation for the visit, students will be fundraising and collecting various donations including eyeglasses, learning aids, sensory board materials and medical supplies. We wish them and their accompanying staff, all the very best and look forward to hearing more on their return!

Interested in unique study abroad opportunities like this? Consider Intellectual Disability Nursing (AU992) and General Nursing (AU991) at St. Angela’s. For more visit www.stangelas.ie

New Joint BA (Hons) in Business and Irish from ATU and St. Angela’s

Final year Nutrition, Food and Business Management student, Jayne McCormack, is passionate about good nutrition for kids and ensuring they grow up enjoying healthy, wholesome and nutritious foods so when her New Product Development module came along, she knew exactly the direction to take. Janye’s innovative creation “Root-Tastic Littles” offers tasty, convenient, and nourishing foods using the best organic root vegetables and ingredients that appeal to kids.

This product is a nutrient dense, veggie enriched shape coated in a crispy golden crumb and comes in two variations: Sweet Potato, Red Lentil and Cheese; and Broccoli and Cheese.

At a recent Aurivo Award ceremony on campus, Jayne won 'Overall Best Innovative Food Product and Presentation’ and will go on to be one of three students competing in the Enterprise Ireland Student Entrepreneur Awards later this year. Our BSc in Nutrition, Food and Business Management (AU989) offers practical learning with industrial placement that continues to secure 100% employment on graduation. For more visit www.stangelas.ie/nutritionfoodbusiness

National Centre of Excellence at St. Angela’s Celebrates World Home Economics Day 2023

Sligo. Both shows were the epitome of professionalism and received rave reviews.

24 first year students and staff visited London this year. The group had guided tours of The Globe Theatre and The National Theatre, visited the V&A Museum and the Tate Modern, and took in several West-End productions including Phantom of The Opera and The Lion King. ATU Sligo Theatre Design student Dylan Mc Gloin receiving the six-month Yeats Residency.

ATU Sligo and St. Angela’s have developed an exciting new joint CAO programme for September 2023. The BA in Business and Irish is a 3-year honours degree focussing on both traditional as well as innovative module content in the areas of business and Irish. Delivered across both campuses, the degree will equip graduates to pursue a range of career opportunities from arts and culture, public sector organisations, ICT, financial services, and marketing. For those interested in post-primary teaching careers, BA graduates can also progress to a Professional Master of Education (PME) as the degree has been aligned with the requirements for the Teaching Council of Ireland. There are also a variety of roles in communication and media, where the Irish language is core. This programme also responds to the recent Official Languages Bill amendment which requires that 20% of public sector employees will be proficient in the Irish language.

Applications for the BA (Hons) in Business and Irish are open through the CAO change of mind facility using the code AU906. For more, visit www.atu.ie/au906

The recent launch was also an opportunity to award Gaeltacht Scholarships through Feis Shligigh, sponsored by both St. Angela’s and ATU Sligo.

Launching the new BA (Hons) in Business and Irish and awarding Feis Shligigh Gaeltacht Scholarships; Dr Fiona Crowe Head of School of Education, St. Angela’s), Michael Currid (Uachtarán, Feis Shligigh), Marie Kelly (Feis Committee member), Caomhán Mac an Bhaird (Scholarship Awardee), Ríona O'Farrell (Scholarship Awardee), Kevin Carroll (Former Gen. Secretary, Feis Shligigh), and Dr Breda McTaggart (Head of Faculty Business and Social Sciences, ATU Sligo).

The National Centre for Excellence for Home Economics at our St. Angela’s campus celebrated World Home Economics Day 2023 on 21st March by delivering an exciting and informative webinar titled ‘Reuse Reduce Regenerate’, facilitated by leading sustainability company 50 Shades Greener.

This year’s WHED theme is ‘Waste Literacy’ and up to 1,000 students attended the interactive session from Home Economics classrooms around the country and abroad. The most powerful message shared at the event was the ripple effect of making sustainable changes in everyday life. According to this concept, if one person makes sustainable changes, they can inspire five others to do the same, and so on, thus improving waste literacy everywhere.

Students passionate about this, as well as the other disciplines within Home Economics, can explore university degrees through the BEd teaching programmes or the BA programme offered by St. Angela’s, who have been delivering Home Economics education for 70-years now.

• BEd in Home Economics and Biology (AU985)

• BEd in Home Economics and Religious Education (AU986)

• BEd in Home Economics and Irish (AU987)

• BEd in Home Economics (single-subject) (AU988)

• BA in Home Economics (AU990)

For more, visit www.stangelas.ie