Davis College, Mallow () is a

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community college under the auspices of County Cork Educational Training Board (Cork ETB), founded in 1932. It is currently located in Summerhill,

Mallow, County Cork Mallow (; ) is a town in County Cork, Ireland, approximately thirty-five kilometres north of Cork (city), Cork City. Mallow is in a townland and Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of the same name, in the Fermoy (barony), barony of Fermoy. ...

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. Davis College is a co-educational and serves an urban and rural catchment area in North Cork. The school has a current enrollment of 651 second-level students. The school is a participant in the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools (DEIS) initiative. The school colours are maroon, grey and gold. The school roll number is 71020G.

History

The school was originally founded as Mallow Vocational School in 1932 in the town centre. It moved to a new location in the 1940s, and was renamed Davis College in 1990. The school's building on its current site in Summerhill was opened in 2001. Increased enrollment will be facilitated by the planned extension to the school. The school grew rapidly from its original intake of 64 students.

Mallow College of Further Education

Mallow College of Further Education, sister college to Davis College secondary school, is the largest further education provider in North Cork with students from a wide hinterland across Munster. The College has expanded rapidly in recent years to around 500 full-time day students, offering full-time day courses and part-time night classes: including computing, hairdressing, woodwork, business, small animal care, sports injury, sound engineering and beauty therapy.

Academic curriculum

Davis College offers a range of programmes including a

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Programme, a

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(LCVP).

Extra-curricular activities

There is a huge range of extra-curricular activities available in the school, including

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Youth Leadership, Young Social Innovators (YSI), Student Council, the North Cork Enterprise Competition, Cork School's History Project, the BT

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, Vex Robotics, the school

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and the College TRAD Group. In 2012, a group of Transition Year students in the school ran a national campaign titled "Forget Me Not". It aimed to highlight the plight of the families of missing people, to support organisations that help in searching for missing people, and to introduce an innovative Exit Point Strategy, bringing public attention to the issue of missing people through a poster and placement campaign in Irish airports, ports, and ferry terminals. The students lobbied the government, calling for Missing Persons Day with a petition signed by 12,000 people. They ran a bus shelter campaign and erected a billboard in

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said Ireland is to hold its first Missing Persons Day in Dec 2013. The group were invited to

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, who congratulated them on their efforts to help the families and communities of missing people. Due to this work the school has been inaugurated as a YSI Centre of Social Innovation. The school also has a VEX Robotics team, called DC Robotics. The team has had success nationally. It won the Excellence Award of the National competition in both 2013 and 2014, obtaining the chance to represent Ireland at the World Championships at the

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. The team once won the Excellence Award in 2016, this time getting the opportunity to head to the World Championships in

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Sports

Various sports activities are offered by the school. Two students won gold medals at the Tae Kwon Do championships in 2012, one of which was chosen to represent the ITF Ireland National Team for the World Championships in

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in May 2015. Davis College alumnus Brandon Arrey, has had success nationally and internationally in Athletics

Notable alumni

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References

External links

Official website
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