Students romp to victory with website

The film War Horse was nominated for six Oscars a year ago but students at a Co Cork school have gone one better by winning a national award for their website built around the movie.

The team from Coláiste an Chraoibhín in Fermoy picked up the best project prize in their category at the Eircom Junior Spider Awards in Dublin this week. The event celebrates the best in web design and use of the internet by students from primary and second-level schools.

For the first-year group at the north Cork school, their website about War Horse was spawned by the work in a number of classes on the original book. They decided to showcase the projects being done in a number of other subjects, including art, computing, drama, metalwork and music.