Presentation College, Carlow Student, Lee Campbell will be presenting the opening keynote at next weeks Digital Biscuit Forum in the Science Gallery, Dublin. Digital Biscuit is an international film and technology forum that aims to foster innovation and collaboration in film and television production, which will take place at Dublin's Science Gallery from 28 - 30 January. David Chase who created and developed the 'The Sopranos’, will join Digital Biscuit as headline speaker to discuss his career as a director, writer and producer.

Best wishes to all our Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate students who are preparing for their exams next month. Timetables below.

Second and Third Year French students are beginning 2015 with fond memories of their recent trip to Paris. Prior to Christmas, forty students, along with their French teacher Mme Cadinot and teachers Ms. Dunne, Ms. Egan and Mr. Mc Assey spent 4 days discovering the famous landmarks Paris has to offer.

This years Open Night will take place on Monday November 10^th from 7pm to 9pm.

This weekend a number of events take place in support of Fusion F1, one of the two teams from the school, who will represent Ireland in the Formula 1 in Schools World Finals in Abu Dhabi in November.
On Saturday a Coffee Morning will be held from 10am to 3pm in the Siopa Glás in Ballon.
Saturday night sees the big Music Fusion Concert take place in Presentation College commencing at 8.00pm. This celebration of music song and dance will feature a host of local performers with some special guests. Tickets - Adults €10, Students €5  available from the school office or at the door on the night.
Sunday sees the Big Bounce in association with Scats Bouncy Castles take place on the grounds of Presentation College from 1pm to 6pm. In addition to ten bouncy castles of all shapes and sizes there will be a cake sale, food stalls, craft stalls, meggars competition, scooter display, face painting, Bubble Ball Battle and the Dunk Tank! It should be a great day! Admission free. Car parking €3 (includes two free bounce sessions)

Regrettably this weekend sees the removal of the trees along both sides of the avenue for safety reasons. The trees have grown there for thirty years and continued to get bigger. Their root systems ran very close to the surface over a
large area. For the last ten years these roots have caused significant damage  to the football pitch, avenue, pedestrian path and drainage system. Despite work to control the problem, it has continued to worsen, leaving no option but to remove the trees. It is planned to remove all old roots and carry out repairs on the avenue, drainage system and playing pitch. It is intended to replant the area with new, well established trees which will have a more suitable root structure, grow to a smaller size on maturity and can stay in place for a much longer period.

Active School Week!

 

From Monday, 28^th April to Friday, 2^nd May we celebrated Active School Week! All week the entire school participated in a number of sports activities such as a Gaelic Blitz, The Elvery’s Power Team, Wheelchair Basketball Matches and The Pres Mile! We want to congratulate everyone who completed and participated in The Pres Mile! First, second and third place medals will be awarded to students in both the boys and girls category on Sports Day! We want to thank Ms Kavanagh and Ms Cardiff for all of their help all week!

Well done to our very own F1 teams Autolaunch Racing and Renaissance Racing for winning the national finals! Renaissance Racing achieved first place in the junior category as well as picking up the awards for “Best Use of Social Media” and “Best Verbal Presentation.” Ignite Racing from TY also picked up the award for “Fastest F1-Type Car” with a time of 1.048 seconds over the 20m track……but the biggest congratulations go to Autolaunch Racing who claimed first place in the senior category, also becoming the Overall National Champions.  Autolaunch will now go on to the World Finals in Abu Dhabi later this year. We wish you the best of luck!

The First Year Business classes had a great time on their trip when they travelled to Dublin and went to Butlers Chocolate Factory and then to Liffey Valley shopping centre afterwards. They had great fun as they got to discover how chocolate is made and where and when it was invented. They got a tour of the factory and museum and then got to paint their very own chocolate teddy bears. They got many different samples of different chocolate and also watched a video about the history of Butlers Chocolate Factory. We also want to thank all the teachers who arranged the trip and to Butlers for the amazing experience.