TY News

Transition Year students enjoyed a visit to Trinity College Dublin last week and NUI Maynooth in the previous week. These were tremendous opportunities for the students to view the facilities and hear about the different courses available after leaving secondary school. Meanwhile, back in school, TY students were busy promoting their mini-companies and running the school bank. This week, their learning curve takes them to the workplace as each student does one week of work experience. Presentation College is as ever deeply appreciative of the efforts made by the many local employers who assist with the work experience programme.

Sports News

The past few weeks have been very busy with important football matches. Our senior boys soccer team (U19) had a fantastic 5-1 victory over St. Kieran’s of Kilkenny last week and an encouraging 2-2 draw with Carlow CBS. Our U.18 and U.16 Gaelic footballers qualified for Leinster quarter finals with victories over De La Salle Bagnalstown and Monasterevin.

West Side Story

Best of luck to the Fourth and Fifth Year cast members of the memorable school show West Side Story who will perform an extract from the show in the GB Shaw Theatre on Thursday 8^th December. The performance is part of the ‘Six of the Best’ series which met with great success last year. 

View The Christmas Test Timetables Here !

Tag Rugby

On Tues. 8th Nov. as part of their P.E. program all fifth year girls were the first ever girls tag rugby team to represent Presentation College when they played Gael Cholaiste in a non competitive match under the guidance of Mr. Wes Whitten,Carlow Rugby Development Officer.This proved a most enjoyable experience.

 

Fourth Yr. Golf Trip

On Wed. 9th Nov.all fourth yr. students as part of their P.E. lesson got a golf lesson from Mr. Michael Murphy at Carlow Driving Range.All students thoroughly enjoyed this experience and many hope to return to the driving range to practice what they learned.

Congratulations to David Hatton and Emily O'Callaghan who have been selected by U.C.D. School of Mathematical Sciences to attend Mathematics Enrichment classes that are being offered at universities around the country. Each year a cohort of talented students are selected on the basis of their exceptional performance in Higher Level Mathematics in their Junior Cert. They both attained a grade A in their exam this year under the guidance of their teacher Ms. Eleanor McLean.

The enrichment classes lead into Olympiad training classes. The International Mathematical Olympiad (I.M.O.) is a prestigious annual team competition for mathematically talented  second-level students representing their countries. Ireland has participated in the competition since 1988, and Irish students have won medals in eight of these competitions.

Emily and David are currently immersed in their Transition Year programme in Presentation College where they are discovering many opportunities to further develop their talents.

Well done to Oisín Mc Hugh, Fifth Year, who gave an interview on Newstalk 108fm last Saturday. Oisín featured on the “Global Village” programme last Saturday evening, speaking about the Young Social Innovators project. Accompanied by Rachel Collier, Chairperson of Y.S.I., he spoke about the joint project on HIV and AIDS between our school and our partner school in Kaoma Zambia. Good luck to all of the candidates for next summer’s trip to Zambia, as they have their interviews, which will go towards selecting the nine students who will travel to Kaoma in June of next year.

Presentation College Carlow invites all students from current fifth and sixth classes to our open night on Monday 14 th November.Students should be accompanied by their parents and will be given a full tour of our facilities and meet our staff .



The Principals address will be at 7:30pm and 8:30pm. We look forward to your visit.

Celebrity Bainisteoir

Well done to all our past and present pupils who were part of the tremendous victory of the Killeshin football team in Celebrity Bainisteoir last week.

Carlow IT Open Day

A great day was enjoyed by all students in Transition Year at the Carlow IT Open Day last Friday. Our students were able to attend two out of a myriad of talks provided by the College. They also experienced a guided tour of the science labs, studios and aircraft hanger.

On Tuesday 18 October, Ms. Cadinot and Ms. Owens accompanied 68 Transition, Fifth and Sixth year students to the George Bernard Shaw Theatre to watch the world-famous cult film "Panique Au Village".  Selected for both the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, the animated movie starring three plastic toys "Cowboy", "Indien" and "Cheval", provided students with the opportunity to view a comedy which holds the unique distinction of being the only stop-motion animated feature film ever chosen by the world's most important film festival.

Congratulations to Conor Heffernan, Third year who won the overall senior student concept competition last week with his concept design "LED SEE" Conor was presented with his award at the ceremony in Visual by Michael Kelly CEO of Carlow County Enterprise Board. Other Winners from Presentation College Carlow were Kelly Colton from First Year who came thrid in senior section, John Murphy Third Year,Ellen Murphy Transition Year and Michaela Doyle First Year

Croagh Patrick Experience

By

Leigh Walsh (Fifth Year)

On the 24^th September, forty five students and seven adults from Presentation College, Carlow gathered at Askea Church at 5am to set off for an experience of a lifetime. As it was such an early start, the bus was quiet, but the silence didn’t last too long after Fr. Liam Morgan, our chaplain, hopped on the bus, full of life. He got everyone in a good mood with his enthusiastic singing.