There has been a further announcement by the Taoiseach that, in line with public health advice, schools will remain closed until 19 April. In addition to maintaining ongoing engagement with students, one really important message you can assist with, is to convey to students, the absolute need to practice social and physical distancing, and to minimise physical contact with each other, to help avoid the spread of Covid-19. This should include advice to avoid meeting up and in all circumstances to adhere to HSE guidelines. As part of your school community, parents and guardians should also be urged to support their children to maintain the restrictions on congregating for the safety of all in their community. 

 

As part of your school community, parents and guardians should also be urged to support their children to maintain the restrictions on congregating for the safety of all in their community. In order to support you in getting this important public health message across to your school communities information notices (in 17 different languages) are available here:  

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/partner-resources/covid-19-translated-resources/

 

The full letter can be read by clicking this link: Letter from Secretary General of the DES 25-03-2020

There are many students and parents in Ireland for whom English/Irish is not their first language. With this in mind, the Department of Health and the HSE have produced Covid-19 resources in a range of languages other than Irish and English which you can access below:  

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/partner-resources/covid-19-translated-resources/ 

The languages currently available include: Chinese, Italian, Spanish, French, Arabic, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Latvian and Lithuanian. 

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Spreading Best Wishes to our Exam Students -  Members of 'The Aloysius Foundation' made a 'motivational board' to spread our message of ‘Best Wishes’ to the exam students. The board was filled with positive sayings, some ‘Did you knows?’ about studying and exams, the perfect guide to successfully completing their exams and also positive pictures and emogis. We wish all students good luck in their exams. (Click on the heading for the full article)

Blue Monday: By Nessa Whelan To tackle the Monday blues, our Young St. Vincent De Paul group baked dozens of cupcakes. They went into town handing the cupcakes out for free to show our appreciation for the work being done in our community....The YSVP group also made up bags of blue sweets ... and sold them at break time ... All money raised will go to our local SVP group in Carlow.

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Congratulations to the First Year teams from 1AS and 1AR from Presentation College Carlow who recently took part in the rowing competition in Carlow I.T. Everyone had a very enjoyable experience. Thanks also to the teachers who brought us as we wouldn’t be able to do it without them. (Click on article heading to see the photos)

Presentation, Carlow has enabled Transition Year students the chance to help the less fortunate by joining the Young SVP Committee for five years now. On Friday the 15th of November College the committee held a launch for Young SVP to inform students that the new committee is elected...

Ms Vanessa Byrne's First Year SPHE students while studying the topic of 'Appreciating Difference'  took part in a 'show and tell' class where all students actively participated using props from home .... Among the many talents showcased included one student who provided baked cupcakes for her entire class to demonstrate her love of baking. Aoife is a Business and Home Economics student ...

Student made posters were spotted recently around the school. These all had positive messages focusing on mental health. Click on the heading to see a selection. Perhaps your poster is one of them.

Well done to our fantastic Meitheal Team who organised some fun activities on Friday for our First Years. They finished off the day with some impressive moves during Wii Dance!! They have been working really hard, ensuring all our First Year students are settling into Secondary School life that little bit easier and supporting them all the way.

On Wednesday 28 August our hard working committee members went on a trip on the Barrow.  They are currently working on the Water Theme and were very pleased to find that once they travelled out of town, there was almost no litter.