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

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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.

Student Concept Competition

Well done to the five students from Presentation College Carlow who qualified for the finals of the Student Concept Competition. Mikaela Doyle (Stay Strap), Conor Heffernan (LED See), Kelly Colton (Storage Brush), Ellen Murphy (Lumbrella) and John Murphy (Easy Clean) were commended for their creativity and originality. The competition was organised by Carlow County Enterprise Board and sponsored by Carlow Local Authorities, Talbot Hotel, Design Hub and Carlow Visual Arts Centre.

West Side Story

Over eighty students from Second, Fourth and Fifth Year are currently in rehearsal for Presentation College’s upcoming production of West Side Story. The show goes public on Thursday 27^th, Friday 28^th and Saturday 29^th October at 8pm nighty. Tickets available from the school at (059) 9143927.

Presentation College Awards Academic Excellence

On Saturday, 1^st October a distinguished gathering from the world of academia converged on the Seven Oaks Hotel for the fifth annual Presentation College Academic Awards ceremony.

Shortly after his appointment as Principal in November2007, Mr. Ray Murray requested the Board of Management to implement a new system of Academic Awards for the top achieving students in the Junior and Leaving Certificate examinations. The Board readily agreed to this request and since then the top achieving students in the Junior and Leaving Certificate Examinations were honoured. This time it was the turn of the Presentation College high achievers in the 2011 summer state examinations. The Academic Awards, implemented by the Board of Management, are designed to recognise and reward academic achievement among the students in Presentation College and to publicly celebrate their success.

A "No Uniform" day, Cake sale and Soccer marathon will take place this Friday 9th September in aid of school F1 team Team Focus who will travel to Malaysia to compete in this years World Finals ! There will be an opportunity to meet the team in the Seven Oaks Hotel at 8 pm where the team will present their project. All parents are welcome to attend.

With only 40 more nights to go until  the F1 in Schools World Finals , it's starting to get that little bit  more exciting. The team have been working hard designing thr car..

Team Focus will have their official launch in Fairgreen on July 8th and 9th. Come along and enjoy a fun day racing our model F1 cars.
There will also be a draw for an ACER laptop on the 9th. Tickets are only €2 and are available from the team in Fairgreen.

Mr. Murray and all the staff wish all students sitting exams the best of luck in the next few weeks. Remember to check days and times of exams carefully..Leaving Certificate Timetables here Junior Cert Timetable here.