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

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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.