In November for three weeks, Ms. Nathalie O’Shea, a past pupil and dance teacher with Karen Yates Dance School , taught all transition year students hip hop and break dance  as part of their physical education program.This proved to be a most enjoyable and worthwhile experience.

eircom today announced details of the shortlist for the 2011 eircom Junior Spider Awards. The awards, which were established in 2009, recognise and reward students for the successful and innovative ways in which they use the Internet in their daily lives.

The awards are open to students at both primary and post primary level. The Mega Spiders at primary school level has three categories which are Best School Website, Best School Blog and Best Project.

At post primary level, the categories are split across two groups: The Giga Spiders for First to Third year students and the Tera Spiders for Fourth to Sixth year students. The categories under both age groups include Best Concept and Best Web Design. There is also a Grand Prix Award which goes to the overall winner at each age level in the primary and post primary category.http://www.juniorspiders.ie/2011/12/01/shortlist-announced/

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. 

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.