AILO is the acronym for The All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad. This is a problem solving competition, which uses obscure and unfamiliar languages. This year the languages were: Oscan, Pitjantjatjara, Slovene, Maltese and Ndebele. Congratulations to Julie Becherova who is one of the top one hundred students from all over Ireland. 

Last week our third parcel from the Anne Frank Realschule in Ahaus, Germany arrived. Eighty-eight students have a pen pal with whom they correspond through both German and English. The German students also write in both languages with the theme of each letter  (Click on heading to read more)

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First and Second Years were very excited last week when the details for the trip to Germany in December this year were released. We will be staying in Koblenz and visiting the Rheinland region. Among the highlights will be a day in Phantasialand Theme Par ...

Second and Third Year French students begin 2019 with fond memories of their recent trip to Paris.  In December, forty students accompanied by their teachers Ms. Cadinot, Ms. Nagle, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Murphy, set off on a four-day trip to discover the ...

First Year students in Class 1AP were involved in an e-Twinning project in the run up to Christmas with four European schools. Schools from Romania, Spain, Germany, and Poland created Christmas Boxes and filled them with biscuits, sweets, handmade Christm ...

On Thursday, November 8th Presentation College was delighted to host a workshop organised by the ADAPT Centre of the School of Computing in Dublin City University. Eva Vassenhova facilitated the two-hour workshop in problem solving. During the workshop, t ...

Ms. Una Byrne - one of the German teachers at Presentation College and Meadhbh Broderick - the winner of last year’s German Olympiad, were both invited recently by the German Ambassador to a reception to celebrate twenty-eight years of German Unity ..

The International German Olympiad (IDO – Internationale Deutscholympiade) is the largest German language contest in the world.  Every two years, students from between fifty and sixty countries around the world come together to demonstrate their ...

Well done to our Senior Debating Team who won their recent debate against Ursuline Convent, Thurles. Our team consisting of Meadhbh Broderick, Ellen Dempsey, Charlie O’Meara and Elizabeth Rogers are now through to the All-Ireland Quarter Finals.&nbs ...