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French Ambassador’s Visit to PBC
Created : 11 May 2022, 9:48 AM
Archived : 11 Jul 2022, 12:00 AM
As part of Europe Day on 9th May, we had the honour of welcoming His Excellency Mr Vincent Guérend, Ambassador of France to Ireland, and Hon. Consul of France in Cork, Mr Josselin Le Gall. They visited our new French Heritage Language section initiated by Ms McGonnell last November in the Reading Room and spoke to two classes of 5th Year.
French DELF Diploma
Created : 11 May 2022, 9:47 AM
Archived : 11 Jul 2022, 12:00 AM
On 10th May, TY students of French sat the international French DELF Scolaire A1 examination. Candidates will receive their results in a few weeks. We wish them the best of luck!
Success in Cork Schools Junior Mace Debating Competition
Created : 10 May 2022, 2:47 PM
Archived : 10 Jul 2022, 12:00 AM
Well done to all our Junior Debaters, who participated in the Junior Mace Competition at the weekend - Theo Scully, Jack Horgan, Anaus Syed Muhammad, Ronan Mc Carthy, Denis Kelly and Ruairi O Donnchadha. Denis won the Best Speaker and the Best 2nd Year!! He and Ruairi won the Best Team. Huge Congratulations to the boys and to their coaches Ronan and Matthew.
Summer Rowing Camp for 1st Years
Created : 10 May 2022, 2:34 PM
Archived : 10 Jul 2022, 12:00 AM
Sport
We are holding a camp for all 1st years interested in rowing. The camp will run over four days from the 7th to the 10th of June, 9am to 1pm at Shandon Boat Club on the Marina. Students will learn the following: - The mechanics of the rowing boat - How to get in and launch a rowing boat - Basic technique - Nutrition for athletes - Fitness and circuit technique Students will have two sessions each day, with a half hour lunchbreak in between. Please note the following: - Places are limited, given on a first come first served basis. - Your son does not need any previous rowing experience. However, he must be a competent swimmer – can swim a minimum of 50 metres and tread water. - Your son must bring his own lunch and water bottle. No disposable bottles please. - Your son must also bring a spare change of clothing, a towel, and if possible sliders and a pair of runners. Rowing is a great sport for fitness, confidence and making new friends. Our school has had great success in the sport at both national and international level. For students who are interested, there will be a meeting in school this week where application forms will be handed out.
Two Wins at Lee Regatta
Created : 08 May 2022, 2:24 PM
Archived : 08 Jul 2022, 12:00 AM
Sport
There was a great days racing at Lee Regatta on the Marina this Saturday where there were wins for the Junior 15 Eight and Junior 16 Quad. Both crews made the most of the perfect conditions to claim top spot in the sprint regatta. The Junior 18 squad had three second place finishes in the Pair, Four and Eight to strong crews from Shannon RC and Shandon BC. The rowers get some time to recover now before the next race on June 11th in Lough Rynn, Leitrim. Well done to all who raced.
Message from Ms. Ruth Whelan, Secretary of the Parent Council
Created : 06 May 2022, 10:28 AM
Archived : 06 Jul 2022, 12:00 AM
Dear Parent, Hope you are keeping well. The Parent Council would like to inform parents that the monthly Parent Council meetings for this school year are now finished. Thank you to those parents who took part this year; your feedback and support was much appreciated. The meetings will resume again in September starting with the AGM on Sept 12th in the school and we would like to encourage parents to actively participate. More details on the objectives of the Parent Council can be found here Parents Council — Presentation Brothers Cork (pbc-cork.ie) Also you can use this email address for any Parent Council related enquiries: parents.council@pbc-cork.ie Hope you have a good summer, we look forward to meeting you in September Kind Regards, Ruth Whelan
PRESLINK TABLE QUIZ RESULTS!!
Created : 05 May 2022, 5:36 PM
Archived : 05 Jul 2022, 12:00 AM
Well done to our two winning teams, the Senior team made up of Daragh Boland, Jamie Dineen and Jacob Sheahan. These 6th Years scored an impressive 61 points. The winning Junior Team made up of Dario Cammoranesi, Greg Cronin O' Toole, Billy O' Connell, Conor O' Mahony and Cali Sheahan also scored 61 points!!! The future is bright!!! Well done to our 8 winners, smiling below, holding their cash prizes. A huge thanks to all for contributing so generously, to our very-able Quizmaster Mr. Barry and a big thanks to Mr. O' Regan for, once again, making the questions so easy!!! 3,000 Euro was raised for our schools in Nigeria and Ghana. Thank you.
SCHOOL SAILING NATIONALS - MAX DILLON, 5TH YEAR
Created : 05 May 2022, 5:19 PM
Archived : 05 Jul 2022, 12:00 AM
On Friday 29th of April, myself and 7 other students travelled to Dun Laoghaire to compete in the school sailing nationals. Unfortunately, conditions were un-sailable for the Munster competition, but happily we still qualified for the national event. Unfortunately, due to our "older" sailors studying for the leaving cert, we lost a lot of experience from the team, but nonetheless our younger sailors stepped up to the mark. Sailing was slow on Saturday due to light wind and we got off to a slow start. After a strong performance from third year student Andrew Kingston and fifth year student David Collins we got our first victory against St David’s College, followed by a second win against Scoil Chuimsitheach. That wrapped up the first day for Pres and confidence was good going into the second day. On Sunday conditions were much the same - light winds and rain as we started off our day with a victory coming in against St Andrews, this was a big win for us as we were definite under dogs. The rain really started falling then and moral was a little low after we were unlucky against Gaelcholaiste, Carrigaline, losing out on victory by a point. We finished the competition with a win against Scoil Mhuire with Max Dillon and Thomas o Mahony finishing first and Andrew Kingston and Olan Dillon second. Overall I couldn’t have been prouder of the lads - they really stepped up to the challenge and did the school proud. I’d also like to say a big thanks to Mr. Aiden Twomey who helped with the organisation of accommodation and registration and a massive thank you to Mr. John Kavanagh and Ms. Julie Mosher who travelled with us to Dublin, without their help none of this would have been possible.
BLESSED EDMUND RICE DAY - MAY 5TH
Created : 05 May 2022, 11:57 AM
Archived : 05 Jul 2022, 12:00 AM
Greetings for the Feast Day of Blessed Edmund Rice which occurs today. The charism of Blessed Edmund, who founded the Presentation Brothers Congregation, remains at the very heart of all that we do in our school and his story is both an inspiration and a challenge to all of us who are privileged to be associated with this wonderful tradition. The video (available at youtu.be/lD_5TOhibEo) will give you a good insight into the story of Blessed Edmund, the founder of our school. The Presentation Brothers' LEAF project and PBST have collaborated with our fellow PBST school, Colaiste Muire, Cobh, to put this video together. Wishing you all a joyous Blessed Edmund feast day. Thank you.
PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
Created : 04 May 2022, 10:14 PM
Archived : 04 Jul 2022, 12:00 AM
The Art Department are running a photography competition for 'Creative Arts Week' running next week 9th to 13 th of May the theme is 'the way I see it' take photos showing your perspective on your world. Submit your entries through teams to Ms. N. Walsh or Mr. Casey. By Wednesday 11 th. May, winners announced by Friday prizes awarded for best 3 photos selected. Enter into the spirit of creativity and participate. If you have any art work you want to send with your photos this would be most welcome and and included on the school app arts week gallery. Ms. Walsh