Our Biodiversity Photo/Arts Competition came to a conclusion this week, with entries adjudicated on by Miss Crowley, Miss Walsh and students from the Green Schools Committee. We had entries of Photos, Digital Art Work and Poetry from students across the year Groups and staff members also. The standard was high and it was difficult to choose winners, so thank you to all who entered, contributing to a very successful competition and a very creative display for Arts Week. Congratulations to our winners, Senior students Andrew Maume, Alex Cronin & Johnny McCarthy for their photos entries, Ronan McCarthy and Anaus Sayed Muhammad for their wonderful poetry, which they recited during Arts Week. Junior student winners were Oscar Madden, Evan Lynch, James Randles James O' Regan and Jack Ringrose for their Photo entries, Eoin MacEneaney and Tom O' Neill for their Digital Art and to our First Year Photo Winners Daniel Shorten, Lewis Devins, Noah Joyce, Tom Kelleher, and Oisin Cryan. Congratulations also to our Staff Winner was Ms. Fitzgerald. Thank you to all, enjoy the Gallery.

Congratulation to our Senior Cup squad and all their coaches on a fantastic victory over local rivals CBC in a hard fought battle in Musgrave Park.

On a final score of  PBC 33   CBC 31, Pres now moves to top of the list on the honours board with THIRTY TWO senior cup titles - an outstanding achievement and something which the school is very proud of.

A huge thanks to all the senior coaches for their phenomenal effort in getting the team to this level!!

Photo shows captain Gene O'Leary Kareem being presented with the Senior Cup by his Mum, Cecillia.

Separate photo shows all the senior coaches L-R Mr. Ian Lehane, Mr. Cian Bohane, Mr. Don Buckley, Mr. Ger Burke, Mr. Ciarán O'Regan (S&C) and Mr. Peter Scott. 

Congratulations to past pupil, Cillian Murphy on winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his starring role in Oppenheimer, in which he plays the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the ‘father’ of the atomic bomb. 

This is a fantastic achievement for Cillian and his family, but also for the movie industry in Ireland. 

All in Pres are very proud of Cillian's achievement. 

Congratulations to our 5th Yr. students who won the Regional CanSat competition held recently in C.I.T. Our team now go on to the finals in May.

A CanSat is a simulation of a real satellite, integrated within the volume and shape of a soft drinks can. The challenge for the students is to fit all the major subsystems found in a satellite, such as power, sensors, and a communication system, into this minimal volume.

The CanSat is then launched by a rocket up to an altitude of approximately one kilometre, or dropped from a platform, drone, or captive balloon. Then its mission begins. This involves carrying out a scientific experiment and/or a technology demonstration, achieving a safe landing, and analysing the data collected. 

Every participating CanSat team will have to accomplish two misisons: a mandatory primary mission to transmit and collect air temperature and pressure data at least once a second by radio communication; the secondary mission is completely open to the students’ imagination. Your secondary mission could be exploring a new planet, analysing Earth’s atmosphere, developing a rover to fit inside the CanSat, or anything else students can think of.

 Congratulations to all the students involved and a very special congratulations to Mr. Garvey, all his hard work with the boys is certainly paying off!!!

 Photo shows L- R: ANAUS SYED MUHAMMAD, DEVIN GILTINAN , RAGHAV RASHGOTRA & KEITH WALSH.

Last Week the 4th to the 8th of March was Arts Week in our School. An opportunity to celebrate the Creative Talents of our students, with opportunities to participate in a busy schedule. Attending talks in the theatre by visiting speakers and workshops in school and out. We enjoyed poetry readings in different languages each day, starting with an amazing original poem 'Summer Garden' read by the author,  Ronan MacCarthy his entry in the Biodiversity Photo/Arts Competition. Other readers during the week included Ruben Lee representing the German language, Harry Garcin O'Mahony with his reading in French, Liam Keville representing Latin, Louis Flynn with his Dán as Gaeilge and ending our week was Anaus Syed Muhammed with his beautiful original poem, another entry to the Photo/Arts competition. We also had a special reading for 'International Women's Day' written and read by Miss Whelan. Women Artists were also celebrated in a slide presentation on screens throughout the school. The T.Y. Film Studies students attended screenings of their movies in Mahon Point and Youghal. Our Prefects selected and played music at lunch times and Student Creative Work was displayed around the school. The place of the Arts in Education was debated and exhibitions visited. The first years enjoyed a movie screening to end our week on Friday. A very big thank you to all students and staff for embracing Arts Week 2024 and we look forward to more Creative Events and Activities during the year.

Pres had an excellent performance finishing in 1st and 2nd place in the recently held Regional Applied Maths Team Quiz.

This table quiz is based on the Leaving Cert Higher Level Applied Maths course and was organised by the Irish Applied Maths Teachers’ Association.

In 1st place was the team comprising of Alex O’Donoghue, Ruben Lee and Raghav Rashgotra. In 2nd place was the team made up of Devin Giltinan,  Adam Ryan and Sam O’Connell.

Both teams will now compete in the National Final in Athlone later in the month. Well done to all the boys involved.

Congratulations also and huge thanks to their Applied Maths teacher, Ms. Cotter.

We wish them all the very best of luck in the National Final. 

Today, our second-year students visited Fota Wildlife Park for an ecology trip. The weather cooperated, allowing them to explore the natural world. They observed diverse habitats, from grasslands to woodlands, and even had the privilege of being the first group to step inside the new education center. This center bridges theory and practice, fostering a deeper understanding of ecology. We hope our students left with a newfound appreciation and commitment to environmental stewardship.

Congratulations to both sets of cast and film crews involved in the recent First Cut Film Festival in Youghal and Fresh Cut film festival in Mahon Point. (Killing Billy by Liam Fitzgerald and P.R.E.S by Max Ford).

Over 50 students traveled on the day. Killing Billy was in the top 3 out of hundreds of entries in the First Cut Festival and P.R.E.S. came a close second in the audience choice awards in Mahon.

All in Pres are extremely proud of the film studies class on creating such amazing films and truly deserve to take a bow.

Well done to all involved and a special thanks to Mr. Brian Casey for all his work with the Film studies.