It’s great to see so many of our boys standing up and performing.

Well done to all involved!

The attached clip shows Ms. O Driscoll, Ms. Clarke and Greg Lougheed playing a traditional piece.

The November Open Mic Session took place on Friday, 18th.

Well done to all our 1st Yr. students who took part in the annual Preslink walk recently. The boys walked from the school, through Fitzgerald Park to the Lee Fields and back to the school. 

This event raised €2,500 for Presentation Brothers projects in Africa which will be greatly appreciated and put to good use. 

It has been a busy number of weeks for our TY Coaching Module students. Currently the group is coming to the end of the module and are doing a fantastic job in coaching our 1st year students on Wednesday mornings. 

Over the course of the module our coaches have been exposed to professionals from a variety of fields, such as nutrition and mental skills. Ex-Munster rugby player Jonny Holland spoke to our coaches about the vital role that nutrition plays in athletic performance, in addition the importance of sleep and the role of supplementation. Tom Painter from APEX Mental Skills gave a two hour workshop on developing a positive culture within a sporting organisation and how to mentally empower athletes. 

Our coaches have developed a wide range of skills over the course of the module. These include: inter-personal communication, time keeping, positive reinforcement and inclusive session planning. 

Well done to all involved and thank you to all staff members that gave up their class time to allow their 1st year students to be coached! 

Congratulations to our Senior Irish Debating Team, who last night won the First Round of the Gael Linn Irish Debating Competition. 

Ruben Lee, Maurice Minogue and Adam Ryan (all 5th Year) finished best of the three participating schools. 

They were excellently prepared by their teachers Ms. E. Murphy, Mr. M. Jones, Mr. R. O' Mahony and Ms. E. O' Reilly.

They are looking forward to the next Round.

Thug siad taispeantas iontach areir. Comhghairdeas leo!!!

The annual Movember campaign in Pres is again up and running.

Movember is an international campaign to raise awareness and funds for research into men's cancers, specifically testicular and prostate cancers, as well as mental health.

As in previous years, class groups compete to raise as much money as possible, with the victors winning a prize. Staff and students cultivate moustaches for the month, and we welcome Dr. Derek Power, Consultant Oncologist in the Mercy Hospital to the school. Dr. Power will speak to our senior students about his work and the preventative measures that they can take to keep themselves safe.

We strongly urge all in the Pres community to support the campaign again this year. Your generosity is very much appreciated.

Grow a Mo, save a Bro!!  

To celebrate the end of Science week, Transition year student's demonstrated various Chemistry and Physics experiments to a full and intrigued 1st year audience in the Theatre. 

Well done to all involved.

Congratulations to Daniel Hegarty, Patrick Moroney and William Hetherington from 6th Yr. who came 2nd place in the Irish Science Teachers Associations Regional Senior Science Quiz which took place in University College Cork on Thursday night. 

 The quiz questions were drawn from the Leaving Certificate Biology, Chemistry and Physics courses, as well as general science knowledge and news content.

 The team of three have qualified to compete in the national final which will take place in Trinity College Dublin on the 3rd of December. 

Well done to our other two 6th Yr. Teams which took part in the quiz. These teams were made up of Andrew Cuddigan, Sean Herlihy and Dylan Costello and Jack Kingston, Evan Lee and Joe Mac Namara. 

Photo shows Left to Right: Mr. Allen Donnelly (Chemistrty Teacher), Daniel Hegarty, Mr. Cian O'Mahony ISTA representative, Patrick Moroney, William Hetherington, Ms. Claire Lynch (Biology Teacher) and Mr. Ian Lehane (Physics Teacher)

Well done to all involved and a special thanks to our Science teachers in helping our students prepare so well for this quiz.  

Well done to all our 1st Yr. students who took part in the 1st Yr. Science Quiz as part of a very busy Science Week in P.B.C.

Thanks to All our Science Department for such a well organised, busy and inclusive Science Week.