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Art Tour National Sculpture Factory
Created : 11 Oct 2022, 8:49 PM
Archived : 11 Dec 2022, 12:00 AM
T.Y. Art Students visited the National Sculpture Factory on Albert Road today, where they were given a tour of this historical building once the maintenance depot for the Cork Trams. Converted to the National Sculpture Factory in the 1970's this facility provides artists with studio space, technical advice and machinery to create small and large scale pieces for private and public commissions. The students viewed some work in progress and got a private tour and learned about this great facility past and present. Thanks to our tour guide Dominique the head technician who was very informative and generous with his time.
Reading Room Report
Created : 10 Oct 2022, 3:46 PM
Archived : 10 Dec 2022, 12:00 AM
Arts and Creativity
READING ROOM This September we welcomed back all our old students with a slew of brand new titles and introduced our First Year students to the Reading Room. BOOK Of THE MONTH: Although classics like ‘Kidnapped’ and modern favourites like ‘Alex Rider’ gave it a run for its money, ultimately Gerard Siggins’ ’Rugby Spirit’ won out as our Book of the Month. WORD OF THE MONTH: ANACHRONISM – anything that is or seems to be out of its proper time in history. Coming this October … HALLOWEEN WRITING COMPETITION! Are you the Prime Minister of Sinister? The Archduke of Spook? Can you write a story scary enough to win a Halloween prize? Send your scariest stories, scripts and poems – typed or written, to Ms. McKenzie, School Librarian, before 27th of October.
Open Mic Sessions
Created : 10 Oct 2022, 3:04 PM
Archived : 10 Dec 2022, 12:00 AM
Arts and Creativity
PBC Music Society and Creative Arts present: THE OPEN MIC SESSIONS. Beginning October 21st 2022 and running on the 3rd Friday of each month, THE OPEN MIC SESSIONS offer the talented youth of PBC the opportunity to perform the spoken word to a limited audience within the intimate setting of a lamp-lit corner of the stage in the Dan Donovan Theatre. This can include original poems, lyrics or art or you can speak/sing about words, music or art that have inspired you in your life. The sessions are open to any student in the school. If interested, students are asked to give their names to either Mr. O Riordan, Ms. Walsh (Art) or Ms. O Driscoll.
LC Agricultural Science Trip 2022
Created : 03 Oct 2022, 4:49 PM
Archived : 01 Dec 2022, 12:00 AM
A great day out was had by 6th Year Students at Macroom Buffalo Farm last week. Students had a fabulous farm to fork experience hosted by Dorothy O'Tuama at Lynch's Farm.
BBC News Documentary
Created : 30 Sep 2022, 5:06 PM
Archived : 30 Nov 2022, 12:00 AM
BBC News visits PBC On the 12th of September, 6th Year History students welcomed past pupil and BBC Special Correspondent Fergal Keane into their classroom. The filming of a visit to Pres was being included in a special segment Mr. Keane and his crew were making for the BBC 1 News. When the Queen made her historic visit to Ireland in 2011, she was received very warmly in Cork and on her passing, the BBC wanted to report on attitudes to her passing and how people viewed her role in Anglo-Irish relations. While we were given very short notice about the visit, it was very exciting to think that we might be on the BBC News! Mr. Caleb Sheehan and Ms. Eleanor Walsh came to our rescue and we would like to extend our thanks to them both for their encouragement, support and condensed History lesson which helped us secure our time in the limelight! We had a very interesting questions and answers session with Mr. Keane and we thank him for his interesting and insightful questions which got us all thinking like true historians. A special note of congratulations to Mark O’Connell and Cameron Lee whose words were captured in the segment on the news as well as a class shot of us all working hard. Mark and Cameron should be very proud of their composed and mature performance. As well as thanking Mr. Sheehan and Ms. E.Walsh, we would also like to thank Ms. N. Walsh for capturing pictures of the visit and Mr. J. Kavanagh for being on standby to lend a hand.
Open Night Sept. '22
Created : 30 Sep 2022, 1:33 PM
Archived : 30 Nov 2022, 12:00 AM
Open Night was held in the school on Tuesday September 27th and was a great success. Prospective parents and students got to see our school and all it has to offer. A large number of our current students helped out on the night, answering questions and sharing their experience of being a Pres. boy.
Senior Hurling v Kinsale Community School
Created : 29 Sep 2022, 4:48 PM
Archived : 29 Nov 2022, 12:00 AM
Pres. Tennis Player Represents Ireland
Created : 28 Sep 2022, 2:52 PM
Archived : 28 Nov 2022, 12:00 AM
Sport
Congratulations to Johnny Fitzgerald from class 2D who represented Ireland last weekend in the Four Nations Tennis competition held in Scotland. The Ireland Team finished in 2nd place. Well done Johnny! Johnny and his twin brother, Tommy, will both be representing Munster in the upcoming Interpros and we wish them the very best of luck in this. Johnny can be seen on the right of the photo from last weekends international competition.
Senior Footballers Win!
Created : 21 Sep 2022, 3:05 PM
Archived : 22 Nov 2022, 12:00 AM
Sport
PBC Senior Gaelic Footballers are off to a winning start after beating Ballincollig Community School in the Cork Colleges Senior Football competition after extra time, finishing on a score line of 3:15 to 3:11 in UCC's Mardyke pitch. Pres. will play the winners of Kanturk V Dunmanway in the next round. Well done to all involved!
SciFest winners
Created : 20 Sep 2022, 2:21 PM
Archived : 20 Nov 2022, 12:00 AM
Congratulations to 5th Yr. students Dylan Swihart, Jamie Cronin and Cian Hannigan who won the Institute of Physics award for SciFest at Munster Technology University in June with their Science project. The group investigated if different wavelengths affect photosynthesis on certain plants. Thanks to Ms. Lynch and Mr. Donnelly for all their help and hard work in guiding our young Scientists to success. Photo shows Left to Right: Dylan Swihart, Ms. Lynch, Jamie Cronin, Cian Hannigan and Mr. Donnelly.