Presentation Primary School

This month has been another busy time in the Presentation. We have celebrated Presentation Day, collected over 9o kilograms of coins and enjoyed Science Week!

We say a very sincere thank you to all those who supported the Parents’ Council Coin Collection. The money will now be counted and used to fund our Parents’ Council, our Christmas events as well as the purchase of resources.

Well done to all the classes who made such an effort. The heaviest bucket came from First Class – their bucket weighed a massive 15.7Kg! A special mention to Ms. Sheridan’s class who topped the list when we calculated the heaviest bucket based on class size. In all, over 90 Kg of coin was collected! All that’s left to do now is count it!!!!

Science Week 2021 took place recently also and the children really enjoyed experimenting and working scientifically with their teachers. This year we also have added STEM Club to our after school activities. This is proving a great hit with the pupils and we are delighted to see the boys and girls take such an interest in Science and Technology!

Here is a collection of photos from the past month!

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This week we prepared to celebrate Presentation Day. Presentation Day takes place each year on 21st November and it is the day when Presentation schools, convents and organisations celebrate the wonderful life of Nano Nagle and the work of the Presentation Order throughout the world.

On Friday morning we watched a Prayer Service that the children had prepared. As we can’t gather together as a whole school at present, we watched the prayer service at the same time, giving a sense of unity and togetherness throughout the school. 

Thank you to all the teachers who helped in preparing for Presentation Day and well done to all the boys and girls who read the prayers so well. Thanks also to Mrs. Margaret Healy and Ms. Mary Everard for preparing the hyms and the accompanying music.

Happy Presentation Day to all!

There was an amazing response to the TeamHope Christmas Shoebox Appeal again this year with 120 boxes being donated to support this wonderful cause. Mr. Healy explained as the children’s assembly what could and could not go into the shoeboxes. We hope that these gifts bring a smile to the faces of some children on Christmas morning. Thanks to all the parents who donated and supported TeamHope this year.

Our After School Activities continued this week. The children are loving being back at Cookery while our new STEM Club and the Monday Funday Club are a real hit too!

Our Coin Collection continues for one more week, up until Friday, 19th November. Thanks to all the parents and children who have donated. Pupils have been searching the car, the couch and that set of drawers in the hope of adding to their class bucket.

After a busy Maths Week, the children enjoyed a very ‘Fancy Dress Friday’ as we celebrated the Halloween Break. Ghouls and Goblins, Witches and Wizards, Minions and Marshmallows wandered through the school in a blaze of colour and smiles!

The children really enjoyed the novility of leaving the uniform at home and expressing themselves in costumes, facepaint and wigs!

Our Parents’ Council organised an art competition to celebrate Halloween and on Friday, Chairperson Fiona Connors presented smashing prizes to the winning entrants. Well done to all the boys and girls who did some wonderful artwork for this competition and thank you to Fiona and all the Parents’ Council for organising the event.

Here are some of the winners being presented with their prizes.

We wish all our pupils and their families a very Happy and Safe Halloween. During the week Garda Dan Brennan spoke to the senior classes about keeping safe at Halloween and we encourage all our pupils to take care over the midterm.

Here are all the photos from Friday for you to enjoy!

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This week we celebrated Maths Week. The children enjoyed a different Maths challenge each day. I must say a huge thank you to our wonderful team here in the Pres who worked so hard all week to bring Maths to life in a fun and interactive way.

Pupils also enjoyed Maths Trails, Bingo and a Maths Quiz. We hope the week helped the boys and girls to see Maths in a fun and real way. Perhaps at home you can ask your child to use their Maths Eyes to see numbers, shapes, times and measure all around your home.

Here is a gallery of Maths Week 2021.

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Recently the girls from Third Class finally got to receive the Sacrament of First Holy Communion. We congratulate them on this special occasion. A big thank you to Fr. Joe and all the volunteers in the Cathedral who helped make the day so special for the girls and their families.

Each year the pupils are invited to take part in the Pentel Art Competition. Ms. Sheridan organises the competition and every year our school produces a number of winners. The Pentel prizes are just wonderful and we hope the pupils enjoy the experience and the spoils!

Nearly 40 pupils have enjoyed GAA Football training after school each Monday. It has felt like summer-time on some of the evenings as the girls develop the skills of the game from the experienced coaches! Sport is a wonderful way of keeping the body and mind healthy and everyone really enjoys the hour after school each Monday.

As part of our Wellbeing programme, every pupil was involved in planting hundreds of bulbs on our school grounds. Our Caretaker Kieran guided the pupils to plant a variety of bulbs including daffodils, tulips and Irises. They even tried ‘lasagne planting’!!

Finally, here is a collection of photos from the month of October – Enjoy and happy Halloween!

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We felt very proud today as we were presented with our 5th Green Flag from Green Schools Ireland at an online awards ceremony.

The Green Schools Committee gathered in the hall, along with coordinators Ms. Everard and Ms Laura Ralph, to watch the online event.

We were one of only 3 schools from Tipperary to receive a Green Flag for Biodiversity this year.

Well done to all the committee members, to the coordinators and indeed the whole school community who worked so hard over the past two years to achieve this flag.

Each month we award Star Pupil Awards to children who make an extra special effort in a variety of different topics. This month the award was for Kindness and Manners. Next month is Sports and Activity. Later in the year we will celebrate Creativity, Friendship, Maths, Irish and Goodwill. Here are the Star Pupils for September.

Thankfully the sun has been shining since our return to school and this has certainly helped us settle back in to school life. The pupils have enjoyed getting out and about as we observed the gentle changing of the seasons on our school grounds. The summer flowers are leaving and the autumn leaves are beginning to show.

Here are some pictures on Ms. Sheridan’s class enjoying some work back in the classroom.

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Junior Infants are now well settled into life in the Presentation. The 44 Junior Infants happily join their line each morning and are working hard in the classroom each day. Here are some of the children busy in the classroom.

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This week the Tipperary Star published the First Days at School supplement. Here are the photos of the Junior Infants which were sent to the paper, including photos of the 3 sets of twins who joined us this year.

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Second Class are adjusting to life in the classroom without their friends who transferred to Scoil Ailbhe this year. This week the girls were enjoying board games and jigsaws. They also fed some horses, who graze nextdoor to the school, with some of the stranger looking carrots that grew in our vegetable patch this year. It looks like the horses enjoyed them!

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