Presentation Primary School

Our camogie team have been busy training for the past number of weeks in preparation for the County U13 Camogie Blitz which took place in Rosegreen last Thursday. The girls played four games on the day and showed great determination throughout. The first game was against Grange NS. Laila Mulhaire, playing in goals made three wonderful saves in this game while Aoife Ryan and Robyn Carroll worked tirelessly in the middle of the field. Grange, however, proved too strong in the end and won the game. Next up for Presentation was a game against Upperchurch NS. Patricia Dyl Phillips and Read more

The girls from Second Class received their First Confession in school on Thursday. Fr. Joe spoke to the girls about saying sorry when we make mistakes and about talking to Jesus when we need a friend. The girls sung beautifully and knew all their prayers for this special day. We thank their teacher Ms. Ciara Gleeson for preparing them so well. The ceremony can be viewed here.

It’s a rare and magical experience, to stand shoulder to shoulder with your team-mates, and to sing the National Anthem before an All Ireland Final. It is in that very moment, as the hairs tingle the back of your neck, that you really appreciate the value of sport, of friendship, of preparation and of pride. And as you holler out those final words ‘seo dhíbh canaigh Amhrán na bhFiann’, the magnitude of your achievement comes sharply into focus. The morning began in UL with a group game against Fossa NS, Killarney on Court 2 at the scheduled time of exactly Read more

Following the success of last year’s, first ever, St. Partrick’s Day School Parade, the children yet again donned the green and enjoyed marching around our beautiful school grounds to mark our National Day. The parade brought joy and smiles to everyone involved and ended with an impromptu céilí in the school yard afterwards. You can watch the parade on our YouTube channel. ON the day we also took the opportunity to raise the school’s 5th Green Flag. This flag was awarded by An Taisce for the school’s work on the topic of Biodiversity. The members of the Green School Committee, Read more

This week the Junior Infants have loved the theme of The Farm in Aistear. They learned lots of new vocabulary and found out how food gets from the farm to the shop to our plate! The children really enjoyed building the farm sheds and pretending to work the land. They even headed to the mart!

On Friday last, 35 girls took part in the Primary School Cross Country Competition in Thurles Crokes. This was a wonderful day organised by CBS Secondary School Thurles. In the bright Spring sunshine, girls from 3rd to 6th class competed in races of 800m and 1000m. This was a very competitive event with hundreds of children from all around the area taking part. In total 5 individual medal and a team silver was a fabulous return from the teams. It was a wonderful success to have 35 girls competing and finishing a race over a grueling course. Well done to Read more

It is over two years since Jerry Ryan last sent a bus to Presentation Primary School to take a school team to a sporting event. The loss of such days and experiences to the lives of our young people cannot be underestimated. For that reason, it was extra special that our Volleyball team travelled to Kilkenny on Thursday to compete in the Regional Finals of the Volleyball Ireland Primary School’s Tournament. There was huge interest in Volleyball over the past few weeks as over 30 pupils trained in the hall every lunchtime hoping to make one of two teams to Read more

This week we celebrated World Book Day. Pupils took part in a number of activities to mark the occasion. While we like to teach pupils how to read, we really enjoy helping them to foster a love of reading! Thanks to Ms. Walsh and all the staff for organising so many activities throughout the week.