On Friday 12th June, we celebrated our school’s Multicultural Day with the theme ‘Our World, Our Community’.  This special day provided an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the rich diversity that makes our school such a vibrant and welcoming place to learn.

At Presentation Primary Waterford, we are proud to have students from over 30 different countries, each bringing unique cultures, languages, traditions, and experiences to our school community. While we celebrate these differences, Multicultural Day was also an opportunity to reflect on what connects us—the friendships we build, the values we share, and the ways we learn from and support one another.

Throughout the day, students participated in a variety of classroom activities designed to build awareness, encourage curiosity, and celebrate the many cultures represented within our school. Through stories, discussions, art, music and games, students were helped to develop a deeper appreciation of both the diversity and interconnectedness of our world. These activities highlighted the importance of respect, inclusion, kindness, and belonging—values that are at the heart of our school community.

Students were invited to wear their own clothes on the day which demonstrated what makes each of us unique while recognising the many things we share.

Thank you for your continued support as we work together to nurture a school community where every child feels valued, respected, connected, and proud of who they are. A big thank you to Ms. Duke who organised this wonderful day for everyone.

Fifth Classes have their final Mindfulness with Bernie lesson in February. They have been busy at drama club learning dance routines and creating art for the upcoming Oliver show. Buddy activities for St. Brigid’s day included helping to paint a giant cloak with Mrs. McCarthy’s class. Red Kettle will be paying our school a visit this month, so everyone is looking forward to that.

5th and 6th Classes have been learning French from the Transition year pupils from the Presentation Secondary school. They have also started Drama and Wellbeing Club after school every Tuesday.

6th Classes hosted a Grandparents’ Afternoon in February.

3rd and 6th Classes are starting Rhythm and Shakes drumming for 4 weeks.

The Language Classes are visiting the Browns Road library during February.

Mrs Cody’s Second Class are getting 3 sessions of Mindfulness with Bernie in February. They will be doing Picker Pals once the weather improves! Ms Feighery’s class are also looking forward to starting Picker Pals and are busy getting ready to celebrate The Sacrament of Reconciliation.

All three Third Classes have been enjoying weekly swimming lessons. They also attended the Peace Proms concert in the SETU Arena on the 24th of January. In addition, they on a show for the school and parents in the hall on the 30th of September.

Junior and Senior Infants are looking forward to welcoming Ann Marie, our local librarian to our classes for story time on February 17th.

A big congratulations to all our pupils who received their Summer Stars medals and certificates from Anne Marie at the local library. Summer Stars is a reading-based programme, available free of charge to Primary School children, to encourage them to continue reading throughout the summer months. This award is in recognition of all the wonderful reading that the pupils undertook during their summer holidays. A big thank you to all the adults who brought their young readers to the library. Ní neart go cur le chéile!

On the third week of September, we celebrated our very own Friendship Day across the school with a range of activities that encouraged pupils to think about what makes a good friend — someone who listens, includes others, shares, and shows kindness.

Classes paired up with their buddy class to take part in creative, collaborative, and fun activities, giving children the chance to make new connections and strengthen existing ones.

Some of the highlights included:

• Creating Friendship Flowers and Handprint Art to reflect on the qualities of a good friend
• Making Friendship Bracelets with new buddies
• Completing All About Me and Find a Friend Who… tasks to get to know each other better
• Taking part in Reading Buddy sessions, where older pupils read with younger classmates
• Playing Co-operative Games and joining in on Buddy Scavenger Hunts
• Making Friendship Wreaths and sharing ideas about friendship in everyday life

It was a thoughtful, joyful, and creative day across the school — full of meaningful conversations about kindness, respect, and the simple ways we can all be good friends to one another.

On Tuesday 30^th September, Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Cody brought 32 girls from First to Sixth Class to compete at the Waterford Primary School Cross Country Championships.

The girls did an amazing job at representing our school. Fifth and Sixth class girls buddied up with the girls from First and Second Class and were so responsible, looking after them for the day.

All girls can be extremely proud of their performances. They gave their best and supported each other all day long.

We had 7 individual medal winners:

Gracie and Eve from Second Class.

Zoe and Teni from Third Class.

Asra, Layla Grace and Leah from Fourth Class.

All the girls were so well behaved and a pleasure to bring to the competition.

Well done girls!

Well done to Ms. McNamara’s Fourth Class who performed the Christmas Story in St Paul’s Church on 16th December. All other classes participated throughout the performance with beautiful singing. Their actions to the songs added energy and vibrancy to the occasion.

Junior and Senior Infants performed their Christmas songs in the school hall on Wednesday 17th December. Lots of happy smiles filled the hall and great applause followed the beautiful singing. A big well done to everyone!

We were delighted to be invited to TU Dublin this February to receive our award. It was a very special day for our school community. Ten of our student ambassadors travelled with Mrs O’ Mara and Ms. Duke to this special ceremony, where we were officially awarded our Champion School of Sanctuary Status. Our student ambassadors shared our school’s journey through poetry, alongside one other primary school & eight secondary schools! The girls were delighted to meet Aishah Akeorede who commended the girls on their brilliant presentation and their wonderful attitude.

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