Junior Infants have been learning all about food, they baked brown bread and made jelly. The girls enjoyed doing a lego STEM activity with their buddies, finished off their gymnastics lessons and enjoyed taking part in Zumba.

Senior Infants have completed their gymnastics lessons and are now enjoying their Zumba sessions.  They planted some foods in the school garden – garlic, onions, radishes, beans and potatoes.

First Class have been swimming for the past 6 weeks and we will have an Easter egg hunt based on environmental awareness with TY students from the Ursuline.

Miss O’Connor’s First Class have been engaging with the Fyffes Fit Squad programme for Ireland’s fittest school. Eoin Murphy from Sonofi completed the Junior Achievement programme with the girls.

Mrs Southard’s First Class have been enjoying going the library on Brown’s Road for various activities.

Second Classes have just finished swimming lessons and are now enjoying gymnastics every Friday. TY students are calling in for an Easter egg hunt before the holidays.

All 3rd Classes have been learning all about the Titanic this term. They also enjoyed gymnastics.

5th Class completed their 6 sessions of mindfulness with Bernie Woods. Some girls have completed the Learning for Life Programme in SETU every Tuesday after school for the past 6 weeks. All of 5th Class engaged with Rhythm & Shakes for 4 weeks and attended the Beauty & the Beast Presentation Secondary School show on Monday the 10th of March. They went to the Secondary School to participate in ‘Try Pres’  For this, the girls worked in groups and each child engaged in two of the following activities – P.E, dance, coding, art, science, and  home ec. The girls in 4th and 5th Class sang in the choir for the Confirmation with Mr. Curran’s Class singing the harmonies.

6th Class have been busy preparing for Confirmation which took place on Friday April 4th. They enjoyed their Confirmation retreat in the parish centre with the Diocesan team. The girls also participated in Zumba this term and had 4 sessions of Rhythm amd Shakes. This week, 6th Class will go to Garter Lane for some art workshops.

Language Class 2 have been swimming the last six weeks. Also doing Gymnastics at the moment. Visiting the Brown’s Road Library for Spring activities.

We celebrated Grandparents’ Day with two beautiful presentations from Senior Infants and Sixth Class. Senior Infants sang lovely songs, showed pictures and spoke about their grandparents and the special people in their lives. Our Diocesan advisor Sr. Antoinette, joined the celebration which was very special for us. A cup of tea and a yummy bun followed! Well done to all the wonderful children, grandparents and teachers who joined together for this special occasion. Listen to our lovely Senior Infants singing ‘We Sing a Song to Brigid’.

Sixth Class followed with their presentation. Grandparents listened to lovely prayers read by pupils. After their prayer service, grandparents and pupils played a selection of games and partook in a variety of activities. Well done to all who helped organise this special event.

Pupils and staff celebrated Presentation Day on 21st November. A special prayer service was held to reflect on and remember the great work begun by Presentation Sisters and carried on by our teachers and staff today. Mrs McAra led the choir who sang beautifully. Pupils from Fifth and Sixth Class read a selection of prayers and Lucy narrated a presentation of Nano Nagle’s life. Click here to watch and listen to One Step Beyond

Pupils enjoyed Science Week here in Presentation Primary and the theme was “Regeneration”. Lots of fun activities, experiments and learning took place over the course of the week.

Pupils took part in a variety of Science Stations where they tried lots of different experiments. A huge thank you to Mrs McCarthy for organising such a great event. Everybody really enjoyed it and the experiments were great fun.

Science Week is the national week of celebration of science with hundreds of events for people of all ages taking place across Ireland.

Our ongoing aim here at school is to raise our pupils’ interest and curiosity in Science so please take some time to ask about what your child has been learning and enjoying during Science Week.

Witches, goblins, ghosts and ghouls were seen moving around Presentation Primary School on Friday 25th October! Great fun was had by all on dress-up day. Lots of pupils took part in traditional Halloween games and some even got to go trick or treating!

As part of Well-being Week, one student from each class was named Kindness Champion. Well done to Fionn, Nicole, Dominik, Mathilda, Ella, Rhea, Luna, Kaley, Evie Grace, Sienna, Ella, Kim, Shania, Teni, Mia, Ava Rose, Elliana, Zoe, Alice, Chloe, Alva and Faye. Teachers had a very hard time picking a class kindness champion and we are so happy to see such kindness in our school.

Pupils enjoyed participating in activities for Seachtain na Gaeilge in March. Our Lá Glas took place on Friday 15th March. All pupils enjoyed taking part in the annual ceolchoirm. Lots of lovely songs, rhymes and poems were followed by great applause and cheers. Well done to everyone!

A big thank you to Mrs O’Dwyer for organising this special week for everyone.

What amazing pupils we have here at Presentation Primary School….

In Mrs Brett’s Junior Infants Class, Grace Hearne completed Summer Stars reading programme.

In Mrs O’Neill’s Senior Infant Class, Mathilda Horgan and Revan Mohammed both received medals for completing the Summer Stars reading programme. Both Mathilda Horgan and Freya Barry won medals and trophies in their recent Irish dancing feis competitions.

In Mrs O’Brien’s First Class, Emily, Leah and Freya completed the Summer Stars Reading Programme. Isabela, Jorgie , Charlotte and Lily Ryan got a medal for camogie. Freya got a trophy for Irish Dancing.

In Mrs Southard’s First Class, Grace and Maisie completed the Summer Stars reading programme. Grace won lots of medals and a trophy for Irish dancing too!

In Ms. Shiel’s First Class Fatima completed the Summer Stars reading programme.

In Miss Feighery’s Second Class, Amyah Morrissey won a trophy for her treble jig in an Irish dancing competition in Wexford recently. Leah Collins took part in a lyrical dance competition in Dublin and she won a trophy and a medal.

In Mrs McKenna’s Second Class, Aisling Brophy, Sophie Cosgrave and Harper Kent in Ms. McKenna’s 2nd got certs for the Summer Stars Reading Programme.

In Miss O’Connor’s Second Class, Sadie Brazil won a camogie blitz, Sienna Moore completed the Summer Stars programme and received the certificates, Layla Grace Collins Brazil won a kick boxing competition and Natasha Dembinska won the Polish speaker at Polish school.

In Mr. Stokes Third Class, Anika Ratheesh, Emma Pascolini and Daisy Daniels O’ Shea completed the Summer Stars reading programme. Aurora O Brien came 2nd in her set dance competition in Cobh.

In Mrs Cody’s Third Class, Kate Barry, Lemas Yassin and Pietra received their Summer Stars certificates.

In Mr. Curran’s Fourth Class, Amelia O’Byrne recently won her first ever kick-boxing match. ⁠⁠Emily Fitzgerald recently won her Irish Dancing competition for her St Patrick’s Day Dance.

In Miss McNamara’s Fourth Class, Victoria Kosla won a bronze medal in a jiu-jitsu competition in Dublin. Noor Ahmed, Lucy Ryan and Victoria Kosla took part in the Summer Stars reading programme.

In Mrs O’Dwyer’s Class, Ava Keating, Robyn Davies and Aria Jacob took part in a feis in Laois recently, winning countless medals and trophies. Ava Ryan and Alyssa Hennessy Coughlan took part in the Solas Walk for Life. Sadhbh Langford came first in a recent Cross Country final.

In Ms. Power’s Senior Language Class, Dominik and Catherine both completed the Summer Stars reading programme. Max got a medal for a football blitz. Ken won a sack race and received a medal too.

In Miss Fortune’s Fifth Class, Caitlin McKenzie and Caoimhe Dwyer completed a 10k walk for the Solas Centre.

In Miss Curry’s Fifth Class, Ana Kelly won a county final for Gaelic Football. Holly Roche Murphy was selected for the Waterford U-12 Developmental  Football Squad. Ameyah Ratheesh took part in the Summer Stars reading programme.

In Mrs McAra’s Fifth Class, Emily Power was on the winning Gaelic Team U12 Eireanns Own team who won the U12 shield. Hannah Whelan was awarded her yellow belt in Tai Kwando. Emily Butler and Emily Power were on the U12 Mount Sion Camogie team who made it all the way the the county Championship final against Ballyduff Upper.

In Miss Power’s Sixth Class, Weronika came 1st at a recent gymnastics competition. Nicole Murphy completed Summer Stars Reading Programme.

In Miss Duke’s Sixth Class, Abbie, Ella, Lisa Jayne and Eve represented De La Salle in the U11 Tournament in Dunhill and won the cup! Ella placed 3rd in her first ever gymnastics competition. Ehi participated in her first show in Garter Lane, she was a part of Soul Dance Art’s performance of Aladdin. Grace won her first three adjudicator championship in Cork! Lisa Jayne represented Ireland in the World UDO Competition and she placed 3rd in the u12 category! Sofia’s art piece from her art classes was chosen to go on display in the Waterford Art Gallery! Vittoria was chosen to be on the U12 Waterford Development Squad in soccer. Beth had her harp performance on Saturday, after months of hard work and  practice.

Overall, 45 boys and girls participated in the Summer Stars Reading Initiative for reading books from the library during the summer. They received their certificates and medals from the librarian in Brownes Road Library last week.

WOW!

During October our school celebrated MATHS WEEK and the main focus is to get all our students participating, collaborating and enjoying Maths activities.

Maths is all around us and is a very vital part of everyday life, so the goal is to help students to recognise this and to have some fun with Maths.

Some of the activities included Guess How Many Ducks in the Jar competition, Maths Eyes – ‘Maths at Home’ photo competition and Maths trails around the school grounds.

Mrs O’Connor’s Second Class… we used cubes to help us learn about the greater than and less than signs.

Miss Fortune’s Fifth Class… we were very busy for ‘Maths Week’ in room 17. We picked a number a day and made as many equations as we could for that number. Our next activity we completed a ‘Figure Me Out’ page, the girls made some equations about themselves for example our age, house number, number of siblings and shoe sizes. We then swapped these with our class members and they ‘figured out’ all the information about us.We also designed some Maths trails for our buddies and brought our buddies on a Maths trail around the school. We also did some fun Maths in the computer room – Miss Fortune gave each of us a budget and we got to spend that budget on designing a room in a house. We researched different websites to find items that we could buy within our budget. Lastly we did some data with smarties. We first predicted how many smarties were in the box, then we counted them and divided them into groups of colour. We made bar graphs based on these. Finally we got to eat the smarties.

Competition Time – Well done to…

Edie O’Keeffe in Mrs Southard’s Class – ‘Maths at Home’ photo competition. Nearly 100 entries were received for this competition. Edie set up a shop at home and was playing with her mam. in her photograph.

Emma Pascolini in Mr Stokes’ Class- ‘Guess How Many Ducks in the Jar’ competition. 350 entries were received for this competition. Emma was 2 away from the real answer which was 177.

A huge thank you to Miss Stones for organising lots of fun activities and competitions throughout the week. Check out our photographs below to see what we were up to during fabulous ‘Maths Week 2023’

This school week is dedicated to “Friendship” which as you know is so important for our wellbeing. During this week, our pupils are engaging in and enjoying all sorts of activities as we focus on what it means to be a friend and to have friends. Throughout the school, classes at all levels are involved in fun activities like “secret friends”, “happy hampers” and recipes for friendship. Random acts of kindness are flourishing.

Friendship is the theme for art and music activities. Our infant pupils have been getting to know their buddies in senior classes as they enjoy many fun lessons together.

Thursday 21st September is also World Gratitude Day and expressing gratitude daily is a very important ingredient for wellbeing and happiness. Each class has been given a flower on which to draw or write something they are grateful for.

And on that note, I would like to express my gratitude for the support you give me and the staff of Presentation Primary School. I am so thankful to be part of this wonderful community of parents, guardians, staff and pupils.

Anne Marie O’Mara

Congratulations to Eve, Aoife, Molly, Kassie, Grace, Zuzanna, Abbie, Charli, Lily Ellen, Nicole, Lisa-Jane and Sorcha who sang so beautifully as part of the National Children’s Choir at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on 29th May. Presentation Primary School was the only Waterford school represented at the event. Many, many rehearsals took place before the big night. A super experience for everyone and lots of happy memories were made. A huge thank you to the teachers involved in the preparation for this event. Work started in September and continued to the regional concert and right up to the finale on May 29th. Well done to everyone!

Congratulations to our Second Class pupils who made their First Communion on Saturday 6th May. Many thanks to their teachers who prepared them so well for this very special occasion in their lives.