Post Tagged with: "Presentation Secondary School"

A SCHOOLS and GAA Club initiative, involving John Mitchels and two schools in its heartland, has brought the skills of Gaelic Football to primary school children, many of whom never played the game before. Eighteen Presentation transition year students were tasked with training Gaelic Football skills to  80 third and fourth class Presentation […]

TWO Transition Year groups from Presentation Secondary School and two from Mercy Mounthawk have made the final of the Eco-Unesco Youth Environmental awards to be held later this month and you can vote for the projects online in a public vote. Both “If your dog poops, You Scoop” campaign and the […]

THE Student Representative Council at Presentation Secondary School, Tralee co-ordinated the Annual Mental Health Awareness week in Presentation Tralee last week as a range of activities and talks were provided for all students by representatives of agencies such as Kerry Jigsaw and Aware. While different groups were scheduled for formal […]

PRESENTATION Tralee students are trying to raise public awareness of a weed causing serious problems in the county. The transition year students are taking part in the Eco Unesco Young Environmental Competition and are tackling the issue of Japanese Knotweed’s spread in Kerry. The weed is an alien invasive species introduced as […]

STUDENTS at Presentation Secondary School in Tralee will be hoping for a two in a row as they prepare for the national AIB Build A Bank competition finals. ‘The Blossom Bank’ will be hoping to emulate last year’s entry from the school, ‘The Dream Bank’, which won the top award last year. […]

PRESENTATION girls showed their fashion designing skills on Friday to a former pupil who has gone on to make a name for herself in the industry. The Transition Year Science group ‘Aims To Greener Fashion’ rolled out their focused campaign this week at the secondary school in Tralee as part of their SEAI […]

STUDENTS at Presentation Secondary Tralee, have been participating in the #itsyourmove launched by Operation Transformation (OT) as part of their PE fitness programme. OT launched a brand new dance fitness campaign #itsyourmove, designed especially for teenage girls by Hip Hop sensations, Raw Edge Crew. Each week over the past month a […]

CAHERSLEE and the Bracker O’Regan Road, or The Fat Mile, are problem areas for dog waste according to a survey by local students. On Friday, January 29, a Transition Year Science class from Presentation, Tralee, continued their mission to tackle the issue of dog waste in Tralee. The group, which call […]

TRALEE athletes excelled at the Kerry Schools Cross Country Championships on Wednesday at The Demesne, Killarney. Tralee CBS beat competition from around the county to win the ‘Best School Award’ for boys, with Mercy Mounthawk coming in second place and Presentation Milltown 3rd. Presentation Killarney won ‘Best Girls School’ with Mercy Mounthawk once […]

PRESENTATION Secondary School students are calling for an end to owners not picking up after their dog has done its dirty work in public areas. The transition year class have started the campaign ‘If Your Dog Poops, You Scoop’. The aim is to promote the picking up of dog waste and […]

  AS part of their Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme (LCVP) programme, students from Presentation Secondary School had their 5th Year LCVP Christmas Trade Fair on Friday in the school. Twenty-seven students produced, marketed and sold a wide range of products which included chocolate truffles, cup cakes and candy canes. All students have […]

  TWO Tralee schools have a 100 per cent rate of students progressing to third level colleges according to data released on Schooldays.ie They are named as Gaelcholáiste Chiarraí and Tralee Community College (Coláiste Gleann Lí). The data gives a breakdown of where 2015  Leaving Certificate students went to college this […]

SIXTH year students at Presentation Secondary School Tralee took part in a sleepover in the school on Friday November 20 to raise funds for Syrian refugees. Forty-eight sixth year students took part in what was a very enjoyable night with a number of school staff staying the night also. The cheque […]

PRESENTATION Secondary School, Tralee hosted their annual Dragons Den session in the school on Wednesday last. It was a very successful event with 52 students pitching their ideas to a number of Dragons in the school. The ‘Dragons’ were Margaret Brick, CEO Connect Magazine, Fiona Leahy Business Adviser & Co-ordinator, Kerry Enterprise, Melanie […]

SCIENCE Week took place at Presentation Tralee all week and students really enjoyed the range of events at the secondary school. It got off to a hectic start on Friday last with a visit from the Skydome planetarium. Three shows had originally been scheduled for TY and first year students, but such was the interest by […]

A GROUP of talented entrepreneurs over at the Presentation Secondary School Tralee are getting to relive one of their moments of the year after starring in a new AIB promotion video for the ‘Build a Bank’ challenge. The girls emerged triumphant in the national final of the AIB Build a Bank challenge in […]

KERRY star Darran O’Sullivan has lent his support to a fundraiser where the prize is two tickets to the All-Ireland final next week. The Presentation Secondary School annual sports fund raffle was launched on Wednesday with the aim of raising as much money as possible for a vital part of the school programme. […]

STUDENTS from all over Tralee celebrated getting their Junior Cert results on Wednesday morning with some great grades reported in all schools. In CBS The Green, Deputy Principal, Robert Flaherty, told us that 111 students sat the exams in June. “We had a number of students who had eight A’s […]

WEDNESDAY was D-Day for almost 4,000 students here in Kerry as they nervously sat down to take the first exams of the Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate. TraleeToday.ie was out and about yesterday afternoon to talk to some of the students as they finished English Paper 1, the traditional opener of the […]

TWENTY students from Transition Year in Presentation Secondary School received certificates marking their participation in the Children’s Liturgy programme in St John’s Parish. The certificates were presented by Eileen Doyle (Children’s Liturgy Co-ordinator) and Fr Bernard Healy. The Children’s Liturgy programme has been up and running at the 10.30am Sunday Mass […]

  STUDENTS from Presentation Secondary School, Tralee made a presentation to Cuan Mhuire on Friday. The cheque for €1,050 was a result of fundraising activities in the school which were organised to support the work of Cuan Mhuire. Sr Bríd Clifford, former Principal of Presentation Secondary, Tralee, was delighted to accept […]

PRESENTATION Secondary School sixth year students celebrated their graduation on Friday. Students, their families and teachers attended a mass in St John’s  Church to mark the event which was then followed by a reception in the school hall. There was also the added treat for the 120 girls when they got to […]

STUDENTS from Presentation Secondary School  went above and beyond themselves as they raised over €750 to help out one young boy in his battle against a debilitating disease. Daniel Collins is four years old and suffers from severe medical difficulties such as Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalous which have a massive impact on […]

STUDENTS from a local school were out and about on Friday doing their own little part in keeping their town tidy. It was definitely not the weather that the TY students from ‘Presentation Secondary’ school wanted on the day, but they chose to soldier on through the wind and rain armed with gloves, […]

THEY’RE really on a roll in Presentation Secondary School! After winning the AIB Build A Bank competition last week (click here), two more students from the school have had more national success in Dublin. Transition Year students, Lauren Kelly and Maria Daly, won most the Most Creative Use Of Social […]

IT was a dream ending for a group of Presentation Tralee students on Thursday, when they won the national final of the AIB Build A Bank Award in Dublin. The AIB Build a Bank Challenge sees a team of six students selected to set up and manage a bank in their […]

TWO Tralee students will represent Kerry in the Social Media category at the National Student Enterprise Awards next month and they need your help to win. Lauren Kelly and Maria Daly, Transition Year students at Presentation Secondary School Tralee, founded ‘Instant Cuimhne’ back in October and the mini-company has really taken […]

YESTERDAY we told you about the winners of Kerry Local Enterprise Office (LEO) Student Enterprise awards held at the ITT on Friday (click here for previous story and photos). In total there was over 50 stands from schools all over the county with projects ranging from cookbooks to mobile accessories, entries embracing ever-changing technology and ones with a nod […]

  A FORMER student of Presentation Secondary School will be seen entering into a civil partnership in a casino tonight on the hit RTÉ show ‘Don’t Tell The Bride’. The show, which will air at 9pm on RTE2, will feature Nora Dennehy, originally from Hawley Park, and her partner Katriona Hourihan who entered […]

  A PRESENTATION student has been selected to represent Kerry at a World War One  memorial event in the Somme in France this Summer and she needs our help in helping to make the trip more of a success. Leslie McCarthy, a 17 year old fifth year student from Presentation Secondary School […]