The 5Km fundraiser in aid of the Natalie Higgins Foundation.
Our sports captain Dervla Higgins, our school sports captain presenting the €500 cheque to Marian Higgin who collected it on behalf of the Natalie Higgins Foundation. This money was raised in the schools recent annual 5km fundraiser.
Politics Pop’s at Pres Currylea
Second & Third year CSPE students enjoyed their Pop Politics workshop run by Johnny Fallon, who is a well-known political commentator and author. The workshop sessions both of which lasted over two hours each, used the concept of building a communities, trading and then the need to develop laws and a system of electing the […]
Leaving Certificate Biology Field Trip to the Burren
“In March two groups of Leaving Certificate Biology students headed off to the Burren Outdoor Education Centre to study Ecology – living things in their natural environment. Despite the cold, the girls approached the tasks on the rocky shore with enthusiasm, especially when it came to catching crabs and starfish. At the end of the […]
Pres Girls Party in Paris
“Two weeks ago, VERY EARLY in the morning, fifty-six senior student and six staff headed off to Paris for this year’s school tour. With much excitement, not to mention anxiety about the weight of the luggage (hand luggage of 10kg is very challenging for the fashion conscious teenage girl!) we checked in. All went smoothly […]
Victorious All Ireland Club champions, Corofin visit the Pres Currylea
Presentation College Tuam welcomed the victorious All Ireland Club champions, Corofin along with the Andy Merrigan cup to the school last Thursday. The students were addressed by Mr Michael Ryder Chairman of the club, while selector Trevor Burke and players Dylan Wall, Alan Burke and Kieran Fitzgerald posed for photographs with all the students. Michael, […]
The inaugural CEIST Student Leadership conference
An enjoyable, informative and inspiring day was had by our three nominated student leaders Chloe Crowe, Aoife Donnellan and Louise Walsh. The girls attend the inaugural CEIST Student Leadership conference that was held in St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra on Tuesday March 24th with their teacher Caroline Wilson and Principal Neasa Cosgrove. At the conference the girls […]
Céiliúradh seachtain na Gaeilge sa scoil le déanaí
Céiliúradh seachtain na Gaeilge sa scoil le déanaí. Bhí neart imeachtaí eagraithe do na daltaí agus tá súil againn gur bhain gach duine taitneamh agus tairbhe as na himeachtaí. Tosaíodh gach lá scoile le Paidreacha na Maidne trí Ghaeilge. Reachtáladh cómórtas Póstaeir do lucht an chéad bliana. Roghnaíodh na trí cinn is fearr agus tugadh duaiseanna […]
Crazy Hair, Sunshine & a Corofin race starter, all combine to make the 2015 Fun Run a great success
Our annual fun run took place on Wednesday March 11th. This year the funds raised went to the Natalie Higgins foundation. This was a very special to us as Natalie was a past pupil of the school. At the moment the foundation is building an orphanage in Ghana. The fun run raised €500 euro in […]
‘It Can’t Wait, Selma it is….’ Second Years go to see the Human Rights Film Selma
On the fifth of March, all of the Second Year classes went to see the film ‘Selma’ at the IMC cinema in Galway city. The films ‘Selma’ was about Martin Luther King and his fight for the equality of the black people of the United States of America in the 1960’s. This film was incredibly […]
Pres Girls become Irish Youth Ambassadors for the #UpForSchool petition campaign
The girls joined Professor Michael O’ Flaherty, Senator Healy Eames and representatives from NUIG School of Education and other Galway schools to help launch the Irish #UpForSchool petition campaign. The girls become part of the hundreds of youth activists who are working on this campaign globally. The #UpForSchool is a global petition campaign to put pressure […]