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 […]
Well done to our Senior A football finalists 2014/15
Presentation College Tuam V Glenamaddy Community School played in Tuam Stadium on February 3rd. Final score Glenamaddy CS 1-11 Presentation College, Tuam 2-5 Pres Tuam started strongly with the opening score by Amy O’Donovan. The first half was a nip and tuck affair with Pres Tuam netting two great goals, both scored by Emily Donnelly. […]
Development Day for First Years students hosted by our Young Social Innovators
Our Young Social Innovators (YSI) from Fifth Year organised a Development Day for all of the First Year students to teach them the importance of development education. The Development Day ran consisted of a variety of workshops, activities and games which compared and contrasted the differences between the developed and developing countries. In order to make […]
Congratulations to the school swim team
Congratulations to the members of the school swim team, Michelle Gavin, Sarah Mitchell, Derva O’Reilly who took part in the Connacht Senior Schools Championships last Saturday 4th of January in Longford. All three girls swam very well.
Santa & Mrs Claus visit Currylea
Two very important people visited Currylea this week to ensure that preparations for the Christmas celebrations are all underway. Santa & Mrs Claus arrived at the school for the Transition year ‘Build a Bank’ Christmas Film Screening, and they weren’t disappointed. Now that the house exams are finished, and students start their rehearsals for the […]
Transition Years are busy preparing their Christmas pop up shop
The Transition Years are busy preparing for their Christmas pop up shop. The pop up shop will be opening beside Joyce’s supermarket in the Tuam Shopping Centre. The shop is opening from 10 am – 6 pm Friday the 12th until Sunday the 21st of December. For more details click into the on link for […]
Elma Walsh gives an inspiring talk to both students, teachers and parents
The school was delighted and honoured to host Elma Walsh the mother of the late Donal Walsh who gave an inspiring and motivational talk to both students, teachers and parents. Donal Walsh, the Kerry teenager who touched so many lives through his writings and anti-suicide message on the Brendan O’Connor’s ‘The Saturday Night Show’, when […]
Training session with Colm Cooper and Shane Walsh gets pulses racing in the Pres
As part of the Transition Year Bank build a bank challenge, this year’s bank team hosted all-Ireland winning footballer Colm “the Gooch” Cooper and Shane Walsh, Galway’s only 2014 All Star footballer to the school. The two footballers were giving a training session to all the students who had signed up and opened bank accounts […]
Dress rehearsals begin for Little Shop of Horrors
Dress rehearsals are now underway for this year’s musical Little Shop of Horrors, with some of the most exotic, bizarre and peculiar props and costumes seen for a musical in recent years, it promises to be an exciting show. The show starts at eight o’clock Wednesday the 19th of November and runs until Friday the 21st, […]
Transition Year students busy crafting & creating for the Christmas market
The TY block is a hive of activity these days, with all of the student’s busy working on craft projects, and getting ready to sell their produce at the Christmas Market in December. The girls are all working in teams, to create and produce goods for sale in the market, as part of the Transition […]