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Choosing the correct second level school for your daughter takes time, reflection and care, especially if you believe, as we do in Presentation, that a holistic education is essential for all aspects of your daughter’s life and well being. By promoting a positive and progressive ethos, we endeavour to cater for the needs of our pupils and to develop their talents. We are committed to providing a caring ethos in which understanding and mutual respect is fostered. Our teachers are renowned for their commitment to working with and achieving the highest standards of success with students of every ability range.

We develop pupils' confidence, self-esteem and self-discipline by having high expectations, a strong code of discipline and high standards; where our girls take up these challenges with great enthusiasm. We are a modern, innovative educational establishment where we challenge all our girls to achieve their maximum potential.

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Our school seeks to ensure that the students are enabled to reach their full potential - academic, spiritual, physical, social, cultural and creative - encouraging them to face life with optimism, self-confidence and an appreciation of excellence at all levels.  

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“The level of teaching and support I've received as a student at the Pres has been second to none. I know that now as I move on to college, I have experienced a friendly and education orientated atmosphere.”

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“I had some of my best moments in Ireland here at the Pres. My classmates welcomed me so openly to the class that I truly felt integrated and made some great friends. I enjoyed that there are so many different opportunities both, inside the school and during the social activities.“

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“The Pres is very multinational and the atmosphere is busy but still friendly and welcoming. Everyone has a smile on their faces when they see you. I made so many friends here. The Pres is a lifestyle!”

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New School Building

Have a look at our social media channels for regular updates on our state of the art new school building which started in October 2023.

Welcome to Presentation Secondary School

The school community of Presentation Secondary School would like to welcome you to our website. As you browse our website, we hope you will get a good sense of who we are as a school in the 21st century. Our website will allow you to delve into our history as a school run by the Presentation sisters, our appreciation of sport, the arts, language, music along with our stellar reputation of academic excellence as overseen by our committed and talented staff.

Presentation Secondary School is a Catholic post primary school offering quality education in a Christian environment to families who wish their daughters to be educated in the atmosphere of faith. As an all girls’ Catholic school, we offer a unique educational experience. Our school aims to create a safe, caring and respectful community whereby each student is supported and encouraged to develop, grow and excel. As a school community we are committed to ensuring each student is afforded the highest quality of teaching and learning.  Each girl is encouraged and stimulated to aim for excellence and thereby to achieve the best possible personal and academic results.

Students are encouraged to recognise, develop and use their talents and creativity whilst pursing their interests with confidence. Underpinning our success as a school community rests with the strong partnerships fostered between students, teachers, parents and guardians to support each student’s personal growth and academic journey.

Thank you for visiting our website. We hope you find it enjoyable and informative and invite you to contact us if you need any further information.

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Teaching Post Application 2024

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“Invest in Women, Accelerate” Progress Event

BT Young Scientist Business Bootcamp

Seachtain na Gaeilge 2024

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Barcelona 2024

Pres Panthers… Basketball round-up

Champions- U16 All-Ireland Basketball

Ceiliuradh CEIST Celebrations

Reflecting on Service and Faith: Catholic Schools Week 2024

1st year Maths Quiz

Triumph at the BT Young Scientist

Wellbeing Week 2023

Thought of the Day Radio Kerry

Victory for the U16 and U19 in Southwest Finals

SHOWTIME Success at Siamsa Tíre

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We are extremely fortunate to have an exceptional team of teaching and ancillary staff who work tireless to ensure that our students integrate into our school community and that they participate to their full potential in school life. We strive to help each of our students to learn and develop life skills, such as decision making, problem solving, communication, critical thinking, team work and independent learning. Students, parents and staff are all valued members of our school community. We work together nurturing our young people, promoting our school as a centre of learning and excellence, while establishing a safe place where each individual is encouraged to grow in knowledge and appreciation of their own gifts, talents and traditions.

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Our school community has undergone great change over the past few years. That experience has reminded us how difficult change can be and has given us a renewed appreciation for challenges and changes our students face at different stages of their lives, in particular throughout their teenage years. We seek to work with students, parents and the wider community to ensure that our students’ educational experience here at Presentation Milltown is as positive, challenging and enjoyable as possible. As a Catholic school all that we do takes place within an ethos reflective of the teachings of Christ. Our daily work is inspired by the founding intentions of Venerable Nano Nagle and Blessed Edmund Rice. Through the core values of our trustee body CEIST we seek to promote spiritual and human development, show respect for every person, be just and responsible, to create an inclusive community based on gospel values and to achieve quality in learning and teaching.

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French Language Scholarship

Feb 23, 2024

Congratulations to Third Year student Sinéad Kelly who has been awarded a three month French language scholarship with EIL Intercultural Learning. Sinéad will have the opportunity to live with a host family in a French speaking country while also attending school....

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Feb 21, 2024

Bhí bua iontach ag an bhfoireann díospóireachta ag an gCraobh Réigiúnach aréir i Luimneach. Beidh said ag dul ar aghaidh anois go dtí an leathcheannais ag deireadh na míosa. Noelle, Síne and Aoibh had a great win last night in Limerick and are now through to the All...

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Too many children face a chaotic lottery to get a secondary school place. Here’s how we can change it

A common application process would simplify post-primary school admissions, alleviating stress for parents, students and schools.

Something is wrong if we plan and build new developments, suburbs and towns, but children living in these areas cannot be guaranteed a local school place. Photograph: iStock

Although before my time, Donagh O’Malley’s bold and visionary move to introduce free secondary education in Ireland now stands as one of those moments, in the first century of the State, when our collective aspiration for a better future for our children trumped budgets and bureaucracy.

Where now stands our collective aspiration? I ask that as a member of the Oireachtas, whose inbox, clinics and social media have been inundated with stories of stress and struggle from parents. Parents who had hoped – no, expected – to get their children into their local secondary school have instead faced both a shortage of places and a disjointed, chaotic lottery of an application and enrolment system.

We know there can’t be a secondary school on every street or in every estate of every village. But something is wrong if we deliberately plan and build new developments, suburbs and towns, but children living in these areas cannot be guaranteed a local school place.

Adding to the uncertainty, our current schools’ admissions process is causing havoc for families in densely populated areas across the country, such as Blanchardstown, Castleknock and elsewhere, where several post-primary schools are oversubscribed.

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To live up to the resolve to cherish all children equally, firstly we need to invest in adding more second-level school places in areas of high demand and, secondly, much less discussed, we need to actively lead reform of the second-level application system.

It can come as an awful shock to parents who live across the road from the local school, where they might have gone themselves, to find out their child didn’t secure a place. Then there are parents who applied to three different schools in their catchment area and weren’t offered any places for months. There are families that moved house to an area that prioritises feeder schools over catchment areas in their admissions policy – now they can’t get a place in the same secondary school as the rest of their friends and they’re struggling to secure a place in the new area too. And what about the children currently waiting on special class places for September 2024?

All of these are examples of real scenarios I have encountered as a public representative in the last six months. They are all similar to cases I’ve been involved in over the last five years. But there is another way.

Tried and tested in clusters of north Dublin and Limerick, schools have come together to create a common application process for post-primary schools – a streamlined procedure designed by the schools themselves, with a common application form and singular deadline, allowing families to apply to multiple schools in their area, but also giving parents the opportunity to list their preferences.

A common application process can simplify post-primary school admissions, alleviating stress for parents, students and schools caused by prolonged uncertainty each year,

Each school retains its own admissions policy while integrating the common applications approach, making sure the students who want places in particular schools are prioritised. The schools manage it together through a central committee and the entire process is accelerated.

A common application process can simplify post-primary school admissions, alleviating stress for parents, students and schools caused by prolonged uncertainty each year, and provide much-needed clarity to the Department of Education on overall shortages of places.

It would reduce the level of intervention required by the Department of Education at the eleventh hour.

A committee structure gives primary and secondary schools the opportunity to collaborate on special classes and places that are needed for students with additional needs in the transition to secondary school.

And the whole system is more manageable for families whose first language isn’t English, negotiating different school admissions policies, catchment areas and parish boundaries.

Common applications won’t solve everything, in particular for students applying to extremely popular schools. There is of course no substitute for the Department of Education staying on top of demand for places in school areas. But according to principals and parents who have direct experience, they see it as a significant improvement.

The Department of Education acknowledges the benefits and legislative readiness that would support such an approach but traditionally the department has been hands-off in the management of admissions, as long as school policies are non-discriminatory, transparent and applied fairly. But I say there’s nothing fair or equitable about a process that begins in October every year and stretches to the following August, with some parents scrambling for secondary school places at their wit’s end while their child’s peers sit entrance exams and buy school uniforms.

The department agrees “good co-ordination between schools can help ensure enrolment is managed and worked through at the earliest possible stage of the annual process”. The sharing of information between schools is allowed for the admission of students. Existing legislation even permits the Minister to direct boards of schools to co-operate with each other in relation to admissions processes.

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But ultimately, it has decided that it’s up to schools locally to implement an integrated approach. Despite having all the facts, knowing the problems faced by families, schools, and the department itself, there is little eagerness to try something new.

It’s time for the Department of Education to stop passing the buck to schools and instead work with them to design an efficient and equitable enrolment process for all.

We need common sense solutions – like the common applications process – to address the annual chaos of post-primary school admissions.

It’s time, once again, to gather our collective aspirations for a better Ireland for our children, and break through the barriers of budget and bureaucracy.

Emer Currie is a Fine Gael senator for Dublin West

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