Volleyball
Well done to our 1st Years who took part in Volleyball Ireland’s 4v4 blitz yesterday in the Mardyke in Cork.
Admissions
Just a gentle reminder to parents and guardians that tomorrow 1st December is the closing deadline for receipt of application forms for admission for the 2024 – 2025 academic year
Concern Debate
Congratulations to our TY Debate team who proposed the motion ‘Africa must be allowed to develop their fossil fuel resources to help lift their people out of poverty’. They engaged in a riveting debate against St Columbas College. We await the result of the adjudication process in the coming days. #concerndebate
The Environment Candle
The Environment Candle has been visiting Pres. Listowel this week.
Today Third Year students participated in a short Prayer Service to highlight the importance of Climate Justice in our World.
This candle represents the joint effort to reach neutral carbon emissions by 2050.
Presentation Day
It was a great pleasure of ours to celebrate Presentation Day today with Sr. Consolata, Sr. Eilís, Sr. Teresa, Canon Declan and Tony Behan. Presentation Day is a pivotal moment in our school calendar as we celebrate the lifetime work of Nano Nagle and the Presentation Sisters that have enriched our lives and school. It was a privilege to welcome you all to our school today in what was truly a celebration of all that you have done to enhance our school community.
Helping Hands
Anti Bullying Week
Presentation Secondary School, Listowel introduces The Helping Hands Programme
This week Year Heads and teachers on the Student Support team in Presentation Secondary, Listowel engaged in professional development on the Helping Hands Anti Bullying Programme.
Our goal is:
To ensure the well-being of all our students and make Presentation Secondary School, Listowel an inclusive and psychologically safe place for everyone.
We greatly appreciate the work of Dr Maria Garvey and her team for developing the Helping Hands programme and sharing their professional expertise with us.
By using the Helping Hands Programme, we aim to:
- Develop classroom teams that are welcoming to all
- Build support networks around vulnerable students
- Create conditions that make it safe for students to tell
- Help empower students who are victimised
Helping Hands is an award winning programme.
- It has been developed through rigorous research and is based on international best practice and leading thinking.
- It provides cutting edge knowledge, skills and an easy to use diagnostic tool to help teachers access relationship dynamics hidden in the peer group
- Vulnerable students can be identified before problems escalate or complaints are made. This allows measures to assist them to be put in place
- The programme combines online professional development with access to the software instrument for school leaders and teachers
- This new approach means that vulnerable students can be identified before problems escalate or complaints are made, permitting appropriate supports to be put in place
- The focus is on empowerment of the victims and keeping them psychologically safe
- Recognising that resolving bullying is a process and not an event, teachers are equipped with knowledge and skills to identify targeted students and support them through the process of empowerment
For more information on the Helping Hands Programme visit https://cooperation.ie/helping-hands/