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PRESENTATION COLLEGE

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Published on 7 July 2021

Last updated on 22 January 2024

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Presentation College Headford

Thursday, October 26th at 5pm

Please join us for our PCH Open Day on Thursday, October 26th at 5pm.

Parents and 6th class students are invited to join us on our tour of PCH where you will have an opportunity to see our school in action. Acting Principal, Ms Orla Jackson and Deputy Principals, Dave Dempsey & Seán Conlon will give you an insight into what makes PCH both a distinctive and high achieving school. We look forward to working with you!

Why choose Presentation College Headford?

We have a proud tradition of providing the highest in educational standards to those who come through our doors.

• Academic excellence

• High record of college entry and retention

• Dedicated innovative teachers

• High standards of behaviour and discipline

• Tradition of sport

• Individual talents nurtured

• Welcoming of all faiths

• Broad curriculum

• Care team and learning support team

• Seomra Seoda Autism Centre

• Inclusive, positive and open atmosphere

• Community engagement

• CEIST tradition which fosters holistic development

• Student enrichment programmes

Although individual schools around the world share a number of similarities in their structures and roles, they also have their own distinct personalities.

At the core is the following key characteristics:

• The Catholic school treats every individual human person as a child of God called to share in God’s own life forever.

• The Catholic school takes its inspiration from the ministry of Christ.

• The Catholic school participates in the mission of the Church within the surrounding culture in which it lives and breathes.

• The Catholic school is an inclusive community ideally built on love and formed by the interaction and collaboration of its various components: students, parents, teachers, non-teaching staff and members of the Board.

• The Catholic school is at the service of society in both a critical and supportive manner.

• Tradition of sporting excellence and success in many sporting disciplines - Gaelic football, Hurling, Rugby, Athletics, Soccer and Basketball

• Many extra curricular activities

• Broad curriculum of subjects (Core and Optional) for Junior Cert and Leaving Cert

• State of the art Science Labs, Computer and Practical rooms

• Digital Learning Environment

Our school has an excellent team of teaching and support staff. It also has a strong sense of duty and care for each other and for our students that is unique and which strives to ensure the best education and social outcomes for the students in our care. Our website gives you a flavour of the richness and diversity of our school.

Presentation College Headford aims:

• To maintain the highest standards of teaching and learning within the school environment;

• To provide a broad and balanced curriculum for all students; addressing their needs and enabling them to experience both personal and academic success;

• To encourage the students to value one another and to respect the views of other members of their community;

• To develop the students’ self-confidence, self-esteem and selfdiscipline;

• To prepare the students for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life;

• To respond in a sympathetic and understanding way to the concerns, fears and worries of all students;

• To provide opportunities for reflection and discussion enabling students to develop a framework for responsible decision-making.

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Plans for a major extension of Presentation College Headford have taken a step forward with inspections by department officials to take place in the new year.

Galway East TD Ciaran Cannon said that the Board of Management at Presentation College are anxious to secure funding from the Department of Education for a new extension.

The Board have submitted architectural plans to the department, Ciaran Cannon said, and the project is expected to advance quickly in the new year.

“Minister Joe McHugh has comfimed to me that school building officials from his Department will visit Presentation Colle ge in early January,” The Fine Gael TD said.

He added that this is “welcome milestone” for the work at Presentation College Headford, adding that once department officials see for themselves the serious challenges facing the secondary school with its current building, “they will quickly move the building project to the next phase”.

In the meantime Deputy Cannon said that he and local county councillor Andrew Reddington will continue to liaise with the department and board of management to “bring the project to fruition as quickly as possible”.

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Institution Breakdown

Our History

The story of Presentation College Headford began on Friday, August 26th 1942, in a disused army hut behind the presbytery. The founders of the new school were the Presentation Sisters, who had been involved in primary education in Headford since 1906. At first, the new secondary school catered for girls only.

In its opening year, there were seventeen students in first year and twenty in second year. By 1946, the demand for more space necessitated the use of the parochial hall and the convent dining room as classrooms.

The building of the new post-primary school at a cost of £12,000 in 1953 was a landmark. It consisted of six classrooms, a home economics room and a staff room – all still part of the present structure.

The courageous decision to become coeducational marked a new departure, and the arrival of eighteen intrepid boys in 1955 created a truly ‘mixed’ school. Sr. Vianney guided PCH through this transition and the rapid increase in student numbers during the ‘free education’ era in the sixties and seventies.  This expansion made it necessary to plan an extension, which was completed in 1978, to provide facilities for a wider curriculum. These facilities enabled the school to offer woodwork, metalwork, technical drawing, art, computers, music, typing and home economics, as well as the traditional academic subjects. Thus the school broke from the narrow academic tradition and became comprehensive, striving to cater for the needs of all.

In 1982, the then-principal, Sr. Nuala Courtney, backed by the local community and with a loan from the Presentation Sisters, oversaw the building of a modern sports centre, consisting of gymnasium, stage, ball alleys, dressing rooms and shower facilities. This new facility enabled pupils and local people to pursue a wide and exciting range of sports and to enter competitions at all levels.

Sr. Bríd Brennan became principal in 1986 and with Mr. John Boner, then vice-principal, guided the school through the next major phase of development in curriculum and facilities. In 1991 the second major extension to the school building was opened. This new wing included a music room, a canteen, two extra science laboratories, a language laboratory, technical Drawing / technology rooms, an extra woodwork workshop, new general classrooms, extended computer facilities and a careers library. And in the mid-1990s, a specialist area, consisting of rooms for engineering, technology, mechanics, electronics, carpentry and pottery, was added to the gym building.

Mr. Boner succeeded Sr. Bríd as principal in 1999, and in 2004 he oversaw the construction of a Resource Centre, designed specifically to meet children’s special learning needs. The unit includes a kitchen, two rooms for small group or one-to-one tuition, an office, computer room and classroom. In 2008, the construction of a major new extension commenced, overseen by Dr. James Whyte, who followed Mr. Boner as principal in 2004. The John Boner Building, which opened in September 2010, comprises a large study hall, two woodwork rooms, eight general classrooms, a meeting room and an office. Subsequently, two new science laboratories were developed in the space vacated by the old woodwork rooms, and in 2013 the Sr. Bríd Brennan library opened at the heart of the main building.

Since the 1960s, while continuing to provide an academic education of the highest standard, Presentation College Headford has been a pioneer in the introduction of various programmes and initiatives designed to meet the varied needs of less academically-oriented pupils and to retain in the education system those students who would be unlikely to persist with a more exclusively academic curriculum. These programmes, which today include the Leaving Certificate Vocational, the Leaving Certificate Applied Programme, and the Junior Certificate Schools Programme, have greatly contributed to strengthening retention rates, at both Junior and Senior Cycle.

Our school has always taken the initiative in supporting disadvantaged and vulnerable students. In the 1980s and early 1990s, prior to its formal inclusion in the Home-School-Community Liaison Scheme (which, in the autumn of 2009, fell victim to Government budget cuts), and through the good offices of the Presentation Sisters, the school provided a Home-School Liaison service. And we have long been committed to meeting the Special Educational Needs of the young people in the locality.

From the beginning, as a stand-alone school, Presentation College Headford has striven to meet the varied needs of all the pupils in its catchment area through the development of a comprehensive curriculum and of the necessary facilities and services to provide such a curriculum. This has been achieved through the great enterprise, imagination, hard work and perseverance of many in the school, and through the generosity and good will of the local community and the Presentation Sisters. The work continues today.

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