Have a look at our new Moodle homepage (here). Sixth Year, David Derby's acclaimed video production is featured on our Moodle home-page.

First Years

Welcome to all our First Year students who started on Friday 27th August. We wish you every success in PCS in all its aspects: academic, sporting, musical, artistic, dramatic, social, cultural and in so may other ways!

Adult Education

The Adult Education classes for Autumn 2010 are here.

Leaving Certificate

Congratulations to all our Leaving Certificate students - you did very well and good-luck in the future! Mr. Core would be very grateful if those students with CAO offers would inform him of their final decisions via email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Guidance from Mr. Core regarding accepting CAO offers, viewing scripts, appealing grades, vacant places facility, Colleges of Further Education, repeating the Leaving Certificate and the UK Clearing system is available here.

The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan TD, visited Portmarnock Community School on Wednesday 18th. August to congratulate students, on their Leaving Certificate results. She met with students receiving their results and thanked teachers and parents for their committment to their children's education.

Tánaiste's Flickr photostream can be accessed here.

Thanks to all members of our school community who made the May Graduation ceremony such a success at a spiritual, visual, artistic, musical, social and culinary level. The theme was about Crossroads and New Horizons reflected in the artwork above.

Congratulations to the Prefects for 2010 / 2011: Ian Connolly, Niamh Fallon,  Andrew Farrelly, Sarah Fitzgerald, Aisling Glover, Laoise Hamill, Shauna Hanlon, Caoileann Mulcahy, Ornagh O’Shaughnessy, Laura Whelan,  Amy Shannon, Siobhan Corish, Jessica Hinksman,  Laura Byrne, Aoife McGovern, Sarah Murran, Olivia Murphy, Danielle James, Andrew Maher, Emeir Stanley, John Breen, Christine Gibson and James Fagan.

South Africa

Mouse-over the photos for further images from 2010.

The 2011 South Africa project is now well under way.

Thanks to everyone who make this project possible particularly those who contribute financially, in kind and of their time.

The project has its own dedicated website here.

Yearbook - a copy of the yearbook was given to every family in the school. It is also available online. Click here.

Allow time for it to download (96 pages)! Thanks to Ms. O' Dea and her team for all their hard work.

The most recent transition year update can be read by clicking here . 

There is a full archive of Transition Year Photographs there also.

The Transition Year Assessment Criteria for 2009 / 2010 are here (17 pages).

A Slideshare Presentation on Transition Year in our school can be viewed here. Slideshare is a third-party site.

Transition Year is a very busy part  of the Leaving Certificate Programme. Whilst optional, most students  take the year.

Mr. Dempsey, the Transition Year coordinator, works closely with the Year Head, Ms. Cahill and a team of teachers interested in developing the full potential of the Fourth Year students.