The school has designated the week of September 21st as The Seamus Heaney Reading Week. During this week, our usual morning prayer and reflection will be suspended and, instead, one class period each day will be assigned as a reading period. Each reading class will commence with a reflection given by various members of the English Department.

This Reading Week is in support of our policy on literacy.

By way of its title, the week celebrates the life and poetic works of the late Seamus Heaney and, indeed, reminds us of his visit to the school in the late 1980’s, when during a poetry reading in the G compound, former English teacher, MaryClare O’Malley, recalls that he ‘danced iambic pentameter across the compound’. 

All staff and students are asked to bring a novel of choice with them to school next week and to be prepared to drop everything and read! (Video from PBS, News-hour).

We are proud to have two past-pupils on the Dublin All-Ireland Football panel this weekend against Mayo in Croke Park. Best of luck to Shane Carthy and Kevin O’ Brien in the match on Sunday! Students (and teachers!) wore their county-jerseys on Friday! Mr. Maynes reminded us not to forget that Tyrone is in the Minor final.

Portmarnock Arch Club times on the TY section of the website.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Open Night. It was a very successful occasion with a very large number of attendees who were given an insight into school life in PCS by many teachers and students.