Safety Online Talk.

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Online talk
Thanks to Bank Of Ireland, who gave a talk on Monday the 14th of April for Transition Years on “Safety OnlIne”. The talk outlined the importance of monitoring students social media accounts and being aware and conscientious about what they themselves post online. The speaker reinforced the safety around fraud online, bogus sites and other people tracking the students personal accounts. It was a very thought provoking talk for the students as they are the generation who use their social media accounts for their communication. Thanks to Bank Of Ireland and Ms Molamphy for bringing in the speakers to the school.

Athletics News.

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Athletics cu
Well done to Aaron Cullen of 2F who competed in the All-Ireland Cross Country Championship last Saturday in Sligo. Although he was not at full fitness he crossed the line 22nd. The Athletics Club and School are very proud of this achievement.
Craig Giles 3G who also qualified for this event could not run due to injury, but we look forward to his Track season.
Training for Santry will begin after the Easter break. Wednesday 12.40-1.40pm will train for field events (throwing and jumping events) and Friday mornings will train for track events (sprints, long distance and relays). A schedule will be put up on the ‘B Compound’ noticeboard. New members are welcome but no training = no competition!!  Any questions see Ms. Malone

Fiachra on target.

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Fiachrea Archery

Leaving Cert student, Fiachra Verjans MacDermott recently added the Archery Ireland National Indoor Champion to his list of achievements in Archery. Fiachra was competing at the National Championships held in Carrickmacross, and he secured the Gold medal in the Junior Male Recurve Category.  This years success follows victory in the Cadet Male recurve division in previous years.  His titles include Outdoor Cadet Recurve Champion and Fiachra made archery history in 2014, when he won both the Cadet Male Recurve title and the Senior Male Recurve title in the same year, becoming the first archer to achieve this feat.

In addition to the 2016 individual title, Fiachra took home the Gold medal in the Male Recurve Team event, as part of a three man team, which included his coach Martin Cunningham and club mate Quintain Noonan.

Fiachra began his archery career at Portmarnock Community School and has represented Ireland at a number of international competitions, including the European Youth Cup and the European Junior Championships.

Leaders on Our Level.

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Leaders Conference
TY and fifth year students attended “Leaders on Our Level” at the Convention Centre, Dublin. The day had many inspiring speakers such as Mark Pollock, Fr. Peter McVerry, Enda McNulty, Bressie to mention but a few. There were almost 4,000 students in attendance who were inspired to think positively about leadership and the need to have a new generation of young men and women to create a new and just society for all Irish citizens.

Bond Traders.

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Bond Trader Challenge

On March 10th, students from Ms Cleary’s TY Business class (Brendan Fitzsimons, Megan Healy, Aoife Holton, Ravi Gollapalli, Lleno Anya) represented Portmarnock Community School as ‘Team 007’ at the Bank of Ireland Bond Trader Challenge. Over 200 students from schools across Dublin attended the event at the Aviva Stadium. Students received a tour of the Aviva Stadium followed by the main event: The Bond Trader Challenge. As part of the challenge, students were presented with the task of managing a portfolio of bonds and reacting to market scenarios. This gave students a real insight into the fast paced Stock & Bond Trading environment.

Parents Association online Petition to Replace K Compound.

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The PCS Parents Association would like to thank all those who have signed the online petition and for helping their campaign to replace the prefabs known as the K Compound.

There are now 104 signatures ….so let’s get this number up!  The Parent’s Association suggest that you share the link on Facebook/Twitter and spread the word to friends and family, the more signatures the better.

Full details can be read here. and the link is www.petitions.ie/KCompound or just visit the website www.petitions.ie.

PE Sports Science Expo

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Well done to the 2nd Year Sports Science Class participants who presented their projects at the PE Expo in Trinity Comprehensive, Ballymun today. It was a wonderful learning experience for the 25 students who competed against over 400 other students from  35 schools from all around the country. Although the students didn’t win any prizes, they gained some valuable presentation experiences and enjoyed seeing other presentations from other schools as well.

Some of the students also got to record some of their presentation using a mobile radio studio. Well done to all involved. Some of the posters from the groups will be on display in the assembly hall over the next week.PE Expo photo

PCS mapping goes to a new level.

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3D Mapping Group
Today Ciaran Staunton and Stephen Peppard conducted a workshop with students on Mapillary. Using their mobile phones and new apps students learned how to do 3D mapping. This will be next stage in our YSI project #MapLesotho. This will will convert our 2D maps of Lesotho into 3D maps. 3D Mapping outside.Next years volunteers who will travel to Lesotho will be tutored by the current TY students to use Mapillary. Next week TY students will map our school in 3D as a learning objective.