Portumna Community School - current photos

Photos below are for the current academic year (2010/2011). Click here for photographs from 2009/2010

Congratulations to our four students who have qualified for the All Ireland Schools Athletics Championships

Cian and Taylor helping to decorate an old bike in preparation for the Rás on Sunday May 22nd

First Yr Connacht Champions - May 12th 2011

TY "One Good Idea" Project

The superb photo montage produced for the Leaving Cert Grad Mass, currently on display in the school.

Opening Ceremony of Leaving Cert Grad. Mass 2011

Rite of Passage at the Leaving Cert Grad. Mass 2011

Second year students who took part in an inter-class debate on
"The Pros and Cons of Providing Aid to the Third World"
Seated - Darina McDonagh, Eoghan Robinson, Daniel Geraghty, Ruth Fahy and Taylor McDrory.
Standing, Peter Claffey

Seanchai Eddie Lenehan with some of our students on Thursday 7th

Kevin Moloney with the Ryan Cup, won by our Senior Hurlers on Tuesday Mar. 29th,
by virtue of a 6 point win over Pres. Athenry

Ruth and Saoirse hard at work in their school garden during the last days of March

Members of the Killimor camogie team with the cups won this year - the girls, including current and past students,
were honoured at a whole school assembly on Fri. Mar 25th

Willie Quinn (left) a past pupil of our school and indeed a former teacher (he taught here for one year!) and brother of our caretaker Tom led the New Jersey St. Patrick's Day Parade as Grand Marshall - read the story here
Congratulations to the victorious Killimor Camogie Team - a few photos from the day...

Sincere best wishes to the Killimor Senior Camogie team who take on Inniscarra of Cork in Sunday's All Ireland Club Final in Croke Park. The vast majority of the team and panel are either current or past pupils of the school. Our photo shows the 7 students currently in the school who will be involved on Sunday.

Best of luck girls from all connected with Portumna Communty School

Bernie Connolly R.I.P.

It is with profound regret that we received the news of the untimely passing of our former colleague Bernie Connolly R.I.P who passed away on Friday Feb. 25th after a short illness. Bernie taught in Portumna from 1969 where he took up his first teaching post in the Vocational School and retired from Portumna Community School in 2004. Bernie will be sadly missed by all who knew him and we extend our deepest sympathies to his wife Una and his family. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h-anam dílis. Bernie’s funeral is provisionally arranged for Monday March 7th.

Musical Poster on Tour

As with the tradition of recent years we have again sent our poster on tour, so far this year it has been to visit an ancient
castle in Oxford, a Dutch windmill and got to sample some tasty Dutch cheese! This year it has also been to New York to see Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building

The next photo was taken outside a local cheese shop in Heeze which supplies local cheese. If you want to
buy fresh cheese in this shop or the supermarket it usually comes in these round disks.
Smaller producers make smaller “rounds” of cheese. You can see the cheese stacked up inside the window.

This photo was taken in front of the Heeze Molen (Molen is Dutch for windmill)
Each local town has its own Molen, but they vary in size and type. It is not for draining water, purely for milling wheat.

This picture of the Hot Mikado poster was taken outside Oxford castle, Oxford shire, United Kingdom.
It is over 1000 years old and has many tales of executions, great escapes, betrayal and even romance over centuries.
These events that took place also connect to the plot and storyline of our musical

Senior Hurling V Pres. Athenry Jan 29th 2011

Damien and Veronica Cúl Sports Portumna presenting a set of jerseys to the senior hurling team

Hot Mikado - Feb. 10th and 11th
Click here to book your tickets

Fifth year students Mary Cleary and Conor O' Meara with teacher, Miss Nagle, putting the final touches to their entry for this year's Young Scientist comptetion which runs from Wed Jan 12th until Sat. 15th at the RDS in Dublin

Past Pupil Mairead Felle achieves the President's Gold Award (Dec. 2010)- Read her story here

Helping to put up the Christmas Tree (Dec. 2010)

Cold weather takes hold - Photo taken on Nov. 29th 2010

Transtition Year students with Miss Jin Xi their teacher of Mandarin Chinese and school principal, Mr. Long (Nov. 2010)

Ty students collecting plastic bottles for their recylcing project (Nov. 2010)

Winners of the Volcanoe Competition (Oct. 2010)

The PLC class of 2009/2010 receiving their certifiactes from Mrs Kathleen and Mr. Long

Prof. McDonagh, UCD who gave a talk to senior maths students on the importance of mathematics in computing (Sep. 2010)