A massive well done and thank you to the fantastic TY students that have come in to school this week and last week to help out at a number of events including the the 6th year Graduation breakfast and our end of year lunch. 

These students have went above and beyond to make each event the best it could be. They decorated our assembly hall, prepared, and served fabulous food. 

We are hugely thankful also to Georgia and Conor from Foodschool.ie for equipping our students with the skills and confidence needed to work within the hospitality industry. 

We are all so very proud of all of our students. They were professional from beginning to end in all that they did.

Thank you 

Ms Mills 

Well done to our TY Shona Ambassadors - Evey Brand and Clodagh Burdis who spent all of this week in school painting beautiful inspirational messages on the cubicle doors of the girls bathrooms.

The Shona Project is all about educating, empowering, and inspiring girls living in Ireland, so they grow into strong and confident young women. 

It was important to our TY Shona Ambassadors to make their bathroom spaces a positive and welcoming space for all the female students in our school.

Thank you

Ms Mills  

The following bursaries may be of interest to 6th Year students

1. The Leo Brennan Bursary
Leo Brennan, a former teacher of CPC, left a sum of money to be given to 6th Year students to support them in their studies.
This year will more than likely be the final year of the awarding of the bursary and will see one student receive a once off bursary of €2000 and three students receive a once off bursary of €1000.
Students do not need to be eligible for SUSI to make an application as the committee take a number of factors into consideration when awarding the bursary, for example, the number of children in the family already attending Further and Higher Education.
Application to the bursary is open to students who intend to study either a Post Leaving Cert course at Further Education or a Level 8/7/6 course at Higher Education next year.
Interested students are asked to email an expression of interest to bursary23@gmail.com (note it's 23 not 24) before Friday 14th June. An application form will then be forwarded and students will be given a number of weeks to complete the application form.

2. The Tess Lambe Bursary
Tess Lambe is a scientist and former student of CPC who works at Oxford University. She is one of the co-developers of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine against coronavirus.
This bursary will be open to female students in 6th Year who will accept a place on a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,Maths) course and it is a once off bursary of €500. We will remind students of this bursary again once CAO offers and acceptances have taken place and should students wish to make an application for the bursary please email an expression of interest to tesslambebursary23@gmail.com
(again please note it's 23 not 24).

We were delighted to welcome past Leaving Cert Applied students and LCA Students of the Year back to CPC last night to view the unveiling of our new LCA Awards Board. 

 This Awards Board displays the names of the past winners of the Leaving Cert Applied Student of the Year Award and will display the names of future recipients of this award also.

 We were delighted also to dedicate our new board to our dear colleague and friend Maria Barton who worked tirelessly as an SNA with our LCA students. 

 We are so very proud of our Leaving Cert Applied Programme and of all the students who have completed this programme in our school. 

 The previous recipients of the Leaving Cert Applied Student of the Year Award were:

2016 - Kerri Nolan

2017 -Martin Behan and Jade Glynn

2018 - Alison Healy

2019 - Sean Treacy

2020 - Dylan O Driscoll and Jack Bathe

2021 - Margaret Pearson

2022 James Ryan

2023 Tadhg Havelin

2024 Hannah Moloney

Congratualtions to all. 

Ms Mills 

Congratulations to 6th year student Enda Byrne who received the Excellence in Music Performance Award last night. 

Enda is a very talented musician and singer. He plays a number of instruments including the guitar and banjo. 

Enda has always shared his musical talents with the school community and has performed at numerous events over his six years in CPC. 

Enda has recently become the leader singer of the band the Rockabilly Rebels.

We wish Enda every success in what will no doubt be a very successful musical career. 

Our newly appointed Fifth Year Prefects for the school year 2024-2025 warmly welcomed some of our incoming First Years on Friday 24th May. 

Prefects completed a craft activity with the students and also gave them a full tour of the school building. 

The Prefects were also on hand to answer any questions that our new first students had. 

Our Fifth Year Prefects will continue to work with our new First Year students in September and help them to settle into a new school. 

Well done Prefects and First Years!

Time is running out to join and support us!

A reminder that everyone who has a ticket in our fundraiser lotto on Thursday 30th May 2024, has a chance to win our Jackpot and has a FREE chance to win one of three sensational Summer Giveaway Competition prizes (this nationwide competition is open to all people who have a ticket in a lotto run by our service provider ‘Our Fundraiser’). Prizes include:

·       2 x VIP Taylor Swift Concert Tickets

·       2 x Platinum Coldplay Concert Tickets

·       €1,000 Holiday Voucher

If you already have a ticket for our fundraiser lotto on 30th May 2024, you will be entered into this Summer Giveaway Competition. If you do not have a ticket, please visit our fundraiser website to join: https://www.ourfundraiser.ie/org/cpckilcullen

·       If you previously registered on our fundraiser website, then log in using the mobile number and password you used before and click on the ‘Play’ button.

·       If you have not previously registered on our fundraiser website, then click on the ‘Join’ button and follow the steps, it just takes a minute!

If you need any assistance, please email support@ourfundraiser.ie

To Win - at 7pm on Thursday 30th May 2024 a participant will be chosen at random by ‘Our Fundraiser’ for each prize. They must answer a phone call within 5 rings and answer the below quiz question correctly to win a prize. This competition is subject to the terms and conditions which can be found at https://www.ourfundraiser.ie/terms-and-conditions

Taylor Swift is playing her June 2024 concerts in Ireland’s capital city. Which city is it?    (a) Dublin  (b) Galway  (c) Waterford

Please spread the word with family and friends. Thank you so much, your support makes a big difference.

Congratulations to all our 3rd year award recipients and nominees! It was such a lovely occasion to celebrate our 3rd year students' achievements for this academic year 2023/2024. All our 3rd year students, school staff and management created a wonderful atmosphere in our Assembly Hall to congratulate their classmates and friends. A big thank you to Ms Fox and our 3rd year Music class who provided our beautiful music and to our surprise guest Mr O’Toole who led a rendition of Wonderwall. Nominated by their teachers, students were acknowledged for their great efforts in many areas of school life. These areas included achievements in academics, co-operation, sport, music, school attendance, school leadership, JC Student of the Year and the CPC Principal’s Prize (JC Contribution to school life). 

Well done to all this year’s recipients and nominees!