Dear Parent/Guardian.

One of our areas of targeted improvement this year will be in the area of Literacy and 'reading for enjoyment'. We are asking all students to bring in a book in their bag to be accessible during breaks and class periods where they have completed their work and teachers have given permission for them to read. Please help your child to select and pack a suitable book to boost their reading enjoyment. Your support of this initiative is much appreciated. 

We were delighted to welcome Aisling O'Toole who spoke to our Beekeeping and Career Exploration classes today. Aisling very generously donated her father Pat Enright's beekeeping books to our school library for use with Dr Higgins beekeeping classes. Pat was a dedicated beekeeper who sadly passed away a number of months ago. He was a member of An Garda Síochána and an enthusiastic photographer who recorded the passing out classes from The Garda College in Templemore, Co. Tipperary for many years. Aisling spoke about her career as an Occupational Therapist and how her love for baking resulted in winning the Aldi National Brown Bread Baking competition. She outlined the journey from kitchen to supplying Dunnes Stores along with other stores such as our very own Nolans and EuroSpar here in Kilcullen. It was really interesting for our students to hear about how people's careers can evolve into other areas throughout their lives. We were very fortunate that Dr Higgins gave some of the honey her own bees produced for students to enjoy along with Aisling's Brown Bread. A wonderful insight to the importance of artisan and small businesses. 

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Our 5th year classes 5A and 5B enjoyed Chat and Connect on Monday during RE time.

Students had a tea, coffee or hot chocolate along with some nice biscuits.

It was great to have an opportunity to chat with students and check in on how 5th year is going for them so far.

All of our 5th year classes will have a number of Chat and Connect sessions throughout the year.

Wishing all 5th year students the best as they begin their Senior Cycle journey. 

Ms Mills 

The TY Community Care class of 24/25 completed their first action. The class split into groups and each took an area of the school grounds. This was all with the aim of making our school community a cleaner and safer place. They returned with bags full of litter/rubbish. This is also an appeal to all students to please dispose of their rubbish properly during school break and lunch. 

We were delighted today to invite our 5th and 6th year Leaving Cert Applied parents to join us in school for some refreshments and an important information session on the programme.

Parents and students had an opportunity to view Art, Graphics, HCT and other Task work on display.

A number of teachers spoke about their subject areas and how students can ensure they achieve their best in their subject.

Two of our 6th year students Eleanor and Alan also spoke about success in LCA and provided very valuable tips for our 5th year students. 

Mr Leonard congratulated our students on settling in so well and wished them all the best in the year ahead. 

Wishing our LCA students a fantastic and successful year ahead. 

Ms Mills  

We bid Auf Wiedersehen today to Julia and Christian from https://bmmgesamtschule.de our Partner School in Germany. They came to CPC to meet teachers and students taking part in the Erasmus exchange programme to Germany later this year. Their visit included a professional development assignment giving them the opportunity to observe a variety of subjects and get a taste of life in CPC. They had lots of praise for the teaching and learning practices observed and they have a few takeaways to embed in their classrooms back home. We look forward to seeing them again very soon in Germany. 

Congratulations to our 22 Transition Year students who successfully completed their TY Prefect Training on Tuesday 16th September with the facilitator Mr Pat Murphy in the Kilcullen Parish Centre. Pat was very impressed with the initiative shown by our students and their willingness to be active in our school life. The students examined the leadership qualities necessary to be effective school student leaders and the importance of their roles as role models in our school community. Our TY Prefects are involved in six areas of school leadership in CPC. These include lunchtime games with first years, sports coordination, school representatives, school events organisation, link with AS classes (Buddy Club), helping senior school leadership when organising parent teacher meetings and school communication.

Congratulations 

4A: Sean Cahill, Lucy Curtis, Harry Davies, Julia Loboz, Bethany Swaine.

4B: Eyad Amr, Ruby Butler, Daniel Morgan, Nicola Pytel, Weronika Stepniak.

4C: Sarah Brennan, Amy Egan, Niamh Flynn, Robyn Foster, Cadhla O'Brien.

4D: Rose Hayes, Darragh Keenan, Zoe Moran, Gemma Snell-Fox, Lochlann Wafer.

4E: Kayden Casey, Faye McNally.

Many thanks to Pat for his excellent guidance and advice. We wish our newly appointed TY Prefects the best of luck in this important role. The school community of CPC look forward to seeing them bring their great energy and positivity to school life!

Good afternoon, this year for participating in sports in CPC we will be asking for a once off payment of €51.50 per student. This payment is to cover all expenses relating to extra curricular sport, including but not limited to: transportation costs, venue fees, referee costs, equipment costs etc. 

We ask that all students planning on or currently participating in sport in CPC pay this fee as soon as possible. If a student has not paid this fee, they will be unable to represent the school in extra curricular sport. 

We are looking forward to another exciting year for sport in the school. Thank you. 

A reminder that the CPC Parents Association clothes collection takes place this Saturday between 10am - 3pm.

Clothing, shoes, soft toys and belts can be included in the bags.

Bags can be dropped at the bike shelters in the school carpark.