Presentation Convent

Presentation Convent High School

Type	Private school
Established	8 September 1895
Principal	Sr. Rehana Mehnga
Administrative staff	0
Location	Rawalpindi, Tufail Road, Lalkurti, Pakistan
Colors	royal blue, white

Presentation Convent High School Rawalpindi, is a missionary school located in Lalkurti area of Rawalpindi Cantonment, Pakistan.

In 1895 Mother Ignatius McDermott, Sr. Xavier Lonergan and Sr. Evangelist Coatsworth arrived in Rawalpindi from Madras. The first Mass was celebrated on 8 September 1895 and the school was opened on 1 October- with ‘three Sisters, three pupils’. The school was for children of Christian parents, the sons and daughters of army personnel, British and Irish. [1] Since then, thousands have attended Presentation Convent, belonging to all religious denominations.

Today in Pakistan there are branches of this school catering for the educational needs of a total of around thirteen thousand children in Urdu and English-medium schools. These schools, which are managed by Pakistani and Irish sisters, are under the administration of the original Rawalpindi school.

There are Presentation schools in Rawalpindi, Murree, Jhelum, Sargodha, (Khushab District), Wah, Peshawar, Risalpur, Mingora (Swat) and Sindh.

The Presentation Convent Schools of Pakistan had their origin and inspiration in the Ireland of the 18th Century where the first Presentation Convent was founded by Nano Nagle in 1775. Nagle attempted to redress the societal ills she perceived by opening schools to teach the children the rudiments of education, thereby becoming one of the pioneers of popular education in Ireland. To ensure the continuity of her work Nano founded the Congregation of Presentation Sisters.