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Summer Holidays

Wishing all Students and Staff a Happy, Healthy and Restful Summer Break Well done to all for all the many achievements and successes this year in academic performance, sports, the arts and extracurricular activities. We look forward to an exciting and successful 2022-2023 academic year in September!

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Photography Competition

We have launched a school wide photography competition as part of our Wellbeing Programme for October/November. Our theme this year is ‘Get Active’. Great prizes for winners and all entries will be featured in an in-school exhibition and online! See details in poster for entry

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Arts Week and Neurodivergence Event!

It’s a busy week here in St. Fintan’s High School as we celebrate the Arts with events planned every day and our Neurodivergence Event which will include talks on Friday from ‘As I Am’ which will discuss Autism and the differences of the Autistic brain. Our Arts theme this year is Celebrating Individual Skills and Talents. We are asking all students to consider ‘What Makes Me Unique’ and to celebrate all of our individual talents and skills. Our programme this year includes a drumming workshop for 2nd and 5th Years. A cookery workshop for 2nd Years and a drawing event for 1st Years. The cafe will be a creative hub at lunchtimes this week with art activities and music. We will be showcasing a gallery of artwork throughout the corridors during the week. We have a fabulous Sensory Room set up all week for students too. Here’s to an enjoyable few days celebrating all the unique talent throughout our school!

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TY Term News

It’s been another busy and exciting term for our Transition Year students. Here are a few highlights! The TY Ski Trip to Tarvisio in February was a great success with many laughs, achievements and a few tumbles!! The TY soccer team progressed to the next round of the TY Cup beating Castleknock CC 7-1 in February. It was a brilliant performance with some excellent goals from Tom McEntagart, Conor Ennis, Senan Dixon, Jack Mc Dermott, Paddy Fogarty, Louis Martin and Mark Hogan. Our students did a film workshop with Burning House Productions in March. The students really immersed themselves in the process and learnt lots about the filming process. Congratulations to the TY cast and crew of Shrek the Musical. They blew the roof off during three stellar performances in March. We had two student enterprise groups competing in the Fingal Enterprise Awards. Strip Swiper (Mark Hogan) and Crop Cards (Edward Liu, Seth Gosker & Andrej Punic) worked tirelessly with the help of Ms. Browne. Huge congratulations to Mark Hogan and his business Strip Swiper who won the Innovation Award at the awards. Mark created a sustainable cleaner for plastic PVC strip curtains. Well done to our budding TY architects who completed the Architects in Schools Programme in March culminating with a presentation to our principal, Kathy Mullen. Their Beo Bay plans demonstrated their wonderful creativity, social conscience and design. Thanks to our architect Muhammad Achour.

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Sports Round Up

Were drawing close to the end of term and looking back at a few of the many sporting highlights this term! For the second year in a row, St. Fintan’s High School won the Fr. Godfrey Cup in March. A final play penalty from Ben Barnes secured a 24-23 win over an excellent Presentation Bray side. Congratulations to two St Fintan’s men on becoming captains of their respective Dublin hurling teams. Joe Sheppard will captain the Dublin Minor Hurlers while Sean Gallagher will captain the U20 hurlers. Brilliant to see such leadership emerge from the school.

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Merit Card Competition

Merit Card Competition Winners with their teachers and Principal, Ms. Mullen
Back Row (L/R): Ms. Barry, Ms. Brennan, Oisin Oliveira, Yi Lin, Thomas Judge, Ms. Mullen
Seated (L/R): Caleb Costello, Cameron Feeney and Ruairi O’Connell

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Springtime!

Spring is well and truly on the way! Wishing all students, staff and families a great and relaxing Mid-Term Break. Our 1st Years were feeling the love today creating Valentines Cards in class in time for February 14th! Check out their work below. Best of luck to all of our Transition Years as they hit the ski slopes today in Tarvisio.        

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