We’re having a fantastic week celebrating Chinese New Year of the Horse! The school is awash with colour and decoration and in a nod to Japan and Cherry Blossom Season, we have installed a Cherry Blossom installation made up of cutout flowers made by 1st Year and TY Religion and SPHE students. Our installation is a clear reminder that Spring is on the way at last. We began the week with handing out Fortune Cookies to students during big break on Monday and announcing the start of our celebrations. On Thursday, we ran Chinese boardgames in the cafeteria at lunchtime where students enjoyed playing chequers, card games, Mah Jong and a special Year of the Horse picture puzzle created by Ms. Gallagher. Today, we will celebrate with games and entertainment, Jianzi, music and fortune telling at lunchtime. Wishing everyone a very Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse! More photos to follow of today’s celebrations to follow on Monday! Check out our interactive padlet for Chinese New Year using the link below: https://padlet.com/connie_davenport/chinese-new-year-2026-1yt1b3jrfboyv2ke https://padlet.com/connie_davenport/chinese-new-year-2026-1yt1b3jrfboyv2ke/slideshow

We will be celebrating Chinese New Year after Mid-Term with lots of fun activities planned throughout the week! Lots of pics of all events to follow and an interactive padlet with lots of interactive games and information about the event will be published on our website from the 23rd February!

What a fabulous end to the term with our Concert for Gaza this afternoon! Rip Roaring performances from all the acts combined of students and teachers to raise funds for Gaza. Teachers and students clapped and danced in the aisles along to performances by ‘Abba’, ‘Fleetwood Mac’, ‘The Beatles’ and ‘Oasis’. What a joy and everything Christmas is all about! Well done to all involved – Head Boy, Kenan Lacovic and all of the prefects, Ms. Guinan and all of the Student Council, all the performing teachers and students and Ms. Fox for all of her hard work in rehearsing and staging. Happy Christmas to all staff, students and their families. Wishing everyone a relaxing and enjoyable break!

What a lovely and welcome sunny day to launch ‘Stand Up & Be You’ Week! Today marked the start of our annual week where we celebrate diversity across our school encouraging everyone to celebrate being themselves and celebrating our differences! We started our week this morning with handing our multicoloured badges and lanyards to Teachers, launching our Tie-Dye Your Trainer Vote and re-launching our Chairde sa Chúirt (a beautifully decorated room for students to relax in and be themselves. We celebrated our re-launch with hot chocolate, music and cupcakes in the yard at lunchtime. The Chairde sa Chúirt will be open all this week at lunchtimes for all students to enjoy ! We have a full schedule for the rest of the week including – a Rubix Race everyday in the cafeteria at lunchtime, Screenings of movies and documentaries for Senior Students, Vote casting for tie-dye your trainers hair event on Friday, Class activity ‘Wall of Pride’ and lollipops for all on Friday. Our anthem of the week is ‘Shake It Off’ inspired by Taylor Swift, no matter what, shake off the small stuff and Be Yourself!