Our 1st Year Art Class have enjoyed a wonderful day painting oil landscapes with artist Ann Daly for our Creative Engagement Project with NAPD. The results from the day are fantastic and and we can see some great emerging painting talent from this class! Well done to all!
This week our TY French Exchange students will embark on their away trip to France. Bon Voyage to them and their teachers for what is sure to be a very successful and interesting trip! Tennis season continues with two away matches at Gonzaga College on Tuesday and Thursday (report to follow). On Wednesday, our Senior Hurling Team will play Castleknock. Best of luck to all sporting competitors this week. Best of luck also to our Junior Cycle students sitting their Music practicals on Thursday. Friday will be an action-packed sporting day with the All Star Basketball Tournament during the day and our Senior Sports Awards Dinner on Friday Evening.
Tennis season has started at St. Fintan’s High School and we would all like to wish our tennis teams the very best of luck competing in the Leinster School Boy’s Tennis competition. Congratulations to the Minor Tennis Team on their win against Catholic University School in Division 2. Congratulations to our Junior Tennis Team who are playing in Division 1 this year. The students have already secured a win against St. Michael’s College and St. Andrew’s College in some massive three setter matches, showing great resilience and determination. Best of luck to our Senior Tennis Team who have their first match today at Sutton LTC. They will play St. Columba’s College.
On Sat May 11th, we in St Fintan’s High School are taking part in Darkness Into Light to help raise vital funds for Pieta and people affected by suicide and self-harm. All welcome to join us at 4.15am out the front of the school for the most important sunrise of the year on 11th May. Organised by our Prefects, Student Council and our Senior Hurling Team, and led by teachers, Sandra Guinan and Peter Ryan. Pieta House wants to make sure Pieta’s services continue to be FREE to anyone who needs support. They want to make sure that there is always a qualified Pieta therapist there to support someone in crisis. Please support us by making a donation to our fundraising page or joining our group https://www.darknessintolight.ie/fundraisers/StFintansHighSchool Show your support by spreading the word about St Fintan’s High School’s fundraiser for Darkness into Light on your WhatsApp Groups / social media or making a donation to our fundraising efforts. Every little bit helps in the fight against suicide and self-harm. Please click on the link above or find the QR code attached for our fundraising effort.
It’s All Stars time of year again and trials have been taking place in the last few weeks ahead of the big game on the 3rd of May. We’re very much looking forward to the event again this year!
It’s been another busy week in St. Fintan’s. A group of our TY’s have just returned from a very enjoyable sunny trip to Madrid where they got to watch Real Madrid play in El Clasico and visited the Royal Palace, Retiro Park and Parc Warner. Another group of TYs visited the very interesting and historical Kilmainham Gaol on Monday. A busy week for Sports too with North Leinster Athletic Trials on Monday, TY Soccer playing Gaelcholáiste Reachrann and 1st Year Gaelic v. Terenure College on Thursday and 1st Year Hurlers play Ard Scoil Rís on Friday. Lots of Tennis action this week also with our Minor players vs. Blackrock on Tuesday, Junior Division vs. St. Michael’s College in Sutton Lawn on Wednesday and Senior Tennis vs. St. Columbas also in Sutton Lawn on Friday.
We’re well and truly back up and running after the Easter Holidays with lots happening all round the school! Well done to all the 6th Years who took their Irish and French Oral exams over Easter! Our Transition Years are out on Work Experience! We’ll be looking forward to all their stories on their return next week. Some of our 5th Year Business students visited the Central Bank today and a 5th Year Music group will visit the National Concert Hall tomorrow. In Sports this week, our Under 16 Gaelic Football team played Benildus today and our 1st Year Gaelic team will play Donabate on Wednesday whilst 1st Year Hurlers will play Colaiste Eoin on Friday. The big fixture of the week is on Wednesday with our Senior Hurling Team taking on Ardscoil Rís in the Senior A Dublin Hurling Semi-Final. Best of luck to all the team!
Wishing all Students, Staff and their families a very Happy & Restful Easter Break. Best of luck to all of our 6th Years who will be taking their oral exams over the next week!
Huge congratulations to our Transition Years on their fantastic production of ‘Beauty & The Beast’ which had it’s final run on Saturday night. Congratulations also to our TY Entrepreneurs and 2nd Year Entrepreneurs for their impressive results at the Fingal Final of the Student Enterprise Awards (report to follow). Lot’s happening this week as we lead in to Easter Holidays. In sport, our Senior Hurlers will play against Aidan’s Community College today and Transition Years and 5th Years will take part in a Hurling Blitz in DCU tomorrow! Also tomorrow, 2nd Years will take part in the All-Ireland Badminton Finals, best of luck to all competing! On Thursday, Aidan’s 3 will visit Dáil Eireann and 2nd Year Hurlers play Coláiste Eoin. All of our 5th Years will attend a campus tour of UCD on Friday and our 1st Year Gaelic Football team will play Donabate.
Well done to our 3rd Year students who entered the Pi Quiz which was held at Santa Sabina Dominican College on International Pi Day! The students competed in a quiz against many local secondary schools and answered some very complicated Maths questions. There were 32 entries in total. St. Fintan’s High School entered 4 teams and we came in 9th, 10th, 11th and 14th place in the competition. This is the first year we have entered this competition and we would like to thank Santa Sabina Dominican College for their hospitality on the day.
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