This week is National Math’s Week. Maths Week Ireland starts on the 11th October – 19th October 2025. Maths Week Ireland is an all-island initiative promoting positive attitudes towards maths and highlighting the importance of maths in our lives since 2006. This annual festival is a collaborative partnership of organisations including all the universities, institutes of technology, professional bodies, visitor centres and more. Maths Week has grown to attract participation from as many as 500,000 people annually across the island of Ireland. In 2025, Maths Week Ireland is celebrating its 20th edition! To celebrate Math’s Week, we have various quizzes and competitions planned across all year groups including a ‘Riddle of the Day’ to be solved each morning with spot prizes for winners!

Today, Wednesday the 8th of October is World Dyslexia Day and marks the start of our Dyslexia Awareness Week at St. Fintan’s High School. We started today with handing out red ribbons for Dyslexia Awareness to all students upon arriving at school and in key areas of the school we have installed Red Ribbon Displays giving information about dyslexia and profiling famous faces who have dyslexia. We have a range of events planned over the coming week including quizzes, red workshops and a Bake Sale next Wednesday to raise funds for the Aen Department and a talk by the artist Ciaran McCoy for senior students to discuss his experiences with having dyslexia. Our Bake Sale last year enabled us to buy new E-Readers for the AEN Department and we hope to be able to add to these resources in the coming year. Here’s to an interesting and eventful week celebrating diversity and inclusion across our school community! Grateful thanks to our Cake Sale Sponsors, SuperValu and Lidl for their generous donations of fresh cakes four our bake sale  

This week, we celebrate our founder, Blessed Edmund Rice whose feast day was on Monday, May 5th! We honour and give thanks for the life of Blessed Edmund Rice. His feast day is a time to celebrate his unselfish work for others. Edmund Rice had a great love for all of creation. We pray for our planet and for communities across the world as we unite to live in harmony with allof creation. Blessed Edmund faced personal pain during his own life and showed resilience and great faith in God. He lived through the challenging times of revolution, the Napoleonic war and famine. Today we pray for all those in Ukraine, Russia and across the world who are suffering because of war or violence. Guímid ar son na síochána san Úcráin, sa Rúis agus ar fud an domhain. Edmund welcomed people from manycountries into the port city of Waterford. He extended the hand of friendship and helped people find work so they could start a a new life. Today we offer sanctuary in our schools and across Ireland and welcome those displaced by war and seeking refuge. We celebrate his Life, Love, Spirituality and Charism. We give thanks for his vision and mission, the raising up of the poor and the oppressed to be pillars ofChrist’s presence in our world.