Congratulations to our new Head Boy Kenan Lackovic, new Deputy Head Boys, Michael Bolger and Darragh O’Sullivan and our team of newly appointed prefects. We wish them every success in helping lead the school forward over the coming year.
It’s been an action packed few days for our Graduating Class 0f 2024! First they won the Senior Dublin Hurling Final last Thursday! Congrats to All! On Friday, their last day of school, the students took on the teachers in the annual Students V. Teachers Football Match. After enjoying pizza in the sun on Friday afternoon, some very competitive playing ensued but the 6th Years were triumphant in the end! However, with all in good spirits, the teachers gave the students a celebratory guard of honour as they left the school gates for the last time as St. Fintan’s Students! Their sadness was lessened a little with an ice-cream truck parked outside for refreshments after the game! Last night, we had a fabulous Graduation Ceremony celebrating all of the many achievements of this 6th Year Group. We are sad to see them go and we will miss them. Best wishes lads in the Leaving Certificate and in all of your endeavours beyond St. Fintan’s High School.
It’s an extremely busy week ahead as we prepare for Summer Exams and to say goodbye to our 6th Year’s on Friday! We are holding a ‘Focus on Wellbeing/Focus on Nature’ event all week with various activities organised for students as they prepare for their end of year exams. Transition Years started the week with their interviews showcasing and discussing their achievements and successes this year! On Tuesday, it’s another active day for our TY group with a talk from a visiting Barrister and the Gaisce Bronze Award Trip which will take place in Glendalough. Also on Tuesday, Tennis Season continues with our Minor Team competing with Gonzaga College. Finally, our 6th Years will attend their 6th Year Mass to mark the end of this very important year. On Wednesday, TY’s will have a further talk with a representative from the Central Bank. Our students will be competing in the Athletics Leinster Finals in Santry and our 1st Year Hurling Team will play Terenure College. Also on Wednesday, our Senior Tennis Team will compete with St. Gerards. On Thursday, our Senior Hurlers meet Terenure in the Senior Hurling Final. Finally, on Friday there is much anticipation for the annual Student/Teacher Match and farewell celebrations for our 6th Year Graduating Class as they prepare for their Leaving Certificate Exams! We Will Miss You, Class of 2024!!
We enjoyed a wonderful morning with 6th Years today immersing ourselves in the magical Klimt Immersive Exhibition. A lovely chance to get to know the work of Gustav Klimt and experience his art interactively as well as take a relaxing break from study before the going gets tough!
Huge congratulations to our graduating 6th Year class, 2022-2023. These young men have overcome many challenges and shown great resilience and we are very proud of all of their achievements. They arrived looking very dashing and grown up last Monday evening for a wonderful Graduation Ceremony and evening. We wish you lots of luck in your upcoming Leaving Certificate and in your future careers and lives!
This week, we celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge! With lots of events planned over the week (see poster below) and the school awash with green decorations, it promises to be a really enjoyable build up to St. Patrick’s Day and a celebration of Irish culture across the school. Stay tuned for a gallery of images late on in the week!
Our 6th Year Art class enjoyed a fabulous trip to Paris over mid-term. The highlight was the Museé D’Orsay where our students got to see the paintings from class discussions in real life including the famous Olympia and Dejeuner sur l’Herbe by Manet along with works by Van Gogh, Renoir and Monet. The group enjoyed climbing the Arc de Triomphe, a guided tour of the Museé Picasso, artist’s working in residence at 59 Rivoli, the big climb to Sacre Coeur and a guided tour of the newly renovated Notre Dame not to mention getting in practice for their French orals. It was a very special and wonderful experience for all! Eiffel Tower Arc de Triomphe Notre Dame Plaza Atheneé for Hot Chocolate! Museé Picasso Louvre Museum Bouillon Julien Art Nouveau Restaurant Renoir
A selection of images showcasing our Chinese New Year of the Horse Celebrations last week. Great fun by all on Friday last with gams in the cafeteria, the Chopstick Challenge and Xiangi on the astro, Happy Chinese New Year all!!
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!
It’s been an action packed albeit very wet start to the year here in St. Fintan’s. Our Transition Years enjoyed a very successful Ski Trip in Austria aswell as cultural trips to the city, cookery school, driving school, and workshops in forensics, first aid, hygiene and skincare, bodhrán playing and an excellent SOAR Workshop on mental health. We welcomed our French friends over to the school for the first part of the French Exchange. Our students will be making the return trip to France in April. Transition Years are also in back to back rehearsals for this year’s school musical ‘Oliver’ which will take place over three nights from the 13th of March! Sports as ever has been action packed with Senior Soccer action in the North Dublin Quarter Finals, Junior, Senior and TY Frisbee Cup, Junior Basketball v Malahide. Our Senior Rugby team fought valiantly against St. Michael’s with lots of support from fans who made the trip to Donnybrook on the day. Unfortunately, it was not our day but we’ll rise to fight another battle!! Full Sports Report to follow after mid-term. Our 6th Years and 3rd Years sat their Mock Exams and after alot of hard work and effort are looking foward to a break over the next week! We’re building up to celebrating the Chinese New Year with lots of events planned for the week of the 23rd-27th of February! Wishing all staff, students and their families a well deserved mid-term break with hopefully some sunshine on the horizon! Forensics Workshop Ski Trip Ski Trip
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!
With our Christmas exams behind us, it’s beginning to feel very Christmassy here in St. Fintan’s. Our student’s Union held their annual Bake Sale last Wednesday and sold out completely raising money for local charities at Christmas. Our 1st Years had a Christmas Jumper Day on Wednesday also. Today, our Enterprise students held their Christmas Market all afternoon in the cafeteria showcasing their business and product ideas to staff, students and parents! We wish them every success with their businesses throughout the rest of the year! Elsewhere, around the school there’s a definite air of festivity as we countdown to the holidays!
Enjoy our gallery of a selection of beautiful Christmas themed drawings by 2nd and 3rd Year students during their recent drawing exam Tim Lavin Thomas O’Higgins Ryan Keating Danny Ronan-Byrne Conor Iaccarino Darius Ghimici Jordan Corbally Conor Wrixon
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!
A selection of pics showcasing Science Week last week including prizewinners from our various competitions across the event
We are celebrating and highlighting Science Week all of this week with a range of events across the school including a daily ‘Science Question of the Day’, a TY talk on Tuesday on Inspiring Careers with speaker Shanice Griffen, a poster competition and a Battle of the Sciences on Friday! Check out the official Science Week Website for more information on what’s happening nationwide this week! https://www.scienceweek.ie/
Wishing all students, staff and their families a spookily fabulous mid term break and a great Halloween celebration. Here’s to recharging all of our batteries after a busy first half term so far before we settle into study and preparation for Christmas exams.
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
We’ve had a busy start to the year already kicking off with our Open Night which took place on the 16th and showcased to prospective students and their parents the many academic, sporting and extra-curricular activities on offer in St. Fintan’s High School. The night itself was a colourful display of student’s achievements across the curriculum, sporting displays, science experiments, craft workshops and a speech and welcome from Principal, Ms. Kathy Mullen. Transition Years have had some wonderful sunny September days to experience sailing and getting to grips with their tacking and jibing while just enjoying being out on the water and experiencing the thrill of sailing! The TYs have also attended a Careers Expo to inspire and inform themselves on the variety of career options out there! Meanwhile, back at base, auditions for the annual TY Musical are complete and it’s full steam ahead now with rehearsing, dancing and designing a stage for the big nights next March. Good luck to all. Sports activities have well and truly kicked off with the Senior Basketball team playing against Portmarnock Community School , St. Paul’s, Malahide and St. Finians, two Senior Hurling matches played and a cross country running event which took place in Donabate. Here’s to a great active and productive October when we will celebrate Dyslexia Awareness Week starting on the 8th of the month with events planned throughout the school!
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