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Stand Up & Be You Week!

A hugely successful week has ended celebrating Stand Up & Be You and the launch of our Allyship Club on Thursday! We have had an action-packed week with activities for all of our year groups including scratch art created by 1st Years, friendship bracelets made in 2nd Year SPHE, a giant outdoor chalk mural completed by 3rd Years and Transition Years and a movie screening of Bohemian Rhapsody for 5th and 6th Years! On Wednesday this week, the whole school came together in a kaleidoscope of colour to create a multicoloured heart drone pic out on the field! On Thursday, we launched our Allyship Club, a wonderful initiative spearheaded by 6th Year, Cúán Bannon O’Regan with a ribbon cutting ceremony and tea and cake! We carried out LGBTQ+ Awareness Presentations during Tutor time all week and we hope we have raised awarenesss amongst our whole school community about the importance of creating a welcoming school for all where we celebrate each other’s individuality and everybody’s right to be completely themselves!    

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6th Year Art Students go to Paris!

Our 6th Year Art group enjoyed a very successful Art & Culture trip to Paris last week during mid-term. We covered a huge amount of ground over the four day trip including a visit to the Louvre Museum, The Musee D’Orsay, Museé Picasso, Sacre Coeur and the Arc de Triomphe! We got to explore the fantastic and inspiring No. 59 Rivoli, a cooperative space in the centre of Paris where the students were able to see artist’s working in their own studio spaces. We also enjoyed a trip along the Seine on the Bateaux Mouches River Cruise and a Tuk Tuk tour through the main landmarks of central Paris. It was a very enjoyable and inspiring trip for all and a good chance to practice a bit of French for the orals!! Enjoy our gallery below of some snapshots of the trip!          

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Klimt Immersive Exhibition

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!  

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Halloween Art Gallery

Check out our gorgeous seasonal artwork produced by 1st Years in the final week of their Art module just in time for Halloween! Linking Science looking at the bones in the hand and Maths through the use of Zentangle patterns to decorate their pumpkins!              

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Stand Up Awareness Week

We are busy getting ready for Stand Up Awareness Week – November 6th-10th, 2023. We have lots of exciting events planned! Check out our Events Flyer here and on the school app detailing all our plans to celebrate this important week!

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Welcome to our New Look Website!

We are delighted to welcome you all to our new look St. Fintan’s High School Website. We are still working away on making our website a content-rich source for all of our school curricular and extra-curricular activities as well as a practical tool for information for everything happening in our school. Please bear with us in the coming months as we build content on pages under construction and populate all of the areas of the site with the relevant information.  

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Goodbye Class of 2022

We are delighted to congratulate our graduating Class of 2022. We kicked off our goodbyes with a Teacher vs. Student match on the Friday, followed by a guard of honour formed by the teachers as the students left the school. A great, celebratory graduation night was held on the 23rd of May! These students have shown enormous resilience through all of the challenges presented by the Covid Pandemic and we are very proud of them. We wish them best of luck in their upcoming Leaving Certificate Exams and for their futures and careers going forward.

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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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All Stars

There was great excitement last Friday for the St. Fintan’s All Star Basketball Event! It was a great afternoon of basketball prowess and much enjoyed by all of the spectators! Congratulations to Mr. Cabello and Jerome Westbrooks for a great event. Enjoy our gallery of pics from the day below:

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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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