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The Week Ahead …

It’s another busy week ahead at St. Fintan’s! Our Leaving Certificate and Junior Cycle students started their Mock Examinations this morning and we wish them all the best of luck over the next two weeks! Our French exchange students are here and hoping for some Irish sunshine after today’s rain. There are lots of activities planned with students taking part in Irish sports on Tuesday, attending class tasters and a walk around Howth on Wednesday, an Irish Céili on Thursday and a Geography and History of Dublin tour on Friday in town. Our Transition Years enjoyed a very interesting Forensics workshop on Monday and will attend a Hospitality workshop on Thursday. Lots happening in sport this week too with away matches on Tuesday for our 2nd Year hurlers against Terenure College and our 1st Year Gaelic Football team will play Portmarnock. Thursday marks the first round game for our Senior Cup Rugby Team who will clash with Gonzaga College in Terenure. Best of luck to all!

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January 29, 2024 No Comments

Chinese New Year 2024

We’re getting ready to celebrate Chinese New Year 2024, Year of the Dragon with lots of exciting events planned for next week! More details to follow here and on our App in coming days…

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January 29, 2024 No Comments

Science Week

We celebrated Science Week last week asking our students to consider what it means to be human in today’s world, and how the decisions we make today will impact humans of the future! As part of our Science Week activities, Students took part in a number of fun, interactive experiments!

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November 21, 2023 No Comments

‘A History of St. Fintan’s High School’ Book Launch

The launch of ‘A History of St. Fintan’s High School’ written by teacher, Shane Gilleran will take place on Tuesday, the 28th of November in the Elphin Function Room in Baldoyle at 7:30pm. The book has been written by Shane to celebrate 80 Years of St. Fintan’s High School and encapsulates the history of our school and the contributions made to it’s 8o year history by former brothers, principals, deputy principals, teachers, students, boards of management, parents’ associations, past pupils and members of the surrounding community. Decade by decade, Shane brings us down memory lane, describing the ups and downs of school life amid the social changes of the time. He also shares memories of past pupils and teachers which add a colourful and often humorous dimension to the story of our school. We would be delighted to welcome you all to the book launch on the 28th of November to celebrate the occasion with us. Should you wish to attend, please email an expression of interest to [email protected]. This will allow us to gauge the numbers attending. Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the night for €15.00 and we would really appreciate your support in this regard. All funds received will be used to cover the cost of the publication and any future profits will be used to support extra-curricular and othe activities in the school. Should you be unable to attend on the 28th, we would be most grateful if you could please support Shane, and the school by purchasing a copy of the book at some stage after the launch. We will let you know how to go about buying it soon after the launch.

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November 16, 2023 No Comments

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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November 10, 2023 No Comments

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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November 6, 2023 No Comments

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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October 27, 2023 No Comments

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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October 24, 2023 No Comments

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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October 24, 2023 No Comments

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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October 16, 2023 No Comments

6th Year Graduation 2022-2023

May 25, 2023

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!

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TY Graduation

May 25, 2023

Congratulations to our fabulous Transition Year Group 2022-2023 who graduated on Tuesday night. They have had an action packed year and immersed themselves wholeheartedly into the whole TY programme. Their success and achievement across all areas of the curriculum has been outstanding. Well done all!

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Tennis Success

May 25, 2023

Well done to the Minor Tennis Team who beat St. Mary’s College on Monday the 23rd at Castleknock Tennis Club! This was the Leinster School Boy’s Tennis Final! Well done to all students involved. Best of luck to the Senior Tennis Team who play their final on Thursday!

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Alex’s Army – Raising Awareness and Support for Children Living with Cancer

May 24, 2023

Best of luck to our TY student, Alex McEleney who will appear on Ireland AM tomorrow, Thursday 25th of May at 9:30 am approximately. We are immensely proud of Alex here at St. Fintan’s High School and his initiative, Alex’s Army. Through this and other work, Alex uses his own experience to raise awareness and support for children living with cancer and their families. What an inspirational young man!  

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Happy Easter!

May 23, 2023

Wishing all Students, Staff and their families a great break after all the hard work this term! Happy Easter All!

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Buaiteoirì Comòrtas n bPostaeirì

May 23, 2023

  Well done to all the 1st Year students who took part in the Seachtain na Gaeilge poster competition. The competition was open to all 1st year students. The theme was “Là Fhèile Pàdraig”. After a very high standard, Ms. Barry had the final input on deciding the buaiteoirì.

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Senior Hurling Win

May 23, 2023

Huge congratulations to our Senior Hurling team who last week defeated Colaise Eoin to be crowned Dublin Senior A Hurling Champions 2022. This caps off a really successful hurling season for St. Fintan’s with our under 14 and under 16 teams also reaching their respective finals.

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Goodbye Class of 2022

May 23, 2023

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

May 23, 2023

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

May 23, 2023

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

May 12, 2023

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!

May 2, 2023

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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