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Goodbye Class of 2024!

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.

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All Stars Photo Gallery

Our All Stars Basketball match was a great event enjoyed by the whole school community on Friday the 3rd of May! It was a close match between Team Rogers and Team Broderick but the winners were Team Broderick, well done all! Check out our photo gallery from the day below:  

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The Week Ahead …..

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!!  

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Focus on Wellbeing/Nature for Wellbeing

In the run up to exams we are focusing on Well-being; specifically ‘Connecting with Nature’ for Wellbeing. We are hoping to encourage students to learn, explore and experience the benefits of connecting with nature for their health and wellbeing. Nature connection has proven benefits for stress reduction, improved focus as well as social connectedness. Using the Indicators of Wellbeing (Get Active, Take Notice, Connect, Learn), the following activities will take place this week: Get active:·     There will be a ‘Wellbeing Run/Walk’ on Wednesday this week along the seafront: Open to all students & teachers. Meeting at school at 8am. There will be Yoga for Well-being taking place during the week. Take notice: Junior Classes will participate in a ‘’Nature for Wellbeing’ Photography Competition. Students are encouraged to send their favourite picture of nature to [email protected]. Connect: The cafeteria will be set up with games for students to use during assigned classes during the week Learn: Students will be accessing a number of videos, powerpoint presentations and resources during S.P.H.E., Wellbeing,Religion and Tutor Classes!

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Creative Engagement

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!  

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The Week Ahead ….

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.

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Tennis Season !

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.

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Darkness Into Light

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.

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Excitement Building for All Stars!!

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!

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This Week …

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.

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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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Senior Tennis Success

Well done to the Senior Tennis Team who won the Leinster School Boy’s Tennis Division 2 on May 25th at Fitzwilliam LTC. It was a very close match against a very strong St. Gerard’s School. Well done to all involved. A huge thanks to Leinster School Boy’s tennis for organising the event for all schools. A special thanks to Sutton Lawn Tennis Club who facilitated all of our matches at Minor, Junior and Senior level.

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6th Year Graduation 2022-2023

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

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

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

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!

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

  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

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

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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