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The Week Ahead …

A busy few days ahead in St. Fintan’s as our Leaving Certificate and Junior Cycle complete their Mock Examinations! We wish them all the best with the remainder of their exams this week. Saturday the 10th marks this Year’s Chinese New Year of the Dragon and we will celebrate this as a school community with lots of activities planned for Friday. Our Transition Years will be busy this week with a trip to the Air Corps on Thursday, continuing rehearsals for their Musical, ‘Beauty & The Beast’ and a soccer clash against Drogheda on Thursday! Other sporting action this week will see 1st and 2nd Year Basketball teams compete with Malahide on Thursday and our Under 14 Hurlers take on ArdScoil Rís on Friday. Best of luck to all competing this week!

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February 6, 2024 No Comments

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

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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May 25, 2023 No Comments

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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May 24, 2023 No Comments

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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March 31, 2023 No Comments

Springtime!

Spring is well and truly on the way! Wishing all students, staff and families a great and relaxing Mid-Term Break. Our 1st Years were feeling the love today creating Valentines Cards in class in time for February 14th! Check out their work below. Best of luck to all of our Transition Years as they hit the ski slopes today in Tarvisio.        

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February 10, 2023 No Comments

Transition Year News

October 16, 2024

It’s been an active few weeks for our Transition Years both in school and out and about! Students have been immersed in our Life Skills & Expedition Skills modules learning skills such as woodworking and DIY, maintenance and surviving outdoors. Students also took part in a cookery class at Howth Castle Cookery School creating Italian and French cuisine. Sailing and Surfing classes have continued and our students have participated in City Culture Trips visiting the National Gallery in Dublin. We were treated to a very informative workshop on Barbering as a career by past student and Barber, Gareth Moriarty with a few students getting a cool new cut! Our Barista courses are in full swing for students and Our TY Enterprise Programme is up and running. We look forward to seeing the innovative ideas and business ventures from students in the months to come. We had a very insightful and informative talk this morning on gambling awareness and addictive behaviours from Tony O’Reilly. The students were fascinated by Tony’s own experiences and his insight into recognising addictive behaviours and triggers!

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Dyslexia Awareness Month

October 16, 2024

We kickstarted Dyslexia Awareness Month on the 8th of October to mark World Dyslexia Awareness Day. The global campaign ‘Go Red for Dyslexia’ is being marked around the school this month with red themed displays. We had several red themed events on the 8th including the distribution of red pins for all students, competitions and a bake sale to raise funds for our AEN Department. Thanks to all involved in highlighting Dyslexia on the day and throughout this month – Our CDI Ambassadors, TY CDI Team and CDI Staff Committee.

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Annual Sponsored Walk

September 20, 2024

Our Annual Sponsored Walk will take place next Friday, 27th September 2024. it is a very important event for the school as it is our only means of raising much needed funds for PE equipment and extra-curricular sports in the school. Sport is a huge part of our identity here at St. Fintan’s. Last year, students participated in Athletics, Basketball, Hurling, Gaelic Football, Badminton, Tennis, Squash, Sailing, Rugby, Soccer, Golf, Table Tennis and Ultimate Frisbee, achieving great success at all levels. In order to help us further nurture sports in the school in this academic year, please contribute to our event on our GoFundMe page at: https://www.gofundme.com/f/2024-support-sports-in-st-fintans-high-school

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September Events

September 20, 2024

It’s been a busy start to the year already with lots of events and trips taking place in the last few weeks! Our 6th Year Business Class spent an interesting day learning about STEM skills in Microsoft Dreamspace on the 10th of September. The 6th Year Music class made a trip to the legendary Windmill Lane Studios on the 19th. Transition Years have been active too with a Drama Workshop in late August. They had a career talk from past pupil Nathan Ward, Stuntman on the 6th of September and have been enjoying the late September sunshine afloat with sailing and surfing courses! We finished off this week with some personal challenge games for 1st Years during lunch time in the yard organised by the Guidance and Wellbeing Department! Have a Great Weekend all!

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September Sports News

September 20, 2024

Sporting fixtures are well and truly up and running with lots of activity on the calendar in the last few weeks! Our Senior Footballers kicked things off with a Challenge Match in late August against St. Mary’s, Edenderry followed by a clash with Ard Scoil Rís on the 5th of September. In Rugby, our Junior Team played King’s Hospital on the 4th of September. Both Senior and Junior teams played against Temple Carrig in Greystones on the 11th of September. There was more rugby action on the 18th of September when our Seniors played Kilkenny College and our 1st Year Rugby Team were up against St. Paul’s College. Our Seniors will be in action again this Saturday morning against Rockwell College, Best of Luck lads! On the Gaelic Games front, our U16 Hurlers played St. Paul’s on the 10th of September and our 2nd Year Dublin Gaelic Football team clashed with Coláiste Eanna on the 19th. A busy start to the year for our Basketball teams so far with two U19 friendly matches, one against St. Andrews on the 10th and against Portmarnock on the 12th! In other Sports news, Senior Golf is up and running and our Transition Years have been out on the sea, sailing, surfing and soaking up the last rays of Summer whilst learning some great new watersports skills! Keep an eye out for our Fixtures Results Board coming soon over the next few weeks!

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Open Night Invitation

September 12, 2024

Our annual Open Night will take place next Tuesday, the 17th of September from 7-9pm. All 6th class students and their Parents/Guardians are welcome!

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Welcome Back

August 27, 2024

Welcome back to all of our students, teachers and school community. We welcome especially our incoming 1st Years as they navigate their new school and their second level education. We’re looking forward to a great term and year ahead. Wishing all of our students a very successful and productive year!

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Summer Break!

May 29, 2024

It’s time for holidays as we reach the end of the school year! We wish all of our Leaving Certificate and Junior Cycle students the very best of luck in their exams and a happy, healthy Summer break to all staff, students and their families!

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TY Graduation

May 23, 2024

Huge congratulations to the TY Class of 2024 who graduated from the Transition Year Programme on Tuesday night. Their  hard work and active participation throughout the year paid off dividends and we are hugely proud of them all.

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Senior Tennis

May 23, 2024

Well done to the Senior Tennis Team who reached the semi-final of the Leinster School Boy’s tennis competition. They won all of their group stage matches defeating St, Columba’s College, Clongowes Wood College and Gonzaga College. It was a 3-2 loss for St. Fintan’s High School against St. Gerard’s School. Well done to Eoin Quinn who secured a point for the team in the singles event and also to Ben Kennedy and Marcel Haas who also attained a point in the doubles event on the day. Many thanks to Sutton Lawn Tennis club and Rob Turpin for facilitating all of our matches at Minor, Junior and Senior level. Well done to all players in reaching the semi-final and we wish our 6th Year tennis players the very best of luck in their Leaving Certificate! Team: Eoin Quinn, James Dunne, Andrew Fennell, Marcel Haas, Hugh Dummer, Ben Kennedy, Christian Proctor, Josh O’Sullivan and Max Stanley. e

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Junior Division 1 Tennis

May 21, 2024

Well done to the Junior Tennis Team who reached the final of the Leinster School Boy’s Tennis Tournament! They played Gonzaga College in the final at Templeogue Tennis Club. It was a 3-2 loss for the team, however the students played highly competitive tennis and had a great day out in the sunshine. The team did very well in their group stage matches, defeating schools such as St. Andrew’s College, St. Michael’s College and Blackrock College. They also met with Belvedere College and Gonzaga College and had very challenging matches against those schools.  Ciarán McKenna and Matthew Hickey secured points for the team in the singles event on Finals day and everyone else played really well showing great resilience and determination. We wish our 3rd Year tennis players the very best of luck in their Junior Cycle Exams and we hope to see them out playing tennis during the summer! Team: Ciarán McKenna, Matthew Hickey, Gavin Murphy, Liam Iaccarino, Gerry Loughney, Advik Ajay, Charlie Bredican and Michael Patton.

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Goodbye Class of 2024!

May 21, 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

May 14, 2024

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 …..

May 13, 2024

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

May 13, 2024

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

May 10, 2024

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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