An outstanding performance last night from our Transition Years for the opening night of ‘Oliver’. Amazing individual performances and fabulous chorus numbers all round! It was a truly joyful adaptation of this classic. Well done to all cast, crew and their teachers and here’s to two more great shows tonight and tomorrow night! More pics to follow soon….
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
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
A big Welcome Back to all students, staff and their families as we embark on a new year at St. Fintan’s High School! We’re up and running and settling into a new term of study. Welcome especially to our incoming 1st Years. We know it’s a big adjustment from Junior School to Secondary School but also an exciting one with lots of new subjects, teachers and extra-curricular activities. We look forward to all the learning and achievements our students will make this year in their studies, in sport and all the extra-curricular activities on offer. Here’s to a fantastic 2025/2026 school year!
“Well done to the Junior Tennis Team on their first group stage match of the season. The boys had a fabulous day at Wesley College.” Team Gavin Murphy, Liam Iaccarino, Tim Lavin, Gerry Loughney, Michael Patton, Jack Tierney and Charlie Bredican.
We have lots of events planned this week to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge in the run up to Lá Fhéile Pádraigh this coming weekend. See below the schedule for the week and our photo gallery coming up in the next few days. Bíodh seachtain iontach agaibh uilig!
Yesterday goes down in history as our first ever Semi-Final in the Bank of Ireland Leinster Schools Senior Cup. St. Fintan’s fans came out en masse to support their team and school. Sadly, we lost out to Terenure College who will proceed to the final. Our team’s achievement in reaching this stage of the competition is something to be extremely proud of and to celebrate. We salute you Senior Rugby Team 2025 for your heroic effort and great achievement. Well done all and well done to the magnificent supporters who kept the momentum going until the last minute and beyond. Congratulations Terenure College and here’s to many more memories on the rugby pitch in years to come… Final Score: Terenure 51-Fintans 7
St. Fintan’s have done it! In a nail-biting clash against Castleknock College today at Donnybrook. After a closely fought game, it was in the closing minutes when Castleknock were ahead 27-24 that Michael Bolger touched down and sealed the win for the school. A massive well done to all the team and their coach Mr. Kaveh. Thanks to all the fantastic supporters who travelled en masse today to support their school! Final Score St. Fintan’s High School 29 – 27 St. Vincent’s Castleknock College See full report here on Leinster Rugby and other press coverage on the following links https://www.leinsterrugby.ie/2025/02/13/st-fintans-reach-first-schools-senior-cup-semi-final-with-dramatic-win-over-castleknock https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/rugby/2025/02/13/michael-bolgers-late-try-secures-historic-first-semi-final-spot-for-st-fintans https://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/michael-bolger-rises-to-the-occasion-as-fintans-book-their-place-in-leinster-schools-senior-cup-semi-final/a511093224.html https://www.balls.ie/rugby/st-fintans-leinster-senior-cup-semi-623060
Come join us for an Easter Cookery Demonstration on Tuesday the 25th of March with Celebrity Chef Edward Hayden at 7pm in The Abbey Tavern in Howth. It should be a really enjoyable and social evening! Tickets available from the School Office or by using the WAY2Pay link below: https://www.way2pay.org/BuyTickets/aid/91687
We enjoyed a great day and had lots of fun celebrating Chinese New Year 2025 last Friday, the 7th of February. The whole school was colourfully decorated in red including red fan displays made by students in a special workshop the week before. Tutor time was dedicated to Chinese New Year and all students received a fortune cookie from our Culture & Diversity Team. We enjoyed intercom announcements celebrating the event and Lunchtime was action packed with Jianzi played all through the break on the Astro and music accompanying Chinese Fortune Telling and students queueing up for our ever popular Chopstick Challenge! A very Happy Chinese New Year to all!!
An outstanding performance last night from our Transition Years for the opening night of ‘Oliver’. Amazing individual performances and fabulous chorus numbers all round! It was a truly joyful adaptation of this classic. Well done to all cast, crew and their teachers and here’s to two more great shows tonight and tomorrow night! More pics to follow soon….
Excitement is building and last minute rehearsals for our Transition Year musical ‘Oliver’ which will kick off on Thursday through Saturday this week. Tickets are available now but selling out fast. Doors open on Thursday at 7pm. Curtains up at 7:30pm. Wishing all cast, crew and their teachers a fantastic show! Break a Leg All!
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!
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