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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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:
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!!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
We’re well and truly back up and running after the Easter Holidays with lots happening all round the school! Well done to all the 6th Years who took their Irish and French Oral exams over Easter! Our Transition Years are out on Work Experience! We’ll be looking forward to all their stories on their return next week. Some of our 5th Year Business students visited the Central Bank today and a 5th Year Music group will visit the National Concert Hall tomorrow. In Sports this week, our Under 16 Gaelic Football team played Benildus today and our 1st Year Gaelic team will play Donabate on Wednesday whilst 1st Year Hurlers will play Colaiste Eoin on Friday. The big fixture of the week is on Wednesday with our Senior Hurling Team taking on Ardscoil Rís in the Senior A Dublin Hurling Semi-Final. Best of luck to all the team!
Wishing all Students, Staff and their families a very Happy & Restful Easter Break. Best of luck to all of our 6th Years who will be taking their oral exams over the next week!
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