Category : Post Primary
Our second-year students enjoyed learning how to draw a plaited hair in Pencil Sketching class today with Johnny Corcoran as part of JCSP ‘Artist in the Classroom’ initiative. The results were brilliant! All the student’s hair looks realistic! Well done all.
Category : Boarding , Post Primary , Principal's News
Parent/Teacher meeting for Post Primary Parents 20th November 2020
As it is not possible ,due to Covid restrictions, to invite our parents/guardians to our scheduled Parent/Teacher meeting on 20th November, a progress report for each individual pupil will be forwarded in the coming weeks.
If you have any questions or concerns in relation to your son or daughter’s progress please email these to info@holyfamilydeafschool.ie
Teachers will then be able to answer these questions in their reports or by email.
Kind regards,
Eimear
Category : Boarding , Early Intervention , Post Primary , Primary , Principal's News
Dr Abigail Collins gives advice on what to do if your child has been in close contact with someone else who has COVID-19 in school or childcare.
Category : Primary
For Science week, Ms Fitzsimons class did the skittle experiment, tissue paper, food coloring experiment and colours paint mixing. The pupils enjoyed it very much!
They are scientists in the making!
Well done Ms Fitsimons class!
Category : Primary
Happy World Kindness Day to all the staff in Primary School from 5th/6th Class. What a lovely surprise coming into work to see this. It’s warming to know the students care for staff as much as staff care for the students during these difficult days.
Thank You 5th/6th Class from all the staff at Primary.
It is important to be kind to yourself as well! What random act of kindness are you going to do today?
Category : Post Primary
Transition years students are spreading inspiration to the whole school in the lavatory! Using their new Chromebooks they researched on the internet for inspirational quotes. They picked 3 favourite quotes and shared them with the rest of the class. After discussing the quotes, each student picked their favourite quote of the three, that they feel will inspire others. They then used Google Docs to design a poster for their selected quote.
They learnt how to draw a border by inserting a single cell (table) and editing it. They complemented their quote with an image and then framed their poster. These frames will be mounted onto the back of the toilet door so that when students go to the toilet they can read the quotes and be inspired by the affirmation. This cross-curricular initiative promotes Information Technology (IT), English and Literacy and Creativity. It also part of our Well-Read Award initiative, which is to improve the reading culture in Holy Family School.
Category : Post Primary
Some of our second years enjoyed the Pencil Sketching pencil course with talented Deaf artist Johnny Corcoran. Johnny Corcoran has a passion for pencil sketching and he has showed our students some of his amazing artwork on the human eye, on animals such as elephants, and famous portraits, for example Morgan Freeman. Our students were in awe of the talented artist artwork. Johnny explained to the students that sometimes a finished pencil sketching can take up to a total of 30 hours!
Today he showed our students how to use a pencil to draw light and shade and how light can cast a shadow behind an object. Johnny also showed the different shades from lightness to darkness using different pencils such as 2H, 3H, 4H, 2B, 3B, 4B and a very dark pencil 8B! Thank you to initiative coordinator John Canning for implementing this initiative.
Category : Post Primary
5A cooked up a storm as part of their Hotel, Catering, & Tourism course work with Ms. Higgins. They made a gorgeous menu of burgers, cheeseburgers, chips, chicken goujons, and fillet burger, crispy onion rings, & fluffy battered fish. The batter was crispy & so tasty! Well done to all the students. The food looks so delicious and the smell made us hungry for some!
