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March 12, 2020
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Lions Club of Ireland visit to Holy Family School

Primary children presented Lions with Thank You Card

We were delighted to welcome our good friends, Lions Frank O Donoghue and Werner Schwerberg and other important Lions from other clubs such as;
Athy Lions Club,
Bray Lions Club,
Castleknock Lions Club,
Dublin Lions Club,
Dun Laoghuire Lions Club,
Howth Sutton Lions Club,
Carrick an Suir Lions Club.

All the Lions arrived at the Holy Family Primary School this morning on our school bus with our friendly bus driver Joey Watson. They were greeted by the children who were lined up in a guard of honor where the children presented Frank O Donoghue with a beautiful handmade Thank You Card. The children and conductor Shirley Higgins then impressed the Lions by performing three songs ‘A Million Dreams’, ‘You got a friend in me’ and ‘True Colours’.
The Lions were so impressed and they really enjoyed their performance.
The Lions then got to visit the classrooms and display of work where they got to see our new visualisers in action. These visualisers are a valuable resource to have in the classroom, they ensure that the teacher is facing the students at all times and that the student can see the teacher signing or lipread the teacher. We then went back up to the post primary school where all the lions were greeted by John Canning and Aideen Lynch.
Aideen and 4A class then showed the Lions how they used digital technology for their ‘Science & Me’ project which was the winning video in the ‘ReelLife Science Competition’. 4A used an ipad to create their video and they showed the screening of their winning video to the Lions.
Next the Lions visited Maggie Owens classroom where they got to see the new Chrome Books in action by playing a fun interactive kahoot quiz with class 2A students – the Lions V’s the Students! Our students came out top on the podium!!
We then visited the woodwork room where we got to see a special and beautiful wooden rocking horse which was created by our students and their woodwork teacher.
Finally we went to the reception area where we unveiled two photos of the Holy Family School sports bibs that the Lions have sponsored for our school. Overall, an exciting and special day. We loved that Frank and Werner and the Lions feels a part of our wonderful school.

March 12, 2020
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March 12, 2020
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Art Tour in the National Gallery of Ireland

Category : Post Primary

Art tour in the National Gallery of Ireland by our tour guide Saskia. We want to say special thanks to Abdul Bulbulia for our delicious lunch and for organising this wonderful tour. Our Leaving Cert students were very engaged and learned valuable information for their History of Art. Our JCSP students loved the tour and particularly loved the impressionist painting by Monet. We enjoyed art work by Picasso, Monet, Carrivagio, William Leech, Alberto Giacometti and Berthe Morisot to name a few. We also got to see some amazing stained glass artwork by Austin Clarke. These were so colourful and beautiful.
We also visited the DICEMAN exhibition in the Little Museum of Dublin. It was very interesting about a performance artist who was renowned for his creative and living advertisements. It was a great day with everyone feeling culturally inspired.

March 9, 2020
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Friendship week

Category : Post Primary , Primary

March 9, 2020
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Wool in School Visit 2/3/2020

Category : Primary

A super day was had by Brenda and Patricia’s classes at the talk about wool and all its uses. Lorna had fantastic visual aids to show and explain everything.

All the children had great fun feeling all the different textures and seeing what can be made from wool. A big thank you to Lorna McCormack from Buttercup and Maple classes!

March 7, 2020
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Lions Roar of Applause for Holy Family School Deaf Choir.

Category : Post Primary

Holy Family Deaf Choir and conductor Shauna Hamilton

The Lions roar of applause for the Holy Family Deaf Choir at their Convention in Ballina, Co Mayo.
The choir treated the convention to a magnificent performance of Ireland’s Call, This is Me, Fight Sing and Bruises. Holy Family School principal Eimear O Rourke commented on how proud she was of the choir and that they were great ambassadors of our school. Eimear also said thanks to choir conductor Shirley Higgins and to supportive staff Aideen Lynch, John Canning and Maggie Owens. Maggie answered some questions about her experience growing up in mainstream school and attending the school for the deaf in Cabra and how her experience has led her to become a teacher of the deaf, to become a deaf role model and to inspire young deaf students to become the best version of themselves, because they are the future. Our inquisitive students then asked the lions “Why are they called the Lions?” Which the District Governor replied that it was a great question and that it represents “Liberty, Intelligence, Our, National, Safety’. We would like to acknowledge Frank O Donoghue and Werner Schwanberg for their amazing support and friendship. The two gentlemen and the Ballina Lions Club have been very accommodating. We had such a warm welcome at Ballina train station which Sheamus (Ballina Lions) collected and escorted us to our hotel. Thank you for inviting us to your convention and giving us the honour to perform for your guest and especially the honour to listen to inspirational lady Mary Robinson First Lady President of Ireland.
It’s a weekend to remember forever.

March 6, 2020
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Meeting First Lady President of Ireland, Mary Robinson

Category : Post Primary

Holy Family Choir were honoured and privileged to be invited by the Lions to attend the Keynote Speech by the first lady president of Ireland Mary Robinson, at the Lions Convention. Mary Robinson is an inspirational world leader and role model. She is identified with championing equality, human rights and climate justice. Our student Marcus (4th Year) who is also on the Green school committee says that he felt motivated and inspired to make a change. Our good friends from Dublin Lions Werner Schwerberg and Frank O Donoghue have been very accommodating and welcoming on our visit to Ballina. We are looking forward to performing for all the Lions tomorrow morning.

March 6, 2020
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30 Years Teaching the Deaf

Category : Post Primary

Congratulations to John Canning who on the 5th of March celebrated 30 years of working with deaf students in Cabra. Happy Anniversary John, and thank you for all your hard work, dedication and for inspiring all our students to love Art.

March 5, 2020
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World Book Day

Category : Primary

Happy World Book Day to all our students, staff, family and friends.
To celebrate World Book Day special guests Zorro (Mr.Ward) and Mary Poppins (Ms.Owens) and sixth years students came to primary school to talk to all the children about the importance of reading.
The children told us all about their favourite books. They brought us into the magical world of Harry Potter, an adventure up to Space, on a trip to see the Wizard of Oz, we heard about the kiss that changed a frog into a handsome prince and we even heard about one book that had a small dragon inside the book! We loved hearing all of the children’s presentations about their book – well done to all the children. We all learned and recited
Dr. Suess famous quote “The more you read, the more you know, the more you learn, the more places you go”. Happy Reading Everybody!

March 5, 2020
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World Book Day

Category : Post Primary

Happy World Book Day to all our students, staff, family and friends. To celebrate World Book Day we had many literacy treats in store. This morning we started off the celebrations by bringing our sixth years and special guests Zorro (Mr.Ward) and Mary Poppins (Ms.Owens) to the primary school to talk to all the children about the importance of reading.
The children told us all about their favourite books and we all recited Dr. Suess famous quote “The more you read, the more you know, the more you learn, the more places you go” .
After break students and staff dressed up as their favourite character and we had a Literacy Hunt where students experience cross curricular learning by visiting different subject classes to pick up different clues.
In the afternoon we had the privilege and pleasure of welcoming John Burke the author of the beautifully illustrated books such as Irelandopedia which gives you an an encyclopedic tour around Ireland giving you an insight into the history, culture and the richness of modern and ancient Ireland. John also judged the best costume for the staff and the students.
We are looking forward to tomorrow to see who won the prize for the best costume! Thank you to John Burke for visiting our school and answering all our students’ questions and to Mr.Ward for organising another fantastic fun filled learning day for Literacy Week, and special thanks to ISL interpreter Margaret Wolfe. Finally thank you to all our staff and students for making great effort for World Book Day.

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