Lions Peace Poster Competition 2023

We were thrilled to have a successful Lions Peace Poster competition despite the weather conditions today.
The judging took place as scheduled, and we were delighted to have Lions representatives Hilary Moylan and Werner Schwanberg in attendance. We also had the pleasure of welcoming representatives from Holy Family School: John Canning, Lorraine Creed, Ray Watson, and June.

The competition consisted of three categories.
Firstly, the International category, where the first-place winner will progress to the next stage.
Secondly, we had the Internal category for Post Primary seniors and juniors.
And finally, we had the Internal category for Primary seniors and juniors, along with a special commendation award.

We are grateful to all the participants and supporters who made the event a success, and we look forward to sharing the results and celebrating the talented artists who participated in the competition.

Thank you to everyone involved for their contribution and enthusiasm.

TY competes in F1 in Schools National Finals

Well done to both Fire Dragon and Speed Eagle teams in the F1 in Schools IRL National Final competition in Galway, where they planned, designed, created and analysed a miniature F1 Car. It was brilliant watching the two teams race against each other. The students done brilliantly in the F1 in Schools this year.

Both teams performed outstanding on the day selling their Teams brand. Team Speed Eagles car ran flawlessly all day and was one of the fastest cars on the day! Unfortunately team Fire Dragon suffered an axel breakage on its third race knocking it out of competition, but, it didn’t hold them back as they done brilliant presentations explaining the whole story of how they got to the National Finals.

We are so proud of both Fire Dragon and Speed Eagles, Both teams really impressed the judges at the verbal presentation and enterprise and engineering interview. They really showed their skills and knowledge on the day, making our School very proud!

Speed Eagle was placed 19th place out of the top 42 teams and Fire Dragon was placed 30th place out of the top 42 teams.


Special thanks to all the organisations that helped us with our project, Lions Club Ireland, Lions International, Irish Deaf Society, Chime, Deaf Sports Ireland and Holy Family School for the Deaf.

#STEM#STEMeducation#transitionyear@FireDragon_F1@IrishDeafSoc@ChimeFor@DeafSportsIre@lionsclubs

Frank O Donoghue sees students progress in F1 in Schools project

We were delighted to welcome Frank O Donoghue from Lions Club Ireland to our school. When the Lions International visited our school they organised a whip around for our TY F1 in Schools teams – FireDragon and SpeedEagle.
Frank called at the perfect time because the frame of our CAD F1 car arrived that day! Frank got to see our students progress in their project, and to see the 3D printer in action printing wheels and axles. Thank you Frank and to all in Lions International – This support will help us go to the National Finals in Galway in 2 weeks! #STEM

Visit to the National Gallery of Ireland and KPMG Children’s Book Awards

We were delighted to be invited to the KPMG Children’s book awards in Merrion Park today. Congratulations to all the nominees and to the winners! This was a wonderful event with amazing synopsis of each books by young people and we got to meet amazing Irish authors and illustrators. Thank you to all involved in the organising for making us feel welcome and for providing an ISL Interpreter for us making this event fully inclusive. We look forward to reading some of these wonderful books @KidsBooksIrel@KPMG#ReadingHeroes

Some of our students visited the National Gallery of Ireland today to see the new Cezanne painting ‘Life in the Fields’. We were delighted to have deaf tour guide Susan Whelan. Susan brought us on a fantastic tour of Picasso, Monet, Cezanne, Paul Coleman and, we even got to see deaf artist Avercamp. Thank you Susan for giving this tour and for inspiring our students. You never know? Maybe one day one of the students will become an Art tour guide! @NGIreland@susiewoosie77

Ultimate Frisbee Tournament

A big yellow ball was in the sky everyday for our week and half long Ultimate Frisbee Tourrnament. The flying disc travelled high and low skillfully amongst students while applying the. principles of defense and offence. A concert of effort went into getting the Frisbee swiftly into the scoring zone, it was often met by cheers but sometimes groans of disappointment as it slithered out of hopeful hands. There was hardly a moment to rest for our students, the tempo was so fast and lively.

5th years secured gold medal and TY secured silver medal.

A fun afternoon saw the ” all star student team” play against a staff team. Tensions were high as staff were determined to show their students how to win. The students team gave them a run for their money but lost by a mere 1 point.

As if the sun knew, the tournament was over and its sun beams no longer danced on the senior yard. Instead it reappeared in the form a 99 ice cream! A delicious treat for the whole school!

Well done everyone! I am so proud of you all!

HFSD achieves the GREEN FLAG!

Congratulations to the Green School committee and teachers on achieving the GREEN SCHOOL FLAG for our school! This is evidence of all the hard work in making us a more sustainable school. Special thanks to Lions Club Ireland for purchasing our flagpole to display our new flag!