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!
Category : Post Primary
We are very proud to receive a CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION for being one of 64 schools in Ireland to deliver the ‘Physical Education’ for the Leaving Cert Senior Program. This is a historical achievement for our school and special thanks to teacher Ms Sarah Jane and Mr Roman Nesklada for their role in successfully implementing this program into Holy Family School for the Deaf.
Category : Post Primary
In Home Economics class this morning, second-year students enjoyed making Boiled eggs & toast for their breakfast with Ms.Higgins. Some like soft eggs, some like medium, and some like hard-boiled eggs. All eggs were boiled to perfection to students’ preferences yum yum!!
Category : Post Primary
Congratulations to TY student Kate for winning the ‘Toastmaster of the week’ award n YLP class. This student has taken all feedback and recommendations on board and shown improvement in her communication skills. Well Done.
Category : Post Primary
Congratulations to all our students and staff for participating in Maths Week Maths Challenges. We were delighted to see all of the responses and answers to the Maths Challenge. Well done to 2A class who won the JCSP ‘Marvellous Mathematician’ award for the most correct answers and for the best efforts.
Congratulations to Ms. Lorraine Creed for the overall winner of cross-curricular teaching and learning in their subject area with Maths. Ms. Creed has organised a fantastic Art project on Islam Geometric Patterns linking in with Maths. Fantastic creative project from beginning to end and we could see that students learned about shapes, lines, measurements, and patterns. Well done to all the students for their amazing geometric designs.
Also special congratulations to the Home Economic department and PE department for their contribution to cross curricular learning with Maths in their subject area.
Category : Post Primary
Well done to students and staff for dressing up for Halloween. Third years organised a collection to raise funds for ‘Cedor House Cross Care Homeless Shelter’. We are proud of our students for thinking of other unfortunate people and doing something about it. Enjoy the mid-term break and have a Happy Halloween.
Category : Primary
Our primary students were presented with a medal today awarding them for being so good, brave and trying their best to keep to social distancing with their classmates, friends, and teachers. Our student’s resilience and ability to adapt and respect the school covid rules at this time is worth commendation. They are our Covid Heros – they are helping to keep the school, their friends, their families and themselves safe – Well done to all.
Category : Post Primary
The sun was shining as we finally got to celebrate our student’s JCSP achievements. All students have completed this program in school, and by distance learning at home during school closure due to Covid. Their resilience and ability to adapt and learn at this time is worth commendation.
Every year we normally have a big celebration and we invite parents, house parents family, and friends. However, this year we had to keep the celebration small due to the current pandemic situation.
We were delighted to use our outdoor classroom for this presentation. The JCSP Graduation was a lovely celebration where we got to acknowledge and celebrate all of the amazing achievements the students have achieved for the Junior Cert School Programme. The long list of achievements includes; Performing with Holy Family Deaf Choir, a committee member of Green School, Newsletter initiatives, Woodwork initiative where our students created a beautiful, bespoke victorian wooden rocking horse, a Picnic Table for the schoolyard, a Film Making initiative, Fundraising for charities, organising events such as Maths day, Pi day etc.. Active members of the school sports team and the Challenge Cup.
Each student was given a student profile, a letter of reference with positive comments from all their teachers, certificates for their achievements, a sign language ornament with the ISL alphabet G to represent ‘graduation’ and ‘greatness’. We are very proud of them and we wish them every success in the future. Well done students and to all our hard-working teachers and to JCSP Co-ordinator Maggie Owens. Thank you Caitlin for taking all the photos and to JOhn for the JCSP Poster.
Category : Post Primary
Well done to our First Years & Second Years who have started the Multi Media and Drama (Visual Arts) JCSP Cross-curricular Statement with Shane O Reilly and Roy Maquire. We invited Shane O Reilly, a well-known actor, and CODA which means a child of a deaf adult. The students loved working with Shane today as he was able to communicate in ISL with them. They explored drama and expression by using gestures, facial expressions, and body language. They acted out famous scenes and did a lot of activities in improvisation, and contemporary drama. It was fantastic to see students really expressing themselves more and gaining more confidence. We were also delighted to have Roy Maguire involved in today’s drama workshop as he filmed and recorded the students’ experience in acting and interviewing. Well Done to all the students and to their teachers Mr. Sean Herlihy and Ms. Lorraine Creed. A Fantastic JCSP Initiative!
Category : Post Primary
Well done to our fifth years students who organised a coffee morning in aid of Irish Cancer Society. They baked and delivered freshly baked muffins (Individually wrapped) and coffee/tea to the teachers and SNAs classrooms for the morning Break. Students created a Google Form and emailed them to the teachers where they could select from a list of different flavours; Blueberry, Lemon Drizzle, Double Chocolate and Chocolate Chip Yum Yum!! Well Done to all the students in LCA & 5A and to teachers Ms. Shirley Higgins, Ms. Lauren Rowen, Ms.Nicola Roddy and SNA Ciara Hamilton.
This was a challenging task as they had to adhere to social distancing and to ensure all criteria was met to make sure that coffee/tea and muffin was delivered safety.
