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!
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 : 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.
