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Category : All , Boarding , Early Intervention , Further Education , Learning At Home , Post Primary , Primary , Principal's News , School Events
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.
Category : Post Primary
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.
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.
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.
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.
Category : Post Primary
Today the students focused on descriptive skills to communicate about different aspects of various book covers to their peers. They took turns communicating and receiving the information. They drew on pages how they interpreted the information that was shared amongst them. This was an excellent challenge on improving our communication skills. The students and staff had great fun!
Category : Post Primary
The most important action we can take to protect ourselves from Covid-19 is regular hand-washing and good respiratory hygiene.
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