Students becomes Coaches!

LCA 1 completed a key assignment for a module on performance. After learning the key skills and techniques in Badminton during P.E. class with Mrs O’Regan and Mr Fitzpatrick, they developed a better knowledge of the game. They agreed to coach 1st class in the Primary school. After identifying three main skills, LCA1 created activities to develop those skills. They delivered them with a great level of organisation, fun and professionalism. They may have a future in coaching! Well done boys!

Thanks to Dublin Lions

We were delighted to have a good friend of the Holy Family School, the president of Dublin Lions Werner Schwenburg to visit us last week, especially on the day of the Challenge Cup Athlete competition because Dublin Lions sponsored our new colourful sport bibs. Our students and staff were thrilled with the new school sport bibs. Werner commented that “The bibs looked great and it was an overall very pleasant event with the right result for Holy Family. It was great to witness that. On behalf of the Dublin Lions Club let me say that we are honoured to be associated with the school and I look forward to working with you in the future.” We would like to thank Werner and the Dublin Lions for sponsoring the bibs. We have to say they look great!

CHALLENGE CUP WINNERS

Challenge Cup AthleticC

The last meeting of the Challenge Cup  was held in the school field.  Charlie Gibbons  did a fabulous job getting the course ready.   The weather was great so all the athletes, boys and girls really enjoyed themselves.   
Our history in the Athletics was not great and we knew that we would have to run very hard.   

The results show;

We were very unfortunate in the relay with two boys colliding,  happily there were no serious injuries.  This event would not have taken place without the help of Sean Herlihy starter,  Shirley  Wolverston  & Noleen Dunne  recording and all the boys and girls who acted as judges for the runners.  Well done everybody. by Head Coach: Brian Fitzpatrick

                 CHALLENGE CUP  2019

We started the year as defending champions.  Changes were made to the competition .  One waterpolo match was dropped and GAA football was introduced.  The indoor part of the competition was dropped. 
We knew that we would be under pressure because we had lost some good players from last year.  The first meet Futsal saw us take a lead of 50 points.  The 2^nd meet Basketball saw us lose that lead , where both St Declan’s and ourselves were 250 points each. The last meet before Xmas saw go back into the lead with an 84 points lead.  Xmas showed

After Xmas we resumed  (4^th meet) with Futsal where we saw our lead maintained as all teams had the same points.  The 5^th meet Waterpolo saw us take two wins firm  and increase  our lead to 184 points . Meet 6 Basketball saw us win our two matches and increase that lead to extend it to 234points. Meet 7 saw us lose our two GAA matches and reduce our lead  to 134 points.  Meet 8 the last meet Athletics saw us drop the lead by 41points to leave us as champions.

CHAMPIONS 2019 FOR THE 5th Time!

JOHNNY O TOOLE

RONAN McDONAGH

JAPHET OGU

JOHN JOE BYRNE

NYI NYI COOPER

HARRY CUNNINGHAM

Graduation 2019

Congratulations to the graduating students of 2019. Today we had a beautiful mass service celebrating the students achievements. All the students were presented with a memento plaque and a school hoodie with ‘Class of 2019’ on the back by Principal Eimear O’Rourke and VP Eugene Doyle. The students put on a wonderful surprise performance signing and rapping to ‘See you again’ by Wiz Khalifa & Charlie Puth!

Family, Teachers and Friends went to the playhall for refreshments and end of year speeches.

It was a happy and emotional celebration. We wish all of our school leavers the very best of luck on their endeavors and we hope that they will achieve their dreams.

Confirmation Class 2019

TY Trip to ATHY

Transition Year Students took a trip to the Athy Heritage Centre and Shackleton Museum. Here they explored and discovered the brave and tremendous journey by Ernest Shackleton and team on the Endurance to the Antartic. They got to see real life exhibits of this journey, including the ‘Sledge’ that carried them across the ice. Students also enjoyed doing the student activity where they had to find answers to questions about Shackleton.
We also got to see John Minihan room, a world renowned photographer. John Minihan is sometimes known as ‘the man who shot Beckett‘. It was very app giving that today is National Poetry Day to see his photo exhibition, which includes photos of Nobel laureates such as Samual Beckett and Seamus Heaney.
Our Transition year students also got to see the unveiling of a Made of Athy plaque in honour of a collaboration by Leonard Cohen and John McKenna and their contribution to music and arts. This plaque was unveiled by President Michael D Higgins. This project is the brain child of local Music connoisseur Colm Walsh. Students listened to the speeches which is a great educational learning experience for their Youth Leadership Programme (Toastmasters) class. We would like to thank Brian Dooley and the Athy Lions Club for funding an ISL interpreter giving us access the the speeches.
After this we visited an Art Mural by Dublin artist Solus who is famous for Street Art. He painted a mural of local boxer Eric Donovan. Solus’ paintings normally have boxing gloves in them. This represent putting up a fight to conquer life’s obstacles.
Transition Year Students also used the journey to and from Athy on the bus to share their favourite Poetry because the 2nd of May is National Poetry Day in Ireland. Everyone enjoyed today’s trip, it was educational, cultural and great fun.

Leaving Cert Art Trip

As part of Leaving Cert Art, 5th and 6th year students went on a school trip to Newgrange, Co.Meath  with their art teachers Lorraine Creed and John Canning. The sun was shining and everyone really enjoyed visiting this 5000 years old Passage Tomb. If you like to read more information about Newgrange please visit www.newgrange.com.

EGG-celent Maths Tangrams

Easter week, 1A students learnt all about the different types of Triangles – such as Equilateral, Isosceles, Scalene, Right Angle Triangles and CONGRUENT triangles. They learnt all this with a fun Easter Egg Tangram activity where they coloured in the egg tangram, cut out the shapes and recreated an eggcelent and colourful bird. #Creativemaths #learningisfun

DEAR Drop Everything and Read

Students and Staff of Holy Family School took part in the National Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) Challenge on Friday the 12th of April at 12 noon. Thank you to Catherine McFarlane who has organised reading materials for all involved. We were treated to newspapers, magazines, books and comics. As Dr. Seuss says “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”