The Design Team (architects, engineers, mechanical, electrical, and quantity surveyors) met on-site at school, with representatives from the Board of Management and school leadership, for the first time, to discuss the new build. The team started the planning for stage 1 of our project. Today was Day One. It will take some years to achieve but it is a start and a very positive next step for our great school. 

Chorus auditions will be held this week for Junior and Senior students. The details have also been shared on all students' TEAMS accounts.

Come along and get involved.

Our school offices close for the summer break from Friday, 28th June at 12 noon until Wednesday, 7th August at 9am.

The focus for the year’s school improvement plan (SIP 2023/2024) examined one of the targets set in that School Plan under the target pillar of “Reimaging curriculum, teaching and learning”  through the lens of “Wellbeing Curriculum -To comprehensively review the wellbeing curriculum offered”. This follows a comprehensive Junior Cycle review of subjects offered, which was followed by a review of the Junior Cycle hour allocation offered to incoming first years 2025 across their subjects.The main method used is to embed this target across all wellbeing subject areas, with each department planning for their hour allocation and reviewing their current subject plans in light of changes incoming in 2025. This is supported by the Wellbeing and SSE committees. These committees are also tasked with the creation of a new curriculum for subject “Life Skills” in first year. Following consultation with staff, it was noted that to make this new subject most beneficial and make a tangible contribution to the students in the classroom, continuity and clear guidance on content would be essential. To ensure each subject department is conducting a review, updated subject plans will be submitted and reflect the changes proposed. 

We continue to evaluate our progress towards achieving school plan targets. Both students and parents were surveyed on our performance in this area. This metric is proving extremely useful at charting our progress from baseline and directing us towards actions to improve. This document outlines findings and actions from 2023/24 and targets arising for 2024/25.  

In aligning the ‘Looking At Our Schools 2016’ quality framework as a tool to support reflection, self-review and evaluation over the next 5 years for the school’s standards and statements of quality. We aim to keep our focus on four core questions: 

1. What is our shared vision at HFSS that shapes our school community?

2. Who are our learners?

3. What is our vision of success for learning for each pupil?

4. How can we best improve practices in our teaching and learning community?

Please see the full document attached.