Congratulations to Olivia Lam (TY), winner of the PA logo competition and to the runners up, Lauren Grant (3rd Year), Alma O'Connell (3rd Year) and Keqiao Chen (1st Year). Well done to all students who entered. 

A big congratulations to Lisa An (3rd Year) who has become a member of the Dublin City Comhairle Na nÓg. Comhairle na nÓg are child and youth councils in the 31 local authorities of the country, which give children and young people the opportunity to be involved in the development of local services and policies. The members focus on a working topic for the year and this year's topic is education. 

In light of the fact that Comhairle na nÓg is for young people under the age of 18 and who therefore have no other voting mechanism to have their voice heard, Comhairle na nÓg is designed to enable young people to have a voice on the services, policies and issues that affect them in their local area.

Lisa became involved in Comhairle na nÓg through the Hill Street Youth Project. Both the Hill Street Resource Centre and Holy Faith are very proud of Lisa's achievement. Well done, Lisa! 

Congratulations to Ty students, Cecelia Choi, Orla Persse, Ciara O Brien and Rachel Sealy on their winning door design!!

Congratulations to 3rd year Hannah Healy on her recent achievements. U15 international schools player of the year and SSE WNL U17 player of the year.

Healy is just the second ever recipient of the Under 15s accolade. She joins the ranks with Jessie Stapleton of Palmerstown Community School who made history with the newly established category in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to our International programme in 2020 and 2021 but the programme returned this season to ensure a third consecutive title defence. 

The introduction of this category is a wonderful acknowledgement of the contribution that FAI Schools are making to the player pathway at underage level.

Hannah captained the Republic of Ireland Schools to capturing the SAFIB Bob Docherty Cup and John Read Trophy last season. She was named Player of the Tournament as she led the line perfectly, scoring against England in the opening fixture and headed home the match winner against Scotland in the Final.

This weekend there will be three delegations from Holy Faith with students from 3rd, 5th and 6th participating in the Rathdown Model United Nations with Mai Bennett of 6th year chairing the committee for Health and Youth.

Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations, and a roleplaying activity in which participants step into the shoes of UN delegates and discuss relevant global issues on behalf of their assigned country.

It is also considered a fun and social activity and helps students to 

·     better understand the challenge faced by global issues

·     learn about different countries and cultures

·     develop public-speaking and improve confidence

·     make new friends

·     experience parliamentary procedure and a business atmosphere

At a MUN conference, delegates from different schools represent a given country (eg, Ethophia). Different delegates from each country attend different commitees (eg, Human Rights), where topics of a certain category are discussed.

Congratulation to our two teams who were both placed at the UCD Junior Debates in UCD.  Cara Lynch & Zoe Kennedy opposed the motion, “This house believes that stem subjects should be prioritised over arts and humanities."
Evelyn Mendes-Healy and Amélie Sylvestre proposed the motion that, “This house believes that gender quotas have a place in modern society."  

Huge thanks to their family & classmates who came along to UCD to support both teams.

Our two Junior teams will be taking part in the UCD Junior debates this Thursday.

Cara Lynch and Zoe Kennedy are third opposition. Their topic is ,"This house believes that stem subjects should be prioritised over arts and humanities."

Evelyn Mendes-Healy and Amélie Sylvestre are first proposition and their topic is 'This house believes that gender quotas have a place in modern society."

It makes for an interesting evening.  Good luck to both teams and to Ms Daly who wil be accompanying the students.

Well done to our 1st year Art students who were busy decorating the school with silhouettes, Notans and Lino printed bunting. Happy Halloween!!