Well done to the team of Mai Bennett, Sab Goldrick Kelly, Sophie Faughnan, Anna Milne O'Reilly and Siofra Corrigan who performed very well in their first MUN outing in Terenure College.  Congratulations to Sophie on receiving a Distinguished Delegate award.  We look forward to the next MUN to be held in Rathdown School iin mid November when the senior team will be joined by delegates from 2nd and 3rd year.

We are delighted announce that our past pupil and last year’s Head Girl, Kate Burke, has been awarded a Naughton Scholarship. 

The Naughton Scholarship programme was established in 2008 to promote the study of engineering, science and technology at third level in Ireland.  Each year 36 exceptional students are awarded Naughton Scholarships to study at undergraduate level at any publicly funded university or third level institution.  There is a least one winner from each county in the Republic of Ireland. 

The scholarship is intended as a reward and encouragement to exceptional students who would like to study in the STEM field (science, technology, engineering and maths) at University.  The school of each winning student also receives a prize for the school's science labs. 

Kate has been awarded €20,000 for her studies and the school granted an award of €1,000 towards its science facilities as an appreciation of our support and assistance.   The award ceremony was held in the Business School of Trinity College on Saturday, 16th October.  Kate is studying Computer Science and Business in Trinity College.

Congratulations to Kate and all who taught and guided her while in Holy Faith. 

https://www.thenaughtonfoundation.com

We have 2 teams competing in the UCD Junior Debates.

Team A : Cara Lynch and Zoe Kennedy

Team B: Amélie Silvestre and Evelyn Mendes Healy

There are 2 debates in the first round and then the best 32 teams and speakers from those debates (their points will be added from both debates) are put through to the next phase of the competition. Both times did very well in the first debate on Thursday and we wish them well in the next debate.  Thank you to Ms Conlon and Ms Daly who worked with both teams and accompanied them to the debate.

Last Thursday, 22nd September, TY students visited the Botanic Gardens and had a guided tour of the sculpture exhibition. The students were so engaged and enthusiastic despite the wet weather! 

Wishing five of our 6th year students well as they attend the Oblates pilgrimage to Lourdes this week. Best wishes to Kira Allman Catel, Sarah Bredican, Olivia Byrne, Aisling Courtney and Caoilinn McKeon.