Well done to the school's Junior Volleyball team who beat St. Mary's, Naas and St. Raphael's, Loughrea in their last pool games. The girls now progress to the All Ireland finals in the University of Limerick on the 8th of May. Congratulations girls

Following on from our success last year in establishing ‘Oliver’s Garden’ in the school, we were approached by Ryston Sports and Social Club to create a garden at the main entrance to Ryston. We are delighted to be involved in this community outreach project.

This month, our TY students and Green Prefects began this new gardening project in Ryston. They have worked hard at clearing the area, spreading topsoil and getting some beautiful spring flowers planted. This is an ongoing collaboration between Ryston and Holy Family Secondary School and the students will continue to grow the garden further over the coming weeks and months.

This is a big undertaking, and we are still looking for donations of plants, shrubs, trees, compost and gardening equipment. We would like to give a big thanks to all those who have so generously donated their time, expertise and help so far.

Members of our HFY group with Sr. Kate presenting Food and Toiletries to Mairéad Ryan for the Newbridge Parish Share Food Project.

3rd year students and their history teachers enjoyed a very interesting day out at Glasnevin Cemetery on Tuesday last. 110 students were treated to a guided tour of the national cemetery where they learned all about the famous and not so famous people that are buried there, over 1.6 million souls in all. Brilliant anecdotes and sad tales combined to captivate the HFSS audience.  A great day out enjoyed by everyone. 

Wednesday 12th March was this year's school captain's day in HFSS and our school captain Mia O Connor chose 'healthy body, healthy mind' as her theme. Mia created the most wonderful and energetic day for our school community. She taught the whole school how to 'cha cha' and 'Jive' in the gym, created fabulous memories in the classroom as class groups participated in 'Just Dance' competitions and created 'self-care guides' with personal targets for 2023. Everyone appeared to have thoroughly enjoyed the day and the icing on the cake was when DWTS (now winner) Carl Mullen and Emily Barker joined our whole school assembly for a Q&A session and performed one of their dances. On Behalf of the entire school, we would like to thank Mia for creating a truly memorable day in HFSS.

Congratulations to the 6th year music class, the choir, the trad group and members of the 3rd and 5th year music classes on a very enjoyable performance at this year’s spring concert. Everyone sang and played brilliantly and the evening was beautifully presented by Melodie Aremu and Aoibhinn Bridge. We were treated to a lovely mix of classical, baroque, romantic, jazz, pop and traditional music which reflected the diverse interests and talents of our students. Míle Buíochas to all the teachers who helped out.

La Semaine de la Langue française et de la Francophonie took place from the 18th to the 26th of March this year. This week is about celebrating French language and culture with events organised throughout France and all over the world. 

To mark this celebration in Holy Family this year we had some activities in French classes throughout the week, organised by our French assistant, Laura. 

Our first-year students took part in a French quiz. Bravo à l’équipe gagnante ! In second year, we set up un restaurant français and students ordered food in French. Our 3rd year students had some delicious crêpes fait-maison by Laura. In fifth year, we had a treasure hunt around the school and students in 6th year took part in a listening activity and some vocabulary games in class. 

A great day was had by 6th year students on a fresh and sunny spring day in Dublin.

To support students with their Leaving Cert English course Cyclone Repertoire put on a stirring performance/workshop of 'The Macbeth Session - People Before Profit' in the Helix Theatre. Lead performer Marcus Bale was gracious enough to take a photo with us in front of the DCU sign.

Student ambassadors of DCU also gave an in-depth tour of the campus as well as an insight into some courses on offer such as sports, biochemistry among others.

Thanks to all involved for making this such a worthwhile day.