Well done to the 2nd Year gaelic team on winning the Dublin Colleges B final yesterday. With players from
@plunketts_ie
@NaomhFionnbarra
&
@clgNaFianna
and coached by Mr Connell & Mr Smith the boys had a brilliant performance in a close match. Next stop the Leinster semi-final!
Congratulations to the First/Second Year Gaelic team on reaching the Leinster Final tomorrow against Gorey Community School! Best of luck from everyone here in St Declan’s! We know you’ll do us all proud.
Read about our 'wonderkid' Sixth Year student James McManus: ‘This kid at 17 is something special, he is really good’ - Declan Devine hails Bohemians wonderkid James McManus
Our entire school community is wishing our Third and Sixth Years the best of luck as they begin their state exams tomorrow. All of your hard work will pay off!
Congratulations to our U17 soccer team on reaching the North Dublin League final in a thrilling game against tough opponents (St Kevin's, Finglas). Best of luck in the upcoming final against Choláiste Choilm, Swords. 👏👏👏Look out for a full match report on our website ⚽️⚽️⚽️
Winners! Did you know our Junior hurlers were crowned Dublin Junior Hurling Champions recently?! Read all about the exciting match here 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Well done boys - we are very proud of you!
Good luck to our Junior hurlers in the Leinster Hurling Final today against Callan from Kilkenny! The match throws in at 12:00 in Fenagh, Co. Carlow. We’re all cheering for you boys 💪🏻👏🏻
Congratulations to TY student, Max Casey, who took part in the Compute TY course in DCU. Despite having no experience in coding Max came first in the BBC Micro:Bit competition. He is pictured here with Professor Martin Crane of the DCU School of Computing. Well done Max!👏👏👏
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Craig Duffy! We are very proud of you! Read about past-pupil Craig’s academic (and sporting) success in this recent article. We’re delighted to see our tireless Guidance Counsellor, Ms Tierney, getting a shout-out too!
Making club history - both Burke brothers, Kevin & Donal become the first Na Fianna brothers to represent the club together on
@DubGAAOfficial
Senior hurling team in a convincing victory over Carlow in Parnell Park today. Maith sibh!
#UpTheDubs
#NaFiannaAbu
First victory of the Season! Well done to the Junior Hurling Team, Mr Kennedy and Mr O'Connor who had a resounding victory against St Colmcilles this afternoon.
Well done to Anthony Daly who produced these two wonderful pieces of art as part of the TY Challenge Week before the mid-term break.
#remotelearning
#remoteteaching
The U-17 soccer team is Metropolitan North Champions! 🏆⚽️
After a heartbreaking loss on penalties in last year's final, the entire squad played their part in this year's success. 💪🏻
They enjoyed a comprehensive final victory against Chanel College.
Farewell to our class of 2020! You will be missed. Best wishes in all that is ahead of you. We look forward to hearing about all of your future successes! 🥇
First, second and third place for our students in the recent regional Pi Quiz! The boys have been training since January and it paid off. Thank you to Ms Ahern, Mr Monaghan and the Sixth Year students who helped with training and
@imtanational
for organising. 🥇🥈🥉
#Mathematics
Fantastic news for our art classes -out of the 190 schools that applied St Declan's is one of 12 schools chosen to take part in the National Gallery 'Your Gallery at School' Programme. Our art students will be treated to workshops, sensory sessions, talks and Q&As!
@NGIreland
🎨
We are still on a high after our Open Night last Thursday night. What an evening it was. Thank you to all of our teachers and SNAs and our amazing students who acted as tour guides and assistants. They did us all very proud! Thank you Ms Dempsey for all of your organisation.
Best wishes to all of our Junior Cycle, Leaving Certificate and Leaving Certificate Applied students as they begin their exams tomorrow! We wish you every success. 📝
A huge congratulations to
@StDeclansCabra
6th year student Sean Donoghue on winning gold in the 1500m Irish Life National Junior track and field championships over the weekend.
"I knew it'd be a tough race. My plan was to sit in, wait for the last lap and hold the inside line. I know I'm a strong finisher."💪
It's 1500m gold for Sean Donoghue who kicks to glory through the Santry rain.⛈️🥇⛈️
The old folks from the Henrietta Street Drop-In Centre dropped into St Declan’s on Monday afternoon for a Christmas Party organised by the T.Y. Elves and their assistant Ms Coyle!! Santa even made an appearance and there was lots of dancing and singing 🎵🎶🎄
Well done to all our new First Year students on a very successful start to their time in St Declan's. The sports day on Monday really helped the students to make connections with others in their new year group. A big thank you to Mr Nugent and Ms Lynch for organising it!
Great to meet students on the corridors today still on a high from their two day
@GaisceAward
hike at the end of last week. Well done to all Fourth, Fifth and Sixth year students who took part and to Mr O’Driscoll and Ms Coyle for all of their organisation!
Raising money for
@TempleStreetHos
yesterday. TY students dressed up for Trick or Treat for Temple Street! Looks like one of your students snuck into the school
@stdominicscabra
!
We were very lucky last week to have Paul Reynolds, crime correspondent with
@rtenews
come in to speak to our LCA2 class. Well done to Kai Mander who showed great initiative when he invited Paul in to speak to his Social Health class!!
The very best of luck to Brian Stack, Enda Smith and Young Player of the Year nominee, Conor Carroll at tonight’s
@PwC
All-Star Awards.
Live coverage on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player from 7.30pm.
#RosGAA
It’s impossible to capture in one tweet the amazing week we have just had in St Declan’s celebrating our cultural diversity. There are so many photos to choose from. Let’s start with the Indian feast the our students provided for students and staff on Friday morning!
Best wishes to all of our Junior Cycle, Leaving Certificate and Leaving Certificate Applied students as they begin their exams tomorrow! We wish you every success. You’ve done the hard work - now it’s time to show off what you’ve learned! You’ve got this! 📚📖📝
Thank you to the First Year Art class and their teacher, Ms McGinley, for the spooky art work at the First Year lockers. Just in time for the Fancy Dress non-uniform day today. 🎃🎃🎃
North Dublin 'Team Maths' Competition Champions! Read about our team's success here: Thank you to Ms Ahern and Mr Monaghan for working with the boys and
@imtanational
for organising! All that lunchtime training has paid off! ➕➖➗✖️🟰
Ms Keogh's TY Sign Language students learned how to sign Giants by Dermot Kennedy as part of their ISL module this year. A huge thank you to Shirley Higgins from
@HFSchoolDeaf1
for teaching us Irish Sign Language! Click this link to see the video:
Congratulations to Daniel Mare (Transition Year) who scored his first International goal recently while playing with the Irish U16 soccer team v Switzerland! 👏👏👏⚽️☘️ Read more about it here:
Congratulations to every one of our Leaving Certificate students of 2022! You have done yourselves and us very proud with your fantastic results. We think
@GaisceAward
has put it very well:
A Monday morning filled with hope as our Sixth Year students and their teachers return to class in the school building. We hope it's a good week for all members of our school community.
#StaySafe
Well done to Connor Maleady (5th Year) and Carl Reid (6th year) who delivered the December History Lunchtime Lecture yesterday. Covering CIA Torture Techniques and The Cuban Revolution, the lectures were extremely interesting. Students & staff in attendance were very impressed!
Here are our two senior maths teams competing in the IMTA Team Maths Competition 2022. Results will be announced tomorrow! A tense evening ahead for the boys and their teacher, Ms Ahern!
Sport is back in
@StDeclansCabra
with our U16s first game out of the year against Salesians Celbridge 🏐 Well done on a great performance scoring 4 - 07! Unfortunately didn’t go our way, onto the next one!
It wasn't just academic awards on Friday. The 2022 2nd Year gaelic football team were honoured during a medal presentation from Minister Donohoe
@Paschald
and individual trophies were presented to Oliver Hopkins (athletics) and Lee McEvoy (boxing).
The school year has come to a close for our students. It has been most a unusual and challenging year. Enjoy your holidays boys! Keep an eye on the school website next week as we will be celebrating some of the wonderful work you have done since you began remote learning.
Best of luck to Rory Duffy, Tom Collins and Cathal O'Flynn who are on on the Dublin panel.
Dublin face off against Kilkenny in the Leinster minor hurling final this weekend.
The game is on at 1:30 on Saturday and can be viewed on TG4!
Well done to our 2nd Year basketball team on qualifying for the East B Quarter Final. The team had a great win over Hansfield ETSS, with a final score of 33-42. Well done to all involved!
Robbie, Sean and Joshua represented
@StDeclansCabra
today at the Student Enterprise Awards with their mini company project “Jan Jars 🍪”. They did extremely well and done the school proud! Future bakers/entrepreneurs in the making.
Preparations are underway for the launch of the school project 'At the Crossroads', which takes place this evening. This history project will end in an exhibition to be hosted by the school in the Springtime.
We are delighted to invite parents of prospective students and their sons to our open evening on Thursday 15 September. This is the first opportunity we have had to open the school to the public since 2019! Please click on the link for more information:
Lots of fantastic stories being told today by our Second and Third Year students who travelled to Italy over the Easter Break on the school tour! 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Best of luck to
@plunketts_ie
minor hurling team in the
@DubGAAOfficial
Championship final this evening at 8:15 in Parnell park. A Special word of luck to all the current and past pupils of
@StDeclansCabra
on the team.
Four St Declan's 5th Year students were crowned national boxing champions at the National Stadium on Sunday. They are Ashton Ruth (50kg), Callum Ruth (52kg), Roy Colgan (57kg) and Lee McEvoy (60kg), representing the Avona Boxing Club. Well done boys!
Congratulations to our ‘LCA Student of the Month’ for November, Killian Flanagan. He sets a fantastic example for us all in St Declan’s with his excellent manners, good humour and commitment to his work.
Congratulations to our new First Years starting in St Declan's today and a big welcome back to our Third and Sixth Years!
#BackToSchool2020
#WelcomeBack
First game of the year for the U16 footballers against neighbours CCC. Well done to the lads and their coaches Mr. Smith and Ms. O’Neill on an impressive win! Final score 3-21 to 1-05.
For all of our First, Second, Third and TY students we know you are out there and that it is hard to stay focused. Remember our school motto, Cursum Tenere. We hope we will be seeing you safely back in the school soon.
#cursumtenere
#staythecourse
Impressive volunteerism from five of our T.Y. students as part of their
@GaisceAward
. Click on the link to read all about it. Look out for a star appearance from Mr Reid too! Well done boys 👏👏👏👏👏
Congratulations to
@StDeclansCabra
TY student Jamie Carrick who took part in the
#TYtakeover
with
@FM104
. Jamie was one of the top 20 students selected to attend an in depth masterclass from some of the top professionals in radio. Well done Jamie!!!
Congratulations to our French debating team who won their debate last night against St. Joseph’s CBS Nenagh. Thanks to Mr Webb for organising the team. The team will now compete in the quarter finals of the Alliance Française French debating competition! Félicitations! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇫🇷
6th Year Student Dylan Boylan starts off
@StDeclansCabra
week-long cycle from ‘Malin Head to Mizen Head’ as part of our Wellbeing Week. All students will cycle for six minutes.
#wellbeingweek
It's an exciting week for St Declan's as we introduce the education platform
@myschoolwise
! From this week all of our teaching and learning will be managed in one place online. Senior students are already using it and juniors will receive login details this week.
#onlinelearning
German CBA1 taking place in Ms Byrne’s class today. Some fantastic presentations and interviews, all auf Deutsch. Giraffes, footballers and geography of Germany are just some of the topics covered. Viel Glück to the rest of the boys presenting on Tuesday!
Well done to all of the students (and Mr O’Driscoll and Ms Coyle) who completed a 30km hike in the Wicklow Mountains yesterday in very mixed weather conditions as part of their Gaisce Adventure Journey. A lot of tired but happy students in school today! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻⛰
It was Christmas Jumper day today in St Declan’s! All money raised is going to
@JigsawYMH
, a really worthwhile organisation. Thanks to Ms Coyle and the TYs for organising and well done to Luca, Noel and Connor who were amongst the best dressed.
Our Transition Year students have been taking part in a hospitality skills course this week with Hospitality Skills Ireland. They are ready to take your order!
Monday 20th May was a very special evening in St Declan’s as we gathered to celebrate our Leaving Certificate Class of 2024 at their Graduation Ceremony.
Read more about it here:
You can access and order photos here:
A fantastic visit to Dáil Éireann today for
@StDeclansCabra
TY students. It was great to see democracy in action. Thank you to
@NiamhSmythTD
for organising the visit and to
@jackfchambers
for welcoming the students.
We didn’t just enjoy delicious food during Intercultural Week. There were games, dances, music and more! Here you can see a very competitive game of Carrom, a game of Indian origin. Sadly for Mr Kavanagh he was narrowly defeated. Better luck next time!
Congratulations to 6th Yr student Jean-Ted Deliev who was selected as a candidate of the
@rte
Youth Assembly at Dáil Éireann. On 15 Nov he joined discussions to determine proposals for Ireland on Climate Action. An honor to have Jean-Ted represent
@StDeclansCabra
Last week Mr Smyth's 1 Osborne English class were tasked with drawing Ralph Campbell, a character from the novel 'Buddy'. Well done to Yi Chen Yao who submitted this brilliant piece of work!
Fantastic day for 5th and 6th year Politics and Society students of
@StDeclansCabra
at Dáil Éireann for their Parliamentary Workshop Experience. Great discussion and debate from all students in the committee rooms. Thanks to
@ConorReale
for organising the trip
@OireachtasNews
Our TY elves are putting together the gift boxes for the old folk who visit the Henrietta Street Drop-In Centre. Tomorrow a group of TYs will buy gifts to go into all of the boxes. Well done and thank you to all of our First Year and TY students for contributing so generously!
We’re looking forward to welcoming back all of our students to St Declan’s tomorrow. We will see you bright and early boys! Here is a video with some advice for students making the transition to face-to-face learning.
Well done to Adam Hanks and Raul Rodriguez for their participation in this year’s German Essay Competition organised by the Irish Austrian Society. Both boys received certificates of excellence for their high standard of German in the competition. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇩🇪
Some of our Leaving Certificate PE students got to enjoy the sunshine today in Irishtown. The students were carrying out their Performance Assessment project. ☀️🏃
As part of Vocational Preparation & Guidance class, our LCA1 class visited the Dublin Northwest Partnership. Speaker Jo informed them about apprenticeships and local employment services. It was a very beneficial visit for the students - the tea and biscuits went down well too!
Preparations for our upcoming Intercultural Week began before Easter with a special non-uniform day! Students were encouraged to express their own identity by wearing national dress, jerseys or county and local club jerseys. You'll find more photos here
We were delighted to have our ‘virtual coffee morning’ with parents of our new First Years yesterday. A shame not to be meeting in person but lots of information shared about the boys’ progress and life here in St Declan’s.
Big day for sports in St Declan's today! Good luck to our 2nd Year gaelic football team in the Dublin Colleges B final and all of our students taking part in West Leinster Track and Field Championships.
Student council members collaborating with other ERST schools over Zoom this week. Sharing experiences, perspectives and ideas for improvement within our network of schools.
#ERST
Tomorrow, St Declan’s will be taking part in Trick or Treat for
@TempleStreetHos
We are having a non-uniform day with the opportunity for all students to dress in fancy dress.
@TempleStreetHos
is our nearest children’s hospital and we are delighted to support their great work!
Some samples of the excellent work being done by Ms O'Neill's Second Year Business classes. Well done to Jamie King, Sean Dillon (both 2 Rice) and Ronn Matthew (2 Osborne)!
#remotelearning
#remoteteaching
Chess club in full swing today during lunchtime. Run by a group senior students for all students with an interest in chess all abilities are welcome! The club has a long history in St Declan’s and is going from strength to strength.
#chess