St. Fintan's High School

Sutton, Dublin 13 • +353 1 832 4632 • info@stfintanshs.ie

Please check here to access the Exchange Blog with daily updates.

On 31 January 2017, we welcomed 25 students and their teachers Mme Cosmano and Mr Charlet from Lyon. Daily updates at:

http://cotiere.elycee.rhonealpes.fr/voyages-et-echanges-scolaires-/echanges-scolaires/irlande/

On 27th January 2016, we welcomed 25 students from Lyon.
For daily updates, link to our exchange partner school in Lyon at: Lycée de la Côtière. Our 2014-2015 Blog is at: http://premierfcpremier.blogspot.ie

from left to right and bottom to top: Cécile Ey, Louison Duperray, Amandine Trotot, Justine Vallas, Garance Escalier, Claire Perrin, Sophie Audrieu, Selma Karademir, Siegrid Zanetton, Mélissa Roux, Lison Vial, Margot Bony, Thomas Boissin, Solène Messager, Maxime Pernot, Zoé Menot, Vivian Josserand, Julien Dyen, Maxime Cosialls, Lola Armoudian, Audrick Mercier, Amandine Lambert, Camille Pernelet, Luz Diez De Los Rios and Paul Vernay.

Aidan and Amandine

Eileen Freeman June 20th, 2017

Posted In: Blog, Extra Curricular, French, Transition Year

Soar Racing

The F1 ‘in-school’ Tournament is a Worldwide Competition which starts with Regional Finals. Students build a miniature Formula 1 car. The students design the car and get it manufactured in an CNC router. The car must have a space at the back so that a CO2 canister can fit in, in order to propel it along the track. The F1 car can reach up to 55 mph on a 20 metre track.

For further information, go to www.f1inschools.ie

The 2016-2017 team is named Soar Racing. The team is made up of 6 Transition Years students: Luke Mitchell, Darren Branigan, Glenn Atkins, Brian Doolin, James Kennedy and Jack Fagan.

On the 26th of February 2017, we competed in the F1 in Schools Leinster Regional Finals in the City West Hotel. The competition was extremely intense with a wide range of schools competing from all over Leinster.

We represented our school with pride in the following tasks;

Formal presentation
Pit display presentation
Portfolio adjudication
Drag race

Fortunately, we finished in the top five which allowed us to qualify for National finals which are held in the RDS.

A number of the original team was unfortunately in France for the French exchange for the national final so a substitute team of five members was sent to represent the team. They did an exceptional job and represent the school very well.

We competed very well at national finals, the competition was very intense.

We unfortunately didn’t win any awards but we had the second fastest time in Ireland and we were only beaten by a 400th of a second. Our best times were as follows;

Track Length: 20 metres	Regional Finals	National finals
Reaction time	0.156	0.187
Car Time to complete race	1.180	1.182

ICS. Picture Conor McCabe Photography

ICS. Picture Conor McCabe Photography

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Eileen Freeman March 16th, 2017

Posted In: Technology, Transition Year

Tags: 5, Apache Racing, competition, F1, Regional Final, Transition Year

Dance routine

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The Musical, a new Jukebox Musical based on the play by Shakespeare, semi-linked to the 400th Anniversary of the Bard. It contains over a dozen boy band and girlband hits from the nineties and noughties.

Dates: Thurs 10th, Fri 11th, Sat 12th March.

Tickets: €10 and will be available, in school, from 22nd February. Doors 7pm, show at 7:30pm.

Eileen Freeman February 9th, 2016

Posted In: Transition Year