1st Year by Jalen and Sean

Last term, there were a few things that happened, but it was definitely not the most interesting term. Such as Scifest. Scifest is a festival about science. Here’s how it went! We went into groups, and we decided what our experiment shall be. We spent the following few weeks experimenting, collecting and analysing data, producing results, constructing posters, and enjoying doing Scifest in general.

Once Scifest arrived, we were full of excitement. But, let me tell you, it was… a tad bit boring. And tiring for the legs, if you were subjected to standing without a seat. But it was quite enjoyable, nonetheless. There were parents and science-related people going around to different posters and groups. The First year winners of scifest were Eacen, Mark and Rory.

This term, however, we have our upcoming March (or more accurately February, but for some reason that’s not what it’s called,) assessments. This is when we then do our first tests for our choice subjects! Then on Friday, presumably the next week or the week after that, we have a first year morning breakfast, but we couldn’t gather much information about it yet.

2nd Year By Sam, Cathal, Blake, Callum

Since the winter break we have had…

Mentor lessons, which happens during STEAM class on some days, the mentor lessons are when adults or teachers go and talk about ehat they did and stuff like college so we can improve on their mistakes and grow.

Sci-fest has also taken place since the break, Sci-fest is when every student makes a project and then they have a showcase one day, they are also judges by some volunteers and representatives from Sci-fest. They pick the best projects from every year, the winners get a medal and a trip to DCU to celebrate their achievement.

All the 2nd Year AP classes have done a play called “end of the garden” where if you perform it very well, you will win a trip to the Abbey Theathre.

3rd Year by Vitalina and Nadezhda

The third years went on a reward trip on the 13th of February. They enjoyed a day out doing airsoft, and had nice pizza after. Since the third years worked so hard during the mocks this trip was extra special.

On Tuesday the 24th of March our school competed in a regional maths competition called Pi Quiz 2026. The students who went were from second and third year. They did very well placing 1st, 6th and 14th out of 41 teams. Schools all across Dublin competed and Santa Sabina hosted. Thanks to Aoife for taking them! Everyone who went had a lot of fun and learned a lot from the experience!

5th Year by Daniel

In term 2 the fifth years got to go on a thrilling ski trip in Italy staying in 4 star hotel , the group was divided into 2 groups and learned how to ski down the slopes some went on black slope some didn’t , they also learned how to stop and go safely down the slopes also majority of the group that went came back uninjured, a select number of 5th years also went to TUD Tallaght to do a  course  with nvidia and they learnt how to train AI to recognise differences between pictures.

6th Year by Taylor

Let’s go back to the start of the year. The sixth year students have battled their way to the middle strand of the grind for the Leaving Cert, with not long left to go – there’s plenty of room for revision as the mock exams dawn upon them.

Shunting down the track to January, sixth year history was paid a visit by a former sixth year student, Callum Reid, who came to speak to both history classes in which he shared some great advice on how to achieve a H1 in History, this will definitely steer history revision onto the right path. Aside from that, Andrew’s sixth year music students took a trip out to TU Dublin to see performance and learn knowledge on their set work ‘Seachanges’ by the composer Raymond Deane. Leading up to the mock exams, mock oral exams were arranged to take place before the week of the mocks, this was put together by both the Irish & Spanish department – this gave the students a feel of what to expect leading up to the real thing.

Powering down to February, not a lot of events took place involving the sixth years aside from the mocks and the stresses of the CAO. The sixth years applied to the CAO, listing the course choices they feel best suited to which all depend on the points they receive in the state exams. The mocks on the other hand, ran over a course of around two weeks following everyone’s hard work and determination in terms of study. It can be said, it was a tiring week for the sixth year that was compensated by the week off afterwards that was most definitely deserved. The mocks will help in guiding the students to make sure they get the results they want in June.