Teacher vs Student Arles Kilcruise vs Park Ratheniska Best of luck to both Mr. Conway and 6th Year student Tom Fingleton as they go head-to-head in tonight’s Intermediate Football Final. A great occasion for both clubs and we’re wishing the very best to both teams.

We’re excited to announce our upcoming School Career Fair. We’re currently looking for volunteers to speak with our students about your career journey. If you’re interested in participating, please fill out this short form: 👉 forms.office.com/e/KkNRAfrTNB

Open Night this Thursday. We look forward to welcoming you all

Science Department: chemistry students, science club and ecology field trip to castlecomer. 🧫🔬🧬🥼🧪

Due to the inclement weather forecast, there has been a slight change to the running order of the Heywood Community School Open Night. The night will now commence with the principal's address at 6:30pm in the school gym followed by tours of the school at 7:00pm.

Well Done to our Senior Ladies Footballers on a fantastic start to their campaign with a great win in their first group game today against Mountmellick CS! 🏐

Well done to our 1st year Boys footballers in their first of many outings in the school jersey.

Medal winners today in the XC relay

✨ This Evening! ✨ We’re excited to welcome you all to our Open Night tonight. Final preparations are underway, and we can’t wait to see you here!

Well Done to our 7 aside Junior Camogie on a massive preformance in the SF of the Leinster Blitz playing top teams & pushing the overall winners into an extra time battle! they lost by 3 points  after a blistering preformance in which they led until few mins of normal time.

Huge congratulations to our Junior 7 Aside Panel who won the All Ireland C 7aside blitz in COE Meath today. The girls showed passion, skill and determination to beat Munster Team , St Augustines Dungarvan in the final 6-0 to 4-1

Well done to the Junior and Senior Rugby panels who participated in the Leinster Blitz involving Naas CC, Confey College and Maynooth

Another successful Maths Week here in Heywood! Well done to all staff and student who participated in activities this week! 🧮✖️➕

🎃 Creative Pumpkin Carving with Ms. McDonald’s “Food Glorious Food” 3rd Year Groups! 🎃 There was plenty of festive fun in the Home Economics room this week as Ms. McDonald’s 3rd year students got creative with pumpkin carving!

Enrolment 2026-27 A reminder to all 6th class families that the deadline for enrolment for First Year 2026-27 is today at noon. Please see website for link to online enrolment.

Many thanks to our Future Leaders group for their work at the recent Open Night showing last year's events, doing skill work on the rebounder with incoming first years, and highlighting the large amount of club-school links we have!

Well done to the U19 boys basketball team, who advance to the midlands semi-finals after midterm 🏀

Well done to Heywood ladies Rugby team who recently competed and won 2 out of 3 games in Newbridge RFC vs Blessington, Naas and Ardscoil Athy

5th Years Rachel Dunne, Aoife O'Connell and Ana Clara Chavez taking part in Soapbox Public Speaking competition last night. Students spoke on the possibility of banning Social Media for under 16s in the EU.