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Orlagh Convery Feile Skills

Massive congratulations goes to Year 10 student Orlagh Convery who following on from her Antrim Feile Skills success, she was placed 3rd overall at The Camogie Féile Skills Stars National Finals on Saturday, June 23rd, at the National Games Development Centre in Abbotstown, Dublin. A huge honour for her County, Club, School and Family! ...

Street Artist Glen Molloy visits Art Department

Street Artist Glen Molloy in action giving our pupils a demonstration of how he creates large scale murals of portraits. Glen is now world renowned in the Street Art Industry and it was a pleasure and a privilege having him in school. The experience will be invaluable to pupils as it will benefit them in their GCSE projects. They also thoroughly enjoyed meeting Glen and finding out more abo...

P6 STEM Event

Approximately 500 P6 pupils from our local primary schools attended a STEM taster event . The pupils had a chance to try out a wide range of STEM-based subjects ranging from making LED flashing name badges in Technology to solving crimes using forensic Chemistry, looking at mini beasts in Biology, designing and making tennis ball holders in maths, making Vitamin C rockets in Physics and makin...

Junior Maths Challenge Results

Almost 100 year 8 and year 9 pupils took part in the UKMT Junior Maths Challenge on 26th April 2018. Well done to all those pupils who took part!   The results are back and we would like to congratulate all those who received either a Gold, Silver or Bronze Certificate in the Challenge. A great achievement for them all!   Five of these Year 9 pupils, namely Aoibh Vallely, Katie...

A Level Art Exhibition

On Friday 1st June A-Level pupils were able to celebrate the completion of their course in style with a full exhibition of their work in the Art Department. Parents, friends, staff members, Teachers and members of the Board of Governors all attended and thoroughly enjoyed the occasion. Congratulations to all our A-Level Art & Design pupils who have made a wonderful contribution over the t...

Summer Camp 2018

SLG summer camp returns for its fourth year.  It is sure to be another good week as there is something for everyone!  The Summer Camp is open to all Primary 5 and 6 pupils from the local primary schools.  Places are filling up fast so make sure to get your application form is by Thursday 21st June.  ...

H2O Swimming Academy

The H2O swimming academy if delighted to announce that it is currently processing plans to open a purpose built pool for privately run swimming lessons exclusive to H2O swimmers in the Ballymena area. If you wish to register your interest you can do so on the H2O facebook page before Friday 15th June.   ...

Vancanies for Study Supervisors

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Year 8 Drama Festival

  The Drama Festival is over and a brilliant day was had by all! Fantastic to see the year 8s getting up to perform a short play, having a bit of fun and participating in some amusing activities along the way. Hopefully it also provides students with a taste of what is to come for the rest of KS3 Drama in the following years. Some students went to a tremendous effort and brought...

The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards

I had the opportunity to travel to Washington DC for five days as a reward for winning the All-Ireland Youth Volunteer of the Year at the Pramerica Spirit of Community Awards. It means a lot to me to have been chosen to represent Ireland, along with another winner Niall Gosson from Dublin. As part of this trip we got to share our projects and work with volunteers all over America and seven ...