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Christmas Card Competition

The winners of this year’s Christmas Card Competition, run by the Art department was won by Anna Neeson in Year 9.  Anna’s design will be this year’s official St Louis’ Christmas card.  Well done to runners up Ciara McCormick in 10 Lisbreen and Aimee Kelly 10 Lisbreen, who all received prizes for their efforts. ...

World Mounted Games

Year 11 pupil, Brigid Delargy, had the opportunity to travel to New Zealand to represent Ireland in the World Mounted Games Championship in Auckland.   After the long journey, the team then had three days to familiarise themselves with five horses which they had never seen before! They had three rounds to get through in a bid to qualify into the ‘A’ final. Incredibly, Ir...

Young People’s Awards

Two Year 13 students were recognised for their tremendous volunteering efforts at the Credit Union’s ‘First Young People’s Awards’, which was held on Monday 13thNovember at the Adair Arms Hotel in Ballymena. Daniella Timperley won the ‘Leadership’ award and Ellie Barry was runner up in the same category. The aim of this event was to give recognition to tee...

Year 13 Trip to Stormont

On Tuesday 14th November, Year 13 Government and Politics Students, along with our teacher, Mrs Johnson, visited the Parliament Buildings at Stormont to learn more about Northern Irish Politics -one of our AS courses- from the people themselves!   Upon arrival, we were greeted by our host for the day, a bright and bubbly lady named Anne-Marie Fleming. Ms Fleming, a civil servant, gav...

Our Lady of Fatima

A statue of Our Lady of Fatima, which has been blessed by Pope Francis, visited Ballymena to mark the centenary of the final Marian Apparition. As well as this there were also statues of the three shepherd children: St Jacinta, St Francisco and Lucia, servant of God. The apparitions started on October 13th, 1917. Parish Priest, Father Paddy Delargy, remarked on the occasion: "Thousan...

Credit Union Competition

Congratulations to Eabha Scullion in Year 9 who came second place in this year’s Credit Union competition, in the Ballymena area. Eabha created a beautiful painting based on the Theme of ‘Set Your Imagination Free’.  Eabha was presented with her prize in November in the Adair Arms hotel.  ...

Moving Image Arts Cinemagic Trip

In October, almost fifty Year 13 and 14 Moving Image Arts pupils attended a Cinemagic event in Belfast.  Pupils gained an excellent opportunity to hear and see what it would be like working in the film industry.  The first part of the day was a question and answer session with the well-known production designer David Dowes.  Bowes discussed his time working on the critical...

Ulster Schools’ Swimming Gala

St Louis’ students were in attendance at the Ulster Grammar Schools’ Swimming Championship over two Saturdays in October and November.   Students who swam for the school included: Hugh O’Donnell, Ryan Addison, Gareth Lau, Maebh Connelly, Onagh Donaghy, Katie Logan, Jack Donnelly and James Logan.   There were a number of fantastic accomplishments from our stude...

Condolences

Sincere condolences The Board of Governors, Staff and Pupils of St Louis Grammar School, Ballymena deeply regret the death of Brendan Devlin RIP, husband of our teaching colleague Sinead and father of our current students Odhran and Aoife. We would like to extend our condolences to the extended Devlin and McGarry families at this sad time. St Louis pray for him. ...

NEBSA Cross Country success!

On Tuesday 21st November, we had 36 pupils competing in the NEBSA Cross Country. There were 12 participants from each year groups, 8 – 10.   Ryan Thom won the Year 9 race against over 100 athletes. Tyrone Mitchell came 4th, Cormac McMullan - 19th, Conan McAuley - 21st, Tony McCann - 28th and Aodhan McGary 29th.  This boys team came second overall, narrowly beat...