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Mini Enterprise

Just in time for this year’s series of "The Apprentice” the Business Studies department have started their annual Mini-Enterprise Club. The club allows Year 11 pupils to explore and develop their entrepreneurial skills by working as a team and setting up their own business. This year’s Year 11 group have been working hard on their business venture - "Sweets &#...

Year 13 BTEC Creagh Trip

On October 24th the Business Studies BTEC department went on a trip to Creagh. We first arrived at The ELK, a building built by Creagh. There, we were given a two-hour long presentation by the Human Resources Director on information about Creagh where we wrote down notes in order to use in our Task B. They also provided us with a variety of scones and also offered tea and coffee. The presen...

Congratulations to Scor na nOg Winners

Congratulations to three St Louis girls who were part of the ballad group that won the County Antrim final for Scor na nOg on Sunday 17thNovember, as part of the Ciceam an Creagin group.    Well done to Maria Gately, Catherine McKay and Rioghnach Murray!  ...

Livestock and Meat Commission

Mrs Elizabeth Brown from the LMC visited ST. Louis Grammar School to demonstrate to the Year 11 Home Economic Students how to cook recipes with meat and talk about Farm Quality Assurance.   Mrs Brown started the demonstration by explaining about the Livestock and Meat Commission and the role it plays in our meat supply.  She said it was developed to give consumers assurances ab...

New School Jacket

Just in! Our brand new school jacket. Available in all sizes from the main office priced at £33 pound....

Cambridge Offer

Last year, I was given an amazing opportunity to attend a Sutton Trust Summer school in Cambridge University. During the summer school, I was able to immerse myself into Cambridge life. Every day was full of activities, practicals and lectures by top professors as well as time to walk around and see the beautiful architecture of the university. This experience gave me courage and belief tha...

Book Week 2019

What a fantastic week we had celebrating Book Week NI! We started off the week with our Year 8 prize-giving assembly for the Summer Reading Challenge Winners. A winner from each class received a Waterstones Book voucher as their prize. Well done to all Year 8 pupils involved! To promote a reading for pleasure culture throughout the school each member of staff was asked to give the title ...

University Roadshow

Over recent years, we at St. Louis have noticed there is a growing amount of concern among pupils and parents with regards to the completion for places in Northern Ireland Universities and the increasing grade requirements.  The Careers department addressed this need by inviting in the University Roadshow (UR) with the idea of providing students in Year 13 & 14 and those with up to da...

New Driver Safe Driving Presentation

On Monday 14th October a representative from the Policing and Community Safety Partnership came in to talk to our Sixth form pupils about the logistics, practicalities and dangers of being a new driver.  It was an informative afternoon, which provided lots of invaluable tips on buying and insuring a car, the practical and theory test and what happens once you pass the te...

Pathway Opportunity Programme

This Academic Year 2018/19, I applied and was accepted onto a course at Queen’s University, Belfast called the Pathway Opportunity Programme (POP). Eoin Marr and Leona O’Kane were also successful in gaining places on the programme. POP is for young people currently in Year 13 who may require additional support or encouragement to reach their full potential. Due to certain circum...