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Well done to our Subway Challenge Finalists!

Well done to our Year 14 students Matthew Dempsey, Catriona Graham, Aaron McLean, Sam Reilly and Geana Convery who came second in the NI Subway Challenge!  The competition encouraged students to construct a brand new, healthy sub sandwich. Our team completed several tasks ranging from designing a low fat sub that had to meet certain limits of both saturated and unsaturated f...

Getting ready for Romania

After a very successful fundraising effort, 36 members of Lower Sixth are making final preparations to travel to Romania on 12th February. They will be working in a variety of children's homes, schools and disabled centres.    One of the disabled centres they will be visiting is the facility at Bradet which lost its girls dormitory in a major fire on 11th January. Our Ro...

Year 14 Mock Interviews

The Careers department recognise the importance of preparing our pupils for the highly competitive world that lies ahead as best as possible. Many of our Year 14’s have applied to university with some opting for high demand courses. To give them a head start we teamed each year 14 with a professional in the course they have applied to and asked the professional to put them through the...

Success for School Debating Team!

Our School Debating teams have had a very successful second round in the Concern and Northern Ireland Schools Debating Competitions, winning both their matches. Well done to all involved and roll on Round Three! ...

Year 10 Ski trip to Italy!

In the early hours of Saturday 7th January 95 Year 10 students accompanied by nine St Louis’ staff departed Belfast International for the school’s bi-annual Ski trip.  The group arrived in Milan and made the journey to the resort of Folgaria.  While there was no snow in the village, the slopes were in perfect condition for the St Louis’ group to enjoy six fun fil...

Year 11 Geography Fieldtrip in Newcastle

On the 9th December 2016 I was fortunately granted the opportunity to travel to Newcastle in order to strengthen my knowledge of the coastal management topic of my GCSE Geography course. Whilst in Newcastle we examined the local coastal defences and mapped land use in the town. The trip was enjoyable and was immensely useful as it has made it significantly easier to remember my GCSE case st...

Year 10 create illustrations for Fr Delargy's book

Year 10 pupils last year were invited by Fr Paddy Delargy to create illustrations for his current book : ‘Praying to God our Father’. Pictured are Ms Pickering, Mrs McAuley who supported the project and a selection of pupils who participated in the project at the launch of the book, Ballymena Parish Centre, Tuesday 13th December....

New Centre of Excellence

St Louis Grammar School New Centre of Excellence For the Creative & Expressive Arts Completion February 2018   ...

Eoghan Daly selected as a QUB Future Stars All Star!

Congratulations to Eoghan Daly who has been selected as a QUB Future Stars All Star! This QUB programme identifies elite athletes at a young age and supports a training programme to develop their sporting talents. Over the next two years Eoghan will receive specialist guidance on nutrition/diet and sports skills as well as careers guidance with a progression route to a QUB field of study. ...

Team work makes dream work

On Monday 7th November, St Louis’ Grammar waved a fond farewell to 291 shoeboxes in aid of the local charity ‘Road of Hope’. This well-known charity provides the most important gift of all to thousands of children in deprived countries; the gift of happiness. Here at the school, one of our classrooms became quickly transformed into a replica of Santa’s Grotto as stud...