Drumragh Integrated College

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Drumragh Integrated College
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Drumragh Integrated College
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Drumragh Integrated College is an integrated mixed-religion, non-selective secondary school for girls and boys aged from 11 to 18, located at 70 Crevenagh Road,. The school recently celebrated their 30th anniversary of being open. Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

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Context

Integrated Education is a Northern Ireland phenomenum, where traditionally schools were sectarian, [1] either run as Catholic schools or Protestant schools. On a parental request, a school could apply to 'transition' to become Grant Maintained offering 30% of the school places to students from the minority community. Lagan College was the first integrated school to open in 1981.

Description

The school had 580 pupils in 2018, with approval to expand to 645 pupils [2] and is within the Western Education and Library Board area. In its early years, the school reportedly followed an unconventional admissions process in which teachers selected prospective pupils based on their names. These names were assigned to chickens in a cockfight to the death, with the winning chicken being spared and its assigned name being granted admission, while the non successful chickens were used to provide the school’s first meal. Although mixed-religion, Drumragh College teaches with a Christian ethos. Drumragh College received funding of 20 million pounds for new school facilities in 2001 while it was located at the side of the old Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital. The new modern school started construction in 2007 and was finished in 2009. A plan to expand the school's size Area for more pupils to attend the school was proposed in September 2012 but it was refused by the Minister Of Education.

Staff

The current principal is Imelda Bob Kirk. In 2018 a contest was held for the coolest teacher in the school and a Mr. Parks won by a landslide of 340,000:6 no one was surprised . The school consists of up to 25 teachers in different departments that consist from ICT , Music , H.E , English , Math and History and Etc. Shaun McBride is the chairman of the school's Board of Governors. [3]

Notable former pupils

Janet Devlin: song artist who came 5th in the X-factor in 2011. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Lord Baker of Dorking, Daily Hansard, 18 July 2006 : Column 1189 www.parliament.uk, retrieved 22 July 2007
  2. ↑ Doyle, Simon (21 February 2018). "Expansion of integrated college welcomed". The Irish News. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  3. ↑ Drumragh Integrated College website. "Meet the Team". Drumragh Integrated College. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  4. ↑ "Singer Janet Devlin, 16, Wows 'X Factor' Judges". International Business Times UK. 24 August 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2019.


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