Our Lady of Lourdes High School, Ballymoney

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Our Lady of Lourdes School Ballymoney
Address
Our Lady of Lourdes High School, Ballymoney
Castle Street,

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BT53 6JX

Coordinates 55°04′01″N6°31′18″W / 55.06696°N 6.521633°W / 55.06696; -6.521633
Information
Type Secondary School
Religious affiliation(s) Roman Catholic
Established1964
Local authority Education Authority (North Eastern)
ChairpersonMr. Gregor Kerr
PrincipalMr. Simon Smyth
Vice PrincipalMr. Sean Stewart
Staff80 approx.
Gender co-educational
Age11to 16
Enrollment400 approx
Colour(s)  
Website ourladyoflourdesballymoney.com

Our Lady of Lourdes School is a secondary school located in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Academics

The school offers the full range of subjects at both GCSE and A-Level. It partners with the neighbouring Ballymoney High School and Dalriada School in the conduct of projects and the delivery of certain subjects. [1]

Extra curriculum

The school provides the opportunity to participate in a full range of sports including hurling, Netball, Gaelic Football, Soccer, Camogie, Athletics, Table tennis, Hockey and Rugby. It also offers various arts activities including Music, Dance, Drama, Glee Choir, Irish Dancing. [2]

Staff

Our Lady of Lourdes School employs approximately eighty people. At present, the Senior Leadership Team consists of the following staff members:

Principal: Mr. Simon Smyth.

Assistant Principal: Mr. Sean Stewart.

Senior Teacher Leaders: Mr. Sean Forrest & Miss Susan Coyles.

The current Chairperson of the Board of Governors is Mr. Gregor Kerr.

Inspection

The standard inspection of the school by the Education and Training Inspectorate in 2015 found the school's overall effectiveness to have a high level of capacity for sustained improvement, and achievements and standards, provision for learning, and leadership and management all to be very good. The report described the school's performance in GCSE English language, history and mathematics at grades A*-C as significantly above average and the standards in GCSE English language as outstanding. [3]

References

  1. "The School Aims". Our Lad of Lourdes High School. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  2. "Extra Curricular". Our Lady of Lourdes High School. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  3. "Post-Primary Inspection report" (PDF). Education and Training Inspectorate. Retrieved 16 July 2020.