The Big Christmas Raffle, organised by our Parents & Carers Council, is back. Once again, they’ve assembled an impressive array of great prizes. A massive thank you to all the local businesses for their tremendous support. The money raised will help fund free breakfasts and our uniform store for the year ahead. Raffle tickets will be sent home with students next week. The draw will take place immediately following ‘The Wizard of Oz’ on Thursday 18 December. Tickets for the sh

A massive thank you to our local church leaders for their active support over the past few days. This included Canon Myrtle Morrison and Rev Richard Wright helping with practice interviews for our university applicants; Father Crudden taking his first tour of our new school; our first meeting with Nathan Lyons, the new Pastor of the Newcastle Baptist Church; and Lois Gibson, Youth & Family Worker at Newcastle Presbyterian Church, who joined a meeting of our Scripture Union Cl

Ms Doyle: “A very competitive game today, but unfortunately Strathearn secured the win and will continue in the Cup Competition. Shimna started well scoring first, but by the third quarter Strathearn's strength in depth, with a number of U -17 NI players, helped them establish a 7-point lead, which was difficult to beat. Star players for Shimna were; Mila Astruc-Kidd, who playing as centre and assisted by Parisa Susay-Quinn fed the ball to shooters Helen Barber, Hope Sherlock

A massive thank you to Mourne Christmas Trees for their generous donation to the College. Clara, Ciara and Emma have weaved their magic and both trees are now festively dressed.

Mrs Higgins writes: “On Monday the Year 13 Politics students visited Stormont. They toured the Parliament Building, heard MLAs make a range of Members’ Statements and learned about the work of committees. Students also took part in a Q&A with three of our local MLAs, Diane Forsythe, Andrew McMurray and Colin McGrath. Discussion topics included leisure facilities in Newcastle, NHS waiting lists and the recent budget. Our students were commended for their positive engagement an