Shimna News

Last week, Shimna students observed Empathy Day 2025. The theme was step into someone else's story. With over 277 short empathy stories...

The Joint Award family at Shimna, combining the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and the Gaisce President’s Award, proudly celebrates our five newest Gold Award holders. In May, we were thrilled to hear that Maddy and Kate (Class of 2020) were honoured at Buckingham Palace for their incredible achievements. Then, on Monday 23rd June, Kirsten, James (both class of 2019), and Chris (class of 2023) joined the Gold ranks at Hillsborough Castle. A huge congratulations to all. It’s fantas

Well done to Kari, who represented Shimna Integrated College and Ulster at the Tailteann Irish Schools Inter-provincial Athletics Championships, held in Carlow over the weekend. In a very competitive intermediate girls 1500m, Kari finished in a highly impressive sixth place. This is another outstanding achievement for Kari, all the more so as she had only just completed her GCSEs.

Today, we are launching our first ever College film competition. We invite budding student filmmakers to show off their creative...

As part of developing their portfolio work, our Year 11 Prince's Trust students undertook landscaping work with the Fold Residents...