On Saturday, 25 of our Year 13 students joined fellow young leaders across the area for a festive celebration at La Mon Hotel. The students are part of the YMCA Leadership Programme, Empower 2 Transform. The programme, which started in August, runs through to the summer and involves a range of activities, including community engagement and field trips. It promotes five key pillars: good relations; personal development; citizenship; employability; and person progression. Funde

A group of our Student Leaders in Year 14 had a tour of our new state-of-the-art Sports Hall complex, which is due to be handed over early in 2026. The work is progressing rapidly and will provide the College with the biggest facility of its kind in the town, including long-awaited changing rooms. Thanks to Ciaran Bonner, Glasgiven’s Site Manager, for facilitating the tour

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