To view some photographs from our Senior Celebration Of Achievement click  on the image below.

Laura McAllister celebrates her success at the Futurechef cookery competition in Magherafelt. Laura achieved 1st place in all categories. Click on the image below to find out more.

The Annual Carol Service in Aquinas was a magical event. Click on the image below to view photographs from the event.

 

The Knights of Columbanus in conjunction with Aquinas Diocesan Grammar School held a mock interview evening on 2 December 2009. Thirty three year fourteen students were interviewed by more than twenty professionals. The students all received written feedback. The students interviewed require an interview as part of the selection procedure for the course or college they have applied to. The areas covered included Medicine, Teaching, Nursing, Law, Engineering Art and Design and all those applying to Oxford or Cambridge. The evening was a great success for all pupils and interviewers commented on how impressed they were by the quality of Aquinas pupils.

The Year 8 boys came very close to achieving a famous victory against the Year 9’s on Wednesday. A brilliant first half performance saw the younger team lead with goals from Chris Kelly (2) and Brendan Stewart (1). The pace of the Year 8 attack led by Ryan Donaghy and Stewart was causing serious problems for the Year 9 defence. The Year 9 team came out fighting at the start of the second half and despite excellent defending from Michael Brown and Brogan MacAibhstin they managed to draw level. The last 10 minutes were extremely tight with Ruairi Shirlow somehow managing to keep out the Year 9 attack. The game finished 3-3 but all the Year 8’s should be proud of their performances. Best on the day were Brown, Kelly, Stewart, Morrison and Donaghy.
Year 8 Squad

McMeekin, Shirlow, Doherty, MacAibhstin, Brown, Curran, Morrison, Rylands, Bradley, Kelly, Madden, Armstrong, Donaghy, Stewart, McBrien, McSorley.

Congratulations to all The girls that have been selected for the Belfast U13 Netball Regional Squ

The following girls have been successful ,

GA  Jeanette Black
GK  Niamh Kelly
GK  Joanne Madden McKee
WD  Eimear Magee
GS  Catherine Melotte

The election for the Parent Representative of the Board of Governers has been completed.

Mrs Paula DurKan was elected.

We would like to thank the large numbers who participated in the election.

Aquinas 83 (48)   AVS, Donegal 53 (23)

Aquinas continued their good start to the season click on the link below for the match report

Concern received over 800 entries from places far and near: Japan; Niger; Liberia; India; USA; UK and Ireland.  Entrants were asked to let them know what they would write in a letter to President Obama on one of three critical issues: world hunger, climate change in the developing world or child labour.

Aquinas had tremendous success in the Junior Competition with first prize going to Eoghan Curran (Yr11) and Joint second prize going to Anna Lyttle (Yr11).

Congratulations!

You can find out more about the competition and the issues highlighted by clicking on the image below:

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As part of the revised curriculum in Science the Year 9 pupils undertook a cross-curricular project with Art and Design. The pupils used craft techniques mastered in Art to make model representations of the planets and moons of the Solar System. Click below to view images.

The Aquinas Grammar School Celebration of Achievement took place on Tuesday 16th December. The guest speaker was the Most Reverend Noel Treanor DD, Bishop of Down and Connor who spoke to pupils, parents and staff on the subject of  making responsible decisions throughout life.   Bishop Treanor also presented many awards for a variety of impressive achievements and successes, academic, sporting and cultural, all of which can be viewed by clicking the image below.

As part of the Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration activities within Aquinas a special assembly was held. The pupils gave an excellent presentation including the reading of a poem found in a Jewish hiding place during the Holocaust.

I believe in the sun,

Even when its not shining,

I believe in love,

Even when I cannot feel it,

I believe in God,

Even when God’s silent

To find out more from the assembly click here

To find out more about Holocaust Memorial Day click here

Congratulations to year 14 students Maeve Cowan and Aine McGowan who have successfully completed the final unit of the BSL Sign Language level 1 qualification.
This QCA endorsed qualification is administered by the Council for the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People [CACDP] and under the expert tuition of Ms Elizabeth McAughtery, herself a member of the Deaf Community, the students studied three units, introductory sign language, conversational sign language and sign language at home and in school to achieve this level.

GCSE: 

1ST in Business Studies – Christina McCloskey
2nd in French – Jennifer Clarke
1st in German – Jennifer Clarke
3rd in German – Martin McBride
1st in Maths – Conn McGrath
2nd in Physics – Conn McGrath

A level Top Candidates
3rd in Art – Megan Quigley
1st in English Literature – Dermot Dignam
2nd in Spanish – Ronan Tansey

Click the image below to view the top GCSE candidates

Aquinas Grammar year 8 Gaelic football team won the Ulster Colleges year 8 Football blitz Bro J M Murphy Cup and their first ever Ulster Colleges title after 15 years of trying. 

Clicck on the image below to learn more about this momentous occasion.

Details of the first terms Sporting Extra Curricular Activities can be found by clicking here