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Closer to home, we contributed ing within and beyond the class- dren deserve our best provision
200kg of food for our regular room to a range of curricular and and our best efforts. They will not
Foodbank to support need in the enrichment links, specifically in remember the political angst or
local community last year, togeth- PE, LLW, History, Maths & Sci- the financial challenges, but
er with 124 Easter Eggs to give to ence. This year we qualified for teachers that inspired them,
children from homes in crisis, and the Extended Schools programme knowledge that enlightened them
24 “Handbags of hope” filled with and have extended our links with and most of all the friendships
ladies’ toiletries for Christmas. Primary Schools through this they have built along the way.
They will remember a school
where they were happy, where
they gave and experienced re-
spect and where their characters,
as well as their intellects, were
formed and honed. They will re-
member that they were prepared
Our students continue to have a funding stream and contributed for life here and were then set
voice in all that happens in school to a Cluster Group of schools in free to find their calling in the
through the Junior and Senior Ballymena. world. Our new school, secure in
Councils, the Enrichment and ex- its established values, will be a

tra-curricular programmes, the vibrant landmark in the North of
House System, as well as the Men- In conclusion – the design of our Ballymena and we are rightly ex-
toring & Reading Partnership pro- new school is now complete and cited as we look
grammes. will be formally presented by the forward to the
Architects in school this very potential of its
evening. All who are free are wel- completion: a
come to join us. God-willing, this worthy legacy of
will be a state-of-the-art facility, all this school has
future-proofed for generations to been in the past,
come, with majestic views of and all it can yet
Slemish mountain, and an attrac- be, in the years
We continue in our commitment
tive central courtyard. Our chil- to come.
to Shared Education, collaborat-

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