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Lidl ‘Good for Sport’ Project - The school took part this year in the Lidl-sponsored ‘Good for
Sport’ project, an initiative which saw Ciaran Chambers, a former Commonwealth Games
badminton player, acting as an athlete mentor to work alongside no less than twenty-four
specially appointed pupil mentors in Year 11. Ciaran paid the school two separate visits to help
train and also receive feedback after the pupil mentors had organised a ‘multi-sports’ activity
morning with selected pupils in Year 9. The project aimed to create a better awareness of the
benefits of engaging in regular forms of exercise for personal well-being and mental health and
was well-received by all participants.
Visit from Lifestyle Fitness - Two former pupils, Chelsea Millar and Joshua Courtney, now both
qualified as Personal Trainers and working at Lifestyle Fitness, Ballymena, paid the school a visit
back in September to mark the occasion of National Fitness Day. They worked with the Year 11
BTEC Sport class and engaged pupils in circuit training which left one or two breathless, to say
the least!
Sixth Form Football - A sixth-form team took part in a 7-a-side tournament organised by Castle
Tower, Ballymena. Despite topping the table, after playing two matches each against the host
school, Cullybackey College and St. Patrick’s College, the boys lost on a penalty shootout to the
eventual winners, St. Patrick’s College, but it was a great outing for all the boys involved.