​RATHMORE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Ciara Brennan and Olivia McCrystal were also crowned the Senior Ulster Schools Golf Champions last Friday at Edenmore Golf Club. Both girls have now qualified for the All Ireland Schools Golf Championships to be held on Monday 23rd April at Milltown Golf Club, Dublin.

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Congratulations to all our Netball teams who took part in the Northern Ireland Netball Cup competition last Wednesday.

The Intermediate team followed up their win of the Schools Netball League with another outstanding win in the Netball Cup competition beating Glenlola...

A BBC journalist for twenty years, Felicity McCall is now a full-time writer as well as an occasional broadcaster, arts facilitator and actor. Publications include fiction, non-fiction, plays and a graphic novel. On Wednesday 21st March, Felicity paid a visit to Rathmo...

The Advanced Reading group visited the McClay Library at Queen's University. They were given a tour of the library and a wonderful talk on its history. Pupils were given access to the library's special collection. Three librarians provided a specialist insight to the c...

What talented orators we have in Year 8!

Congratulations to Gloria Ifonlaja, who is the 2018 winner of the Year 8 Public Speaking Competition. Well done to our runners up Felicite Mooney and Lucy Sutherland.

On Wednesday 14th our students celebrated Pi Day. They took part in a range of group logic challenges, reciting competitions and some classes made Pi displays. The pupils enjoyed the day and learned a lot about the importance of Pi too!

On Friday 16th the Year 8s had a disco after school to raise money for Trócaire. Everyone had a great time and went home exhausted after all the dancing! 

A huge thank you to Creighton's on Blacks Road, in particular Pauline, for supplying the treats for the disco and a...

On Tuesday 13th March, John Higgins, Noyal Jayan and Ciara Larkin went to Dublin to compete in the Final of the All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad. They fought off tough competition in the preliminary round to earn their place in the final. Of over 1300 participants, the...

Congratulations to our debaters who took on St. Joseph's College Lucan and successfully defended the motion 'to help achieve the SDGs, the 'Robin Hood' tax must be adopted globally'. The team was comprised of captain Tiarnan Daykin, Dónal McLaughlin, Megan McEvoy-Morga...

Congratulations to Diana Badoi and Jude Horner, who have won residential places at the Oxford Summer School to study French and Maths and Statistics.

Well done to Noyal Jayan , who has been awarded a place on the Oxford Digital programme.