​RATHMORE GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Rathmore were delighted to participate in the third heat of the Concern Debates. On Thursday evening the team travelled to the proposition, St. Louis Grammar School, Kilkeel. Rathmore opposed the motion, “Nike should be applauded for standing with Colin Kapernick”. The...

We are very proud of our fantastic Year 10 student Hannah McCann who was recently awarded the most inspirational singer at the Inspirational Youth of the West awards. This is a great achievement, well done Hannah!

Warmest congratulations to Blanaid O’Neill from Year 10 on winning the Ulster Irish Dancing Championships for the sixth Time! Blanaid is currently the World Champion.

Miss Bell had the honour of presenting Blanaid’s age group at the championships held in Letterkenny.

On Wednesday 14th November, six Year 13 pupils participated in the Soroptimist Public Speaking Competition in Hillsborough. Our pupils had chosen a topic and were required to create and present a six minute speech on this topic. This included

1.Ella Crossey - “Is loneli...

Congratulations to five of our students who have been selected to play for Northern Ireland in netball and basketball this year!

Best wishes to Aine McCann (Year 12) who will be representing Northern Ireland in a basketball match against Spain at the end of the week.

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Rathmore are delighted to have successfully secured a 2-1 victory against Belfast High School. The Concern debate took place on Thursday 8th November with Rathmore proposing the motion ‘Thirty years on, the world is no closer to ending the global HIV and AIDS epidemic....

Best of luck to our Year 14 student Odhran Mallon who will be participating in the World Lifesaving Championships in Adelaide, Australia next week. We are very proud of all he has achieved and competing in this is a real accomplishment. We wish him every success!...

Recently Claire Hogarth from Friends of the Cancer Centre visited the school to receive a cheque from the funds raised through our coffee morning. It was lovely to have Claire in and many thanks to the students, especially the prefect team, and the staff for contributi...