Luke Agnew (10M) returned from Portugal last week after an amazing performance at the IAME World Finals. Competing against over 100 competitors, he made it through all five heats to the last day of racing and qualified 14th to start in the final. Well done Luke.

The Intermediate netball team played in the NI Blitz tournament at Antrim Forum last week. They had some tough competition against Ballymena Academy, Antrim Grammar School and Ballyclare High School. Captain Sarah provided excellent motivation to her team. BSS took the lead in the second half against Antrim Grammar but couldn't hold on during the last few minutes of the game. Special mention goes to Emma Taylor whose speed around the court led to many interceptions. Well done to all the players!

Today in Mrs Weir’s ICT class pupils from 9W made posters for ‘Anti-Bullying Week’ in Adobe Photoshop.

The Year 9 hockey team played their first game in the East Antrim League against local school Carrick Academy and won 1-0. The Ballyclare team had most of the possession in the first half. Ivy McFall led the attack by making some lovely runs into the opposition’s circle. Lexie Fellowes scored the only goal of the game by a lovely deflection into the corner of the net! Overall a great team performance on a windy day! Well done girls.

Jamie Peoples (9K) raced at Leinster Kart Club, Athboy in the 1st leg of the winter championships at the weekend. Despite the wet conditions, Jamie raced really well and went on to win. Well done Jamie!

Anti-Bullying Week 2023: 13th-17th November

This week in class assembly pupils are using materials developed by the Anti-Bullying Alliance to look at the theme of Bullying vs Banter. As part of this year’s Anti-Bullying Week campaign, we are urged to think about what we mean by ‘banter’, the role ‘banter’ plays in bullying and how we can tackle it. We would also like to share the official Anti-Bullying Week video with our followers on social media to generate awareness and conversation in the wider school community.

At the start of this week we would like to share this short video from Anti-Bullying Alliance.

The Year 10 Netball team played in the NI Blitz tournament and came 2nd place! They played against Lisneal School and Ballyclare High School. They lost 11-7 against Lisneal and won 8-5 against Ballyclare High. A super team effort by all the girls! Well done!

The Year 10 hockey team played their 2nd game of the East Antrim League. The girls came out in full force with Faith Thompson scoring in the first 20 seconds of the game! The goals continued to rack up and the final score was 8-0 to Ballyclare! Faith Thompson scored five goals, Asha Creighton scored two and Annaleese Bell scored one! A superb team performance! Congratulations Year 10!

Thanks to the school orchestra, pipers and drummer and trumpeter, Erin who helped lead our Remembrance Assembly in school today.