Please find below our Weekly Communication Bulletin for Parents and Carers, and other important information, which has been sent out to you via Sims App.

Please see below the summer letter from our Acting Principal. It contains important information on start dates for each year group in August and updates on our uniform changes.

We are pleased to say that hard work of our Take 5 Team in school has been recognised with our Level 3 Award.

The Take 5 Ambassadors have enjoyed promoting the “5 Steps to Wellbeing” and have lots more ideas to come for both pupils and staff the new school year.

Congratulations to two of our Year 8 footballers Rowan Manson and Anthony Moir who play together for Larne FC under 13 team in the South Belfast Youth League. They won the league with an amazing trophy to show for it! Well Done boys!

In Art with Ms O’Donnell, 9R worked in teams of 4 and they had 30 minutes to sharpen as many pencils as possible and make the tallest tower with no pencils allowed to fall on the floor! Combining colour co-ordination, competition and also preparation for next year the class showed magnificent teamwork and produced colourful structures.

Some of our Year 9 pupils had an excellent opportunity to experience the first ‘Green Field’ STEM event at @discovercafre gaining knowledge of green keeping and biodiversity. The sun shone as they learnt, understood, and applied how the expert greenkeepers will measure the speed of the green for Rory Mcllroy and others at The 153rd Open at Royal Portrush, next month!

Thank you to Adam, Liz and staff at CAFRE and sponsors British and International Golf Greenkeeping Association (BIGGA) for the event.

“It was fantastic to host Ballyclare Secondary today at CAFRE’s first ever First Green Initiative. We really enjoyed giving the pupils an idea of what is involved in sports turf and I hope they all learned a lot and gained plenty of inspiration.” CAFRE

Miss Bishop's Prince's Trust class have recently finished their Healthy Eating Unit. As a reward for their hard work throughout the year, pupils and staff enjoyed making fresh fruit kebabs in their last lesson together before the summer holidays. These were thoroughly enjoyed by all!

We’ve been delighted to meet our new Year 8 pupils during their Induction Days over the past week. For any of our new pupils travelling by bus, please scan the QR code for full details of bus routes available. For morning services to Ballyclare, please check the individual timetables of the public bus services at https://www.translink.co.uk/. These are subject to change each year.

Alice Jones (Year 11) and her team mates have done it again this year winning the Wilkinson Sword Competition at Balmoral Show now completing a treble as Champions in 2023, 2024 and now 2025! They also won the Prince Phillip Cup again this year for the third time at the Pony Club Mounted Games. Alice will be travelling to Pony Club Zone Championships in Scotland in July to compete in Team and Pairs mounted games. To top it off, Alice will also be representing NI at the Mounted Games European Individual Championships at the end of July in Millstreet, Ireland. What a talented young lady!