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.

We celebrate with Holly-Ellen Meli who has recently received the Rising Star Award from IMC Road Racing. This marks the end of the season for Road Racing but only the beginning for Holly-Ellen!

Over the last number of years, multiple BSS pupils have finished their studies and joined the Navigate Early Careers Programme with Mivan Limited , Antrim. One past pupil, Jamie Matthews, is currently at the Skill Build UK Awards representing Mivan with two of his colleagues.

Mivan and her sister companies offer a broad range of exciting employment opportunities across a wide range of disciplines within the Construction and Fit Out industry. As a strong employer in the area, Mivan are holding Student Careers Stakeholder Day on Wednesday 29th January at 10am.

This week our sixth form Technology and Design pupils attended a School Sustainability Event in W5 which gave our pupils the opportunity to discover the latest practices and principles that Northern Ireland based companies are currently using to meet environmental, social and governance policies.

Our pupils got fully involved taking part in a Q&A session with six industry leading companies and attended a jobs fair to discuss upcoming opportunities in the world of engineering and sustainability.

Sarah Halligan, a former Head Girl and A level mathematics student was in school delivering a mathematics lesson to the year 14 Mathematics students. She is currently studying Mathematics at Queens university and used the experience as part of her final project entitled ‘Designing Mathematics Material for schools’. It was fantastic having Sarah and Anna in school and the students thoroughly enjoyed the engaging, interactive lesson. Sarah and Anna also shared their experience of university with the students. Many thanks to Sarah and Anna for taking the time with us!

The Year 8 Girls Hockey team travelled to Slemish College in the 2nd round of the NEBSSA league. This was a great solid display from both teams with Ballyclare coming away with a 2-0 Win. Both goals were scored by Ana G. Well done girls!

Congratulations to both the U14 and U16 hockey teams on their great wins recently.

The u16’s played Larne High School on Tuesday 12th November winning 6-1. Goal scorer: Faith Thompson. Player of the match: Ivy McFall.

The u14’s played Parkhall Integrated College on Wednesday 13th November winning 4-0. Goal scorers: Ana Goodrich and Lexie Fellowes. Player of the match: Ruby McAuley.

Some of the players got together on Friday for some team bonding, organising shoeboxes for the Blythswood Shoe Box appeal.

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.

Ballyclare Secondary School Board of Governors have two further positions to be filled in the role of ‘Parent Governor’ for the incoming term 2024 – 2028. If you would like to serve the school in this capacity please contact the school office on 028 9332 2610 or email info@ballyclaresec.ballyclare.ni.sch.uk