On Tuesday 6th July, three students, along with Mrs Mitchell and Mrs Nicholl, travelled to London to receive the prestigious Go For It Award, Gold status, on the banks of the River Thames. They enjoyed a three course lunch whilst listening to a live band and chatting to some of the 300 other teachers and students who attended. Slemish College is the first school in Northern Ireland to be recognised by Go For It, an award through HTI which celebrates enterprise and risk-taking within the school. The award was presented by Simon Woodroffe, HTI patron and the students had the opportunity to explain a little about Slemish College and what it meant for us to be a Go For It school. Slemish will now hold the status for three years.

Miss Rock and Mrs O’Kane took part in the Moonwalk Marathon (London) on Saturday 15 May, 2010. They walked 26.2 miles throughout the night and raised 2,600 pounds for Breast Cancer.

The Yr 8/9 girls WON the U13 NEBSSA indoor soccer tournament held at Ballee HS on 19th May 2010

They won 6 out of their 7 games played and beat Dunclug in the final 1-0.

All girls played really well with top goal-scorers being Vicky Carleton and Courtney Downey.

Chantelle McFadden has qualified for the Ulster Athletics Meet at the Antrim Forum on 22 may 2010. Her events are the 100m and long jump.

The following girls qualified for the NEBBSA finals which took place on the 18th May 2010:

Chantelle McFadden

Jessica Nash

Courtney Downey

Sian Owens

Laura Devenny

Chantelle Mcfadden came home with medals-1st in the 200m and 2nd in the 100m

They beat Shimna College, Sperrin College and Lagan College and then in the final beat Lagan College 1-0. Chantelle McFadden scored 9 goals and won player of the tournament.

A service development is now underway to provide a new way to access school folders from outside school. The current method (known as Easylink) does not work with Windows Vista or Windows 7 and causes issues with some versions of IE (and other browsers).

The development will be implemented in phases – and the first phase is now active. This provides a new option for College users to access My Documents which will work for different versions of Windows and browsers. Further developments will enable this access for shared folders (i.e. Learning Resources)

staff and students should be aware that the option requires the download of a security package (called Juniper) and also may require the download of ActiveX components.

Please refer to information sheet A029 which can be accessed via the link below.

Accessing C2k Outside Schoool

U13v Lagan College won 2-0 Jenny Black and Courtney Downey both scored and Jenny was player of match

U14 v Lagan College won. 2-2 draw Sally Flakerty and Kirsten Black both scored. Then went to penalty flicks and Slemish won 2-0 Sally and Kirsten both scored. Megan Hamill was player of the match.

U16 v Sperrin College won 1-0 Laura Devenney scored and Laura was player of the match

U18 v Sperrin College won 1-0 Erin Ramsey scored and Hollie Hamilton was player of the match

Pat Jamieson on behalf of Sentinus, came into the College and delivered a very worthwhile career planning workshop to all Year 10 students. This provided the students with the opportunity to investigate future careers as well as discussing their GSCE subject choices.

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Congratulations to Slemish College’s Hannah Ingleton who won the local heat of the Soroptimist International Annual Youth Award Public Speaking competition. The topic was ‘European Union- melting pot or mosaic?’ Hannah delivered a fabulous argument and was particularly commended for her entertaining delivery. We wish Hannah well in February when she will compete in the N. Ireland final.

On Thursday 10th December Slemish College hosted a road safety road show facilitated by the PSNI. The object of the road show was to encourage young drivers, and those about to commence their driving career, to adopt a more responsible attitude towards their driving behaviour. The radio road show was hosted by Cool FM/Downtown Radio. During the show we had the opportunity to benefit from presentations by representatives of the Emergency Services, a doctor based within the Casualty Department of a hospital and a founder member of the Road Trauma Support Group. Students and staff from Ballymena Academy, St Louis, St Patrick’s College, Cambridge House, Ballee Community College and Dunclug College were also in attendance.