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If anyone else in Year 10 is looking for an application form for Duke of Edinburgh, they can collect one from Mr McDevitt or the Cooper Crescent office. All completed application forms must be returned to Mr McDevitt or the office by Feb 19th. No late applications will be accepted.Read more

Five members of our Showjumping Team have recently qualified for the Dengie Area (Northern Ireland) Pony Club Showjumping Finals at Portmore Equestrian Centre on 3rd March 2018. Natalie Somerville, Tiana-Grace Abbott, Sasha Milne, Sophia Williams and Patrick Williams competed at the qualifiers in Ecclesville, Fintona. Natalie has qualified for the Winter League (95cm) Final onRead more

Ballymena Academy brought their star-studded team to the Eisenhower Playing Fields on Saturday for the 4th round Danske Bank Ulster Schools Cup match. Both sides had a top 8 seeding and were entering the competition for the first time but, thanks to the weather, neither team had managed to play a competitive match for almostRead more

This year’s Safer Internet Day (SID) celebrations will take place on Tuesday, 6 February 2018. The 2018 theme, “Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you” is a call to action for every stakeholder to play their part in creating a better internet for everyone, in particular the youngest users out there.Read more

The MFL Dept are arranging an ERGS team to take part in the Opportunity Europe Euro Quiz. There are heats taking place across the country in April before the Northern Ireland Final in May in Belfast. The quiz is a general knowledge quiz on a range of themes relating to European countries, with prizes toRead more

As part of the National Numeracy Strategy and to raise money for a very worthy cause, ERGS will be getting involved with the NSPCC Number Day this Friday 2nd Feb 2018. As part of the event pupils, teachers and parents  will all be able to get involved with a ‘number’ of different activities including: GuessRead more

The schedule for Music Service rehearsals for pupils taking Grade examinations has been changed – times for pupils may be different from the letters sent home by the Music Service. All pupils due to meet with Maurice Kelly on Friday should check at the Music Depts (on both sites) first thing tomorrow to check theirRead more

A fantastic evening of celebration at school on Tuesday night. Thank you and well done to all pupils and colleagues for their sterling efforts and input to make the evening a great success.Read more

On the 23rd November 2017 AS and A2 MIA pupils attended the screening of the winning films from the 2017 Moving Image Arts (MIA) Awards Showcase, in partnership with CCEA and the Foyle Film Festival. This year marked the 11th Anniversary of CCEA’s Moving Image Arts Awards Showcase and we were delighted to announce, early this year, thatRead more

The Boat Club were nominated for Young Team of the Year at the Belfast Telegraph Sports Awards on Monday evening 29th January. The winners on the evening were the NI Commonwealth Youth Games Team, well done to them and extremely well done to our Boat Club on being finalists, a great achievement. Some of theRead more