Reindeer Food

I have just got round to counting up the money raised in a very nice wee fundraising gesture by Fiona McCurry. She packs up sparkly food for reindeer, which those of us with wee relatives buy up and get them to scatter on the lawn. Fiona raised £25.00+, and particularly + what I owed, which I of course had forgotten to hand in, but have now remedied - honest, Fiona.

Fame at Christmas

Two of our broadcasters were at work over Christmas. Catherine Kelly, our head of drama, had her play broadcast on RTE on Sunday night. I have to confess that i didn't wake up in time to hear djfelan on Big Toe Books at 7.00am on Christmas morning, but 'Listen Again" is a fantastic facility, and as soon as I was awake, i tuned in to hear Felan, beautifully clearly, introduce the show and lead in Richard Briers, who read the featured book, "Beastly Boris".

A Great Last Day

We had a great last day, with disco by djfelan and djsara, with Bruce Springsteen Lambe and Van Morrison Lambe to round off. Over to St John's Church for the Carol Service, led by Ivor Anderson and Rev. Brian Cadden of Castlewellan. As has become a tradition, our Scripture Union provided a short sketch for us to think about.

Rachel Wins the Big Prize

We are very impressed that Rachel Robinson has won a photography competition. Her task was to compose a photograph which encapsulates the idea of diversity. She has won herself a digital camera and her winning photograph will be featured in a 2008 calendar. As soon as we get a copy of the photo, and details of the calendar, we'll get the details onto the CreativityBlog.

res nostra

The res nostra group in school continues to go from strength to strength in it's new one-day format. Twelve year 8 students successfully completed the first two units of the Cambridge Latin Course in one day on Wednesday 19 December, bringing them up to where most first year classes would be at this stage anyway. We will repeat our one-day event at the end of the Easter and Summer terms, and are pleased to have found this way to keep Latin alive as an optional subject at KS3 without infringing on the timetable for other subjects. We are grateful for the support of the Classics Department of Belfast High School and Friends of Classics.

djfelan on Christmas Day

We have just heard that djfelan will be broadcasting on BBC7 on Big Toe Books on Christmas morning at 7.00am. This is really a fantastic achievement, broadcasting on national radio, and is a great tribute to all Felan's work on our local station, and all the time and effort he has put into training.