The Annual Report of the Board of Governors’ 2014-2015

The range of activities provided by the Religious Studies Department in 2014-15 includes:

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  Religious themed assemblies for all Year groups;
  

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  Opening of the School Year Mass;
  

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  Rosary group;
  

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  General RE visiting speakers for Year 3 and Year 14 students: Turlough Quinn, Dermot Kelly, Bosco McShane, Richard Moore, Marion Carroll and Hugo MacOscar;
  

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  SVDP hamper appeal;
  

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  School Christmas Carol Service;
  

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  Catholic Schools Mass in Armagh with Archbishop Eamonn Martin;
  

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  The Muiredach Cross Award and the Pope John Paul II Award;
  

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  Year 14 Leavers’ Mass; Year 12 Leavers’ Mass; and Year 8 ‘Thanksgiving Mass’ and
  

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  Year 10 Summer Camp Talk by ADYC.
  

4.20 SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

GCSE Double Award Science

Entries	Grades	Outcome (%)
156	A*A*/A*A/AA	72.11
	A*A* /BB	82.37
	A*A*/CC	100

Science Department achievements in 2014-15 include:

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  Lauren McStocker achieved third place (equal) in N Ireland in the CCEA 2015 GCSE Double Award Science examination.
  

Details of activities provided by the Science Department in 2014-15 are contained in the Biology, Chemistry and Physics sections.

4.21 SPANISH DEPARTMENT

GCSE

Entries	Grades	Outcome (%)
34	A*	5.9
	A*/A	29.4
	A*/B	52.9
	A*/C	85.3

A2

Entries	Grades	Outcome (%)
7	A*	14.3
	A*/A	28.5
	A*/B	71.5
	A*/C	85.8

Spanish Department achievements in 2014-15 include:

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  Claire Cosgrove achieved first place in N Ireland in the CCEA 2015 GCE Spanish examination;
  

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  VocabExpress League of Champions – Spanish students from Years 11 to 14 took part in an online vocabulary learning competition and many of them received certificates from VocabExpress.
  

The range of activities provided by the Spanish Department in 2014-15 includes:

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  Club Doritos (Spanish club) for Junior students;
  

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  Pen-pal Link with Colegio Aristos in Getafe (Madrid) – all Year 8 and 9 Spanish students;
  

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  Spanish/Art students from Year 11 and 12 kept in contact with their partners in Colegio Aristos, Madrid through videoconference;
  

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  Visit to Catalonia and visits with Spanish Partner Schools. (see Section on Internationalism and Educational Visits.)
  

4.22 TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN DEPARTMENT

GCSE

Entries	Grades	Outcome (%)
20	A*	10
	A*/A	75
	A*/B	95
	A*/C	100

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