The range of activities provided by the Business Studies and Economics Department in 2015-16 includes

The range of activities provided by the Business Studies and Economics Department in 2015-16 includes:

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  In September, the Year 11 Business Studies class launched its mini company. The directors were elected democratically, and the students spent the year putting the theory learnt in the class room to great use in the practicalities of running a business. After extensive market research, they decided to sell school hats and a hoodie to the school community. The profits of £645 have been distributed to Cancer Focus and the Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice.
  
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  Also in September, Year 14 Applied Business Studies students visited Grand Central Library, Belfast to carry out essential research for A2 coursework;
  
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  In November, AS students visited Caterpillar (formerly FG Wilson) pertaining to Business Studies module AS1 ie Production and marketing;
  
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  The Year 13 Young Enterprise group had a very successful year, due in part to the guidance from their mentor, Eugene Heaney - Invest NI, and the excellent leadership of their democratically elected Company Director, Conor Doran. The team sold hand-made and painted Christmas mugs to the school community. These and other products were sold at St. George’s Christmas market, Belfast. The group also sold jerseys, custom made to please our target audience and finally were responsible for the organisation of the Year 14 leaver’s hoodies. This in total generated £2000, which was distributed evenly between Northern Ireland’s Children’s Hospice and Action Mental Health. They also helped support the NI Children’s Hospice Christmas Dress parade from St. Mary’s to the town centre one very wet and windy Saturday morning in December to help raise further funding for the charity;
  

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  Year 11 and 12 Business Studies students visited one of Northern Ireland’s leading manufacturers, Coca Cola. We followed the ‘journey’ of Coca Cola products from manufacturing to the packaging department. We enjoyed sampling their products, and hearing the origin of the product and its history with Northern Ireland.
  

4.4 CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT

Chemistry Department achievements in 2015-16 include:

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  A group of Year 14 students were successful in the Cambridge Challenge Competition which took place in school in June 2016. Eoghan McDonald and Hugh-Roe O’Donnell received the Silver Award, Bronagh Harkin and Paul McCarron received the Copper Award and Katie McGurk and Estella Tohill-Reid were highly commended.
  
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  A group of Year 14 students were highly successful in the British Chemistry Olympiad Competition. Conor O’Kane was awarded the Silver Award and Orla Mallon, Hugh O’Donnell, Eoghan McDonald, Paul McCarron, Marc Friel, Anna Coogan, Kyle Johnston & Aoife McErlane all received the Bronze Award.
  
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  Aine Young, Eimear Harkin, Diarmuid Mulholland and Holly Dougan in Year 8 were prize winners in the practical challenge at the Salters’ Festival of Chemistry at Queen’s University, Belfast.
  

The range of activities provided by the Chemistry Department in 2015-16 includes:

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  The Chemistry at Work Exhibition took place in the University of Ulster, Coleraine on 14 October. A group of Year 12 students attended this event where a range of companies such as Randox, Almac, and Norbrook presented practical demonstrations on various processes used in their industry whilst UU staff demonstrated some leading edge research and development projects.
  

4.5 DRAMA DEPARTMENT

GCSE

Entries	Grades	Outcome (%)
13	A*	30,8
	A*/A	77
	A*/B	100
	A*/C	100

A2

Entries	Grades	Outcome (%)
9	A*	0
	A*/A	25
	A*/B	83,3
	A*/C	100

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