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Under 14 Sevens squad

reached the semi-final of the Campbell College Sevens tournament on Saturday 13th March.

Well done to the team and their coach Mr Greer!

Debating Team reach semi final of Schools Cup

David Wood and Jack Penn defeated BRA in the Quarter Final of the NI Schools Competition, and will now go through to the semi-finals. This means that BGS has reached quarter finals every year in the past eight, has reached semi finals on three occasions, and has won the NI Cup twice.

Senior Debaters attend BBC Question Time

 

Bangor Grammar School Publishes its Admissions Criteria for 2010

The Board of Governors has now published its admissions criteria for prospective Year 8 pupils in 2010. In broad outline, the process will be as follows:

The admissions number for the School is 125. The first 112 places (90%) will be allocated on the basis of the rank order of the scores gained in the AQE Common Entrance Assessments. The next 26 applicants in the AQE rank order will be placed in a pool and the non-academic criteria will be applied to the pool to determine the remaining 13 places.

This is, in practice, extremely close to the procedure which was employed until the last year of the old Transfer Tests. The reasoning behind the selection of criteria has been clearly outlined by the Board of Governors in its ‘Rationale,’ which may be accessed by clicking here.

If you wish to read the full detail of the criteria, together with the arrangements for applications under ‘Special Circumstances’ and ‘Special Provision,’ please click here.

Those wishing to make an application under Special Circumstances should do so using the AQE form SC09 (click link to access form).

Open Evening 2010

The school opened its doors to prospective pupils and their parents on Thursday 21st January 2010.

For more information on our Open Evening click here.

Dates and Holidays 2010-11 academic year published

click here to access a summary of the main holiday dates for next year.

Latest BGS News published

Click here to download our winter newsletter.

New School Delay Announced

Parents and friends of the School will already be aware that there has been a delay in our new school project. Because of the economic climate, budgets have been cut in the public sector and this has had, of course, an impact on the Department of Education’s planned spending in the next financial year. Unfortunately, the only building projects going ahead are those which have already been started and we have been advised that our new school development must, therefore, be put on temporary hold.

We expect that construction will now begin in the spring of 2011 with completion programmed for the summer 2013.

More news...

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Charity Work Autumn/Winter 09

Autumn News edition 1

Autumn News edition 2

Autumn News edition 3