A Welcome from the Headmaster

We launch this new site at a particularly auspicious time in our history. In this academic year we are celebrating the 150 years since our foundation in 1856, looking back, as we do so,in gratitude for all who have contributed to the life of the school. At the same time, we look forward in excitement to a brand new Bangor Grammar School, to be located on the Gransha Road and opening its doors to pupils in September 2010. This serendipitous conjunction is the reason for our anniversary motto, which expresses that Janus-like stance, celebrating the past and all that has gone to make our distinctive character, and, at the same time, building our future, literally in bricks and mortar, but also, crucially, in our boys.

When we move, we shall take with us all that makes us a remarkable and distinctive school. For 150 years we have served the needs of the boys of Bangor, valuing their uniqueness and enabling them to develop themselves intellectually, personally, imaginatively and spiritually. Our life is centred in the classroom and our reason for existing is to be found in the learning and teaching which takes place there. Education, however, happens not only in class, but also through the thousands upon thousands of encounters between staff and pupils which occur every day on the sports fields and training grounds, the mountains and ski slopes, in rehearsal and practice rooms. We form a community, a family, whose life continues seven days a week and virtually 52 weeks in the year. The diverse experience equips our boys for abundant and fulfilling lives.

Please take your time to navigate our site and find out what it is that makes Bangor Grammar School special. 

Stephen Connolly