It has been a hectic two months since we moved into our new school and everyone seems to like the buildings and all the facilities they offer. The community provision is beginning to be well used and and the Early Years Unit Manager is now in post with the recruitment process for the rest of the Creche staff well in motion. It is hoped to open the Unit after Easter and details about registering for Creche places will be available very soon. The Electronic Village Hall will also be available for use in early April and information about this exciting facility will soon be distributed to the local community.
Our Open Evening for prospective pupils and their parents held on 1st February was a roaring success with the new Performing Arts Hall filled to capacity with around 550 people and still some couldn’t get in. The feedback was very positive with almost everyone commenting on how impressed they were with the new school build. We hope that as many of those who wish to start in Year 8 in September are able to get in as we are capped at 160 places for 2010-2011. We have had many visitors looking around the new facilities including Department of Education, Department of Health, Education and Skills Authority, Strategic Investment Board, other Principals, Community Organisations and Belfast Education and Library Board personnel and everybody has been effusive in their praise for the excellent facilities.
We have been extremely busy both in and out of the classroom since Christmas and congratulations to Lucy Best on her achievements in the Biology Olympiad mentioned elsewhere in this edition of Click@GMS, also very well done to the Year 13 girls in their Young Enterprise venture LeapNI along with the girls of Little Flower and Our Lady if Mercy as they were involved in the launch of their product at Stormont hosted by Nelson McCausland and Alban Maginness while they are now in the European Final for an Excellence Award and we wish them all the best in this competition.
I hope you enjoy the March edition of our emagazine and thank all the contributors for their articles.
