Bangor Grammar School Our School Prospective Students Parents News Vacancy Contact Related Pages Latest News Diary Listing Calendar Galleries Gryphon Latest News WEDNESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2021 Personal Statements Parent Governor Nominations Dear Parent/Guardian TUESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2021 Children in Need 2021 TUESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2021 Jnr School Orienteering Competition FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER 2021 Belfast City Marathon Relay Three teams of Year 14 pupils took part in this year’s Belfast City Marathon Relay raising £1385 for the NI Children’s Hospice in memory of two past pupils. WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2021 AQE Familiarisation - Nov 5th We look forward to welcoming pupils sitting the AQE assessments to our Familiarisation day on the afternoon of Friday 5th November. THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 CCF NNAS Bronze Award THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2021 First Aid at Work Course At the beginning of September 11 senior cadets completed and passed a first aid at work course which was run at Bangor Grammar School. The course consisted of 18 hours face to face learning covering topics such as CPR, use of an AED and a variety of injuries and illnesses. There was plenty of opportunity to put the theory into practice using manikins, trainer AED’s, chocking vests and trainer Epipen’s. Each of the cadets came away with an accredited and recognised qualification which is valid for 3 years. MONDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2021 CyberFirst Schools Recognition Bronze Award Bangor Grammar School has achieved the CyberFirst Schools Recognition Bronze Award! This award highlights how important we perceive cyber security education as a school. Recognised by the National Cyber Security Centre, this will give Bangor Grammar the opportunity to engage with industry and local universities, help establish a community from across the secondary and FE education network and give us a chance to take part in the increasing and varied CyberFirst opportunities. TUESDAY 26 JANUARY 2021 Open Day 2021 WEDNESDAY 6 JANUARY 2021 UPDATED: Admissions Criteria 2021 Please see the below PDF for admissions criteria. Admissions page will be updated to reflect this document. THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2020 CCF Remembrance 2020 WEDNESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2020 Remembrance Day 2020 Please join us, in the only way we can, for Remembrance Day. TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2020 Chamber Choir in lockdown You can lockdown a nation, but you canâ€™t lockdown creativity.Â I was delighted to work remotely with our Chamber Choir boys in producing this virtual performance of Light in the Hallway.Â In the process of recording there were hiccups, there were challenges, there were frustrations and there were difficulties, but the end result was worth all the work and effort.Â There is no doubt that this was a learning curve for us all, including me!Â However, with a carefully recorded guide track and rehearsal video, the boys rose to the challenge. FRIDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2020 Careers and Universities Fair 2020 SATURDAY 11 JANUARY 2020 Ulster Junior and Intermediate Cup Swimming SATURDAY 11 JANUARY 2020 Bangor Grammar Open Day 2020 FRIDAY 20 DECEMBER 2019 Peacing It Together 2 TUESDAY 10 DECEMBER 2019 Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2019 Commonwealth Festival of Lifesaving WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2019 BGS Interview Skills Day FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2019 Children in Need 2019 THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2019 Stephen Clements Show at BGS WEDNESDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2019 Children in Need Song FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2019 Commonwealth Festival of Lifesaving TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER 2019 Ulster Schools Swimming Championships FRIDAY 16 AUGUST 2019 Summer Nationals Swimming results THURSDAY 6 JUNE 2019 Now we go for gold! FRIDAY 12 APRIL 2019 Action Cancer Bag Drop THURSDAY 11 APRIL 2019 Abaana New Life Choir 2019 THURSDAY 11 APRIL 2019 Bangor International Choral Festival success! TUESDAY 9 APRIL 2019 Author Visit: Dave Rudden TUESDAY 26 MARCH 2019 Shared Education: Learning for Life and Work MONDAY 18 MARCH 2019 Sponsored Walk 2019 TUESDAY 5 MARCH 2019 Spanish Debate Analysis THURSDAY 31 JANUARY 2019 Many thanks to The Beachside Apartment, Groomsport! MONDAY 28 JANUARY 2019 NI Children’s Hospice Fundraiser SATURDAY 12 JANUARY 2019 Bangor Grammar Open Day 2019 WEDNESDAY 12 DECEMBER 2018 Toy Drop at Christmas for St Vincent de Paul FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2018 Children in Need 2018 SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2018 Remembrance Parade World War I 100 Years Remembered THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2018 CCEA Maths Event THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2018 Ulster Water Polo u15 THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2018 Coo Rom kitchen dedication to Mrs. Claire Greenaway MONDAY 22 OCTOBER 2018 House Quiz 2018 FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER 2018 BGS Celebrates the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1 Click for info regarding tickets and venues. WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2018 UYC Choral Workshop On Wednesday 17th October, we welcomed Mr Andrew Nunn, Artistic Director of the Ulster Youth Choir to the Music Department. SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER 2018 BGS 12-7 Ballyclare High School Click for report by Simon Hull. FRIDAY 12 OCTOBER 2018 Military Skills Competition Over the weekend of the 12th-14th of October BGS CCF entered two teams into the Brigade CCF Military Skills competition. WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER 2018 Shared Education Conference Our Principals and Shared Education coordinators together for the annual shared education conference. MONDAY 8 OCTOBER 2018 Terra Nova Theatre Company Workshops This year the company offered BGS students the exclusive opportunity to work with a professional facilitator for two in-school Drama workshops which would give them a flavour of some of the themes which would be explored by the participants of the DREAM project. MONDAY 8 OCTOBER 2018 BGS Pupil is NI Youth Champion Congratulations to our Year 13 student Dan McGaughey who has been crowned NI Youth Champion sailor after winning all five races at the RYANI youth championships. SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER 2018 Sullivan Upper School 33-10 BGS Click for report by Simon Hull. SATURDAY 6 OCTOBER 2018 CCF NATIONAL REGATTA This Regatta was an amazing experience from having to wake up at dawn to march to breakfast to sailing across the water of Porchester Lake. MONDAY 1 OCTOBER 2018 Ulster Schools Junior Stroke Play Championship Our Junior golf team of Max Carson (Y11), Adam Smith, and Ben Escott (both Y12) have won the Ulster Schools Junior Strokeplay Championship for the second year in a row. SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2018 BGS 66-24 Belfast High School Click for report by Simon Hull. WEDNESDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2018 Year 8 Ballykinler Trip On 26th-28th September, our Year 8 spent two nights at Ballykinler Barracks. MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2018 Gerard Siggins author visit On Monday 24th September the BGS Library was delighted to welcome Gerard Siggins author of the ‘Rugby Spirit’ series into school to speak to our year 8 students. SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2018 Ballymena Academy 31-14 BGS Click for report by Simon Hull. SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2018 The Royal Irish Colours Parade On Saturday the 22nd of September marked a historical day for our parent unit the Royal Irish Regiment not only were both battalions receiving new colours but this was the first occasion when a parade of this level was not carried out “behind the wire”. SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2018 BGS 59-5 Belfast Metropolitan College Click for report by Simon Hull. SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2018 Bangor Grammar School 7 - 12 Royal School Armagh Click for report by Simon Hull. MONDAY 30 JULY 2018 Archery GB Youth Festival In July, Ryan was again selected to travel to the Archery GB Youth Festival at Lilleshall in Shropshire. About 160 young archers from across the UK and Ireland attended for a week of competitions. WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2018 Abaana Trip 2018 Click for details on how to follow their trip. TUESDAY 26 JUNE 2018 History/ICT Year 8 project In the summer term, Mr Ramsey (ICT) and Mr Moreland (History) collaborated in a cross curricular project with Year 8s. The question of how a computer defeated Nazi Germany in WW2 was delivered through a series of lessons in both subjects. MONDAY 18 JUNE 2018 German Exchange Visit to Lachendorf Towards the end of the Summer term, seven boys and two members of staff, Mr Nicholl and Mr Ramsey, embarked on the annual German Exchange with the Immanuel-Kant Gymansium in Lachendorf, Northern Germany. FRIDAY 8 JUNE 2018 IET Faraday Challenge Day On Friday, 8th June 2018 we hosted a Faraday Challenge Day in Bangor Grammar School, run by the Institution of Engineering and Technology and aimed at encouraging more young people to engage in the STEM subjects and to consider engineering as a possible career path. TUESDAY 5 JUNE 2018 Microsoft HQ Trip in Dublin On Tuesday 5th June the Year 10s had the great fortune to visit the new Microsoft HQ in Dublin. SATURDAY 12 MAY 2018 RAF 100 Athletics Meeting BGS CCF was kindly given an invite to attend the RAF 100 athletics meeting at the Mary Peters track on the 12th of May. THURSDAY 10 MAY 2018 2018 CCF Promotions Click for full details. MONDAY 30 APRIL 2018 Chamber Choir Report Click for the full 2017/18 report. FRIDAY 27 APRIL 2018 Irish School Junior Golf Championship 2018 Having won the Ulster Schools Junior Golf Championship our team of Jude Devlin, Max Carson and Lewis Gowdy travelled to Monkstown Golf Club outside Cork to represent Ulster in the Irish Schools National Final. WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL 2018 CCF Awards 2018 Click to view all awards. WEDNESDAY 11 APRIL 2018 Sgt Watton Master Cadet Course The master cadet course was an amazing opportunity that anyone who gets a chance should take. The course is challenging physically and mentally. I and the rest of my platoon took part in a range of activities across the syllabus over the four-day exercise period. THURSDAY 22 MARCH 2018 BGS Wall of Fame launch SPORTING stars of the past six decades gathered at Bangor Grammar School on Tuesday evening for the launch of its new Sporting Wall of Fame. WEDNESDAY 21 MARCH 2018 CCF Easter Camp 2018 . The cadets paraded in their matching hoodies all ready for the long journey across the water and down through Scotland into England. The destination was Halton Camp in Lancaster. SUNDAY 18 MARCH 2018 National Navigation Award Assessment “If it’s not raining then we’re not training” as the old Army saying goes and that was true when 34 of our APCA (Year 12) group set off for their assessment at Crawfordsburn Country Park. SATURDAY 17 MARCH 2018 DoE Yr 13: Gold Training Expedition to the Mournes The Year 13 Gold group consisted of 13 pupils assisted by two staff. Training took place in Tollymore Forest Park where the boys refreshed their campcraft skills, pitching their tents before cooking on the trangia stoves. FRIDAY 9 MARCH 2018 Minor Boys' League at the Ulster Finals Congratulations to the Minor Badminton team of Nathan Belshaw, 9SJW; Ross Fulton, 10NN; Rory Patterson, 9MN and Ethan Mairs, 10DAH for winning the Division A Minor Boys? League at the Ulster Finals. FRIDAY 9 MARCH 2018 APCA & Naval 2 Star Weekend On the weekend of 9-11 March cadets took part in the cold and wet for some focused training. WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH 2018 Heaney trip Pupils took part in a programme specifically designed for AS Level pupils studying the Robert Frost and Seamus Heaney poetry anthology. TUESDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2018 Year 10 Parents Evening Please view the attached documents. SATURDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2018 Medallion Bowl 2017-18 Please click for full report. SUNDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2018 Orienteering Competition BGS CCF entered a very strong team into the Brigade Cadet Orienteering Competition being held in the grounds of Campbell College. FRIDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2018 Choices Booklet Please see the attached PDF if you were receiving errors via email. TUESDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2018 District Cross Country Championships 37 BGS athletes braved the cold conditions at Campbell and competed admirably in the District Cross Country Championships. WEDNESDAY 31 JANUARY 2018 CCF Recruit Weekend The CCF took part in two recruit weekends for the year 10 cadets, in total over 80 cadets took part in these weekends. MONDAY 8 JANUARY 2018 BANGOR GRAMMAR CADETS DISCOVER LOCAL HEROES OF WW1 A challenge to find out more about the history of World War I by researching stories of ?local heroes? has connected North Down teenagers with heroes of the past. MONDAY 18 DECEMBER 2017 The UK Mathematics Trust Senior Challenge The UK Mathematics Trust holds mathematics challenges for varying levels of mathematical abilities. Many of the boys have achieved Bronze and Silver Awards in the Senior Challenge held in November. THURSDAY 7 DECEMBER 2017 Shakespeare Workshop hosted by Queen's University Year 12 participate in a Shakespeare workshop. THURSDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2017 Drama: Blood Brothers Click for full details! WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2017 Champion of Champions tournament Congratulations to Ben Dempster who finished 2nd place in yesterday?s Badminton ?Champion of Champions? tournament in Lisburn Racquets club. MONDAY 23 OCTOBER 2017 Mandarin Classes Lili and Candice from the Confucius Institute teaching the boys how to write Mandarin characters with brushes. SUNDAY 8 OCTOBER 2017 Sponsored Abseil On Sunday 8 boys took part in a Sponsored Abseil down at the Europa Hotel to raise money for their trip to Uganda in 2018. FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER 2017 MacMillan Coffee Morning Bangor Grammar took part in the World?s Biggest Coffee Morning for MacMillan Cancer raising an incredible ?515.25. WEDNESDAY 4 OCTOBER 2017 Downtown Radio Interview David Gordon invited three members of the Uganda 2108 team to be on his Sunday Reflections Show on Downtown Radio. FRIDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2017 Year 11 Medallion XV - New Shirt Sponsor Mrs. Huddleson presented the Medallion XV with their new shirts for the 2017-18 season this morning. WEDNESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2017 Playground Equipment for Coo-Rom A thank you from Coo-Rom! MONDAY 4 SEPTEMBER 2017 Awards Assembly Year 8 having attended their first Awards Assembly celebrating academic excellence in external exams. SUNDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2017 Silver Medals for Ulster U18 Hockey Team Harry Dow and Stephen Hamill have won Silver Medals for Ulster U18 Hockey Team. THURSDAY 24 AUGUST 2017 Outstanding achievements! Archie Arran and Michael Cameron between them have achieved 17A*, 3A and 1B grade. View archived news items Subscribe to our news as an RSS feed Contact Us Bangor Grammar School Gransha Road, Bangor, Co Down BT19 7QU 028 91 473734 info@bgs.bangor.ni.sch.uk © 2021 Bangor Grammar School • Legal Information Website Design by Greenhouse School Websites