BAA Annual Table Quiz Friday 19th April 2013 7.30pm Banbridge Hockey Club £5 per person with a maximum 6 persons per table

This year's Colours Awards Assembly took place on Wednesday 26th March in the School Assembly Hall.  The guest speaker was international hockey player, Angela Platt.  The Colin Taylor Award for Sporting Contribution was presented to Thomas Sturgeon.  The Danny Johnston Award for Sporting Excellence in a Junior Pupil was presented to Patrick McNiff.  The Physique Award for Sporting Excellence w ...

The Finance Minister, Mr Sammy Wilson, MP MLA, visited our school today to speak to pupils in Politics, Business Studies and Economics. He spoke to our senior pupils in the Assembly Hall and he also answered questions which were mainly in relation to their AS/A2 courses.  

The University of Ulster will be holding a Parents’ Evening on Monday 15th April, 7.00pm – 9.00pm, at the Jordanstown Campus for parents of Year 10-13 school children. The purpose of the evening is to give parents the opportunity to meet staff and students and to find out more about life at the University of Ulster.  During the evening the various progression routes to university will be dis ...

There certainly was no unlucky thirteen for the Academy U13 side as they beat a confident Wallace High School side on their own home patch to claim the title of Ulster Schools Champions for the 13th time. The locals have shown solid progression under Coach Simon Jess this year and with the likes of Owen Magee, Matthew Bell, Michael Anderson and Matthew Bell all pitching in on a regular basis the t ...

Well done to everyone who had any part to play in last night’s superb Spring Concert. It was an excellent evening, enjoyed by all! Our young people are hugely talented and their performances last night were very impressive. Thanks are also due to Mrs McNeilly, Miss Porter, Mrs Morrow, Mr Erskine and Mr Maguire for making sure that everything was in place and for bringing out the best in ou ...

Congratulations to all the Young Enterprise Directors who graduated yesterday (Wednesday 20th March) at a ceremony held at The Titanic, Belfast. Ignition, managed by Cliona Kelly, were presented with the Best Marketing Award. Banbridge Academy was bestowed with their second award for a Centre of Excellence. The Year 13 pupils listed below all attended the Young Enterprise Graduation Ceremony  ...

ACADEMY BOYS MAKE HISTORY YET AGAIN!  The Senior 1st X1 wrote themselves into the record books by becoming the first school in Ulster to win the Burney Schools Cup outright for the fourth consecutive time. The game lived up to everyone’s expectations with passion and skill in abundance and played in front of one of the largest Cup final crowds for many years at Comber Road, Hillsborough. Some  ...

Commiserations to the U18 football team who unfortunately lost to Belfast Met earlier today (Wednesday 20th March) in the semi-final of the NI Schools’ Cup. The boys did themselves much credit in this competition. Well done to Mr Irwin and his talented squad of players!