At Our Lady of Lourdes, we pride ourselves on providing outstanding pastoral care and achieving excellent academic outcomes. Our dedicated staff work tirelessly to create a nurturing environment where every student feels valued and supported.
We are excited to share that we have realigned our vision and values to better reflect our commitment to our students and community. Our vision, "Caring, Sharing, Learning together to meet the future," encapsulates our dedication to fostering a collaborative and inclusive atmosphere.
Our core values of respect, kindness, and teamwork guide everything we do. We believe that by instilling these values in our students, we prepare them not only for academic success but also for meaningful and fulfilling lives.
Thank you for being a part of our school community. Together, we will continue to strive for excellence and support each other in every endeavour.
Our Lady of Lourdes School is growing steadily in terms of students joining the school. The school continues to attract students from across the whole ability range, and boys and girls of all abilities are thriving in our distinct small-school ethos and in our vision of enabling each individual pupil to bring light and dignity to the world – no child held back nor left behind.
We are proud of our students; their appearance, their conduct, their respect for themselves, others and for the school property. These are all sources of great encouragement in the present and of good hope for the future. Furthermore, their attendance is superb maintaining the position of the school in the top 5% of its kind in Northern Ireland. The students continue to grow in wisdom and flourish under the daily guidance and inspiration of a very able and extremely hardworking staff.
We place a strong emphasis on providing our pupils with a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities; for example, Ski Trip, Hurling, Netball, Gaelic Football, Soccer, Camogie, Athletics, Dance, Drama, Glee Choir, Irish Dancing, Table Tennis, Rugby, Hockey and Music play a significant part in the life of the school, as do a variety of educational outings and inter-school activities.
As an all-ability school, we are particularly proud of our excellent examination achievements; our students met or significantly outperformed the Northern Ireland non-selective school examination averages in every respect GCSE for the last two years.
Finally, the Education and Training Inspectorate undertook a standard inspection of the school and we were delighted that their findings are that: the quality of education provided by Our Lady of Lourdes School Ballymoney is very outstanding; and the school has a high level of capacity for sustained improvement in the interest of all the learners.
Our Lady of Lourdes is a happy school where students are expected to work hard and play hard, where they will find friends, lifetime experiences and be contented.
Mr S. Smyth
Principal
