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Foyle College
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| motto = Fostering Opportunities for Young Learners to Excel
| established = 1617
| closed =
| type = Grammar school
| president =
| head_label = Principal
| head = vacant
| founder = Mathias Springham
| address = 67 Limavady Road
| city = Derry, County Londonderry
| country = Northern Ireland
| postcode = BT47 6LR
| affiliation =
| ofsted =
| staff =
| enrolment = 850
| gender = Co-educational
| lower_age = 11
| upper_age = 18
| houses = Lawrence, Duncreggan, Springham, Northlands
| colours = Maroon, Blue & White
| publication = Falcon - Foyle College Official News
| free_label_1 = Board of Governors
| free_1 = Representatives from The Honourable The Irish Society, Department of Education, Foundation, Presbytery of Derry and Strabane, Diocese of Derry and Raphoe (Church of Ireland), University of Ulster, Old Boy's Association, Old Girl's Association, Staff & Parents.
| website = {{urlweblink}}
History
{{unreferenced section|date=March 2017}}Foyle College and Londonderry High School have been providing education for young people in the Derry area and further afield for more than 400 years. In October 2007, the school celebrated its 390th anniversary with a plaque commemorating headmasters of the school since 1617. The school then celebrated their 400th anniversary, in 2017, with a service in St Columb's Cathedral on the official anniversary date of 3 March. a commemorative concert in Derry's Guildhall was held, a special dinner also took place. A proposed plaque is to be unveiled and many artifacts from Foyle College's past were exhibited in the Siege Museum, on Society Street, from April 2017 to October 2017. Many more commemorative events also took place throughout the course of 2017.Foyle College{{anchor|Londonderry School Act 1808|Londonderry School Act 1809|Foyle College Act 1874}}
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Londonderry High School
Like Foyle College, Londonderry High School owed its existence to the merging of two independent institutions. The first of these, the Ladies' Collegiate School, was set up in 1877 by the Misses McKillip - pioneers in the movement for higher education for women in Ireland. Their vision and drive resulted in the starting of a school at 11 Queen Street. Two further moves saw the renamed Victoria High School located in Crawford Square, where boarding and day pupils were accommodated. The nearby Northlands School of Housewifery (1908) was associated with Victoria High School.At the top of Lawrence Hill, Miss J. Kerr had opened St. Lurach's College circa 1900 - this school also took boarders. Strand House School (1860) closed during the First World War and the girls mostly went to Victoria or St. Lurach's. In 1922 Victoria High School and St. Lurach's amalgamated to form Londonderry High School. By 1928 Duncreggan, formerly the home of the late William Tillie, Lord Lieutenant of the City of Londonderry, had been purchased and the boarders were transferred there from St. Lurach's. In the immediate post-war period there was an ever-growing need for increased educational facilities. The high point of an ambitious and forward-looking programme was undoubtedly the opening of the new £150,000 building extensions between Duncreggan House and Dunseverick.{{anchor|Foyle and Londonderry College Act 1976}}factoids | |
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Present
Following a relocation to a new £24 million single campus, the school now sits on the Limavady Road at the site of the former US Naval Communications Station.WEB, 2019-02-07, HRH The Princess Royal opens £24million Foyle College,weblink 2023-01-30, Education, en, This means for the first time in 50 years, all the pupils in Foyle College are on one site. As a grammar school it admits pupils based on academic selection. The school joined the Association for Quality Education (AQE) which requires prospective pupils to take the AQE Common Entrance exam in order to be admitted to the college from 2010.NEWS,weblink BBC News, All city grammar schools to test, 3 March 2017, In 2010 the results of pupils who sat the AQE entrance exam were published. Of successful applicants to Foyle College, only 11 out of the 126 who were admitted into Year 8 achieved the top grade Q1, but 40 pupils who received the lowest grade Q4 were admitted.NEWS,weblink Belfast Telegraph, Revealed - Northern Ireland grammar school entrance test lottery, 3 March 2017, In 2011, a re-brand of the school was carried out by the schools governors to reputedly reflect popular usage in the city of Derry, where the school is almost universally known as Foyle College.NEWS,weblink Londonderry Sentinel, Foyle College set to rebrand, However, although the school's name and crest was re-branded, the college's legal name will continue to be Foyle and Londonderry College.NEWS,weblink Londonderry Sentinel, Foyle College set to rebrand, NEWS,weblink Londonderry Sentinel, Campaign against college name change, 3 March 2017, Deep-seated objections with regard to the school's name change have been made to the local press by members of the Londonderry High School Old Girls Association. They claim the change of the college's name amounts to a jettisoning of the link from the former all-girls school, Londonderry High School, and that the name change has been taken by the governors without any real consultation with them.NEWS,weblink Londonderry Sentinel, Campaign against college name change, 3 March 2017, All the core subjects, as well as a number of options, are offered up until the end of Key Stage 3. Pupils then sit GCSEs. With suitable grades, they have the option to study AS and A2 levels in the Sixth Form.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}The school is officially non-denominational.WEB,weblink Foyle & Londonderry College, Londonderry, Londonderry, Independent Schools, Isc.co.uk, 26 February 2011,weblink" title="archive.today/20130421012253weblink">weblink 2013-04-21, dead, WEB,weblink Clooney Regeneration masterplan, PDF, 26 February 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110424105928weblink">weblink 2011-04-24, dead, NEWS,weblink Derry Journal, New crest unveiled as Foyle College reverts to its old name, 3 March 2017,Houses
Pupils are assigned to one of four houses in the first year. Houses are primarily for Sports Day and inter-house sports tournaments. The school tie has stripes which indicate which house a pupil belongs to. The houses are as follows:- Lawrence - Named in honour of notable alumnus The 1st Baron Lawrence, a Viceroy of India (blue stripes).
- Duncreggan - Representing Duncreggan House, where the Senior School was located before the move to Limavady Road, i.e. the site of the pre-amalgamation Londonderry High School (red stripes).
- Springham - Named in honour of the founder of the Free Grammar School, Mathias Springham (yellow stripes).
- Northlands - The area where the Junior School was located i.e. the site of the pre-amalgamation Foyle College (green stripes).
Facilities
The main school building features a variety of classrooms for Modern Foreign Languages, Mathematics, English, History, Geography, Business Studies and Religious Education, in addition to specialist rooms for Technology and Design, Information Technology, Home Economics, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Art, Drama, and Music. The PE department houses an all-weather hockey pitch, 4 grass rugby pitches, a gravel athletics area, an indoor sports hall and gym, in addition to 6 changing rooms with showers. The school also has 2 hot food counters, and 3 "Grab N Go" quick food counters.Extracurricular {| style"float:right;"
Sport
The most popular sports in the school include rugby union (which has seen three tours to Australia and the South Pacific) and hockey (which toured to Barcelona in 2006). The rugby team (as Foyle College) has twice won the Ulster Schools Cup; in 1915 beating The Royal School, Armagh, and in 1900 beating Methodist College, Belfast. It has been a runner up on three occasions. Foyle and Londonderry College's most recent rugby silverware was won in the 2007-2008 season; FALC defeated Cambridge House at Ravenhill to win the Ulster Schools Bowl to win this competition for the second time in three years after beating Limavady Grammar in the 2005-2006 season again at Ravenhill. In hockey, the school has won the Ulster Cup twice, most recently in 2009 after beating Ballymena Academy 1â0, and reached the final on two other occasions. They won the Plate in 2006, and again in 2007. {{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}Cricket is the main summer sport. In 2003 FALC won the Ulster Bank Schools' Cup defeating local rivals Strabane Grammar by two wickets. The Headmaster has popularised the sport of fencing within the school, producing UK and Irish champions. {{Citation needed|date=April 2011}}Football is another sport that has been recently made available for pupils in Foyle, with three teams competing in the annual Northern Ireland School's Cup competition, at U14, U16 and U18 level.Music
The choir compete at the annual Sainbury's School Choir of the Year. The musicals are every two years with the break years being filled with non-musicals such as A Midsummer Night's Dream. Past musicals have included Annie, Oliver, The Mikado, Bugsy Malone, Me and My Girl, Calamity Jane, We Will Rock You, Hairspray and most recently Footloose.WEB, Foyle College,weblink 2023-01-30, www.facebook.com, en,Notable pupils
{{see also|Category:People educated at Foyle College}}- Sir Michael Alexander, a former British Ambassador to NATO and a former British Ambassador to Austria
- Eva Birthistle, actress (Ae Fond Kiss); moved to Derry at the age of 14.WEB, Published on Wed Jan 28 14:40:31 GMT 2009,weblink A new stage for Ivan's sounds, Derry Journal, 2011-02-26,
- Amanda Burton, actress
- Ivan Cooper, politician, leading member of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement, and co-founder of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)
- Mark Daley, Irish-American broadcaster
- George Farquhar, Irish dramatist
- William Percy French, songwriter
- Ken Goodall, former rugby union international
- W.M. Gorman, Irish economist
- James Gwyn, Brevet Major General in the Union Army
- Neil Hannon, musician from art-pop band "The Divine Comedy" (attended Preparatory Department)
- Brigadier-General Sir Henry Lawrence, soldier/statesman in British India
- The Rt Hon. The 1st Baron Lawrence, P.C., Viceroy of India (1864â1869)
- Seamus Mallon, current Rugby Union player
- Stanley Mitchell, first-class cricketer and former president of the Irish Cricket Union
- George Fletcher Moore, prominent early settler in Western Australia
- Johan Thoning Owesen, Irish-Norwegian shipowner and philanthropist
- The Rt Hon. Sir Robert Porter, PC (NI), QC, former Minister of Home Affairs (1969 - 1970), politician, barrister and judge
- The Rt Hon. Sir John Ross, 1st Bt, P.C. (I.), K.C., last Lord Chancellor of Ireland (1921â1922)
- Leah Totton, cosmetic doctor who gained fame as the winner of the 9th series of the BBC One television programme, The Apprentice
- Claude Wilton, lawyer and civil rights activistweblink {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050408220929weblink|date=8 April 2005}}
See also
References
{{reflist}}External links
- Foyle and Londonderry College Official Website
- weblink" title="archive.today/20130421012253weblink">Profile on the ISC website [Archive]
- weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130504130834weblink">Profile on HMC website [Archive]
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