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Ms O’Neill writes: “Congratulations to our Year 11 group for their performance in the King’s Trust Enterprise final. They put forward their fund-raising project for MyMy, the community based mental health and well-being charity. This is the first occasion a County Down school has made it to the final. The Shimna team delivered their presentation with confidence, displaying professionalism and knowledge of The Marketing Mix to include promotion, pricing strategies and costings

Thank you to everyone who took part on Wednesday in another hugely successful NIBTS session in school. We had lots of people donating for the first time, as well as raising awareness if this vital organisation - https://nibts.hscni.net/ Lynn from NIBTS contacted the College to say: “we lifted 71 units, which equates to 213 lives saved. Please let your students and staff know what an amazing job they have done.” A huge thank you to the students, staff and members of our wider

Last Thursday, our Senior Netballers played a competitive match today against a strong Regent House team, eventually going down 26-19. This was an achievement in itself as many of the girls are in the Intermediate team playing at a senior level. The attacking players were ably led by Mila Astruc-Kidd, who along with Parisa Susay-Quinn and Bridie Gribben, provided the shooters, Hope Sherlock, Lucy Mc Grady and Anna Stannett, with excellent scoring opportunities. The defensive

The Shimna Model Railway Club has been up and running for a month now. Progress has been made in developing model railway layouts and creating scenery, such as trees and buildings. The eventual goal is to build a Shimna themed model railway layout resembling our campus. Club members can bring their own trains to use on the school layout, and we have our own expert in Year 10 student Christopher Rooney, Club founder. The Club meets after school on a Wednesday in the Art Depart

Our U14 Girls Gaelic team made the short trip to Bryansford GAC to face off against St. Colman's, Ballynahinch in their Ulster LGFA Championship game. While both teams were guaranteed quarter final places, top spot in the group was at place. The game started with both schools going back and forth for the first 5 minutes with Evie Sloan and Katie Shiells the scorers for Shimna. Shimna then burst into gear and two quick goals from Robyn Rick gave Shimna a commanding lead. Shimn