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• Thursday 21 September 2023 Equestrian Success
• Thursday 21 September 2023 Creative Writing Success
• Wednesday 6 September 2023 SENIOR PREFECTS 2023-24 Mr McCallan has congratulated our newly elected Senior Prefects and wished the well for their key school leadership role for the coming year.
• Tuesday 5 September 2023 The Terex Global Business Services Award launched We are pleased to announce the launch of a new annual award within Lurgan College
• Friday 25 August 2023 Outstanding GCSE Results 2023!
• Friday 25 August 2023 Year 14 Induction The staff at Lurgan College were delighted to welcome back sixth form pupils for their Year 14 induction morning. During the programme Year 14 took part in some team building activities.
• Friday 18 August 2023 Delight at excellent A2/AS Level results' It was with a mix of nervousness and excitement that the Lurgan College Class of 2023 awaited their A level results on Thursday morning. Given the many challenges which this year group have had to face throughout their time at school due to the Covid-19 pandemic; the change from Centre Determined Grades to Centre Assessed Grades to this year sitting external examinations alone for the first time since 2019, such tension was completely understandable. Our pupils, however, need not have worried as they achieved an excellent set of results which, once again, featured some of the very best performances by College pupils in the school’s long and illustrious 150-year history.
• Friday 23 June 2023 'Blue Plaque' unveiled for former pupil Former pupil Mary Graham "Mollie" McGeown was honoured by the unveiling of a ‘Blue Plaque’ from the Ulster History Circle at school
• Friday 23 June 2023 Tiffany Murnaghan writing success Tiffany Murnaghan, one of our most prolific creative writers at Lurgan College, completes her final year at Lurgan College with the publication of her poem ‘Linen Hall Library’ in the ‘Write Up Your Street’ Publication (Fighting Words NI).
• Wednesday 21 June 2023 Award Ceremony for the Yoto Carnegie Medals
• Monday 19 June 2023 Silver Duke of Edinburgh 2023
• Friday 16 June 2023 150th Anniversary Dinner Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Lurgan College
• Friday 9 June 2023 150th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving Recording Click the link below to watch the recording of our150th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving which was held at Hill Street Presbyterian Church.
• Friday 9 June 2023 150th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving
• Thursday 4 May 2023 Senior Physics Challenge Congratulations to the Year 13 and Year 14 A level Physics pupils who achieved awards after taking part in the Physics Challenge Competition organised by Oxford University
• Tuesday 25 April 2023 Sports Day 2023 Lurgan College enjoyed celebrating Sports Day
• Thursday 30 March 2023 April Spring Concert Spring Concert 2023
• Thursday 30 March 2023 Physics Challenge Competition Year 12 Physics students achieve awards
• Thursday 30 March 2023 British Biology Olympiad: Success The British Biology Olympiad is run by the Institute of Biology, the professional body for Biology. It is a challenging experience aimed at stimulating those with an interest in Biology. This year almost 13000 top school biologists in the UK took part in the competition. This year some of our top Year 14 students rose to the challenge.
• Wednesday 15 March 2023 Scripture Union Formal Lurgan College Scripture Union formal made a welcome return after four years
• Monday 13 March 2023 BPW UK Inter-Regional Public Speaking Champions 2023
• Friday 3 March 2023 Shared Education Trip Year 14 English Literature students met up with a group of Year 13 and Year 14 students from St. Ronan's College to attend the live stream of the National Theatre's production of 'Othello' at the Queen's Film Theatre in Belfast.
• Friday 3 March 2023 New Irish Arts Residential Year 14 pupil, Ethan, took part in an orchestral residential organised by New Irish Arts. What a terrific platform to develop orchestral skills and network with other young musicians!
• Tuesday 28 February 2023 Year 11 History Trip Year 11 History Trip/Shared Education
• Monday 13 February 2023 BPW Public Speaking Success! Congratulations to our team of Bethany Blair, Luke Teggart and Eliana Hynes who finished runners up in the NI Final of the BPW Public Speaking Competition. Bethany also achieved the trophy for the Best Chairperson.
• Thursday 9 February 2023 Robyn exhibits at True Colours 2023 Last years A2 Art Student, Robyn McIlwaine had her stunning work chosen for the CCEA True Colours Exhibition, at the Ulster Museum. This showcased the work of some of Northern Ireland's most talented young artists and designers. Congratulations to Robyn and to Mrs Barbour for all of her help and support.
• Friday 3 February 2023 Mrs Finnegan wins Armaghi Award! We are absolutely delighted that Mrs Finnegan has won the Armaghi People of the Year 'Overcoming Adversity' Award.
• Friday 6 January 2023 Mr Robinson awarded an OBE Lurgan College is delighted that our former Headmaster, Mr Trevor Robinson, has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to Education.
• Saturday 3 December 2022 Equestrian success! Well done to Katie Robinson, Kirsten Bailie, Catherine and Sarah Cowan who won week 6 of the 2022 TRI Schools showjumping league and finished 2nd overall. Congratulations also to Sarah Cowan who finished 3rd overall (out of almost 100 competitors) in the individual class of the TRI School Show Jumping league.
• Saturday 3 December 2022 1st XI Girls Cup Win! Congratulations to our 1st XI Girls who defeated Regent House 2-1 in Round 2 of the Schools Cup. An excellent performance with goals from Clara McNeill and Sophie Wylie. Well done girls!
• Wednesday 30 November 2022 2nd XV win in the Cup! Congratulations to the 2XV who, having last week defeated Grosvenor Grammar School 29-15 in the 1st round of the 2XV Cup Competition, defeated Bangor Grammar School 10-5 in the 2nd Round. Try by Kyle Watson with Tom Stevenson converting this alongside a penalty.
• Tuesday 29 November 2022 Medallion XV progress in the Shield Congratulations to our Medallion XV who defeated Wellington College 29-24 in the Medallion Shield. Tries were scored by Ben Maxwell (2), Kody Watson, Andrew Bird and Alex Dillon, with Harry Kerr adding two conversions.
• Wednesday 23 November 2022 Iona wins in the Rotary Youth Leadership Development Competition Congratulations to Iona McIldoon (Yr13) who won the Rotary Youth Leadership Development Competition and now travels to Strasbourg in Feb ‘23 to take part in Euroscola.
• Tuesday 22 November 2022 Public Speaking Success Congratulations to Bethany Blair, Luke Teggart and Eliana Hynes, who finished runners up in the BPW Public Speaking Competition and will now progress to the NI Final in February.
• Monday 14 November 2022 Welcome to our new website

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