Celebrating Success with the iDEA Awards During the last academic year, pupils in Year 9 embarked on an exciting educationl journey in ICT where they participated in the iDEA Awards programme. During this journey, pupils worked towards badges which recognises the achivement of pupils as they successfully completed the various challenges. We are delighted [...]
Excellent Results at RSA The wait finally ended for pupils of The Royal School, Armagh as they collected their A Level and their GCSE results on Tuesday 10 and Thursday 12 August respectively. Another difficult academic year, which saw a prolonged period of school closure and the cancellation of examinations, was over. A Level [...]
CONGRATULATIONS TO LUCY ADDIS - WINNER OF THE SCHOOLS SCIENCE WRITING COMPETITION MICHAELMAS TERM 2020 Pictured: Lucy alongside The Headmaster, Mr. Montgomery with her certificate and published article Congratulations to Lucy Addis, current Year 13 pupil who won the Schools Science Writing Competition for the Michaelmas Term 2020. The Oxford Scientist is a [...]
Introduction For the third year running, The Royal School Armagh has participated in the GCHQ's annual 'CyberFirst Girls Competition'. Last year, we were delighted to reach the regional finals where the girls competed against the top schools in Northern Ireland. We finished third on that occasion, despite leading the competition for over three and [...]
We are pleased to be able to share our Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols with you. We are grateful to St Patrick’s Cathedral for granting access to our readers and to all connected to our music department by whose efforts this festival has been made possible. Merry Christmas.
Virtual Talent Show Our end of year talent show usually consists of a packed-out assembly hall enjoying the array of acts performing their talents on stage. For obvious reasons, it was not possible to hold such an event this year. Not to deter us, we put together a virtual talent show instead, where pupils [...]
Congratulations to the following pupils who won house points for their respective Houses: 1. Emily Dunwoody (D’Arcy) 2. Edythe Qua (Armstrong) 3. Reuben McDowell (Rokeby) 4. Laura Lu (Beresford) The vast number of entries submitted really impressed us and the standard was very high. Thank you to Mr. McClure, Mrs. Shufflebottom, and Mr. Aitken [...]
Today we held our annual remembrance service to reflect on and give thanks for the sacrifice of those who fell in the struggle for freedom in the world wars and subsequent conflicts. On this day we particularly recall those Old Armachians who died as a result of conflict. This was a very different service with [...]
The idea of the RSA Enrichment Programme came to fruition during the early stages of the Coronavirus pandemic. It was realised that in these unprecedented times, we all faced a number of academic and emotional challenges. As a way to congratulate our pupils for the hard work put into online learning over the lockdown period, [...]
