Speech Day 2025 Achievement recognised by Royal School Tradition was broken in St Mark’s Parish Church on Friday 19th September when the school held its first Speech Day for decades. Usually, this event is held on a Thursday night, but the move to Friday afternoon proved popular with an excellent attendance of pupils [...]
A Historic Royal Gun Salute at the Royal School Armagh On Monday, 8th September 2025, the Royal School Armagh had the great honour of hosting a Royal Gun Salute to mark the Accession of His Majesty King Charles III. The salute took place at 12:00 noon on the school’s rugby pitch, with the [...]
Royal School Armagh Pupils Celebrate Outstanding GCSE Results The wait finally ended for our Year 12 pupils as they collected their GCSE results from staff in the Assembly Hall from 08:30 yesterday. GCSE candidates still need to collect their results in school, so there was a great buzz of anticipation in the hall. [...]
Top Grades for Royal School in 2025 A Levels Results morning in school is quieter than it used to be. There is no longer a need to rush into school to nervously tear open an envelope and read about your future. These days, things can be more relaxed. University placements can be ascertained [...]
A snapshot of Royal School History: Schools’ Cup winners 1880 Wallace High School’s recent victory in the cup made me search for some of the Royal’s early successes.The accompanying photograph, probably the first showing pupils, was taken in the wake of the school’s fourth win since the cup was first awarded in 1876. Methodist College [...]
Academic Success and Character Celebrated at Royal School Speech Night St Mark’s Parish Church, Armagh was the venue on Thursday 19th September for our annual Speech Night. Following the academic procession, the ceremony was opened with the singing of ‘Love divine, all loves excelling’, and with prayers from the Rector of St Mark’s, Rev. [...]
Unveiling the New Sixth Form Common Room There was great expectation at school this morning when the new Sixth Form Common Room was opened for use. Over the summer major refurbishment took place in what was previously an underutilised locker space to develop a high quality, well lit and modern facility as a Sixth Form [...]
Fantastic GCSE achievement at RSA The wait finally ended for Year 12 pupils of The Royal School, Armagh as they collected their GCSE results from staff in the Assembly Hall from 08:30 on Thursday 22 August. As the envelopes were ripped opened hushed nervous conversation quickly turned to sighs of relief and screams [...]
2024 A Level Exam Success at the Royal School Relief, celebration, and a few tears of joy were mingled at the Royal School on Thursday morning as another fine set of A Level results were recorded by pupils. These were the first A Level results since the COVID 19 pandemic where outcomes were matched [...]
Achievement recognised by Royal School Armagh St Mark’s Parish Church, Armagh was the venue on Thursday 21st September for our annual Speech Night. Following the academic procession, the ceremony was opened with the singing of ‘In Christ Alone’, and with prayers from the Rector of St Mark’s, Rev. Canon M T Kingston, and the Head [...]
