The picture shows Miss Laura McBride who has recently been appointed teacher of Biology to Advanced Level working on an experiment with two of her Upper Sixth pupils.

Miss McBride was of course Head Girl in 1999-2000 and is one of a large number of former Ballycastle pupils who are carving out a successful career in the teaching profession.

Most notable is the number of former Ballycastle pupils teaching in our local primary schools. Mrs Julie Neill is in Ballycastle Integrated Primary School, Mrs Lynda Morrison is in Straidbilly, Miss Leanne Matthews is in Dunseverick, both Mrs Caroline Irwin and Mrs Louise Simpson are in Bushvalley while Mr G Black is principal of Knockahollet.

Many former pupils are working in more distant primary schools while in the post primary sector we have former pupils teaching in both Ballymoney High School and Dalriada and in an amazing coincidence when Mrs Melanie Dougherty who was Head Girl in Ballycastle in 1996-97 took a maternity leave from her post of teacher of History to Advanced Level in Foyle and Londonderry College, she was replaced by Miss Danielle Nicholl who was Ballycastle Head Girl in 2003-2004.