Ballycastle High School pupils have enjoyed considerable success in the prestigious Spirit of Enniskillen Scheme. This is a leadership programme aiming at developing the skills in some of the outstanding sixth formers in Northern Ireland which will help them to make a positive contribution to our society. The scheme was established by Mr Gordon Wilson in an attempt to ensure that something positive came from the Remembrance Day bomb in 1987.

Successful applicants spend part of the summer in an area overseas which has suffered from conflict, studying other cultures and how they have set about solving the problems in their society. Places on the programme are keenly contested by pupils from most of the major schools in the country and it is quite remarkable that pupils from Ballycastle High School have been successful in each of the past ten years.

This year no fewer than five Ballycastle High School sixth formers were among the fifty who gained places, a record for any school in Northern Ireland. Each of them spent part of the summer in North America. Sarah McAllister went to Seattle, Libby Thompson to Vancouver, James Neill to Maine, Robert McConaghy to Vermont and Peter McLernon to Edmonton.

Spirit of Enniskillen Award Winners

In recent years the following pupils have won awards.

Richard Hargy
Nichola Patton
Gemma Curry
Alex Craig
Moira Laverty
Margaret Ann McCook
Colin McLean
Alex McCooke
James McCook
Keith Douthart
Claire Spratt
James Neill
Robert McConaghy
Peter McLernon
Sarah McAllister
Libby Thompson
Gillian Taylor
Sean Molloy
Adlai McCook
Stephen McNie
Melanie O’Neill
Micheal Dillon
Stephen Douthart
Alethea Kane
Louise McMullan
Neil McMaster
Emma Smyth
Ashley McAllister
Chris Glass
Andrew Kane
Joseph Wilmont
Jamie Lee Faulkener
Alison Wilson
Carla Glass
Daniel McCurdy
Philip Scott

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