SPIRIT OF ENNISKILLEN AWARDS

Ballycastle High School has a long history of success in the prestigious Spirit of Enniskillen Scheme.  The highly competitive leadership programme is designed to develop the skills of some of Northern Ireland’s outstanding sixth year pupils, with the long term aim of helping them to make a positive and lasting contribution to our society.

The scheme was established by Mr. Gordon Wilson in the hope that something positive could come form the Remembrance Day bomb in 1987.  The participants spend part of the summer overseas in an area which has suffered conflict, studying other cultures and how they have set about solving the problems faced by their society. 

Places on the programme are keenly contested by pupils from most of the major schools in Northern Ireland and it is a remarkable achievement for pupils from Ballycastle High School to have been successful in each of the past fourteen years.