Kilkeel High School

Kilkeel High School

Kilkeel High School is a non-selective secondary school located in Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is within the Southern Education and Library Board area.

The school is one of the few in Northern Ireland where boys have outperformed girls at GCSE. [cite news |title=Boys flout trend and out-class girls. |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-13144687_ITM |work=The News Letter |date=2004-08-25 |accessdate=2008-03-06 ]

port

Kilkeel High has a successful hockey team which reached the final of the McCullough Cup in 2001, losing on a penalty shoot-out with Stew Cherry missing the decisive penalty. [cite news |title=Inst clinch cup victory after penalty shoot-out |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-80943464.html |work=The News Letter |date=2001-12-20 |accessdate=2008-03-06 ]

Other competition

In 2006 a team from Kilkeel High won the Business and Professional Women UK national public speaking championship. [cite web |url=http://www.bpwuk.co.uk/docs/publicspeaking/publicseaking2006.html |title=Public Speaking 2006 |accessdate=2008-03-06 |work=Business and Professional Women UK ]

Community activity

In 1981 Kilkeel High School students erected a memorial to the victims of the 1916 Carlingford Lough disaster. [cite web |url=http://www.downcountymuseum.com/uploads/2002_PattersonCarlingfordLoughDisaster.doc |title=The Carlingford Lough Disaster: Fact, folklore and fiction |first=Sean |last=Patterson |accessdate=2008-03-06 |work=Down County Museum ]

Notable Alumni

*Jeffrey Donaldson, Unionist politician, who played the part of the Artful Dodger in a production of the musical "Oliver!" while attending the school. [cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3091067.stm |title=Profile: Jeffrey Donaldson |accessdate=2008-03-06 |work=BBC News ]

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