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Wallace Celebrate YASS Success

Wallace boasts a baker so skilled she should be in the Great British Bake Off so invitations to coffee and scones are highly prized! In celebration of their successes eight Year...

Pupils Lead Success of Open Morning

The real success of Open Morning lies not in a secret ingredient but in pupil and people power. Almost half the school population was in school on Saturday morning busily sharing...

Peter Wows Snow Patrol Crowd

Former Wallace pupil Peter McCauley made thousands of new fans this week, supporting Snow Patrol at their sold out Odyssey arena tour. Peter is a lead singer /drummer/pianist who...

PTA Newsletter Spring 2012 (iBook)

We are excited to offer this term’s Parent Teacher Association Newsletter in the new Apple iBook format. As a school with a successful iPad 1-1 project the release of...

Wallace host Northern Ireland iPad Conference

Since the introduction of the iPad 2 into the Key Stage 3 curriculum at Wallace, the school has been inundated with requests from other grammar schools in Northern Ireland to...

iPad Internet Filtering with OpenDNS

Internet content filtering is of paramount importance for any family with a broadband internet connection. One Wallace parent offers a case study of how they manage internet...

How to Create a Rotoscope Animation

In Moving Image Arts pupils study a range of film making techniques from dramatic special effect creation using After Effects through to claymation and rostrum animation. One...

Summary of School Development 2009 – 2011

The core purpose of the development plan is to create a framework within which school improvement can take place and standards improve. An assessment of progress made in meeting...

Wallace Launch iPad 1-1

Deborah O’Hare, Principal of The Wallace High School, explains why the school is introducing the iPad2 into the classroom. The Wallace High School has embraced the use of...

Teaching with Comic Life eBook

A few years ago I put together a really rudimentary teaching guide to using Comic Life in the classroom. It was thrown together as a series of test lessons but I was asked for a...