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YOUNG REPORTERS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT 2019

For the second year in a row, WHS is entering the Young Reporters for the Environment Competition 2019 with the focus being on single use plastics. All three entries from last...

Our Day Out: Sunshine and poetry at the Heaney Home Place

“Wee” and “snottery” are perhaps not words commonly associated with perceptions of poetry but, as Wallace’s Year 13 English Literature students were to learn, Seamus...

Debating Success

Year 13 Spanish students recently enjoyed a trip to Queen’s University, Belfast  where they took part in the annual A Level Spanish Debating Competition.  Head of...

Success at Francofest

Wallace High School Year 10 students certainly showed they had plenty of “joie de vivre” when they emerged victorious from the prestigious Francofest held at Queen’s...

Triumphant launch of “ Wallace First”

Billed as “A Musical Night to Remember” in a building echoing with memories of Belfast’s most famous ship, staff, former pupils and friends of the school attended a...

Junior Languages Club create a good impression

February’s meeting of the JLC focused on the world of French Impressionism. After a brief introduction to the history of this painting style and the main artists of the...

Mathematics Team bound for London!

Further Mathematics students in Year 13 and 14 recently enjoyed great success at the UK Mathematics Trust Senior Team Challenge competition. Emily Hayes, Anna Trimble, Kirsty...

Oxbridge Beckons

A New Year can often be a challenging time to become motivated but not for two Year 14 A – Level students from Wallace. Within a fortnight of the turn of the year Julie Yeow and...

Wallace Way showcased at Open Morning 2019

“New beginnings” and “Realising Ambitions” caption the 2019 Wallace Prospectus ; thousands of eager visitors  arriving at the Open Morning event saw and heard these...

“Wallace For Ever”: Senior Prize Day 2018

Perhaps it was the Christmas tree, the poinsettias, the carols; perhaps it was the excited class of 2018 greeting each other after a first term at university but whatever the...