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Wallace Day 2020- Senior Prize Day

Virtual celebration for Senior Prize Day 2020 Covid-19 has played havoc with so many cherished traditions and our annual event, celebrating the success of our students at GCSE and...

Wallace Day 2020- Carol Service

Carols but not by candlelight! For many members of the wider Wallace family Christmas begins with the school’s annual Christmas Concert which over the years has been held in...

Wallace Day 2020 Workout!

Winter warm-up! Bend and stretch for Christmas! The last day of term has been transformed into a series of activities to be enjoyed from the seclusion of living rooms where some...

Raymond Hunter-A true Wallace gentleman

All at The Wallace High School are saddened to learn of the passing of past pupil Raymond Hunter. Raymond was a former Head Boy in 1955 and achieved schoolboy international...

Schools’ Cup Celebration

Nine months after the devastating announcement by the Schools’ Branch of Ulster Rugby that the hugely anticipated final between Wallace and Royal School Armagh was not to be...

Audience With an Author

Wallace High School English Literature students recently had the opportunity to interview acclaimed writer Nathan Filer, in preparation for their work on A Level prose coursework....

A December Challenge- Dander to Delhi!

Can you channel your inner Captain Tom? Will you walk for hope? Wallace has been involved with the charity Asha, which works with slum-dwellers in New Delhi, since 2014 whilst our...

Pudsey, poppies and World Kindness Day

Who would ever thought that World Kindness Day would fall on Friday 13th? Suddenly, a date which sounds like a dodgy “horror flick” this year became associated with a much...

Former pupils honoured in Queen’s Birthday Honours

It was a double delight to see the names of two of our former pupils featured in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, published on Saturday 10th October. It is customary for this...

Reuben’s Day

Wallace’s 1XV Captain of 2019/20 Reuben Crothers finally got to raise the historic Danske Bank Ulster Schools’ Cup trophy over his head…but sadly six months after what...