The Boys 1st xi team beat Wallace 1sts on Wednesday, 18 May 2011 in the Schools Cup and are through to the quarter-final.  A very convincing win. Wallace 78 for 8 Sullivan 82 for 1 Won by 9 wickets.

Congratulations to the U13 boys hockey team who defeated Campbell College 2-1 in the Bannister Bowl Final on Thursday, 12 May 2011.

Sullivan successfully participted in The Times Spelling Bee at the Waterfront Hall on Monday, 9 May 2011 and were placed 3rd in the first round. Jonathan Brattle was awarded a medal for being the ‘last man standing’. Congratulations to all pupils and loyal supporters, it was a very lively and enjoyable day.

Congratulations to Morag Stewart and Amy McIlroy. These Year 11 Home Economics pupils have recently had great success in 2 cookery competitions. On 29 March 2011 Morag came 1st in the Key Stage 4 section of the Dairy Council Young Cook of the Year. Amy travelled to Sligo on the 5 May 2011 for the final of the All Ireland Safe Food Competition. There were over 1000 entrants for this competition and Amy was delighted to be placed 1st overall, winning an Xbox and a voucher for a day at a Dublin Cookery School for herself as well as a range of appliances and vouchers for the Home Economics Department.

Congratulations to sixth-formers Adam Lyttle, Joshua McCance, Meghan Kirk, Meadhbh Keating-Fitzpatrick and Vanessa Goldstone on gaining Gold Medals in Speech and Drama Examinations run by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

Sponsored reading in March 2011 raised the impressive sum of £1,576.55 which will go towards Clic Sargent Children’s Cancer Charity and Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity. Katherine McKee and Michael Good received a prize for their form class (8W) from Mr Peel.  Stephen Hodgson and Patrick Moorehad received prizes for the best individual contributions.

Well done to Charlie Roberts (8C) who won a Bronze Medal in the Under 15 Kata (Sequences) category at the Irish International Karate Open in Dublin in April 2011 Charlie also won Gold in the Kumite (Fighting) age 12 category making him the Irish Kumite Champion.

Author Alex Scarrow visited Sullivan recently for a very energetic and inter-active presentation to Years 9 and 10, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all.   Alex also accompanied a small group of Year 8 students with the librarians to the Finale of the NI Book Awards, where his book Time Riders won second place.

On the Friday 1 April 2011, a group of 22 Swedish students came to visit Sullivan Upper as part of their conflict studies field trip. All Lower 6th politics students greeted the group and began to show them around the school. After lunch we were paired off with a student and took them to go around our classes with us. For many of us, coincidentally, we had politics with Ms Morgan after lunch. This was an exciting opportunity for both the Swedish students and the politics students. The Swedes jumped at the chance to be able to learn more about the political culture of Northern Ireland and our perspective on the conflict our county had experienced. They were particularly fascinated by the amount of peace walls that were in our country, although they knew more about them than we did. It was also exciting for us to learn more about how the political process works in Sweden and their culture, which to our surprise was very socialist and liberal compared to here. They, on the other hand, were surprised that we had to wear uniforms which reminded them of Hogwarts. I feel that both groups took a lot away from this experience especially a little bit of the culture of both Northern Ireland and Sweden a like. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Armstrong for the large effort put in to arranging this and hope that next year’s Lower 6th have just as exciting experience as we had! Donnchadh Greene Secretary of the Politics Society

Congratulations to Christoper Cree on finishing in 4th place at the U14 National Tennis Championships in Cork on 3 April 2011. Ulster took 1st, 2nd and 4th positions out of 16.

SullivanUpperSchool celebrated the sporting and musical achievements of its pupils today in the annual awards ceremony.  Over 250 pupils received an award, ranging from achievement certificates to school colours to full representative honours.  The Guest of Honour was Mr Leslie Dewart (SportNI), a former Commonwealth Games Badminton player. Rowena Seaton-Kelly and Harry Speers received the Mark McBride Memorial Cup for Outstanding Contribution to Junior School Sport. Genevieve Price and Jamie Carr were awarded the RAF Cup for Outstanding Contribution to Senior School Sport.

Congratulations to Megan McQuillan (11E) who has been selected to participate in the U15 International Womens Football Match to be held in Ballymena on Wednesday, 6 April 2011. Megan has also been selected to play in WU15 Celtic Nations Cup 2011 in Cardiff, Wales from 11-15 April 2011.