Category: 2022-2023

After a two-year Covid-induced pause, Sligo Grammar School held the traditional Prize Day today, Wednesday 26th October. This is the day we celebrate the achievements of our students across a huge number of disciplines. As well as rewarding academic success, SGS rewards achievements in a wide range of extra-curricular and sporting areas. The majority of prizes are awarded to students who are still in the school but two important prizes are reserved for the class of 2022. Alastair Hill was awarded

On Friday October 7th Sligo Grammar School had a “Funky shoes and Socks” Day. The event was organised by Leaving Cert LCVP students as a fundraiser for The Samaritans. The day was in association with World Mental Health day and students and teachers were asked to wear their most creative shoes and socks for the day. Participating students brought in €2 each for the charity and a total of €513 was raised. Well done to the organisers and all who took

This year, 2022, marks 10 years of TY Mentoring in Sligo Grammar School. The Mentoring Programme was introduced into the school in partnership with the Home School Liaison Service. All 3rd Year students are given the opportunity to volunteer as a mentor for our new incoming 1st Year students. Students are selected to be a mentor on their ability to act as good role models, to provide support and encouragement to younger students and to have good communication skills. At

Sligo Grammar School Green Schools Committee is up and running again this year. The school was awarded a Green Schools flag last year, the result of a lot of hard work. However it was the request from the National Green Schools body to use the school las a case study on the their website that really pleased the committee. The National co-ordinator of Green Schools was very impressed by the campaign work on Fast Fashion as well as the collaborations

On Friday 30th September the Sligo Grammar School Senior Rugby Team went on an overnight bonding trip to Limerick, arriving back in Sligo on Saturday evening. On Saturday SGS played Crescent College, Limerick, 2022 Munster Schools Cup winners.  The game was played in beautiful conditions and after a very tight first half crescent led 14 – 12,  SGS tries coming from Gerard Murtagh and Max Hunter with a conversion from Mark Tempany. In a furiously physical second half Sligo Grammar scored

Well done to our Hockey players who have been selected to represent Connacht in this year’s Interprovincial Series. The girls who will play at U18 level are  Saoirse Lawley, Sophie Swann, Lara Swann, Meabh Gillmor and Maebh Mc Loughlin. At U16 level the SGS girls are Eabha Daffy and  Aoife Cradock. Special congratulations go to Maebh Mc Loughlin who was the only player chosen from Connacht to represent Ireland at U16  level. She played against Scotland twice in a Home

No sooner has the school year started than the SGS Debating Society – SGS DebSoc – is flying high! On Saturday 17th September three of our debaters took part in the Connacht/Munster Regional Trials for the Irish Schools Debating Team which will represent Ireland in Vietnam in July. Anushka Pathak (6th year), Alfie Barron (5th year)  and Dáithí Meehan (3rd year) competed in the trials via Zoom. Alfie and Dáithí made it through to the play-offs and were the only students from Connacht to

As the school rugby season kicked off this month, Sligo Grammar School Senior Rugby Team was delighted to accept this year’s Senior Team jerseys from our main sponsors Callan Tansey Solicitors. On Friday 16th September,  Niamh Ní Mhurchú and Brian Gill, partners in Callan Tansey Solicitors, presented the set of jerseys to the captain of the Senior Team, Conor Creaven. Also accepting the jerseys on behalf of the whole team were the seven members of the Senior squad who were selected

For some of the new 5th years the school year started with a trip away to Glendalough. This was the final part of their Gaisce programme, started in TY.  Gaisce, the President’s Award, is a challenge to young people to develop new skills and get involved in the community over the period of a year. Each participant is asked to take on a new personal skill,  a community activity and a physical activity. These challenges take place over an extended period,