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  • Welcome to Friends' School Lisburn
    Friends’ is one of nine Quaker schools in Britain and Ireland and shares a common heritage with each of them. Although the School has grown and changed since its foundation in 1774, the Quaker belief in care for the individual and in the importance of the development of each person's potential remains central to our ethos and helps us to cater successfully for the different traditions in the Lisburn area. We hope you enjoy exploring our website and finding out more about what goes on in School.

    Stephen Moore, Principal

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School Term & Holidays 2024 -2025

Autumn Term

Autumn Term

22 August 2024 - 20 December 2024

* 22 August will be a school day for Year 13 only 

Half Term

28 October 2024 - 1 November 2024

Staff Development Day (may be subject to change)

18 October 2024

 

Please note that all dates are inclusive.

Spring Term

Spring Term

6 January 2025 - 11 April 2025

Half Term
 10 - 14 February 2025

 Staff Development Days 

3 February 2025

17 March 2025

9 April 2025

 

Please note that all dates are inclusive.

Summer Term

Summer Term

28 April 2025 - 30 June 2025

Half Term/Summer Bank Holiday 

 5 May 2025

Staff Development Day (may be subject to change)

30 June 2025 

 

Please note that all dates are inclusive.

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School Term & Holidays 2023 - 2024

Autumn Term

Autumn Term

 Thursday 24 August - Friday 22 December

Half Term

Monday 30 October - Friday 3 November

Staff Development Day

Friday 20 October 2023

Please note that all dates are inclusive

Spring Term

Spring Term

Monday 8 January - Friday 22 March

Half Term

Monday 12 February - Friday 16 February

 Staff Development Days (may be subject to change)

Monday 18 March 2024

Please note that all dates are inclusive

Summer Term

Summer Term

Monday 8 April - Friday 28 June

Summer Bank Holiday

Monday 6 May 2024

 Staff Development Days (may be subject to change)

Wednesday 10 April 2024

Monday 27 May 2024

Friday 14 June 2024

Please note that all dates are inclusive

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 Contact Details

If you need to speak to someone about a pastoral issue, please call the school office to be directed to your Collect Teacher or Year Head. Alternatively, you can reach a senior member of staff via the pastoral email pastoral@friends.lisburn.ni.sch.uk

Please email attendance@friends.lisburn.ni.sch.uk to inform the school about any pupil absence.

For all other queries please email office@friends.lisburn.ni.sch.uk.

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Languages

 Various extra-curricular activities are arranged by the Languages Department each year. Days may vary. To mark European Day of Languages on 26th September, senior pupils lead assemblies and share the linguistic opportunities they have had with other pupils. Our Assistants from France, Germany and Spain also take an active role in these Assemblies. Pupils whose native language is not English provide taster sessions in their mother tongue. Recently we have enjoyed lessons in Hungarian, Polish, Chinese and Arabic. Year 8 pupils can also attend the annual food fest and sample delicacies from France, Germany and Spain. This is not the only occasion for pupils to enjoy foreign food: in December Year 9 enjoy a French breakfast, complete with pains au chocolat and croissants, as well as chocolat chaud..

 

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The Onatti Theatre Company visit school every year to put on plays for our students in French, Spanish and German. We also run a film club in school, which allows our older pupils to see some of the latest films in the languages they are studying. In November, Senior pupils took a trip to the cinema to watch Joyeux Noël, a touching film in French, German and English, which depicts the truce on Christmas Eve 1914, among the trenches. Senior pupils also enjoy pitting their wits against debaters from other schools in the French and German debating competitions. We have reached the final of one or other of these competitions in 2007, 2008 and 2009 and are hopeful that this year we will be able to go one step further and bring the title back to Friends’. Internal debates are also popular, in preparing for this event.

Modern Languages pupils have the opportunity to participate in a Mock EU event, organised by the British Council and held in Stormont. Here, they represent a European country and debate issues of current interest, from the perspective of their chosen country.

Senior pupils are given opportunities to compete in essay writing and translation competitions, such as the prestigious Juvenes Translatores. Sixth Form pupils are also encouraged to carry out their work experience abroad. We currently have placements in Paris, in an IT firm, in Disneyland, Paris and in Brussels, in the European Parliament.

 

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The Languages Department also organises visits abroad. Our French Exchange programme with the Lycée Paul Cézanne in Aix-en-Provence has been running since 2007 and involves pupils from Years 11-13. During the visit there, pupils have the opportunity to visit Avignon and Marseille and to spend time in a French school.

 

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The German Exchange with the Remstal-Gymnasium in Weinstadt, near Stuttgart, has also been running since 2007 and allows pupils from Years 11-14 to spend time with a German family visiting some of the cultural highlights of this beautiful part of southern Germany.
We also have a home stay visit to Santander for pupils studying Spanish in Years 12 and 13. This allows our pupils to attend specially tailored language classes in the morning and visit Bilbao and other local attractions in the afternoon.

In addition to this, in June 2015, 67 pupils from Year 9 spent 2 days in Paris before heading to Normandy for a further 3 days. They had the opportunity to visit the famous landmarks of Paris, including, of course, Disneyland Paris, as well as visit the Mont St Michel and the Normandy beaches

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Our spectacular Spring Concert took place at the Ulster Hall with mesmerising performances from Senior Choir, Orchestra and Jazz Band. Over 250 pupils were involved in this wonderful concert. 🇲🇱🎶🎻🎺🎷🪘🇲🇱
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Our Friends’ School musicians performed at a wonderful evening for the annual Spring Concert at the Ulster Hall. 🇲🇱🎶🎻🎺🎷🪘🇲🇱
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Day 3 in Berlin: Topography of Terror, Resistance Museum, Sachsenhausen and Olympic Stadium
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Day 2 in Berlin: Tränenpalast, Wannsee, Potsdam, Reichstag and Fernsehturm
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