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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 

 

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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

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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.

Latest News

Young Enterprise

Young Enterprise is the United Kingdom's largest business and enterprise education charity.  Every year their wide range of educational programs help over 250,000 young people learn about business and the world of work in the classroom under the guidance of a network of 5,000 volunteers from 3.500 companies.  Lots of new skills can be developed such as: working in a team, leadership, time management, communication and planning, to name a few.

Delivered across an adacemic year, young people make all the decisions about their company, from raising the initial share capital throught o desiging their product or service to selling directly to customers and ultimately winding up the company and paying their taxes. All this takes place with the support of a Business Adviser who brings a wealth of business knowlege and expertise to the team.

Students can also choose to set up their business as a social enterprise, which focuses on addressing a social need rather than maximising profit.

 

Successes to date….

Compresso 2018/2019

 

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The young enterprise team @compressocups was made up of 11 Year 13 pupils. The roles were assigned as follows:

  • Managing Director – Chris Wiggam
  • Company Secretary – Ren Thompson
  • Finance Directors – Benjamin Smyth and Carter Gregg
  • Marketing Directors – Louise Finn and Ulrike Andrich
  • HR Director – Ryan Irvine
  • Operations Director – Kathryn Glover
  • Sales Directors – Hannah Graham and Ellen McCartan
  • Social Media Director – Rachel Hemphill

They wanted their product to be as environmentally friendly and sustainable as possible. It was identified that two and a half billion disposable coffee cups are being thrown away every day. To tackle this problem, Compresso wanted to provide people with an alternative that is convenient and perfect for travel. Their product was a collapsible, reusable coffee cup, which folds down to one third of its original size after use.

They won a number of awards including 2nd palace at the St George’s ‘Big Market’ event, were they competed against companies from all over Northern Ireland. They also won the Digital Presence Award and Runner Up overall at Bloomfield Shopping Centre Regional Competition. This meant they were one of the top eight companies in Northern Ireland through to the final.

Following their success, three members of our team went to Vienna with Young Enterprise and Junior Achievement Austria to sell their cups across Europe. They presented their cups to companies from all over Europe and made connections with various social media influencers to market our product to their followers.

Alongside that they were in talks with the Belfast Coffee Club to get their cups into six independent coffee shops around Belfast. They got endorsements from people such as the Minister for Education in Ireland, TD Joe McHugh, and we were selling around the world with our cups making it to Canada, France, Russia, Austria, as well as the UK and Ireland.

Thanks goes to Business advisor, Melanie Coey from M Squared accountancy and supervising teacher, Ashea Bell.

 

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2015/16 Generation

Young Enterprise Titanic 10.2016

A team of ten budding entrepreneurs started up their own business- Generation- having produced a family activity book- ‘My Family and I.’ The team included Rheo Hue, Adam Schofield, Matthew Armstrong, Rebecca McNeill, Connor Hall, Hannah Mayes, Adam Milligan, Anna McFarlene, Peter Drayne and Adam Glass.

The pupils designed their book from start to finish, creating a children’s activity journal which allows a child to interview and complete activities with their parent and grandparent- enabling them to learn more about their family and the past in a fun and interactive way.

The Generation team won two awards at their first trade fair in Bloomfield Shopping Centre for ‘Highest Sales’ and best ‘Social Media’. 

One of the marketing directors- Rebecca McNeill- also won the ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Future’ Award for the South Eastern area after an application process and interview.

With the help of business advisor, Roger Kennedy and supervising teacher, Ashea Bell, the team were set for success in learning what it takes to run a business outside of the classroom. To find out more, visit their website generationfsl.squarespace.com. Also find us on twitter and facebook.

2014/2015 ActiKids

Success for ‘Actikids’ in UK Finals ‘Actikids’ win two UK awards!

The Young Enterprise team, ‘Actikids’, after being crowned Northern Ireland Company of the Year, won two awards in the United Kingdom wide finals, held in the British Film Institute, Southbank, London, on 2 July.  Managing Director of ‘Actikids’, Jake Lewis, was announced as the winner of the prestigious Founder’s Award.  The Award, presented in memory of the Young Enterprise Founder, Sir Walter Salomon, is presented to a student from one of the twelve regional finalists’ companies who demonstrates exceptional leadership potential.  The award, consisting of a trophy and certificate, was presented to Jake by Sir Walter Salomon’s daughter Carolyn Townsend.

The award is fitting recognition of the outstanding role Jake has played this year in leading the Friends’ team to success locally and nationally. 

The team then won a second award, the GKN Production Award, for their skill in putting together their highly successful children’s activity journal.  The award recognises excellence in production of a Young Enterprise company’s product or service and is judged on the basis of the quality of production design and development, quality and innovation.  It is many years since a team from Northern Ireland has won one award at the finals, let alone two, and it is a wonderful achievement for all the team members.

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