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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

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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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History and Politics

Welcome to the History & Politics department  at Friends' School Lisburn.

 
 
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 Mark Robinson -  Head of Department

 Jamie Artt

Craig Cunningham

 Mary Waring

Meghan Herron (Also English)

 

 
The department is staffed by four specialist History/Politics teachers and offers exam classes in GCSE, and AS/A level History and AS/A level Government and Politics.

All pupils study History in KS3, beginning in Year 8 with a focus on the history of FSL, and looking at how the school has evolved since its foundation in 1774. Pupils then follow the Northern Ireland Revised Curriculum, which begins in Year 8 with Norman times and ends in Year 10 with the partition of Ireland in 1921.

In the senior school, History is a popular choice at GCSE and AS/A level and both courses follow the CCEA syllabus. Many senior pupils study both History and Politics at AS/A level because they complement each other. The Politics course follows the CCEA syllabus which includes modules on Northern Ireland and the USA.

Field trips and educational visits are an important aspect of our courses. Pupils have the opportunity to participate in trips to museums in Belfast and Lisburn when in the Junior School, while in Years 13 and 14 visits to the NI Assembly at Stormont, Dail Eireann and the Palace of Westminster take place annually. The department also organises a biennial trip to Washington and New York. Last year we enjoyed a successful visit to Berlin.

The department has a strong commitment to extra-curricular activities and facilitates the Model United Nations Society. The Model United Nations Society has members from all years and competes in competitions in both Dublin and Edinburgh, enjoying great success in recent years.

 Shared Education
For the last two academic years Friends’ have embarked upon a Shared Education Signature Project in collaboration with St Dominic’s Grammar School from West Belfast. The primary focus of the project has been Year 10 History and creating a ‘Shared History’ based around the events of 1916.
History Departments in both schools felt that a more ‘joined-up’ approach to the teaching of the Battle of the Somme and the Easter Rising was necessary. As such this has allowed pupils from both schools to develop their knowledge of the period and to make links with each other through a variety of events. These have included residential visits to the Corrymeela Community, talks at the Somme Heritage Centre and planned trips to Kilmainham Gaol and Glasnevin Cemetery this Spring Term.
The project has now expanded beyond its initial remit to take in different subject areas such as Art, English, Drama and Music – all of which present exciting opportunities for our young people to come together to learn.

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The Friends’ School Lisburn and St Dominic’s Grammar Shared Education partnership began in January 2016 and has seen great work undertaken so far by pupils from both schools. The partnership has allowed pupils from both schools to come together in order to learn together and hopefully form lasting friendships.

The primary focus of the project is History; in particular the events of 1916 which played such a pivotal role in shaping the society we live in today. Shared Education has allowed an existing link with St Dominic’s to be further developed. The two History Departments had previously collaborated on a Facing History project and the SESP has seen the schools build upon the work previously done with Year 10. To date pupils have participated in a number of residential visits to the Corrymeela Community, looking at topics such as the Holocaust, World War One and the Easter Rising. These projects have been facilitated by staff from both schools and the Facing History project. In June 2016 a class of St. Dominic’s pupils also visited Friends’ and took part in an Art and English workshop. The pupils produced a fantastic number of prints which can be viewed in the entrance hall of school. The History strand of the programme has also seen pupils visit the Somme Heritage Centre with visits to Kilmainham Gaol and Glasnevin Cemetery planned in April 2017.

Pupils have also taken part in a number of smaller projects with St Dominic’s as part of the scheme. In the current academic year Year 14 art classes have made use of the Seacourt print workshop to develop their coursework. In drama, a group of Year 8 pupils will be taking part in a conflict resolution workshop. Not to be outdone, the two traditional groups from both schools will come together to record contemporary music from 1916. June 2017 saw two Year 10 Citizenship classes visit the Stormont Assembly.

On 20 March 2017 we attended a 'Peace and Reconciliation' Day in the Long Gallery at Stormont.  This involved a key note speaker on the subject and a roundtable discussion with 6 local MLAs.   It was an exciting event and also involved visiting acedemics from the USA and pupils and friends from Sandy Spring Quaker School, USA.

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A massive thank you and well done to our Upper 6th musicians for all their commitment and performances over the last seven years! 🇲🇱🎶🇲🇱
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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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