25,000 students receive bus safety advice each year Translink has unveiled a new Safety Bus to continue the important safety education programme which has been running in schools in Northern Ireland, for over 15 years. On Tuesday 14th November, it visited Year 9 pupils from Ulidia Integrated...
Year 11 Food and Nutrition and Contemporary Cuisine students were visited by Tasty Careers Ambassador Geoff Lamb on Monday 13th November 2017. Geoff gave a very useful presentation on the wide range of careers available to students across the Northern Ireland food industry. All students...
Congratulations to Matthew Johnston in Year 13, who recently won the regional heats of the Rotary Young Leadership competition. Matthew successfully came through two professional interviews firstly competing against fellow Ulidia students and then against other local schools. Matthew will now represent the region in...
During October 2017 the geography department participated in the world's largest lesson. This is an event where pupils all over the world throughout all UN countries participate in the same lesson during the same time based on the global development goals. Learners in KS3 had...
The Great British Bake Off team have been in touch with Mrs Ford, Head of Home Economics, and are looking for the best baking talent from Carrickfergus to apply for the next series of the Bake Off on Channel 4. We would love to see...
Mrs Moore's Year 9 Home Economics classes were busy making Halloween shortbread as a treat during the last week of October. Pupils displayed excellent creativity in decorating their spooky spiders, bats and ghosts. The year 9's displayed a variety of skills, such as: rolling, cutting, baking...
Year 11 Art students drew from the permanent natural history exhibits, and visited some temporary exhibitions including the Game of Thrones Tapestry and Poppies Weeping Window. Year 13 Photography students toured the Cathedral Quarter in Belfast, taking photos of the City, and met up with the...
On Friday 20th October the Ulidia Eco team held a litter picking event around the school grounds. In the aftermath of storm Ophelia the eco team recognised that the school grounds had been littered by litter blowing in to school grounds and also by litter being blown out...
Ulidia pupil, Dylan travelled as a member of Cairndhu Rowing Club to the Ulster Coastal Rowing Championship held in Ballyshannon as part of the U21 Mens Quad 2300m in July winning second place silver. Dylan went on to complete in August in the All Ireland Coastal...
On Thursday 12th October Travel and Tourism learners were visited by Professor Boyd from the Ulster University. Professor Stephen Boyd gave an overview of his background; Professor Boyd gained a degree in Geography from Queens then moved to Canada to gain a Master and PhD in...