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CSSC has welcomed two new permanent full time staff to the education support team. Andrew Brown and Derek Harkness join the organisation in their new roles as School Support Officers (SSOs) to work alongside colleagues Jill Brown, Heather McKenzie and Tracey Woods to complete the education team, led by Jayne Millar, Head of Education Support.

CSSC is pleased to announce it has secured funding from the Department for Communities’ Sign Language Partnership Group’ to deliver its programme of sign language workshops, ‘Engaging with Sign – a language for you and for me’,  for the second year running. 

The Controlled Schools’ Support Council (CSSC) has been successful in securing €60,000 from the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. 

A group of senior pupils from Banbridge Academy joined a community choir to represent the school at a service of thanksgiving and celebration of Joseph Medlicott Scriven (1819-1886), famous son of Banbridge and author of ‘What a friend we have in Jesus’.

It’s hard to believe that CSSC is celebrating its third anniversary in September 2019, writes Barry Mulholland, Chief Executive.

Pupils and staff at Craigavon Senior High School have this year celebrated the highest proportion of pupils leaving with five or more A*- C GCSE grades. 

As with its recent superb A Level performance, Portadown College has raised the bar yet again to produce the best GCSE results in over a decade. 

Thursday 22 August was a very exciting day for the students of Limavady High School as they received their much anticipated GCSE grades, with many achieving top grades in their subjects.

Once again GCSE students at Ballyclare High have done exceptionally well. This year all pupils have been examined in new courses and grade boundaries have been recalibrated across the province with the award of fewer top grades. Despite that, pupils have maintained the consistently high standards.

Abbey Community College students have excelled themselves once again on GCSE results day. The upward trend in overall results has continued again this year, with a staggering 96% of the Year 12 students achieving the all important, 5+A*- C grades.