Omagh High School
Omagh High School pupil
Davis received Top Candidate award for GCSE
Business and Communication Systems beating all other candidates from both grammar and non-grammar post-primary schools across Northern Ireland.
Miss Smith (Head of Business Studies) and Aimee attended the GCSE
Celebrating Excellence event in Lisburn
City Council which brought together all those students who achieved top overall marks in the Summer 2011 CCEA examinations. Gavin Boyd, Interim Chief
Executive at ESA was there to congratulate the students.
This is a fantastic achievement for Aimee and Omagh High School. Well done
Aimee!
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Induction Evening
Tuesday 19 June 2012 at 7.30 pm in Assembly Hall.
First day of term (Year 8 only)
Friday 31 August 2012 from 9.00am – 12.30pm.
A BBQ lunch will be provided.
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This is will take place on
Thursday 21 June 2012, weather permitting.
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Please note the school will close on Friday 29 June 2012 at 3.25 pm for the Summer
Holidays. New term begins for all students on Monday 3 September 2012.
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14 Crevenagh Road
Omagh, Co Tyrone
BT79 0EQ
Tel: 028 82242656
Fax: 028 82251568
Email: info@omaghhigh.omagh.ni.sch.uk
Website:www.omaghhighschool.org.uk
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Members of 11 LC were invited to
Queen’s University Belfast last week to take part in an exciting and innovative
Engineering Challenge. Their day began with an early start, as the bus left school at
8.30 in the morning for the trip to Belfast.
Students had no idea what was ahead of them until they arrived at the impressive
Great Hall building at Queen’s, where their eyes were well and truly opened to the opportunities that studying at Queen’s could offer and where they were treated to several presentations about studying and working in Engineering.
The workshop which was a collaboration between Queen’s and the Engineering firm FG Wilson, was aimed at informing students about studying Engineering, in line with the current STEM agenda and it also focussed students on the vast possibilities that a career in Engineering could offer.
The highlight of the day however, had to be the Engineering Challenge itself, as the students competed to create a structure strong enough to support a toy truck. This
‘sticky’ challenge saw our students putting all their new-found engineering know-how into practice as they battled valiantly to build their 30cm high tower from just Marshmallows and Spaghetti!
Congratulations go to Alistair McFarland,
Patrick Razon and Lee Kelly who constructed the winning tower. Not only did it stand up to the challenge, but they were also commended on their creative design. Thank you to Tommy Foreman from Invest NI for his inspiration, guidance and assistance during the task.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Patricia Hampson from Queen’s
University and FG Wilson for inviting us to take part in such a fun and innovative workshop and for funding the event, which will hopefully have spurred on our budding Engineers!
If you are interested in studying at Queens or Engineering in particular then you may be interested in the following websites; www.qub.ac.uk
www.enginuity.org.uk
www.futuremorph.org
www.etrust.org.uk
Or, alternatively if you have been inspired by the idea of building large structures with pasta, then why not check out You tube and look at the World Championship spaghetti bridge building competitions!
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Tuesday 12 June – Year 11 GCSE
Science students visit Loughry College,
Cookstown, for a “Feed Your Mind” event.
Friday 22 June – Year 8
Bowling Trip to Brunswick, Londonderry.
Thursday 28 June – Year 9 Bowling
Trip to Brunswick, Londonderry
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An exhibition of GCSE, AS and A2 Level
Art and Design will be on display in
Art Room 2 from 3.30-5.30 pm on
Wednesday 20 June. Everyone Welcome!

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This is the first year for the completion of the new specification and 48 Year 12 pupils created a game for their controlled assessment. Each game had an opening screen created in Photoshop and 3 levels created using Gamemaker software.
Pupils also had to include a design specification for their game, a user guide and an evaluation. These are examples of games created by Year 12 pupils
By Mark Jager
By Rachel Colhoun
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Pupils who purchased books in the latest
Scholastic Book Club offer! Keep up the wider reading folks, literacy is the light to a brighter future!
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Year 9 pupils (and a few brave teachers) took part in the Sports Relief mile on
Friday 25 March. The pupils raised £100 for Sports Relief, and learned about nutrition and fitness with the PE and
Science departments who organised the event.
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On the 21-22 May 2012 our class completed their Duke of Edinburgh
Bronze Award Expedition…. and what an experience it was!
Mrs Lennox, Miss Domer, Ms Smyth and
Drew Hamilton (our mountain leader) organised and supervised us on the trip.
We walked about nine miles over two
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
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On 28 March 2012 eight of our pupils undertook the Pre-Vocational Certificate in Oral Communication. This examination comprises the delivery of a four and a half minute illustrated talk, a prepared prose reading, a business telephone call and a question and answer session with the examiner. The results were outstanding with eight achieving distinction grades while the other two entrants were awarded merits.
Emma Armstrong and Megan Crozier also deserve a special mention as they also passed the Entry Level 2 Living in the
Community Oral Examination which had similar demands but with a vocational emphasis. days. It was a struggle at times, as most of it was uphill. However we finished it in the end with a few sore legs (mainly
Miss Domer and Mrs Lennox)!
After the hill walking, we had to work together to build our own tents and even cook our own dinner! We camped overnight. This was the best part.
Everyone was told which tent to sleep in.
There was very little sleep but lots of laughing and talking.
Overall my class really enjoyed this trip and would have loved to have stayed for longer!
Ricky Jones (11AA)
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Omagh High School Year 8 pupils present
Mrs Fyffe, secretary of Omagh District
Diabetes Support Group with money which was raised from an Easter egg hunt for their year group.
In the photo are Mr I McConaghy,
Keith Fyffe, Jack Gibson, Jill Alderdice and Mrs Fyffe.
The candidates pictured with
Mrs Carole Hille, ESB UK
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The GCSE Performing Arts Showcase, held in the School Assembly Hall on
Wednesday 25 April, was an evening of cultural confetti, with pupils demonstrating their talents in a host of creative disciplines.
The central theme of the evening was
‘Send in The Clowns’ and so each element in the packed programme explored the idea of regret.
There was no shortage of talent on display but let’s not forget those who toiled away back stage and on the piano to make this a night to remember.
Everyone who attended and all who performed had a fantastic evening including Head of Drama, Miss Erskine, who commented, ‘the students worked exceptionally hard in the build up to this showcase. They pulled together as a team and encouraged one another to perform to their best ability. The examiner was extremely impressed and this was indeed reflected in the results of the practical element. Once again Omagh High School students have demonstrated that they are not only talented but diligent in their efforts to reach their full potential.’
David Boyd (Drama GCSE student)

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Congratulations to Emma Armstrong,
Year 11, on her remarkable achievement in the Special Olympics. Emma won the silver medal in not only the Boccia singles event but also teamed up with another teenager to win the silver medal in the doubles event. It emerged during Emma’s training for the Special Olympics that her experiences in the Active Communities
Boccia project in Omagh High School had helped her to fine tune her skills. In
Omagh High School we are immensely proud of her achievements. presented with our Gold medals and we also got to watch some of the events that were still taking place. We got to visit the
Olympic Swimming pool and also the
Olympic Stadium. All the venues were amazing and I am so glad that I got the chance to play in this tournament and be in the venues where the most famous athletes will be this summer. This is definitely a trip that I will never forget.
Gemma Frazer
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On Friday 11 May 2012 approx 35 pupils travelled to the Antrim Forum to compete in the district athletics championships
2012. The pupils competed in a wide range of events in both track and field.
All athletes performed and represented the school very well and three of our pupils finished in the top three of their respective events and qualified for the Ulster
Championships which took place on
Saturday 19 May 2012 once again at the
Antrim Forum. The pupils who qualified and competed in the Ulster finals were:
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Our successful Olympian with
Mr McConaghy.
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I am a Year 14 student currently sitting
A Level exams. I was selected to play for the Under 18 Ulster hockey team that was representing Northern Ireland in the annual Sainsbury's U.K School Games tournament from the 6 - 9 May. This year the games were held in London as the event was being used as a warm up tournament for the 2012 Olympics.
We played three matches over 5 days - our first match was on Sunday against
Wales who we beat 3-0. Later that night it was the Opening Ceremony where
Lord Coe, Tanni-Grey Thompson and
Jonathan Edwards, all famous
Great Britain athletes, spoke to all the athletes about their own Olympic experiences and announced that the
Games were officially started.
Then on the Monday we played the
England Pumas beating them 7-3, and on the Tuesday we played our final match against the second England team, the
England Tigers who we beat 3-1 and so we won the tournament.
We played at Old Loughtonains hockey pitch which has been selected as the
Olympic training venue for the hockey teams in the London 2012 Olympics. This was a great experience playing on what is potentially the pitch where the great athletes like Alex Danson (GB) and
Luciana Aymar (ARG) are going to be training.
On Wednesday, our final day at the games, all athletes were allowed to go to the Olympic Park, where we were
Picture of some of my team mates in the
Olympic Stadium with our gold medals.
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The Under 14 boys Football Team defeated Drumragh Integrated College in the final of the McMullan Shield on
Friday 27 April 2012 at Youth Sport
Omagh.
Rhys McClay Jane Jefferson
Shot Putt High Jump
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Omagh High came from two goals down to win the game by 3 goals to 2. The goalscorers were David Clements,
William Donaghy and Joshua Graham.
On Friday 4 May our Year 8 Hockey
Team competed in the annual Henderson
Cup Competition. The standard of hockey and level of excitement was exceptional.
Competion for the Cup included Omagh
Academy, Castlederg High, Royal and
Prior Raphoe, Devenish College,
Enniskillen Collegiate, Cookstown High and Drumragh College. Omagh High finished 3 rd = on points. Players of the tournament were: Charlotte Jones,
Jessica Morrow and Morgan Millar.
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Pictured below are the Under 14 Rugby team that won the recent rugby blitz competition held on Friday 30 March, beating Christian Brothers 17 - 14, Sacred
Heart 52 - 0 and Drumragh Integrated
48 - 0.
Man of the Match award went to Omagh
High School Captain William Donaghy.

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The Year 8 pupils had a visit from the
PSNI recently! Don’t worry it’s not as bad as it sounds. Constables Kirk and
Thompson gave a moving and frightening account of the dangers of speed on our roads and then the pupils got the opportunity to try out the very latest equipment, including a brand new motorcycle and some state of the art laser guided speed guns. A most informative and enjoyable visit which really made us think.
By Jonathan Cresswell
By Travis Farrell (AS Level)
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By Glenn Armstrong
By Shannen Vance
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Winners of the Year 10 Library quiz draw were Nicola Phair, Ryan Moore and
Rachel Graham.
By Gareth Deazley
By Calvin Houston
Easter egg prizes for staff members were won by Mrs A Armstrong and
Mrs Graham.
A big thank you to everyone who supported this event.
Action Cancer will visit Omagh High
School to deliver a ‘Health Action’
Programme providing advice on the prevention of cancer to Year 10 Girls on
Friday 8 June and Year 10 boys Thursday
14 June.
By Richard Elkin
By Bryan Fleming (AS Level)
By Neil Recana
By Dale Russell