Sullivan Upper School

🤺 F E N C I N G H O N O U R S🤺 Congratulations to Cassidy Ogle on her selection to represent Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Fencing Championships to be held next week in Lagos, Nigeria, where she’ll be competing in 2 championship events: the Senior Women’s Foil, and the Under 23 Women’s Foil. The Championships, being held for the first time on the African continent, will draw around 400 entrants from 20+ Commonwealth nations. This selection marks another significant milestone in Cassidy’s rapidly developing fencing career!

🏉 R U G B Y T A L E N T 🏉 A number of boys have been involved in Ulster Rugby age-group pathway and talent squads involving S&C, training and fixtures throughout the summer. A great achievement to be selected and exciting opportunity for all to experience top class facilities and coaching.
Pre-season gym and on-pitch sessions are also underway at school as the Medallion and Senior squads look to start the season strongly.
Ulster Age Group Squads:
U16
Elliott Crawford
Ronan Naysmith

U17
George Kilpatrick
George McClure
Jake Lynch
Harry McCartney
Daniel Farrell
Cyrus Mao
Paddy Walton

U18
Finn McGrath
Noah Cassidy
Scott Henderson
Lucas McKeown

U19
Henry Calvert
Jacob McKeown

🏃‍♀️ A T H L E T E S 🏃Our top runners and athletes have been competing over the last month in various competitions with great success and some brilliant experiences!
Summary:
Roger McMullan - Ulster Senior T&F long jump champion 🥇
Catherine McBrinn - Ulster U15 T&F 800m🥈
Abbie Irwin - All-Ireland U17 triple jump 🥉 (representing Ulster)
Skye Eggleton - Ulster T&F high jump 🥉& long jump 4th
Coco Smith & Holly Blease - represented NIMRA in the Peak District 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Maia Johnston also represented NIMRA in the Italian heat! 🇮🇹
Well done everyone on representing the school, your clubs and country superbly!

⭐ M R S G R A H A M ⭐ After 27 brilliant years Mrs Louise Graham has retired from Sullivan’s English Department and will be greatly missed at school by staff and pupils alike. Those in Grant house will certainly know her as an inspirational Head of House among the many other roles she held at school!
Many others will remember Mrs Graham for her caring nature, particularly as a junior school tutor, and for her sense of humour in fun English & Drama lessons.
We wish Mrs Graham the very best and we hope she keeps in touch!

🟡 S P E E R S A G A I N ! 🟡 Speers followed up their House Competition overall win this year with the overall victory at Sports’ Day 2026; congratulations to all competitors and record breakers!
Lucy Brown (Year 10) and Edan Polley (Year 11) received the Sports Day Trophy on behalf of Speers! See below for a summary of results.

House Sports Day Points:
🟡 Speers 862
🟢 Grant 731
🔴 Praeger 647
🔵 McAlester 615

Year Group Champions:
Year 8
Justin Lin
Nora Sugar & Abigail Lockington

Year 9
Skye Eggleton
Joel Beynon & Jonah Polley

Year 10
Connie Fulton
Max Reid

Year 11
Isla Wiltshire
Will Meharg

School Records:
Justin Lin - mini shot
Jonah Polley - minor javelin
Joel Beynon - minor shot
Catherine McBrinn - minor 800m
Lucy Brown - junior 1500m
Isla Wiltshire - inter 200m & 300m

⭐ M R S A N D E R S O N ⭐ Not many can make mathematics seem simultaneously straightforward and enjoyable like Mrs Anderson.
Mrs Carol Anderson taught for an amazing 26 years at Sullivan. Many will know her as their maths teacher, form tutor, head of year, head of department or crochet tutor!
She will be greatly missed in school by pupils and colleagues, and we wish her a very happy and healthy retirement as she looks to travel the world!

C O L O U R R U N 2 0 2 6

No amount of photos could ever do justice to the absolute electric atmosphere at today’s Colour Run & Dance Party!

A massive shout-out to our incredible 6th Form, who kept the energy high and the dance floor moving from start to finish.

This was a true whole-school event, and we’re still not sure who had more fun—the staff or the pupils!

We have plenty more content on the way, so watch this space!