Show Jumping

Showjumping was first established at Kilkeel High School in 1994, and has gone from strength to strength ever since.

The season 2004/2005 has been the teams’ most successful in years.

The Senior Team of Clinton Campbell, Rebecca Cooper and Abby Gordon (L6) and Whitney Campbell (11ac) won the North Down Pony Club Championships at the Balmoral Showgrounds after a nail-biting jump – off against Coleraine High School (28 teams competed).  The team also won the shield for ‘Tack and Turnout’.  This was the first time in the competition’s fourteen year history that any school had completed this ‘double’.  This team also finished second the Mossvale League (26 teams competed) and sixth in the Iveagh Championship (26 teams competed).

Also this year the school was able to enter a second team for most of the competitions.  This team finished 10^th in the Mossvale League and was very unlucky not to qualify for the final jump off round of the Iveagh competition.  The members of this team are Lynne Spence (12ac), Sarah Graham (11ac), Rachael Annett and Melissa McBurney (Yr 10).

Model United Nations

Model United Nations was established in Kilkeel High School in 1999 as a means of providing 6^th form with an opportunity to debate the problems facing the international community and to meet pupils from other schools throughout Northern Ireland, Britain, Northern Europe and America.

Model United Nations is a role – play. Pupils form delegations to represent the member states of the United Nations.  In the weeks before the conference the pupils research their allotted country and formulate their national position on the issues on the conference agenda.  During the three day conference the procedures of the UN are followed as the pupils lobby and debate for the resolutions they have written.  Their discussions are assisted by guest speakers from government agencies and pressure groups.

In the past Kilkeel pupils have attended MUN conferences in Belfast and Bath.  They have represented such countries as Canada, Ukraine, Estonia, Jordan, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

This year a delegation of Cathy Cunningham (U6), Jenna Wilson, Aimee McKnight, Stuart Holmes and Gary Simpson (L6) attended the Bath conference.  They represented Cambodia and debated such issues diverse as child soldiers, climate change, asylum seekers, international terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, the provision of clean water and aid to the Indonesian tsunami.

Sports Day

Each year a very competitive sports day is held at Kilkeel High School.  Students from Year 8 to Upper Sixth take part in a range of activities in athletics.  Each student competes with a zeal to win and this is what makes the day such a success.

Creative Embroidery Club

From September to May students can be involved in a out of school hours club which takes place from 15:15 - 16:15.  The students get the opportunity to put their hands to good work as they create different items from wool and crochet materials.  This club proves to be popular within the junior school.

Stars in Yer Eyes

This event sponsored by Fanta is a great opportunity for students from all over Northern Ireland to compete for a chance to gain entry into the Final at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast.  Each student has to pick a artist which they feel they sound like.  They perform the song and the judges decide who is the winner.  One of Kilkeel High's pupils, Emma Annett has reached the final which will held at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast in June and will be broadcast on television at a later date.

Click this link to go to the Stars in Yer Eyes section of the site

Musicals
For more than 30 years Kilkeel High School has produced some of the top  West End shows to a very high standard.  Each year the musical cast is chosen, the orchestra prepares the music and the scenery is created.  Weeks of preparation along with many out of school hours are needed in order to make this show the success which it has been over the past three decades. 

Link to the Musicals page within the music department

Scripture Union
This society within the school happens on a Thursday lunchtime for Years 8,9 and 10. Thursday after school allows the senior school to come along.  Both the lunchtime and after school meeting are quite informal.  The students are encouraged to bring their lunch to the lunchtime meeting and the students after school can get some pizza, crisps and juice.  The meeting takes the form of praise, teaching and prayer.  This allows the students who are Christians to develop a greater love for God and it also allows those who are not Christians to ask questions, become involved and realise that they need Christ in their lives and their sins forgiven in order for eternal life in glory with Him.

Computer Club
Each day after school students can come and use the computers as they please either to do some work or to do some 'surfing' online with the filtered Internet system.  The computer club runs from September to June from 15:10 - 16:15.