Welcome to St Patrick’s Grammar School. We are a school community of over 700 students and 75 staff set in the county town of Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. The school is situated in a pleasant residential area overlooking the town. It enjoys a high reputation locally and nationally as a Lasallian school with an enviable academic record consequent upon inspirational teaching and top quality pastoral care. We also consider ourselves to be in the vanguard of schools developing self-evaluation strategies and applying innovative approaches to teaching and learning.

Year 8 pupils tree planting

We enjoy a reputation for humanity and strive to maintain high quality relationships between staff and students at all levels of the school. Pastoral care is given a high profile and is backed up by professional agencies, aiming both to bring about effective learning and to support the emotional and spiritual development of all our students. The result of this is a caring and happy community, offering leadership and team based opportunities to all our students.

Our curriculum is designed to put learning firmly at the centre of all that we do and the academic staff have used their expertise to produce a set of standards for high quality, effective teaching to which they all adhere. We offer a wide and varied curriculum, tailored to the needs of our students. We have embraced the ‘revised’ curriculum and described by the Council for Curriculum and Assessment (CCEA). St Patrick’s remains confident that our strengths range across the wide variety of disciplines that we offer, from Journalism and Engineering to Economics and Music. The high qualifications of the teaching staff and their commitment to professional development and further academic study, as well as the impressive work of the support staff, mean that standards are maintained at a very high level.

So what of the future?  We consider closely the world that we are ultimately preparing our students for and the skills they will need to live and survive in that world. The twenty-first century will provide many challenges for young people. Our aim is to shape lifelong learners, critical and innovative thinkers who will thrive in the acceptance of those challenges and whose moral integrity will enable them to determine a better world for all.

With spgs.org.uk we hope to bring you information and news about this historic school, and to this end you will find a comprehensive online prospectus and full details of all departments.

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