Coleraine College is a

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Coleraine Coleraine ( ; from ga, Cúil Rathain , 'nook of the ferns'Flanaghan, Deirdre & Laurence; ''Irish Place Names'', page 194. Gill & Macmillan, 2002. ) is a town and civil parish near the mouth of the River Bann in County Londonderry, Northern I ...

County Londonderry County Londonderry ( Ulster-Scots: ''Coontie Lunnonderrie''), also known as County Derry ( ga, Contae Dhoire), is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the thirty two counties of Ireland and one of the nine counties of Ulster. B ...

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. It was formed by an amalgamation of the Coleraine Boys'

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and Coleraine Girls' Secondary School and became Coleraine College in September 2001. The

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is Mr Marsh and there are currently 233

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Aims

The College aims to equip young students for FE College, Sixth Form and towards University. Skills taught include partnership and team skills.

Site

In preparation for the amalgamation a £7 million refurbishment of the Girls' School was carried out. The school is situated on of land. However, the school is split between two sites, set well back from any main road, and this encourages vandalism which by March 2005 had cost thousands of pounds. The school was mentioned in the

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in July 2006 when the

Minister

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, in answer to a question from Gregory Campbell, stated that the main buildings were then 49 years old.

Academic standards

The

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carried out a follow-up inspection in February 2006 in which they stated that "The school has some strengths in aspects of its educational and pastoral provision that can be built upon. The areas for improvement need to be addressed urgently if the school is to meet effectively, the needs of all the pupils." However, in a further follow-up inspection in January 2007 they found that the school had made a range of substantial improvements in the past year.

Sport

Student Gordon Patton was a member of the Northern Ireland under-18

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squad in 2006-07. he also went on to play for Aston villa and Sheffield Wednesday, he came back to score the winner for Coleraine fc on his debut against Larne to secure Coleraine top flight status, he represented Northern Ireland at under 19/20/21 and was selected for the under 23 northern Ireland select team to face Ital
"Junior football: Boys face Jersey test"

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, 1 February 2007

References

External links

Official site
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