Edmund Rice College
| Established | 1977 |
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| Type | Secondary school |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Principal | Mr Kevin Gough B.Ed. D.A.S.E. M.Sc. |
| Location | 96-100 Hightown Road Glengormley BT36 7AU Northern Ireland |
| Gender | Boys Only |
| Website | Edmund Rice College |
Edmund Rice College is a Roman Catholic secondary school located in Glengormley, County Antrim. It is named after Edmund Ignatius Rice, founder of the Congregation of Christian Brothers.
[edit] Subjects
The school offers a full curriculum, including a range of subjects at GCSE, GNVQ and A Level.
[edit] Zambia
The school has been collecting funds to aid Zambia as part of an immersion project, with the first group beginning in 2005 with raising over £20,000 in the local area through fund-raising events. Also a second project took place in February 2007. The 15 volunteers worked in Livingstone for a week, before working in Lusaka for another week. The group of volunteers roofed a school, developed irrigation systems, planted seeds and built a piggery. After months of fund-raising, the last of the donations were brought in on the morning of departure for Zambia (9th Feb). The final total raised was £35,700.
The school is currently undertaking preparations for the next trip to Zambia, which will take place in 2009, in which the same amount of pupils and teachers will attend, as with previous events. In order to raise funds for this trip to Zambia, the school's pupils are volunteering to visit well known supermarkets, such as Tesco and Sainsbury's in order to receive donations from packing customers shopping bags. The school successfully made it to Zambia in 2009, they brought happiness to each person that lived there. In 2011, the school raised up a lot of money, thanks of 10MT a class who raised up to one thousand and four hundred.
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