Pupils will be sorry to leave Dunmurry High School

As pupils in year 12 who will be sitting our GCSE exams in the coming weeks we wish to refute many of the allegations made about staff, pupils and the standard of education in this school.

To begin with the staff who have taught us over the past five years have at all times helped and supported us and encouraged us to fulfil our potential.

Not only have they stayed behind after school to help us with our problems but they also came in during the Easter holidays to help us prepare for our forthcoming exams.

Regarding the pupils, most of us, including ourselves, are conscientious, hard-working and highly-motivated individuals who want to do well. We are also well-mannered and polite having been brought up by parents who have taught us the importance of self-discipline and respect.

The article also said that lots of kids do not attend school. Whilst some are poor attenders, the vast majority attend school regularly with the average attendance in our own class being 95%.

We will be sorry to leave at the end of the year. We have spent five happy years here and have made lots of good friends, including pupils and staff. If we could study for our ‘A’ levels at Dunmurry High we would most certainly do so.

We have been well prepared for our exams and we are most certainly not failures but successful students who have been well educated in a successful school.

R. McTier, N. Campbell and S. Chambers