Peter Weir

Baroness May Blood and Carl Frampton visited Central Integrated Primary to help mark the school's transformation to integrated status. Declan Roughan Photography.

Frampton helps Carrick pupils celebrate integrated status

Sanitary products.

Retabled motion for free sanitary products at Mid and East Antrim Council sites

Larne High School. Pic by Google.

Minister urged to ‘prioritise’ east Antrim school estate investment

Access to a healthy nutritious meal should be a basic right for all children, said the Education Minister.

'Holiday hunger' scheme to be piloted in Carrickfergus

Education Minister Peter weir has also welcomed the Executive’s decision to allow schools to resume a range of activities

Ministers welcome return of spectators and reopening of sports activities

Carrickfergus Academy students Lucas Todd and Enya Clarke with Education Minister, Peter Weir.

'Drive for new build' at Carrick Academy highlighted during Minister's visit

Education Minister Peter Weir pictured during a visit to the senior campus of Carrickfergus Academy.

Minister announces £5m for youth summer programme during Carrick school visit

Ballyhackett Primary School to close

Education Minister, Peter Weir, and Claire Hutchinson, Corporate Relations Manager at Diageo

Laurelhill students amongst first to take part in ‘Smashed Live Tour’

Education Minister Peter Weir visiting Limavady Shared Education Campus to cut the first sod on the new £11 million scheme. Looking on are students Leah Craig and Clara Clements.

Works starts on £11million scheme for Limavady Shared Education Campus

Education Minister Peter Weir visiting Limavady Shared Education Campus to cut the first sod on the new £11 million scheme. Included are students Leah Craig and Clara Clements and principals Rita Moore, St. Mary’s, and Darren Mornin, Limavady High School.

Minister cuts sod on £11m shared education campus which aims to set example in g...

St John the Baptist College, Portadown. Photo courtesy of Google.

College to recruit 14 more teaching staff after expansion news

Pupils at Carrickfergus Central Primary School celebrate the results of the parental ballot which took place in June 2019.

Carrickfergus primary school to move to integrated status from September 2021

AstraZeneca vaccine.

Heartfelt appeal for teachers in special schools to get Covid-19 vaccine

P3 children Scarlett Greggan (left) and Madison Lowry playing patty cake during their lunch break in the playground of Springfield Primary School in Belfast

Primary 4-7 pupils could be back at school next Monday

Seaview Primary School, Glenarm. Courtesy Google Streetview

Glenarm school’s switch to integrated status approved

Stewart Dickson MLA.

East Antrim students receive electronic devices to support learning

Carla Lockhart

‘Time for schools to reopen’ Lockhart tells the Executive

Remote learning packs at St Ronan's Primary School in Newry, Co Down.

No date for Northern Ireland school opening expected until next week

DUP MP Carla Lockhart wants the return to school to be top of the priority list when the NI Executive meets to re-evalute the current lockdown measures

Carla Lockhart: Re-opening of schools must be top priority

The AQE test was due to happen late next month but was cancelled earlier this week

Schools minister Weir told to give firm grammar entry rules after AQE axed

IT equipment (stock image).

IT equipment support for 10 schools in Antrim and Newtownabbey

Vaccination programme a game changer, says Department of Health. Picture by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Sammy Wilson MP says education staff ‘a vaccination priority’

Glengormley Integrated Primary School. Pic by Google.

Coronavirus: Newtownabbey pupils and staff to isolate over Christmas after posit...

Peter Weir MLA at Sunnylands PS.

Minister ‘impressed’ during visit to Carrick school

Education Minister Peter Weir with the Principal of Ballyclare Nursery School, Emma Corry and South Antrim MP Paul Girvan.

Community benefits highlighted as proposed Ballyclare Nursery move to former sch...

Education Minister Peter Weir toured Carnalbanagh Primary in September.

Carnalbanagh community to ‘Zoom’ into school’s final Christmas show

Education Minister Peter Weir visited Monkstown Boxing Club recently.

£35k digital poverty support scheme for Antrim and Newtownabbey schools

Carnalbanagh Primary School (image by Google).

Carnalbanagh Primary School closure ‘will have far reaching impact on community’

Education Minister Peter Weir with principal Alison Killough during his visit to Carnalbanagh Primary School at the end of September.

Carnalbanagh Primary School closure decision ‘ridiculous’ says campaigner

Cllr Andrew Clarke

MLA rejects claim he ‘undermined school’s efforts to stay open’ in Glenarm

Rumours are circulating about government plans for Christmas - here’s when it co...

Education Minister Peter Weir with students Curtis Nesbitt and JadeThornton from Abbey Community College.

Newtownabbey ASPIRE students ‘boxing clever’

Stormont Education Minister Peter Weir speaking to the media about the latest coronavirus restrictions during a visit to Lurgan College, Co Armagh.

Parents worry over impact of latest NI school closures

Minister Weir dropped in on a lesson at the school.

Carnalbanagh school’s ‘important role in community’ emphasised with visiting Edu...

East Antrim MLA John Stewart assists with the crossing patrol at Carrickfergus Model Primary School.

Volunteers step in for school’s crossing patrol amid calls for education body to...

Linn Primary School. Image by Google.

East Antrim schools part of new £4m Nurture Programme

Principal of Hazelwood, Máire Thompson, pictured with staff and students after the award was presented by Education Minister, Peter Weir MLA.

Prestigious accolade for Hazelwood Integrated College

Pictured launching the handwashing resource is Rufus the Handwashing Hero alongside Aileen McGloin from safefood and primary pupilOlivia

New handwashing resource introduced in Primary Schools

Ian Gingles achieved 2 A*s and 1 A grade.

Larne Grammar School celebrates many successes ‘in a very difficult year’

Bradley Todd, Jack Millar, Peter McKierna, Christopher McAuley and Mr Berne.

Edmund Rice College to appeal grades

Franki Gannon Ballyclare High pupil achieves 3 A star and 1 A grade.

In pictures: Ballyclare High pupils celebrate ‘province-busting’ grades