Coleraine Academical Institution

Coordinates: 55°08′10″N 6°41′10″W / 55.136°N 6.686°W / 55.136; -6.686

Logo of Coleraine Grammar School after the merger between Coleraine Academical Institution and Coleraine High School
Motto In Scientia Opportunitas
Established c. 2015
Type Voluntary Grammar
Headteacher Dr. David Carruthers 2007–present
Location Castlerock Road
Coleraine
County Londonderry
BT51 3LA
Northern Ireland
Local authority NEELB
Students 1300
Gender Co educational
Ages 11–19
Colours Maroon, White and Navy               
Affiliations HMC
Website Coleraine Grammar School

Coleraine Academical Institution (CAI), styled locally as Coleraine Inst, was a voluntary grammar school for boys, situated in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Coleraine Academical Institution occupied a 70-acre (280,000 m2) site on the Castlerock Road, where it was founded in 1860. It was, for many years, a boarding school until the boarding department closed in 1999. It was one of eight Northern Irish schools represented on the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). The school had an enrolment of 778 pupils, aged 11–19, as of 2012. The school was generally regarded for its high academic standards and extensive sporting facilities, including 33-acre (130,000 m2) playing fields, indoor swimming pool, boat house, rugby pavilion, sports pavilion and gymnasium. The school has an extensive past pupil organisation, "The Coleraine Old Boys' Association", which has several branches across the world.

Coleraine Inst was nine times winner of the Ulster Schools Cup, the world's second oldest rugby competition, in which it competed every year since 1876.

Buildings of Coleraine Academical Institution

As part of a general reorganization of schools in the Coleraine area over a number of years,[1] Coleraine Academical Institution was merged in September 2015 with Coleraine High School on Coleraine's Lodge Road and became a fully boys' and girls' grammar school called Coleraine Grammar School.[2]

Headmasters

Over the years the school has had nine headmasters.

  • (1860 – 1870) Alex Waugh Young was CAI's founding principal and very little is known of him.
  • (1870 – 1915) Thomas Galway Houston, OBE, MA, FRSAI Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland served the school for 45 years, enjoying a long retirement in Portstewart until his death in 1939 at the age of 96. Houston served as a member of the Senate in the Stormont Parliament for Queen's University, Belfast.[3]
  • (1915 – 1927) Thomas James Beare – affectionately known as "Tommy John" – had a rather shorter tenure in office, until his premature retirement on health grounds in 1927.
  • (1927 – 1955) Major William White – "The Chief" to generations of boys who both admired and feared him.
  • (1955 – 1979) Dr George Humphreys, by whom the major physical expansion of the school was guided. Previously on the staff at Campbell College, Belfast, it was during his Headmastership that Inst became an H.M.C. school.
  • (1979 – 1984) Dr Robert F. J. Rodgers, former headmaster of Bangor Grammar School, was headmaster of Inst until his appointment as Principal of Stranmillis Training College, Belfast.
  • (1984 – 2003) R. Stanley Forsythe was appointed following a ten-year period as headmaster of The Royal School, Dungannon and remained in post until retirement.
  • (2004 – 2007) Leonard F. Quigg was the first headmaster in the school's history to have been promoted 'from within the ranks'. Quigg served as an assistant master, Head of English, Senior Master, as both junior and senior Vice Principal before his appointment as headmaster in January 2004. Mr Quigg retired in 2007.
  • (2007–present) Dr David Carruthers is CAI's current headmaster. He was previously the Head of Mathematics at Royal Belfast Academical Institution.[4]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ "Belfast schools 'on move' as part of education shake-up". Belfast Telegraph, by Lindsay Fergus 27/02/2013
  2. ↑ "New school name announced". Coleraine Times
  3. ↑ http://www.lennonwylie.co.uk/CampbellCollegeRegisterInfo.htm
  4. ↑ School history Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, ISBN 1-904027-19-9
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-09-08. Retrieved 2008-01-19.
  7. ↑ British International Rowing Office
  8. ↑ Irish Times
  9. ↑ http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs/dmcclarty.htm
  10. ↑ http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs/jshannon.htm
  11. ↑ http://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/scottish-politics/analysis-snp-bucks-trend-for-privately-educated-mps.126940798
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