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School in Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland| Coleraine Academical Institution | |
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| Address | |
| Castlerock Road Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, BT51 3LA Northern Ireland | |
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| Type | Voluntary Grammar (represented on the Independent Schools Council) |
| Motto | Εως Hμερα Εστιη "Work while it is day" |
| Established | 1860 |
| Local authority | NEELB |
| Head teacher | Dr. David Carruthers 2007– |
| Gender | Boys |
| Age | 11 to 19 |
| Enrollment | c. 700 |
| Houses | White, Hunter, Huston, Clarke |
| Colour(s) | Maroon, White and Navy |
| Publication | "The Inst" - School Magazine |
| Website | http://www.coleraineai.com/ |
Coleraine Academical Institution (CAI), styled locally as Coleraine Inst, is a voluntary grammar school for boys, situated in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Coleraine Academical Institution occupies a 70-acre (280,000 m) site on the Castlerock Road, where it was originally founded in 1860. It was, for many years, a boarding school until the boarding department closed in 1999. It is one of eight Northern Irish schools represented on the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). The school has an enrollment of just under 700 pupils, aged 11–19, as of 2009. The school is generally regarded for its high academic standards and extensive sporting facilities, including 33-acre (130,000 m) 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 is nine times winner of the Ulster Schools Cup,. the world's second oldest rugby competition. The school has competed in the competition every year since 1876.
Headteachers
Over the years the school has had a remarkable continuity of leadership, with nine headmasters spanning the school's existence of nearly 150 years.
- (1860–1870) Alex Waugh Young was CAI's founding principal and very little is known of him.
- (1870–1915) T.G. Houston served the school for 45 years, enjoying a long retirement in Portstewart until his death in 1939 at the age of 96.
- (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 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 - )Dr David Carruthers is CAI's current headmaster. He was previously the Head of Mathematics at Royal Belfast Academical Institution.
School houses
School houses are named after former masters and play little, if any, part in everyday life in the school. The main event of the year for house competitions is the annual Sports Day. The houses are:
- White
- Hunter
- Clarke
- Houston
- Henry
- O'Neill
Uniform
Much importance is placed upon the neatness of boys' appearance. School colours are maroon, white and navy. Uniform consists of the standard school blazer, standard black flannels, grey shirt (for years 8, 9 and 10) or white shirt (for years 11 to 14); the school tie and a light grey v-necked pullover (although boys in Years 13 and 14 may wear a navy pullover).
Honours system
As a boy progresses through the school, he can earn honours through excellence in sport and/or the arts. There are Junior Colours, allowing a boy in the junior years to wear a junior colours tie, and Senior Colours for boys in the senior years (year 11 to year 14). In addition, there are honours blazers. These are awarded to boys in the sixth form who have contributed significantly to the school through sport or the arts. A pupil gaining such honours is entitled to wear a blue honours blazer. There are also Representative Honours for pupils who have represented the school in National or International finals. This is also a blue honours blazer, but with the representation stitched below the CAI crest.
Recent achievements
A team of five upper sixth boys from the school called "Team FUGA" competed in the F1 in Schools competition, and won the international finals in 2007, meriting a second team competing in the Malaysian World Championships the following year.
At the annual Coleraine Sports Council Awards Dinner 2008, the previous year's CAI Junior 18 Quad were winners of the Junior Team Award. CAI head rowing coach, Bobby Platt (MBE), received the Coach of the Year Award. CAI's three 'old boys' who rowed at the Beijing Olympics: Richard Archibald, Alan Campbell and Richard Chambers, all collected Chairman's Awards in recognition of their outstanding achievements.
Coleraine Academical Institution continues to send its sportsmen to participate in rugby and rowing teams representing both Ulster and Ireland; a long-standing achievement of the school.
The school debating team won the Northern Ireland Schools Debating Competition in 1995 and were runners-up in 2006.
Notable alumni
- John Bodkin Adams, suspected serial killer
- Roger Anderson former Ulster rugby union player
- Richard Archibald, 2004 and 2008 Olympic rower
- Sir Dawson Bates, 1st Baronet, politician
- William Wylie , Took part in the defence of the Trinty university during the 1916 Dublin rising. He was subsequently appointed prosecuting officer at the trial of the leaders of the rising.
- Air Marshal Sir George Beamish
- David Burnside, Ulster Unionist Party MLA and former MP
- Alan Campbell, 2004 and 2008 Olympic rower, 2006 world champion, 2007 Henley diamond scull winner
- Mark Carruthers, TV presenter/personality
- Richard Chambers, 2007 World Champion and 2008 Olympic Rower rower
- John Clarke Davison, Ulster Unionist Party (UUP)politician
- Stephen Feeney World Cup 2009 Rower.
- Barry Hunter, former Northern Ireland international footballer
- David McClarty, UUP MLA for Londonderry East
- Graeme McDowell, Ryder Cup golfer
- G.R.C. McDowell CBE FIET, chairman of the British Standards Institution from 1985 until 1988
- James Nesbitt, film and TV actor
- David Hedges, Emmy-nominated TV producer, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
- Jim Shannon, Democratic Unionist Party MLA for Strangford
- James Stewart, celebrity divorce lawyer one of four family lawyers responsible for bringing Collaborative Divorce first to England, and then to all of Europe
- Andrew Trimble, rugby union player
- Gary Watton, prolific non-fiction author
- Davy Patton, Stuart Clanachan and Howard Beverland, Coleraine FC footballers
References
- http://www.coleraineai.com/news_article/88.aspx
- School history
- Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, ISBN 1-904027-19-9
- http://www.schoolsguidebook.co.uk/schools/Coleraine_Academical_Institution.html
- British International Rowing Office
- Irish Times
- http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs/dmcclarty.htm
- http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/members/biogs/jshannon.htm
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