Ethos
Lurgan Junior High School is an inclusive 11-14 non-selective, co-educational school which continually strives to educate and develop its pupils into knowledgeable, confident, kind, and compassionate leaders, equipped with the ability and skills required to embrace all of the challenges that life may bring. As a school with a strong reputation for academic and sporting excellence, we resolutely believe that our girls and boys deserve every possible opportunity to succeed in all areas of their educational lives and fervently wish for them to go out and change the world for the better.
Our core Christian values remain unchanged, and we are unashamedly proud of them - the timeless qualities of humanity, courtesy and empathy for others.
In an ever-changing world, we believe that our consistent promotion of Respect, Responsibility and Resilience in all their forms, along with the myriad of high-quality educational opportunities which we afford our pupils, are as relevant to the world today as they were when our school was founded back in 1959.
Our school crest features the famous greyhound Master McGrath owned by Lord Lurgan and has become our school’s mascot, encapsulating as it does, our swiftness to learn whether in the classroom or beyond it and our resultant readiness to lead. In short, the Lurgan Junior High way prepares our pupils to lead from the front so they become the embodiment of our moto “Swift to learn, Ready to lead!”