Wallace High School

Question 1

What is the school motto located under the school crest above the front office?

Answer 1

Esperance

Question 2

What is the English translation of our motto?

Answer 2

Hope

Question 3

Why are there photographs located near the front office and how are the connected to Wallace?

Answer 3

They were all headmasters/principles

Question 4

Give three names of different principles from the past?

Answer 4

Mr Gilpin, Mr Adam, Mr McCallen

Question 5

There is a cap hanging in a picture frame. Who does it belong to and why did the receive this cap?

Answer 5

Raymond Hunter (head boy 1955)- international honours in rugby, cricket and football, was part of the British Lions.

Question 6

What are the CORE values of Wallace High School?

Answer 6

Commitment, Opportunity, Respect, Excellence

Question 7

When and by whom were the new buildings at Clonevin Park opened?

Answer 7

4th October 1978, Peter Froggart

Question 8

In the assembly hall, what is still there from the old school?

Answer 8

The stones which have the school crest and ‘Lisburn Intermediate School’ engraved on them.

Question 9

When was the original Lisburn Intermediate School (Now Wallace High School) founded?

Answer 9

1880

Question 10

In the assembly hall, what other evidence is there recorded on the walls about the history of the school?

Answer 10

The representative honours, the Wallace High School Lisburn principals, head girls and head boys, Intermediate expeditions, university degree honours and scholarships.

Question 11

How have the people recorded on the walls contributed to the life and history of Wallace High School?

Answer 11

Playing sports, head boys and girls help other people and take responsibility

Question 12

What are the newest additions to the school building?

Answer 12

The sixth form centre 1998, the paving on the ground, lockers, the lift, science rooms and computer suites (the third floor)

Question 13

How do you know that the top floor is newer than other parts

Answer 13

The top floor looks cleaner than the other floors

Question 14

What was heating like for Wallace in the past and today?

Answer 14

Past: large coal fires, ancient smelly valour cooking stove, Bunsen burners.
Today: good insolation, radiators, air conditioning systems.

Question 15

What were days off like in the past and today?

Answer 15

Past: Principal’s form in Clay for school trip, Christmas, Summer, bank holidays, sometimes on a sunny day Mr Maybin would say I think we will have a half day today.
Today: bank holidays, Christmas, Summer, Easter, Halloween.

Question 16

What was discipline in the past and today?

Answer 16

Past: excellent, not a single major accident including pupil misbehavior, Getting hair cut because considered too long, the cane, detentions, expulsion writing lines.
Today: say please and thank you, greet people as they go by, respect other people, have good manners, don’t talk when the teacher is talking, only take out iPad if told to, be kind to others, help out each other.

Question 17

What was food like in the past and today?

Answer 17

Past: in 1946 the school canteen fed 160 pupils everyday, two junior school boys crossed the border (Republic of Ireland) and sweets to sell to third years, rationing.
Today: canteen vending machines, sometimes they set up a cake stall, it is delicious, chip Friday, they sell hot and cold food at break time and lunch time, we use our finger prints to buy dinners, we are a nut free school.

Question 18

What was the size of the school like in the past and today?

Answer 18

Past: they can all fit into a 40 seat bus and the rest into the principal’s car, it had fewer tan 100 students in 1931, 2 air raid shelters, located at Antrim Road, one main schoolroom split into 3 parts by wooden partitions, the school expanded during the 1960’s with an additional gym and science labs. Upper sixth did not have a centre, instead a room with a kettle, a table tennis table and a tape recorder advent to the staff room. Pupils could not snoop on teachers through a shared window and vice versa. Richard Wallace owned it.
Today: located at Clonevin Park, three leveled building, gigantic, over 1,100 students, large grounds, sixth form centre, Astro hockey pitches, they had to build a whole new bigger school in the 1970’s.

Question 19

What was the uniform like in the past and today?

Answer 19

Past: sixth form girls would wear taken up skirts and white socks were rolled down, 1990’s there was ablution in the girls sixth form uniform, the old uniform could only be described as a wheelie bin blue (quite frankly it was awful).
Today: black shoes, black tights/ grey socks, grey skirt with two pleats/grey trousers, white shirt navy tie with a coloured stripe according to what house you are in, blazer, keep your hair neat and tidy. Boys and girls have different trimmings on their blazers, the design of the blazer now is only six years old.

Question 20

Who was the King of England from 1042 until 1066?

Answer 20

Edward the Confessor

Question 21

When did Edward the Confessor die?

Answer 21

In January 1066 he died