Foyle College Archive

@DerryNow @NWSharingZone Today's recoloured photo is one I restored and coloured for @ArchiveFoyle. The photo shows the students from the Northland's School of Housewifery in Crawford Sq. It was founded in 1913 by Margaret Mackillop was located beside the Victoria High School.

Excellent navigation. Excellent campcraft. Excellent weather. ☀️🥾 It was an absolute pleasure supervising these young people on their DofE Silver Practice expedition. Well done Year 11!💙 #DofE

What an incredible afternoon celebrating World Book Day with our whole‑school quiz! 📚 ✨ Special congratulations to our winning Year 11 team! An outstanding performance - well done! ✨ #WorldBookDay2026 #foylefamily

Yesterday lwe had the history group from Foyle U3A in the Archive. They were given a talk by Jim Goodman on the history of Foyle College and the Londonderry High School. Following this the visitors had the opportunity to explore our story boards, old photos and school magazines.

Our Year 11 Parents’ Meeting will take place on Monday, 9 March, from 3.40pm to 5.30pm. Pupils should accompany parents/carers to allow for meaningful discussions about the GCSE subjects being studied.📚 We hope to see you there💙

GCSE Options Day – Thursday 19 February 🕘 9.00 – 9.30am Presentation for Parents and Carers 📍 Assembly Hall 🕤 9.30 – 11.30am Year 10 Parents’ Meetings 📍 Agoras and Sports Hall To support the transition to Key Stage 4, all Year 10 pupils are expected to attend both events.

Foyle College is currently recruiting for- 📍Classroom Assistants - 2 Posts For further information please visit our website via tinyurl.com/3te7js7n The closing date for applications is on Wednesday 28th January at 12.00 noon. #thefutureisfoyle💫

“You can go and collect fir-cones for me,” said Kanga, giving them a basket. So Tigger and Roo went to the Six Pine Trees and threw fir-cones at each other until they had forgotten what they came for, and they left the basket under the trees and went back to dinner. ~A.A.Milne

Wow! We are truly blown away by the generosity of our #FoyleFamily. Thank you to everyone who donated food items to the Foyle Foodbank as part of our Christmas Jumper Day celebrations. We hope these contributions will make a difference to those who need it most this Christmas💙

@richardcross78 @foyle_college @FCFPA Watch this space 👍

@ArchiveFoyle @foyle_college @FCFPA Would love to seem some cricket and rugby from my time 89-96 🙏

@foyle_college @FCFPA This week we will be posting a few more of our old school sports photos. Today our photo shows the 1944 FCD First XI cricket team. If you would like your team photo featured please let us know.

@foyle_college @FCFPA With the Black Friday fast approaching we thought that you would like see some deals from our collection of school magazines. This one is from 1937.

@foyle_college @FCFPA This week we’ll be posting more old school sports photos. Today is the 1924 LHS hockey team.

Well done to our current and former pupils who, as members of the Sollus Highland Dancers, performed at the New Gate Arts and Culture Centre over the past two evenings as part of the “Awakening the Walled City” programme. 👏🏻

@foyle_college @FCFPA Here’s another sports photo from our collection this one is of the 1967/68 basketball team.

@foyle_college @FCFPA We have a large library of school sports photos dating from 1883 and covering all age groups in rugby, hockey, cricket and athletics. All the photos have been digitised and can be viewed in the Archive. The attached photo is the 1984/85 First XI Hockey team.

@williamcrawley @foyle_college Reference your piece on the bible in Irish. We have this one on display in our Archive “The Bible in Irish”printed in 1830 by R Watts, London. #foylecollegearchive

@foyle_college @FCFPA Recently we had the pleasure of welcoming Ken Gamble, Cecil Heatley and Michael Hewitt for a tour of the Archive. There were some interesting “stories” while we were having a cup of tea.

@foyle_college @FCFPA We were recently given of a collection of local newspapers from the early 1980s. The first photo is from 1984 features some of the winners from Sports Day also included is Frank Smith (AKA The Sarge) who retired as the caretaker of Springtown after 35 years.

@foyle_college @FCFPA Here we have The Foyle College Prefects Council in 1971 - 72.