STEM – Rainey Endowed School

Knockloughrim Primary School join Rainey Rocketeers

June 25, 2019

This morning the Rainey Rocketry Club hosted some budding young Rocketeers. P1 and P2 Pupils from Knockloughrim Primary School joined us to build and launch some very special…
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Year 8 Micro Generators

June 13, 2019

Year 8 today built micro generators to power model electric vehicles. This was a special STEM event hosted by our friends at Sentinus. Well done year 8 –…
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Rainey Rocketeers reclaim title

April 11, 2019

Now in its fifth year Rainey Rocketry club is bigger and better than ever. From the first National Final in 2014 the club has experienced phenomenal success launching almost…
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First Rockets of 2019 launched

March 6, 2019

Congratulations to all Rainey Rocketeers who successfully launched their first model rockets today. Each rocket soared to over 200ft in under 2 seconds. Successful rocketeers now look…
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Lego League Team impress judges at regional heat

December 19, 2018

W5 welcomed 140 pupils from schools across Northern Ireland to the eleventh annual Northern Ireland FIRST® LEGO® League Challenge on Wednesday 5 December. The FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL)…
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Top GCSE Construction Candidate

November 13, 2018

Congratulations to Rebecca Gilbert who achieved 2nd place in Northern Ireland for GCSE Construction and the Built Environment. We look forward to attending an Awards Ceremony hosted by…
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UK Junior Maths Challenge 2018

June 26, 2018

Today pupils were awarded their UK Junior maths certificates for the recent Junior Maths challenge – well done everyone! A superb effort

Bloodhound Model Rocket Car Workshop

June 20, 2018

Well done to the super Year 9 group who took part in the Bloodhound model rocket car workshop recently. Everyone listened with such enthusiasm to the lecture that…
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Rainey Rocketeering 2018

May 2, 2018

Out with the old and in with the new. For 2018 a fresh band of rocketeers took up the challenge to design and build an exceptional red and…
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Rainey Lego League Team Outstanding in Belfast

December 8, 2017

Lego League is awesome. That was the general consensus this past week. More than 240 thousand young people took part from all over the world this year…
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Engineering Student’s trip to Moyola Precision Engineering

October 10, 2017

Rainey Endowed’s Year 13 BTEC ‘Subsidiary Diploma in Engineering’ students visited Moyola Precision Engineering as part of their Engineering course along with their tutor, Mr David Maxwell. The three…
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Technology & Design Pupils Visit Coca-Cola HBC Ireland

September 15, 2017

25 per second. Thats how many cans of Coke that the Lisburn based Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company produce. Yes they can!

Technology & Design 6th Form Visit Emerson Cookstown

September 14, 2017

Sometimes it is difficult to fully appreciate the finer details of an Industrial process in the classroom. Sometimes, books and online resources just don’t seem to do the…
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#RaineyRocketry make it three in a row

April 2, 2017

The success of #RaineyRocketry in the past few years has been matched only by the enthusiasm of its members. In 2014 the inaugural meeting was held. A team…
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Lego League Team delighted to receive @Sensata Sponsorship

October 25, 2016

Today the Lego League Team welcomed back to Rainey Endowed our industrial sponsor Sensata Technologies. Sensata are well known in Northern Ireland for their innovation with remote tyre pressure…
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Biology Fieldwork – Portrush 2016

September 20, 2016

On Wednesday 14th September 36 AS Biology students headed to the rocky shore at Ramore Head, Portrush to carry out some ecological fieldwork. After a crash course in seaweed…
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Wright Bus Visit 2016 @wrightsgroup

September 16, 2016

On Friday Friday 16 September 2016, AS Technology & Design pupils together with Mr Palmer and Mr Fields, visited Europe’s leading independent bus manufacturer – Wrightsgroup in Galgorm, Ballymena.…
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GCSE Construction and the Built Environment gains @henrygroupni sponsorship

September 15, 2016

Rainey Endowed School is delighted to be sponsored by Henry Brothers for GCSE Construction and the Built Environment. The course is currently studied in Year 11 and Year 12 by…
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Technology & Design Pupils Visit Contour Global & Coca-Cola HBC Ireland

September 11, 2016

So how much technology and science does it take to produce a bottle of Coke? To find out, a group of form 4 Technology & Design pupils traveled…
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Farady Challenge 2016

May 22, 2016

Well done to our Year 8 pupils who took part in the Schools Faraday Challenge in Magherafelt High School last Friday. The teams had to work hard designing a…
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Technology & Design visit the new sports complex

May 11, 2016

This week Technology & Design students were invited onto the site of our new sports complex. We were shown the engineering drawings and discovered how much steel really…
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Rainey Rocketeers Retain Title

May 3, 2016

In 2014 Rainey Endowed soared to victory in the UKAYRoc Regional finals, before finishing a very impressive 5th in the National finals. With the absence of a competition in…
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Category: STEM