Lumen-Christi College in Derry
Lumen Christi College in Derry’s Bishop Street has confirmed it will use the GL Assessment method.
In a statement, the school said: “The Board of Governors of Lumen Christi College is mindful of the unprecedented circumstances facing all of our young people.
“We want, therefore, to provide as much certainty and reassurance as possible for both
pupils and parents:
• Academic selection is, and remains, a key component of the Admissions Criteria for Lumen Christi College. The College will continue to use the GL Entrance Assessment method.
• The Board of Governors welcomes the mitigating measures being taken by the Post Primary Transfer Consortium to make the GL Assessment papers as accessible as possible for pupils. We also welcome that additional time will be afforded this year to the pupils to complete each of the two papers.
• We wish to reassure pupils and parents that the standardisation process involved in the marking of the GL
Entrance Assessment will ensure a similar proportion of A, B1, B2, C1, C2 and D grades will be allocated as
in previous years.
“In line with statutory regulations, the Board of Governors will publish its Admissions Criteria for 2021 in the
Autumn term.
“In the meantime, the Governors will continue to monitor Covid-19 guidance in relation to the operation of the GL Entrance Assessment.”
In recent weeks, a number of Catholic grammar schools across the North of Ireland announced they were scrapping the test.
Schools in Derry, Enniskillen, Newry and Kilkeel said they were doing away with selection for one year because of “the disruption to the education of pupils since March 2020”.
The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin had previously urged Catholic grammars not to use the test to admit pupils for the 2021/22 academic year.
However, grammar schools in Belfast including Aquinas, Rathmore, St Dominics, Our Lady and St Patrick’s College in Knock, St Mary’s Christian Brothers and Dominican College, have insisted selection will go ahead for the 2021 intake of pupils.
Their governors said they “are mindful of the unprecedented circumstances facing all of our young people” and that they “want to provide as much certainty and reassurance as possible for both pupils and parents”.
They said they welcomed “the mitigating measures being taken by the Post Primary Transfer Consortium to make the GL Assessment papers as accessible as possible for pupils”.
“We also welcome that additional time will be afforded this year to the pupils to complete each of the two papers,” the statement said.
St Patrick’s Academy in Dungannon, has also previously said it will use the GL test to select pupils for September 2021.
None of the 30 grammars who use the alternative AQE test have indicated they will not use it to admit pupils.
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