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Welcome to Hazelwood: A tour around the secondary school of the year

Hazelwood Integrated College was recently named as the secondary school of the year. Bronagh McLaughlin gives us a whistlestop tour of the school’s approach, including its pastoral support and work on student voice
Well deserved: Staff from Hazelwood Integrated College in Belfast after winning the Secondary School of the Year award at the Tes Schools Awards 2022 (image: Supplied)

Hazelwood Integrated College is a high-performing, all-ability, integrated school, that serves an area of deprivation in Belfast.

Integrated schools make up 7% of schools in Northern Ireland and bring together children from Catholic, Protestant, and other backgrounds. The school challenges sectarianism, promotes high expectations, practices holistic inclusivity, and firmly believes that your circumstances and where you are from do not determine your future or your potential to be a valuable contributor to society.

Our current enrolment is 1,095 students and approximately 60% of our intake is entitled to free school meals. A unique feature of Hazelwood is that we have 41 looked after children, the highest number of any school in Northern Ireland. And 91 of our students currently have statements of SEN.

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