Hunterhouse College
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| Address | Upper Lisburn Road Finaghy BELFAST BT5 6AX |
| Phone | (+ 44 28) 9070 2777 |
| Headmaster | Mrs M Clark |
| School type | Voluntary Grammar |
| School Board | BELB |
| Location | Finaghy, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Enrollment | 1082 students |
| School colour(s) | Blue, Red |
| Motto | Una Crescamus - (Let Us Grow Together) |
Hunterhouse College is an all girls English-medium grammar school based in Finaghy, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was formed from the amalgamation of two local schools - Ashleigh House and Princess Gardens.
As the headmistresses from both schools had the surname "Hunter" at the time of the merger, the combined school took the name "Hunterhouse College".
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Schools are a place of memories and shape and influence the pupils' futures. As a former preppy and grammar school pupil my memories include:
PREP
1) P1 peg with an animal sticker and your name (mine was a butterfly)
2) Being told we weren't allowed to play beyond the grass in front of the veranda at lunch time because a man was on the school grounds who was wearing a dress, and although was not dangerous we were to leave him alone
3) Coming home and telling my parents that firemen visited the school for them to later discover that the science block in the grammar school had burned down
4) Duffle coats and thick itchy tights
5) School swimming costumes
6) Believing that millenium babies' eyes would open on new years day and when they didn't half the school throwing them up on to the ceiling of the veranda...where they can still found stuck there years on
7) Having the privillege in P7 to go the grammar school's assemly once a week. Memories of which include the eccentric and wonderful Miss Hunter (later to shock the school by marrying after retiring - scandal!) who wore bright skirt suits and knee length boots religiously and the deputy headmistress (now headmistress, Mrs Clarke) who mande announcements at the end of each assembly lecturing about the "litter" problem
8) Despite being in the prep, Miss Hunter knowing every preppies name and spoke to us individually before joining P1 and again in P7 when choosing which grammar school to go to
9) Warnocks
10) Nature lessons outside in summer with Mrs Tougher
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
1) Out with the duffle coats, in with the rain coats
2) Miss Hunter retiring. Mrs Clarke taking over. A third of the staff retiring or moving.
3) The boarding school closing
4) Entry grades after 11-plus getting lower and C's being accepted
5) The prep closing
6) New sports hall and science block
7) Muck-up days being abolished
