Useful Information - Methodist College Belfast

Sixth Form Prospectus 2026 - 2027

All absences and appointment requests such as medical appointments should now be reported via the School Gateway app. Details concerning this process were recently sent home to all parents. You may also contact school using the Schoolcomms system (for which you must have registered) using the number 01287244005. Please ensure you text before 9.00am.

Please text (or phone) on each day of absence. If you have signed up to our App or Schoolcomms system you will receive a text if your child is neither in Tutor group registration nor registered elsewhere in the school and we have not received a text or telephone call from you.

As you are aware, we ask that medical appointments, family holidays etc. are arranged outside school hours. However, in exceptional circumstances, if your son/daughter has to miss part of a day, a full day or more than one day then you should contact the school via the App or Schoolcomms system. All requests for planned absence should be made at least three days in advance.

Illness During The School Day

Absence due to illness or other unforeseen circumstances

Absence due to illness or other unforeseen circumstances, should now be reported via the School Gateway App. You may also contact school using the Schoolcomms system (for which you must be registered) using the number 01287244005 please ensure you make contact before 9.00 am on each day of absence. Alternatively parents may contact the appropriate Administrative Assistant by phone (see below) who will record the details, or you can leave a message via voicemail.

Transport Arrangements

The College does not provide special bus services for pupils. Pupils use the main Translink bus and train services for travelling to and from school.

The decision regarding pupil eligibility for a bus or train pass lies with the Education and Library Board for the area in which the pupil lives. The College will distribute travel passes after they have been issued but the original application must be made to the Board. Once a pupil has been accepted into the College, an application form for a travel pass can be obtained from the Education & Library Board website or the College Rolls & Records Department. The form should be completed and returned to the Rolls & Records Deptartment in order to be signed/stamped before being sent to the Board for a decision on eligibility/a travel pass to be issued. For pupils already at the College, it may be necessary to reapply each September as the Education and Library Boards do not always automatically reissue a travel pass, particularly in the case of 5th form pupils entering the Sixth form.

Full timetables as well as news of any changes to the services can be found on their website at www.translink.co.uk. Alternatively, they can be contacted on 028 90 66 66 30.

Buses

Comber / Ballygowan

Saintfield / Carryduff

Ballygowan

Belfast City Centre

Ballynahinch

Four Winds / Cairnshill

Depart (1) Four Winds - No. 15H/18H (Blue) 07.55am & 8am (there are earlier and later ones)
(2) Cairnshill- No.7A (Metro) 7.32 or 7.43am
Route (1) Saintfield Road to MCB
(2) Cairnshill, Forestside, Ormeau Road, QUB
Arrive 8.20am (side gate Malone Road, MCB)
Return No. 7A/7B (Metro) 3.23pm, every 7 minutes behind QUB (or if going home later, take bus from Centra - see Ballynahinch information)

East Belfast

Dundonald / Ballyhackamore

North Belfast / Ballysillian

Belmont

Depart (1) No. 3A (Metro) 7.45am (every 10 minutes)
(2) No. 20 (Metro) 7.45am (every 10 minutes)
Route (1) Tesco's Knocknagoney, Sydenham, Holywood Arches, Newtownards Road, May Street in City Centre
(2) Belmont Road, Holywood Arches, Newtownards Road, May Street in City Centre
Arrive 8.05am (in City Centre)
Return No. 3A (Metro) (May Street in City Centre) 3.45pm (every 10 minutes)

Templepatrick

Erinvale

Finaghy / Dunmurry

Drumbeg

Lisburn

Depart (1) No. 524 (Blue), 07.25 am

(2) No. 51 (Blue), 7.30am

Route (1) Lisburn, Hillhall Road, Upper Malone Road

(2) Bus Station, Dunmurry, Finaghy, Balmoral

Arrive (1) 0751 am (side gate Malone Road, MCB)

(2) 8.05 am (back gate Fullerton, Lisburn Road, MCB)

Return (1) No. 22 (Blue), 4.10 pm (outside Centra, Malone Road)

(2) No. 51 (Blue), 3.35 pm and 4.10 pm and 4.35pm (back gate Fullerton, Lisburn Road, MCB)

Craigavon / Lurgan

Upper Newtownards Road

Trains

Bangor & Holywood

Greenisland

Lambeg

Sydenham

Guides on Exam Conduct

Exam Results Summary 2025

Requesting Exam Certificates

It is the pupil's responsibility to collect their exam certificates when they become available usually from end of October onwards for exams sat in the summer term]. They will NOT be posted out to the pupil as we require the certificates to be signed for. Pupils at the College should collect GCSE certificates at some time during the course of their 6th form/A-Level studies.

If a pupil leaves the College or if he/she no longer lives locally, a relative or friend can sign for the certificates: just let us know beforehand so that we can check they are here/ have them ready. Certificates will only be posted out in exceptional circumstances and the College will not take any responsibility for certificates that are lost in transit.

If a pupil has lost their certificates, the College cannot replace them and does not have copies. They will need to contact the relevant exam boards to order replacement certificates.

Request Exam Certificate