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Swimming Success

Glenlola’s Junior Relay Team of Farrah Allen, Tarryn Barr, Lucy Hill and Amelia Urry (all Year 10)  competed in the Irish Senior Schools Relay Finals in Dublin on Sunday 14 April. The girls won both the Medley and Freestyle Relays, becoming Irish Champions. In the Medley Relay, they beat the second placed team by over […]

Car Trials 2019

The 54th annual Year 14 Car Trials event on Thursday 11 April was a great success – made all the more nostalgic by the presence and words of former staff member Mr Hayes.

Year 14 Psychology Students get their Thinking Caps on

Brainy Year 14 students got their thinking caps on this week! They produced hats to model the structure of the brain as part of the Biopsychology topic on the Psychology A level course. They covered the concepts of localisation, lateralisation and plasticity on this part of the course.  

Irish Bouldering Champion

Congratulations to Year 10 pupil Faith Blaney who  competed in Dublin on Saturday at the Irish Bouldering Championships, and won the gold medal. School wishes Faith every success in the upcoming Youth Climbing Final on 27th & 28th April.

Choral Festival Success

Glenlola Collegiate Chamber Choirs gave outstanding performances at Bangor International Choral Festival this week.  The Junior Chamber Choir were winners in the Under 15 Class.  Lucy Crutchley Year 9 received the award on behalf of the Choir The Senior Chamber Choir were joint runners-up in the Grammar Schools class. Well done girls!      

Climbing Success

Faith Blaney, Year 10, competed in the last round of the Youth Climbing Series in Dublin on Saturday 23 March and placed first. Faith also placed first in the three previous rounds of the competition this year and will now travel to the UK Grand Final in the Sheffield next month. We wish her every […]

Accelerated Reader Success

Pictured are 24 of the 25 girls who have achieved word millionaire status including 4 who are now multi – millionaires! They received their certificates on Friday.  Between them they have amassed over 33.5 million words read. We now have 36 word millionaires since September and 5 of these are also multi millionaires. Our school […]

Charity Award for Glenlola

Glenlola Collegiate has been recognised with a charity award after its Year 13 Drama students devised a six-week performance and dance programme for children with a learning disability. It’s one of a number of ways in which Glenlola has contributed to the work of Positive Futures, which supports people with a learning disability, acquired brain […]