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Middle School House Dance Competition 2016

11 November 2016 in /by

The Middle School House Dance Competition took place on Wednesday 9 November.  A dance team from each of the six houses took part and Clanmorris produced the winning routine. View the all the competition entries via the link below:  

BT Speaking Clock Finalist

10 November 2016 in /by

Crea Barton, past Glenlola Collegiate pupil now studying at Stirling University, reached the final of British Telecom’s Speaking Clock new voice competition as featured on the BBC’s One Show. Crea secured her place in the final from over 5, 500 entries from around the UK.      

Question Time with MLAs at Bangor Grammar School

10 November 2016 in /by

On 12 October 2016, we attended Bangor Grammar School’s Question Time event to raise money for their upcoming trip to Washington.  We had the opportunity to question Steven Agnew (Green Party), Peter Weir (DUP), Claire Hanna (SDLP), Stephen Farry (Alliance), Alan Chambers (UUP) and Catríona Ruane (Sinn Féin).  The event was chaired by BBC journalist […]

Mathematics Festival at QUB

21 October 2016 in /by

Today, Friday 21 October, was the Mathematics festival at Queen’s University, Belfast. This special festival was to celebrate Maths week and all across Ireland, people are attending events to acknowledge this interesting aspect of life. The maths festival had loads of challenging problems to solve and we all enjoyed spending the morning pouring over these […]

Creative Writing Competition Winner

20 October 2016 in /by

Creative Writing Competition, Autumn 2016 At the start of the Autumn term, Dr Erin Halliday ran a short story competition to launch the new Creative Writing Club with Years 8 – 12. The winning story, ‘As Free As Freedom’ was written by Ruth Stevenson from 8C, who received a £10 book token as a prize. […]

Sporting Success 15 October 2016

19 October 2016 in /by

U14 Hockey The U14A Hockey team played in the 1st round of the Junior Schools Cup against Limavady Grammar School, winning 2-0. The next round will be in November. Swimming This weekend Glenlola Swim Team competed in the Swim Ulster Schools Cup and Championship held at Aurora. Our girls had tremendous success over the 2 […]

Football Competition

14 October 2016 in /by

Two teams from Years 8/9 and Years 10/11 competed at the Futsall Cup in Belfast on Thursday 13 October 2016. This was a big event for football with forty teams from Schools in Belfast and North Down competing.  For most of our girls this was a first outing at Futsall which uses a smaller, harder football […]

Tribute to Megan Ogle

22 September 2016 in /by

It is with great sadness that we learned yesterday of the death of our much loved and respected pupil, Megan Ogle.  Megan was a very bright, hard working and popular pupil who was recently awarded two very special prizes at our awards ceremony. One of these was awarded for her fantastic attitude to overcoming difficulties […]