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 […]
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, 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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The International Day of Peace event ‘Amazing the Space’ at the Eikon Centre was a great success.
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 […]
Glenlola Collegiate School has been invited to participate in a Youth-led Peace Event called “Amazing the Space” at the Eikon Exhibition Centre, Maze, on Wednesday 21st September 2016. This event will involve over 3,000 pupils from over 400 schools, key members of Northern Ireland, links with other people around the globe and involvement of pupil representatives […]
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Mr WE Thompson, Headmaster at Glenlola Collegiate School, has praised pupils on yet another year of exceptional results. He commented, ‘Our girls have once again achieved excellent results at all levels; the well-deserved result of their hard work and commitment over the past year and of the invaluable support offered by their parents during their […]
Education Minister @paulgivan visited @GlenlolaSchool and was delighted to meet Principal Eric Thompson, Board of Governors, staff and pupils.
The Minister toured the school Wellness Centre and met Heather Law, Head of Pastoral Care and Lauran Brown, Pupil Support and Welfare
A superb night of entertainment, played and sung to the highest standard. Amazing talent all around. Well done to all, both pupils and staff.
4Day Five: Firstly, we enjoyed a tour of the Capitol building. Got to go into the Public gallery of the House of Representatives. Heard some Congressmen speak. Visited the Library of Congress. We visited the Supreme Court and finished the evening at the Lincoln Memorial. 🇺🇸💙🦢❤️
