Entries by office

Public Speaking – Glenlola Success

Congratulations to Jessica Flowers Year 13 who was awarded first place in the Soroptimists’ Public Speaking Competition on Wednesday 25 November 2015. Her five minute speech was entitled ‘Preventing Human Trafficking is the Responsibility of?’ and she competed against nine other pupils. Jessica will represent Glenlola in the NI Final on Saturday 6 February 2016 in […]

Music Festival Success

Olivia Davidson 8F recently took part in the Holywood Music Festival at which she won the Catherine Hunter Cup for North Down Vocal Solo. Eleven competitors, both boys and girls, took part.  Olivia scored very highly, securing an excellent win and her first representing Glenlola Collegiate. Olivia is also the current Northern Ireland Primary School Musician and […]

National Rowing Success

Two pupils from Glenlola Collegiate, Ellen Hunt & Emily Wilson, recently achieved rowing success at national level. The girls trained hard from April to September to compete in this year’s regional rowing heats held in Coleraine. Their team won first place beating teams from all over Northern Ireland and went on to take part in the National […]

House Dance Competition, Thursday 5 November 2015 

The Middle School Dance Competition is one of the main highlights of the House Calendar for both the participants themselves and their excited supporters. It is so warming to see the strong bonds that emerge between members of each house who willingly give up their breaks and lunches, not to mention before and after school […]

House Rounders Competition

Friday 18 September saw the first House competition of the autumn term and all of the new Year 8s were thoroughly excited to get involved. Having recently been sorted into their Houses, the Year 8 Rounders competition was a perfect way to get our new pupils involved in the House system. We couldn’t have picked a […]

Swimming Successes

On Friday 2 October, 3 Year 8 pupils from Glenlola Collegiate took part in the Ulster Minor Schools Swimming Championships in Ballymena. Ellie McKibbin won Gold in the 100 IM, beating her nearest rival by over 5 seconds. Ellie also won Silver in the 50m Butterfly.  Well done to all girls who took part. Nine Glenlola […]

Drama Pupil Participates in National Youth Theatre Course

I embarked on my adventure to London on 3rd August 2015. I was extremely nervous as I was introduced to my accommodation and the people I would be working with for two weeks. The 4th August marked the start of the course in the Laban rehearsal studios and the day went by in a blur […]

CIVILisation Belfast – How Civil Engineers Make Belfast Work

On Friday 9th October, four  pupils travelled up to Queen’s University to get an insight into Civil Engineering in Belfast. First there was a taster lecture, ‘Civil Engineers: Shaping the World’, where two lecturers explained the civil Engineering course in Queen’s University and one in particular grasped our attention as he talked about the Meccano […]

Football Success

On Tuesday 13 October there were some outstanding performances by our Year 8 and 9 footballers in the County Down Cup at Eddie Irvine Sports complex. The A Team made the final to be beaten by a very strong Kilkeel High School.  They played 3 matches back to back with no breaks, a magnificent achievement! The […]