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Uganda Trip, Summer 2014

10 December 2014 in /by

My interest in Uganda was ignited around this time last year whilst attending SU at my school, Glenlola Collegiate. David Barr who was my RS teacher made an appeal for any pupils who were interested in a trip to Uganda to come forward. His motivation and passionate  enthusiasm for the country and project was very […]

Glenlola Soroptimists Public Speaking Success

2 December 2014 in /by

Congratulations to Rae O’Dowd (Year 13) for winning first place and to Rebecca Campbell (Year 13) for obtaining third place, in the local heat of the Soroptimist International NI Public Speaking Competition, which was held on the evening of Wednesday 26 November 2014 at Stricklands Resource Centre, Bangor. Rae’s winning six minute speech was on the […]

Visit by Onatti Theatre Company

2 December 2014 in /by

On Monday 20 October, the Onatti Theatre Company came to Glenlola to perform their play “Erreur d’identité” for all those studying French in Year 11 to Year 14. The play was about two hotel owners confusing a normal customer for a man who had escaped from prison. The entire play was in French and it had […]

Virginia Beach Exchange 2014

27 November 2014 in /by

In September 2014, we had the privilege of being a part of an exchange with Tallwood High School in Virginia Beach, America. This was an incredible experience that we both learnt a lot from and where we created many memories and gained many friends for life. We woke up at 6:30am to begin our travel […]

Interview Skills Day 2014

18 November 2014 in /by

On Wednesday 5 November 2014 all Year 14 girls participated in Interview Skills Day. Every year many young people never make it past the interview stage as a result of limited to no real life experience of interviews and little knowledge of how to conduct themselves in an interview situation. With many girls attending university and […]

RLC Aerospace Engineering Placement

18 November 2014 in /by

My work placement was with a company called RLC in Crumlin, who work mainly in aerospace manufacture engineering of ejector seats and air bus plane wing joints and parts. On the first day I was shown around the factory floor, seeing how each machine works; learning about tolerances and the importance of traceability.  I discovered […]

Sentinus – Insight into Engineering

12 November 2014 in /by

Bombardier/Shorts Aerospace Before entering Bombardier on work placement, I had very little, next to no knowledge on the manufacturing process involved within aircraft parts, such as: the fuselage, wings, nacelles. Bombardier in Northern Ireland do not build complete aircrafts but will assemble many of their parts and ship them to their other plants across the world […]

Manchester Physics Trip 2014

11 November 2014 in /by

Recently some pupils from the AS and A2 Physics classes went on a trip to Manchester and Alton Towers. The journey was quite long as we took the boat to Scotland and drove down but it was made more pleasant as we got to watch Tangled and stop at Gretna Green along the way. We […]

Moon Landing!

11 November 2014 in /by

Year 10 GCSE Astronomers were learning everything you ever wanted to know about our only natural satellite on Saturday 8 November.  This was the second of three Saturday classes scheduled to help these dedicated students to cover all their GCSE content in just one year. The girls learned about the craters, mountains and seas on […]