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Sentinus – Insight into Engineering

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

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!

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 […]

New Eyes on the Skies

Glenlola astronomers have been given two new refractor telescopes and a number of lenses by Mr Peter Friend, who was invited into school by Mrs Edwards for an official hand-over of these wonderful instruments.  Pupils studying GCSE Astronomy will make good use of the telescopes over the next few months, as long as we get […]

Dancing with the Stars!

Not quite, but Year 10 GCSE Astronomy pupils had the opportunity to learn from ‘star’ astronomer, Barry Loane, at the recent residential weekend at the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.  Mr Loane is an expert astronomer and member of the Irish Astronomical Association.  The Year 10 girls enjoyed learning about observing the night sky and […]

Year 9 Recycling Event

The Geography Department, at Glenlola Collegiate, once again held their ever popular Year 9 recycling event to coincide with the pupils’ Recycling topic. The day began with an interactive quiz by Noel Lyons from Arc21. The pupils used Quizdom consoles and worked in small groups to answer Noel’s questions about recycling. They found this really […]

Explorer Scouts Chillax Camp, September 2014

The Explorer Scouts attended the County Down Chillax Camp on 26 -28 September 2014. It was held in Crawfordsburn Scout Centre and involved over 80 Explorer Scouts from County Down. Over the course of the weekend they were split into teams and competed in various competitions including go-karting, the obstacle course, handball and silly games. The highlight […]

Year 8 Football News

Year 8 Football Club attended the “ Live Your Goals” FIFA event at Aurora recently, which is a girls’ football roadshow.  Yesterday, 15 October, the girls played in the NIWFA County Down Cup event for Year 8/9 pupils.  Both our teams made their respective semi finals. Top goal scorers were Olivia Marshall A’s and Megan […]

Whole School Photograph 2014

The School’s most recent whole group photograph is now online on the Tempest Groups website:  www.tempest-groups.co.uk . Type the school name into the search box and select the event required. Please note this service is for viewing images only, ordering takes place via the order forms given to pupils.    

Whole School Photograph

The entire school community assembled in the playground on 16th September for the taking of the first whole school photograph in 27 years. The operation which involved almost 1300 pupils and over 100 staff, was organised with military precision by Tempest Photography. Parents can be assured that the final photograph will be of a much […]