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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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.
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. 🇺🇸💙🦢❤️
