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Northern Schools’ Milano Team Gymnastics Competition

On 3rd May, 10 girls from Glenlola competed in this competition at Queen’s Leisure Complex in Holywood.  The girls impressed both the judges and spectators with their skills and were rewarded with many medals.  The results are as follows: Individual Floor: 1st = Kirstie Oliver 2nd = Nicole Meier 3rd = Alice McDowell Vault: 2nd […]

Geography Department Visits Sorrento

It was an early start for the 37 pupils and 5 staff who left Bangor at 1:45am ready to fly off to Naples, Italy.   Our excitement soon lost its battle against sleep and soon the coach was filled with sleeping girls as we travelled to Dublin International Airport in order to catch our 7:30am flight. […]

Intermediate and Senior District Athletics, 30 April 2014

The Intermediate and senior district athletics championships took place yesterday at the Mary Peters track. Both the Intermediate and Senior teams from Glenlola Collegiate enjoyed considerable success. Intermediate Results: Sakia Greer 2nd in 100m Olivia Cumming 3rd in 100m and 200m Elleana Hull 2nd in 200m Kirsty O’Neill 2nd in High Jump and 3rd in […]

American Exchange Visit

On Saturday morning, 12 April, there were fond farewells at Belfast International Airport as our friends from the Global Studies Academy at Tallwood High School, Virginia Beach, headed home to the USA. Everyone agreed that it had been a great visit and we look forward to meeting again in Virginia Beach in September 2014! Au […]

Going the Eggstra Mile

Megan Wilson (12F) asked pupils in Middle School to donate Easter eggs to the Children’s Cancer ward in the Royal Hospital. Megan, herself a cancer survivor, wanted to do something special for those children suffering from the disease and sought donations in the week running up to the Easter holidays. In total, 215 eggs were […]

Year 10 Writer’s Success

Congratulations to Aleisha Bullar (10C) who was presented with the runner up’s prize in the Youth Justice Agency’s Citizenship Creative Writing Competition in the 12-14 age group at a reception at Stormont.  Her poem ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’ gained her a Kindle. Launching the competition, the Chief Executive of the Youth Justice […]

GCSE Geographers Visit Titanic Quarter

On Tuesday 8 April, the GCSE Geographers visited Titanic Quarter.  Once an area for shipbuilding and rope manufacturing, it began to decline when industry moved away from Belfast.  Today, the site known as ‘Titanic Quarter’ is being redeveloped and is now an important hub for tourism.  We were able to see, at first hand, the […]

North Down District Explorers Camp

The newly formed Glenlola Explorer Unit attended their first District event during the last weekend in March at Crawfordsburn Scout Centre.  For some of the Explorers it was their first time sleeping in a tent so it was a steep learning curve to put up their tents in the dark.  After the tents were pitched […]

English Youth Ballet ‘Sleeping Beauty’

Congratulations to Glenlola Collegiate pupils, Sophie Oliver, Emily Egan, Julia Goddard, Sophie Rutledge who  fought off steep competition to secure a place in the English Youth Ballet’s production of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ which will be performed at the Grand Opera House from Fri 25 April – Sat 26 April 2014. This beautiful and spellbinding production of […]

Rotary Youth Leadership Winners’ Trip to Strasbourg

I was lucky enough to go to the Rotary Youth Leadership Winner’s visit on 2 – 8  February this year.  I had the chance to meet 24 other amazing young people from all over Ireland.  I am so grateful to have this opportunity to develop my leadership skills, visit the different parliaments and also the chance […]