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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Year 8 ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams along with the year 9 ‘B’ team qualified for the TAGSA netball finals as a result of their successful performances in this League throughout the year. The finals took place in Ards Leisure Centre, with schools from throughout the North Down and Ards area taking part. In the […]
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. 🇺🇸💙🦢❤️
