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Friends of Glenlola Collegiate Annual Dinner 2013

Calling all Friends of Glenlola Collegiate! Were you a pupil at Glenlola Collegiate or a member of staff perhaps?  If so, then this event is for you.  The Friends of Glenlola Collegiate Annual Dinner will take place on Friday 7 June at 7.30pm in the Clandeboye Lodge.  The group was formed last year to provide […]

ECO-Schools Climate Change Summit

On Thursday 14 February we arrived at Stormont to give a presentation on the effect of Climate Change on the agriculture and people of Ghana.  We gathered in the Long Gallery with groups of students from other schools.   Frank Mitchell, from UTV, introduced various people who are working on and researching climate change, including […]

The Big Bra Hunt

Bras might not seem like the most obvious thing to donate but when we heard that Oxfam were running a Big Bra Hunt, both myself and Anna thought that this was something that would be great for the pupils of Glenlola Collegiate to support.  Oxfam were simply looking for bras to be donated which they […]

Work Experience Report

During the work experience week I had the amazing opportunity to work in the laboratories 10 metres under the buildings of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in America.  Princeton is well known in the Physics community, as the place in America that Einstein taught lectures and where he carried out his later research.  So […]

Trash Fashion Success

Kaitlyn Coffey (9C) has made it through to the semi-finals of this years All-Ireland ‘Junk Kouture’ recycling competition.  She designed and made a dress and jacket, with the help of Alice McKay (9C), as part of a Geography project which saw students using recycled material to make an outfit.  It took over 2 months to […]

Pupil Wins Top Public Speaking Award

GLENLOLA COLLEGIATE PUPIL WINS TOP AWARD IN SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL NI PUBLIC SPEAKING COMPETITION Congratulations to Jessica Galway (Year 13)  on being awarded first place in the Northern Ireland final of the Soroptimists’ Public Speaking Competition on Saturday 23 February 2013, at the Magee Campus, University of Ulster, Londonderry. Jessica competed against twelve other competitors and delivered […]

Year 13 Visit to QUB Medical Symposium

On Wednesday 13 February, 8 Glenlola Year 13 prospective Medicine students were lucky enough to be able to attend the 2013 Queen’s University Medical Symposium. We started the day with a talk from the Admissions Dean for Medicine, where we learnt about all the necessary entry criteria for Queen’s University and some interesting facts about studying […]

‘Engineering Our Future’ Conference Report

On Thursday 7 February, 6 girls from Glenlola (Jan Montgomery, Naomi Moore, Katie Lawther, Chloe Brown, Rachael Shortt and Tori Browne) all attended the ‘Engineering Our Future XI’ conference at Methodist College Belfast. The conference lasted all day and all the girls would agree that it was a day well spent, and not just because we […]