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Year 10 Financial Capability Day

Pupils from Year 10 learned the secrets to creating a positive employment future for themselves during the Young Enterprise Digital Entrepreneurship Masterclass on 11 February 2013. The programme is designed to help students to think about opening their own business as a viable and exciting career option. The pupils received the opportunity to learn more about […]

Junior and Senior House Public Speaking Competitions

On Tuesday 5 February, both the Junior and Senior House Public Speaking Competitions took place. The Juniors were to deliver their speeches first and as the hall gradually filled with more and more people, the tension and excitement in the room grew.  Finally, it was time to begin.  All six girls who represented each House took […]

Safer Internet Day 2013

Safer Internet Day is celebrated around the world as an opportunity to promote the safe and responsible use of online technology. This year it took place on 5 February 2013.  The theme for Safer Internet Day 2013 is Online Rights and Responsibilities with the slogan “Connect with Respect”.   ConnectSafely ConnectSafely is for parents, teens, educators, advocates – everyone engaged in and […]

Co Down Cross Country Championships

Today 22 girls travelled to Killyleagh to compete in the cross country championships.  All performed very well with particular recognition to Molly Brown who came a fantastic 1st out of 200 minor girls. A superb effort from all.    

Glenlola Physicists deliver a Hair-Raising Workshop

Glenlola Collegiate Staff and pupils were invited to take part in Bloomfield Primary School’s Mad Science Week.  Mrs Redpath (Head of Physics) and 6 Year 14 Physicists delivered a workshop on electricity to pupils in P5-P7. Bloomfield Primary School pupils had the opportunity to play with static electricity and even to try out the Van […]

Seeing Stars – Astronomy Trip to Armagh Planetarium

Seeing Stars – A parent’s view of the Astronomy School Trip to the Armagh Observatory & Planetarium.   Losing any shred of dignity I may have had I in my daughter’s eyes, I went on the school trip to the Armagh Observatory on the 18 December 2012.  I had been given a set of instructions, not […]

Open Evening, Thursday 10 January 2013

An Open Night will be held for prospective pupils and their parents on Thursday, 10 January 2013 from 6.30pm to 9.00pm.  The Headmaster will give his address at 6.45pm. All vehicle and pedestrian access will be via the Bloomfield Road entrance due to the closure of Valentine Road.

Visit of Dr Erin Halliday to Creative Writing Club

On the 18 December 2012,  Dr Erin Halliday, not only a lecturer from Queens University in Belfast but also a former pupil of Glenlola, visited the Creative Writers’ Group and offered us some guidance on how to write poems and the writing process in general.  As a published writer Dr Halliday was in a position […]

Year 10 Astronomers at Radio Ulster

Two Year 10 Astronomers chatted to John Toal on his ‘Saturday Magazine’ programme on Radio Ulster on Saturday 5 January.  The GCSE Astronomy class are participating in the BBCNI’s ‘Stargazing Live’ event at Oxford Island on Thursday 10th January 2013 and the girls took the opportunity to explain what they would be doing on the […]