Art Department progression event

Last week the Art department held a progression conference for our Arts students. The event was extremely well attended, with 165 students taking part. Loreto would like to thank Denise Bowler, from the Whitworth Art Gallery, for offering our students

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Geographers enjoy North Wales research

The sun shone as geographers headed to the beautiful Welsh coast to develop key research skills as part of their A level course. The students carried out various activities at Llandudno, in North Wales, including calculating beach profiles, investigating weathering

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Black History Month

Alexia Kambode, an A Level student at Loreto, spoke at this week’s commuituesday event, celebrating Black History Month. Below is  an excerpt of what she delivered: This was a speech I heard a couple of years ago, and I really

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Practical dissection experience for Loreto students

Sixty budding bioscience, healthcare students and medics had a unique opportunity to boost their anatomy and physiology understanding, with real dissection of real organ specimens, when acclaimed human anatomist Samuel Piri, fresh from a highly successful appearance on TV entrepreneur

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Theatre Trip: Meek

A Level drama students attended their first theatre visit of the year to see a 62 minute play called Meek. Staged by Headlong Theatre in association with Birmingham repertoire, Meek tells the story of Irene, imprisoned because she has written

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Record number of Medics, Dentists and Vets 2018

Loreto is once again celebrating the successes of the 59 students who will be taking up their places at university to study Medicine (50), Dentistry (8) Veterinary Science (1). The students will be studying for their professions in a medical,

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Oxbridge successes 2018

15 Loreto students have met their offers to study at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.     The successful students came to Loreto Sixth Form College    from a range   of high schools  in  Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and

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World 200m Champion

Jona Efoloku an ex student from St Francis RC Primary,  St Peters RC High School, before he joined us at Loreto College has become the World 200m Junior Champion (under 20’s).  Years and years of hard work and training have

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Freshers’ Fair 2018

The early autumn weather did us no favours as the fifth Loreto Freshers’ Fair got underway recently. Grey Mancunian skies frowned on the campus and a touch of rain in the air drove the planned outdoor stalls to seek the

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Loreto students take to the airwaves

The august forum of BBC Radio 4 was the setting as a group of Loreto students, under the guidance of Ms Tattersall, engaged in philosophical debate with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The series of programmes, entitled ‘Morality in the 21st century;

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Loreto College: Looking Back (1967-1972)

It is always important to look back sometimes, to reflect, to remember and to celebrate. Recently,  we got the chance to do just that. Marie McDevitt, an ex student of Loreto before the college became a post-16 Sixth Form from

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Loreto Student in U18 European Handball Championships

One of Loreto’s current students, Ed Irving has been representing Great Britain in the men’s U18 European Handball Championships in Austria this summer. The GB squad competed against Montenegro, Ukraine, Ireland ,Turkey, Kosovo and Czech Republic where Ed was awarded

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Student Success Story – Nichita Matei

Nichita came to Loreto from All Hallows RC High School. He enrolled to study A Levels in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and English Language and has achieved excellent results, including receiving an impressive full mark score in his Mathematics A

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Student Success Story – Grace Buadi

Grace came to Loreto from St Peter’s High School and decided to study a blend of a BTEC Subsidiary Diploma in Health and Social care, alongside and 2 A Levels; Psychology and Biology. She has achieved fantastic grades and will

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Student Success Story – Joel Pitt

Joel came to Loreto from St Anthony’s Catholic College, enrolling on the Level 3 BTEC Extended Diploma in Travel & Tourism course. He has  achieved a triple Distinction star (D*D*D*) for his course, the equivalent of 3 A*s at A

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Fantastic results at Loreto 2018

Loreto Sixth Form College students and staff have delivered another year of excellent exam results: a superb pass rate of 99% – above national average 54% A*-B grades – above national average 79% at A*-C grades – above national average

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