A firm favourite on the Loreto calendar, the Concerto Competition, named for the patron saint of music and musicians, St Cecilia, took place at the end of November. Seven talented instrumentalists, a record number, competed for the prestigious award, and
Read story“The plays’ the thing”, so said Hamlet and hundreds of 11-18 year olds proudly performing in their abridged play in this year’s MANCEP Shakespeare Festival. Established in November 2012, the MANCEP Shakespeare Festival is a celebration of youth performance and
Read storyA routine message from Jenny Ward on duty on the desk recently, but these five words have been known to send senior politicians and prominent public figures scurrying for the exits, rather than face the prospect of a grilling from
Read storySeven am on a cold Monday morning in late November; the good folk of Manchester staggering bleary eyed into a new week. But not the case for one happy band of travellers: the Loreto Plop Choir was already on the
Read storyNow in its sixth year, Loreto’s Toilet Twinning campaign received a boost when much loved entertainer and ornithologist, Bill Oddie, paid a visit to college. Alumni of the celebrated Cambridge Footlights Revue, one third of the famous Goodies, musician and
Read storyThe roll call of Loreto sporting internationals has a new name: BTEC Sport student Ed Irving. Ed was introduced to the sport of handball whilst a pupil at Sale Grammar and has now been playing competitively since the age of
Read storyFollowing our recent contribution to a Radio 4 series presented by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, exploring notions of morality and modern society, Loreto had the honour of hosting an episode of the network’s flagship religious programme, Beyond Belief. Each week, a
Read storyAn encouraging number of mainly Lower Sixth students joined one or two Upper Sixth stalwarts to discuss the opening choice for the Reading Group this year: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5. This peculiar novel has been dividing opinion since its publication
Read storyWritten by Loreto College performing arts student ambassador Maria Collins. As aspiring performers wanting to go to drama school in the near future, any opportunity of taking part in an experience with such a prestigious school like LAMDA will be
Read storyLoreto Biology students are not simply microscope gazing boffins, as they proved at the recent Biology Bake Off, part of Biology Week. Â Swapping pipettes for palette knives, and condensers for cookie cutters, our enterprising and talented students set to with
Read storyLast 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
Read storyThe 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
Read storyAlexia 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
Read storySixty 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
Read storyA 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
Read storyLoreto 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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