International handball success

The 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

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Loreto on Radio 4 – again

Following 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

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English Department Reading Group

An 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

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LAMDA workshop

Written 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

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Biology Bake Off

Loreto Biology students are not simply microscope gazing boffins, as they proved at the recent Biology Bake Off, part of Biology Week.  Swapping pipettes for palette knives, and condensers for cookie cutters, our enterprising and talented students set to with

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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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