A Review by student Calum Conner-Jones. This adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing (directed by Matthew Dunster) is a beautiful display of exuberance, culture and spirit. With more ammunition and strums of a guitar than a Texan birthday party we
Read storyThere were grand professions of love, green eyed monsters as well as a few mistaken identities on this year’s instalment of the MANCEP Shakespeare Festival. The two night long festival hosted at Loreto College and performed by over 150 students from
Read storyLoreto A level student Ola Kozlowska was interviewed on BBC breakfast news on television alongside Bill Watkin, Chief Executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association (SFCA) explaining the benefits of enrichment and her reasons for choosing Loreto College. Ola writes: Education
Read storyOn Monday 6th November, we were visited by the residents of the St Joseph’s Nursing Home in Plymouth Grove. We have a link with the staff and residents that has strengthened over the years. We had a lovely time chatting
Read storyMUNCH at Cheadle Hulme School 7th – 8th October, Loreto representing the USA, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan. Student Anna Seifu writes: MUNCH 2017 was host to heated debates, a pandemic caused by the hippie group ‘death 2 flowers’ and some hilarious
Read storyThe Reading Group convened just before half term to discuss the first choice of the year, Patrick McCabe’s disturbing, anarchic short novel The Butcher Boy. Written in a sometimes confusing, punctuation ‘light’, first person narrative style, the novel tells the
Read storyLoreto was pretty in pink for the last friday of term to raise money for Breast Cancer Care. Staff and students from across campus dressed in pink outfits, baked (and ate) pink cakes and even had their hair sprayed pink
Read storyGeographers 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 and mass movement on
Read storyReview written by Amayna Solaiman, Drama student: The play People Places & Things, very beautifully presented the raw, horrifying reality of Emma, a drug addict and an alcoholic who struggles with her own sobriety and identity and, in a brave
Read storyExceptional Results! The Pathways to Independence Department have been celebrating an exceptional year of academic success among their Upper 6th students: For the 3rd year running The Pathways Employability programme was awarded the Gold Standard for outstanding workplacements in 2018.
Read storyEarly October saw another successful DofE Gold final expedition in Glenridding in the Lake District. Twenty-seven upper sixth students successfully navigated their way up some high hills, through muddy fields, and battled strong winds and heavy rain. Despite the continuous
Read storyStudents Jamal Martins and Catrin Pilkington write: Following on from previous highly successful trips to Barcelona and Paris, a party of assorted Loreto instrumentalists and singers ended the academic year in July by travelling across the channel to Belgium for
Read storyIf it’s early September at Loreto then it must be: Freshers’ Fayre! Cool, showery weather provided the backdrop for this year’s event, but the rain held off, the sun made fleeting appearances and the moors and hills around Manchester were
Read storyThis summer we celebrated the success of the first Loreto students to complete the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ). Thirty-four students took part in our launch year of the EPQ –half of them secured the highest A* grade with every student
Read storyWe are very proud of A level and Basketball Academy student Kaiyem Cleary. He was part of Great Britain’s Under-18 team clinch promotion to Division A of the Fiba European Championships. The Manchester Magic and Loreto College star, 18, now
Read storyWe look forward to meeting all those offered a place for September 2017 at enrolment. Congratulations  if you received the results you hoped for. If your results are not what you expected, do not worry! Come along to your allotted
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