Loreto students have been hitting the slopes in the Italian Alps for a week’s skiing and snowboarding.  Students and staff stayed in Bardonecchia, the resort for the Winter Olympics in 2006 and enjoyed skiing the same slopes as expert slalom skiers.

Loreto’s Basketball Academy has proved it’s the best in Britain with both the boys and girls teams becoming national under-19 champions.  The teams cleaned up at the National Cup Final 4’s in Telford and the players have been praised by their coach for the way they dominated their games.

 

Several Loreto students have recently achieved success in the prestigious Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music examinations. This was the student’s first experience of a music theory examination, they were prepared for the examination during a lunchtime supplementary class.  Joel Baxter, Natasha Carter, Matthew Davies and Anna Wood (pictured) all passed their Grade 5 Theory examination.

History and politics students have been on a trip of a lifetime to New York, Philadelphia and Washington.  As well as seeing the famous sights such as the Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Ellis Island and Wall Street the students got special insights into the workings of the UN and the American constitution.

 

 

 

 

A promising history student has won a national competition for his essay on the 9/11 terror attacks.  Lower sixth student Sam Moreton, from St Philip Howard School, won the 2012 British Association for American Studies Ambassadors’ Award School Essay Prize for his essay on the 2001 coordinated attacks on the White House, the Pentagon and most notably the World Trade Center in New York.  3,000 people died in the attacks and they led to the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan. 

English students have been heading to the Yorkshire Moors to experience the setting which inspired books such as Wuthering Heights.  The lower sixth English Literature students went to Haworth Village on the edge of the Pennine Moors made famous by the Bronte sisters who lived there in the nineteenth century.

 

Music Technology AS students had the opportunity to visit Manchester’s Blueprint studios earlier this term. The internationally-renowned professional recording studio is famously home to the band Elbow, who happened to be in that day, working on their yet-untitled forthcoming album (the follow up to “Let’s Build a Rocket Boys”).

English students have been visiting Stratford to visit the birthplace of Shakespeare and see a dynamic performance of Taming of the Shrew.  The 40 students went to the Royal Shakespeare Company to see the acclaimed production directed by Lucy Bailey.

Chemistry students have have been crowned winners of the 2012 Loreto Analytical Chemistry Competition and could be headed for the prestigious Royal Society of Chemistry’s Schools’ Analyst competition.  AS Chemistry students Sam Lambrick, Ivy Makhoha, Buyanzaya Purevsuren and Ka Yan Yiu pitted their analytical skills against five other teams from the Lower sixth.

 

Theology students have been enjoying the sights and sounds of London combined with a conference at the capital's specialist theology college.  For many of the students this was their first visit to the capital and they got to see famous sights such as Big Ben and took the opportunity to shop on Oxford Street and Camden Market.  They also thoroughly enjoyed seeing Lion King The Musical live on the West End stage.

Two visiting theatre groups have been challenging Loreto students in RE lessons.  First off,  the London based Ten Ten theatre group performed interesting plays focusing on relationships, followed by engaging workshop activities with students.  Then Riding Lights Roughshod theatre company put on some excellent performances on challenging contemporary issues such as people-trafficking and business ethics. 

A Loreto student was recently at the Grand Prix in Bahrain representing Poland as part of the VERVA racing team.  Patryk Szczerbinski, who studies IT at Loreto College, was selected by PKN Orlen and will join fellow team mate Giermaziak as the new driver for team.

Some people go to extreme lengths and do things out of the ordinary, all in the name of charity. Chris Knowles, Chaplain at Loreto College, has done just this and featured in this week’s Manchester Evening News...

Loreto’s Charities group have once again run a successful week of events to coincide with this year’s Sports Relief. The events (in-keeping with the sporting theme) included fiercely contested staff versus student sporting fixtures.

Loreto’s musical students have been using their talents to help raise money for to help the local  community.  The CARISMA Charity asked for help after seeing the high calibre of musicians in college productions such as Little Shop of Horrors and concerts at the Chorlton Rotary Club and Manchester’s Hidden Gem Church.

2 o’clock on Wednesday 21^st March 2012 saw Loreto embark on their final match of the season. Loreto went into the match unbeaten having won all home and away matches of the season.  The final game was against local rivals Xaverian. However the real test had been their match against Winstanley, which was always going to be the season decider. 

 

A budding student journalist’s talents have been recognised after being chosen to be an Olympic media liaison officer.  Emma Cullen will be based in London for the games to represent the Oceanic Islands including Fiji and Tonga. She will have access to any events in which her athletes are participating.

A group of students from Loreto College were recently invited to sing as part of a Mass with the UK Catholic Sixth Form College Principals and Vice-Principals at the Lakeside Hotel by Lake Windermere.

Former Loreto College student John West – credited as John Bradley West - has recently featured in the American channel HBO’s dramatisation of the blockbusting serial “Game of Thrones” by George R. R. Martin’s series of fantasy novels “A Song of Ice and Fire”.