While many students use their leisure time to chill out and relax one Loreto student is bouncing her way to sporting success.

Students at Loreto are remembering all those who have lost their lives in conflicts on Friday. Students and staff across college as part of the Charities Group, Chaplaincy and RE departments are working to further knowledge and understanding of the issues surrounding this important date in addition to raising funds to help ex-servicemen and women.

Prospective students and their parents have been flocking to Loreto College in two special weekend open days.

A top Loreto College footballer has been signed up by a team in the Portuguese Premier League and has already scored his first goal.

Fabio Abreu has been given a three year deal with the Maritimo team based in Funchal Madeira.

The 18-year-old has already had considerable success as an English schoolboy international by scoring twice in three international appearances last season. Fabio also played for the college, Greater Manchester County team where he was a top goal scorer.

Loreto student Leyla Sudbury is celebrating as she has secured an offer to read Engineering at Queen’s College, Cambridge. Leyla studied A levels in Chemistry, Maths, Further Maths and Physics at Loreto and achieved A* grades in them all.

Congratulations to the students and staff of Loreto College: they have once again produced outstanding results in the advanced level examinations this summer.

This follows on a remarkable year when the college has been highly ranked in terms of student progression to higher education. The Government funded Sutton Trust has published for the first time in 2011 research focusing on students’ progression rates to the Russell Group universities. This data notes Loreto College, Manchester sends more students to university and more of those go to the Russell Group, including Oxford and Cambridge, than other  state post-16 providers in the city.

While many students are finishing off their exams and contemplating their summer holidays members of Loreto Debate Club are still hotly contesting the big issues of the day.

Loreto’s Pathways department has won high praise from The National Autistic Society for the innovative and valuable work they do to help students on the autistic spectrum

Over 80 students from all over the college enjoyed an entertaining and enthusiastic presentation by Rotary Ambassadorial scholar Ryan Zoradi. Ryan, from California, is studying for a Masters degree at Manchester University on a scholarship which is supported by the Rotary Club.

Tree saplings have been planted in the grounds at Loreto in memory of victims of the Holocaust and of other genocides including Cambodia, Rwanda and Darfur.

High flying students aiming for a career in medicine took tips from the experts at a special conference at Christie Hospital.

Byline: Sinead Doherty: Loreto Journalism Club

The Fairtrade Foundation has granted an award to recognise Loreto College's enthusiastic, energetic commitment towards helping Fairtrade.

A new state-of-the-art testing lab is helping Loreto’s Sports students to maximise their grades and could help create the elite athletes of the future. 

Loreto wishes all its Students, Parents and Staff a happy, healthy and successful 2011. Loreto College is open as normal and all lessons are restarting today 4^th January 2011. Students and staff have arrived back this morning to a beautiful snow covered campus.

Cheerful students have been helping Asda shoppers to pack their bags to ensure children around the world have access to the clean water they need.

The Loreto students and staff raised over £600 for the charity Water for Kids which provides safe water, sanitation and health education for children and communities in developing countries.

Theology students have been thinking big with an essay competition challenging the existence of God.

The AS students had to tackle the question: ‘There are no convincing reasons to believe in God.’ Discuss. Head of Theology Mr Vaughan said the competition was set up as the question of God’s existence is such a major theme in the AS Theology course.

Loreto students will soon be ready for take-off after the college landed it’s very own plane.

The college has invested more than £5,000 in the specialised plane cabin which is totally realistic and has all the equipment usually found on-board an aircraft

A Loreto athlete is celebrating success after winning a gold medal at the International Catholic Youth Games in France.

Josh McHugh,who is in the A2 year at Loreto College, travelled to Tours in France to take part in the international competition organised by FISEC.

In 2009 Josh came away from the Portugal games with a silver medal in the relay race, this year he went one better and won gold in the 800 metres.

Loreto’s high-flyers are gearing up to start their university careers at Oxford and Cambridge while hundreds of others are heading to the country’s best institutions.

After an excellent performance in their A levels Loreto’s leavers are heading off to the next stage in their lives.

Loreto Sixth Form College has once again produced outstanding results. Both staff and students are delighted by the excellent pass rates, the very impressive “high grades” profile and the continuing high rates of student progression to universities. The college’s vocational results continue to be deeply impressive as are the AS pass rate and individual course performance at that level.

Loreto College is launching a new logo to reflect its academic heritage at a time of innovation and growth.

“We have gone through a period of transition as in the last six years most of the college has been rebuilt,” said Assistant Principal Ms Pritchard.

Deserving Loreto students have been awarded bursaries of £1000 each to help them meet the cost of their University studies, thanks to the generosity of The Dick Camplin Educational Trust, which was established by David Camplin in memory of his father. 

The Dick Camplin Education Trust presents these bursaries to students as they progress from Loreto College to university. 

An extravaganza of art and design will give the people of Manchester the first opportunity to see Loreto College’s new £20 million building.

More than 1000 people have been invited to the exhibition on Thursday (24th June) which will showcase the college’s thriving work in the arts.

Guests will also get the chance to see the new Ellis and Kennedy building which is the greenest and most energy efficient in Manchester.

A keen historian has won a prestigious essay writing award for his insights into Barack Obama and the American dream.

Jonathan Paito, who is studying AS history at Loreto College, came first in the British Association of American Studies (BAAS) Schools' Essay Prize. As well as a certificate to mark the achievement Jonathan was also given £250 by the BAAS which promotes the study of the US in schools, colleges and universities.

Like the rest of the country students at Loreto are gearing up for the election day - but with a difference.

Nationally there is a massive power struggle between Labour and the Conservatives but for the Loreto college mock election there is no candidate standing for either party…

Loreto Chorlton was relaunched in September 2007 and was incorporated into the Loreto family of schools.

Loreto college student, Suzanne Duffy, has won first prize at the Catenian Public Speaking competition. Suzanne has written her own account of preparing for the competition below:

"When I was first told about the Catenian Public Speaking Competition I decided that I had nothing to lose by entering. I had competed in similar contests at high school, and the lure of £100 prize money eclipsed any reservations I had about travelling to Stockport on a Sunday. From the list of topics I chose ‘modern technology is killing the art of conversation.’

Staff and students at Loreto Sixth Form College are celebrating a double win at the Association of Colleges Award Ceremony. Loreto had been awarded the new and prestigious Beacon Award from the Department for Children, Schools and Families for the Successful Delivery of Advanced Level Qualifications. The Award recognises Loreto's outstanding delivery of Advanced Level qualifications to 16-19 year olds. The Awards celebrate 16 years of outstanding teaching and learning in further education Colleges.

Through advice, sustained support and careful monitoring of their progress, Loreto Sixth Form College has helped students to achieve higher grades than the national average in their A-levels. These results have placed the College at the top of the Government league table for value-added. It also noted that 85% of Loreto students go on to higher education.

Loreto College swept the boards with Ofsted inspectors after being declared outstanding in all areas - a feat no other sixth form has achieved.

The Catholic college in Hulme was founded in 1851 by an order of nuns dating back to the 16th century.It currently teaches 1,800 students, the vast majority school-leavers studying A-levels.