News and Events

MANCEP Shakespeare Festival 2025

As Shakespeare wrote, “All the world’s a stage and all the men and women, merely players”. Over 150 students from across Manchester took part in this year’s MANCEP Shakespeare Festival, hosted at Loreto College

Read story

Victory in Motion: Loreto’s Volleyball and Runners Shine at AoC

The regional AoC tournament took place in early November, and Loreto College were represented by two groups of students – the men’s volleyball team and the endurance runners. Both sets of students spent the day at The University of Central

Read story

The Jubilee Anchor Sets Sail from Loreto to St Wilfrid’s

On Tuesday, 4th November, Loreto College welcomed staff and pupils from St Wilfrid’s Primary School as they passed on the Diocesan Jubilee Anchor to them in the special service in the College Chapel. The wooden anchor has been passed around

Read story

Loreto Students in the Eye of The Tempest

“A masterclass in the infectiously silly”  Handlebards Production of  The Tempest A review by Amie, Upper 6th student Our beloved English department at Loreto was lucky enough to see Handlebards’ production of The Tempest at the Shakespeare North Playhouse, and

Read story

Celebrating Black History at Loreto College

Loreto College proudly marked Black History Month 2025 with a vibrant celebration honouring the achievements and contributions of Black British pioneers. Each faculty—including Arts and Culture, Inclusion, Social Sciences, Humanities, Computing, Maths and Physics, and Languages and Creative Media—selected an

Read story
Small group of Loreto students on the pebbled beach in Llandudno.

A Level Geographers Explore the North Wales Coast

Students studying A Level Geography recently enjoyed a hands-on fieldwork experience along the picturesque North Wales coast, visiting Llandudno and Colwyn Bay to develop essential skills for their course. During the trip, students carried out a range of practical activities,

Read story
Former Loreto student Jack Wilson stood in front of a map of the world.

Mapping Success: Former Loreto Student Shares Insights with A Level Geographers

Jack Wilson, a former Loreto student (2017-2019), spent a recent lunchtime at the College, imparting his experiences of progressing through Geography at Further and Higher Education to a group of A-Level Geographers. Now an employee of Amentum, working on project

Read story
#LmXAs6jjqSp(4wWrcie holding flowers in graduation gown

Alumni News: Journalism Award for Darcie

Former Loreto Student Darcie Peskir has been awarded the Undergraduate Journalism Award from The University of Sheffield and we are delighted for her! Darcie Studied A Levels in Drama, English Literature and Sociology here at Loreto before progressing to university.

Read story

Oxbridge success in 2025

This year 29 Loreto College students have had their places confirmed by the top two universities in the world: University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. Students will be reading a range of subjects including English, Linguistics, Engineering Science, Maths,

Read story

Results Day 2025

Loreto Sixth Form College students and staff are delighted to celebrate their A Level and Vocational Level 3 results, with the highest number of A*-A grades awarded, ever. 99.4% Pass rate at A Level 63% A* – B grades awarded

Read story
Congratulations banner

Exam Results Day Information 2025

With Results Day just around the corner, here’s all you need to know about the day.

Read story

Pat Finn

It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that Pat Finn died last Friday (1st August) after a short illness. Pat had a very long association with Loreto, starting here in the early 1960s as a teacher

Read story
Loreto students a the Withington Model United Nations

Loreto Students Shine at Withington Model United Nations

The Debate and Model UN club has wrapped up a great year with success at the WiMUN (Withington Model United Nations) Conference. Representing the countries of Kenya and Slovenia, twenty students took part in this year’s conference, showcasing their research,

Read story

MMU’s Forensic Linguistics Lecture Captivates Loreto Students

by Jessica, A Level English Language student Loreto’s English Language students took part in a session with Dr Matthew Evans, a linguistics lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and assistant editor of Babel: The Language Magazine. He discussed the subject of

Read story

Gold, Silver and Bronze Winners for Loreto’s Biologists

Loreto Biology students participated in the annual British Biology Olympiad (BBO) 2025. The BBO challenges and inspires students interested in Biology to expand their knowledge and skills. It allows participants to showcase their talents and earn publicly recognised certificates. The

Read story

Loreto’s second ‘Aspire to Teach’ group graduate

The first cohort of Aspire to Teaching students recently graduated from the two-year programme with great success and are eager to take the next steps in their careers, most of which involve university study. Throughout the programme, they completed eight

Read story