Loreto Biology students are not simply microscope gazing boffins, as they proved at the recent Biology Bake Off, part of Biology Week. Â Swapping pipettes for palette knives, and condensers for cookie cutters, our enterprising and talented students set to with
Read storyLast 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
Read storyThe 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
Read storyAlexia 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
Read storySixty 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
Read storyA 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
Read storyLoreto 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,
Read story15 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
Read storyJona 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
Read storyThe 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
Read storyThe 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;
Read storyIt 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
Read storyOne of Loreto’s current students, Ed Irving has been representing Great Britain in the men’s U18 European Handball Championships in Austria this summer. The GB squad competed against Montenegro, Ukraine, Ireland ,Turkey, Kosovo and Czech Republic where Ed was awarded
Read storyNichita came to Loreto from All Hallows RC High School. He enrolled to study A Levels in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and English Language and has achieved excellent results, including receiving an impressive full mark score in his Mathematics A
Read storyGrace came to Loreto from St Peter’s High School and decided to study a blend of a BTEC Subsidiary Diploma in Health and Social care, alongside and 2 A Levels; Psychology and Biology. She has achieved fantastic grades and will
Read storyJoel came to Loreto from St Anthony’s Catholic College, enrolling on the Level 3 BTEC Extended Diploma in Travel & Tourism course. He has achieved a triple Distinction star (D*D*D*) for his course, the equivalent of 3 A*s at A
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