BTEC Extended Diploma in Sport second year students experienced what it is like to train and play like an elite athlete recently. Students attended an ultimate experience day at St. George’s Park, home to the England football teams. The park
Read storyAfter a gap of four years, MUN returned to Manchester Grammar School in December, with large numbers of sixth formers from across the north west representing a variety of countries in passionate but thoughtful debate. Ms Tattersall took a relatively
Read storyThe festive season is marked by a number of events at the college and our numerous talented musicians and singers, under the direction of Head of Music David Lloyd-Mostyn, are very much to the fore. First up was the Hulme
Read storyAfter many years celebrating the achievements of our students in an annual event held at Manchester Town Hall, Certificate Evening finally came ‘home’ this year and the class of 2018 was able to return to the college to receive certificates
Read storyThe Reading Group reconvened just before Christmas, to discuss the latest book choice, Paul Auster’s enigmatic novel, The Music of Chance. It was anticipated that this strange piece of fiction, sometimes described as being ‘absurdist’ in style, would divide opinion
Read storyThe glitz and glamour of country queen Dolly Parton brightened up dark December nights in Hulme as her engaging musical 9 To 5 was brought to the stage in spectacular fashion by Director Danny Price’s large and enthusiastic cast of
Read storyThe netball team won in spectacular fashion during a recent fixture vs Cheadle Hulme. A last gasp goal scored by player of the match, Freya Coggins, saw Loreto win a highly competitive match by one goal. The game was closely
Read storyThe Loreto Art Department student collective, MINT, had a fantastic opportunity to sell their work at the Frost Fair, held in December at the Whitworth Art Gallery. This was an excellent opportunity for them to gain insight into the reality
Read storyA firm favourite on the Loreto calendar, the Concerto Competition, named for the patron saint of music and musicians, St Cecilia, took place at the end of November. Seven talented instrumentalists, a record number, competed for the prestigious award, and
Read story“The plays’ the thing”, so said Hamlet and hundreds of 11-18 year olds proudly performing in their abridged play in this year’s MANCEP Shakespeare Festival. Established in November 2012, the MANCEP Shakespeare Festival is a celebration of youth performance and
Read storyA routine message from Jenny Ward on duty on the desk recently, but these five words have been known to send senior politicians and prominent public figures scurrying for the exits, rather than face the prospect of a grilling from
Read storySeven am on a cold Monday morning in late November; the good folk of Manchester staggering bleary eyed into a new week. But not the case for one happy band of travellers: the Loreto Plop Choir was already on the
Read storyNow in its sixth year, Loreto’s Toilet Twinning campaign received a boost when much loved entertainer and ornithologist, Bill Oddie, paid a visit to college. Alumni of the celebrated Cambridge Footlights Revue, one third of the famous Goodies, musician and
Read storyThe roll call of Loreto sporting internationals has a new name: BTEC Sport student Ed Irving. Ed was introduced to the sport of handball whilst a pupil at Sale Grammar and has now been playing competitively since the age of
Read storyFollowing our recent contribution to a Radio 4 series presented by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, exploring notions of morality and modern society, Loreto had the honour of hosting an episode of the network’s flagship religious programme, Beyond Belief. Each week, a
Read storyAn encouraging number of mainly Lower Sixth students joined one or two Upper Sixth stalwarts to discuss the opening choice for the Reading Group this year: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5. This peculiar novel has been dividing opinion since its publication
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