Loreto Legacy Project
Loreto Legacy Piano Project
Loreto 14 Hour Playathon
Loreto Wins Ulster
U16 Gaelic Team win ‘Corn Courtney’
Congratulations to our U-16 Gaelic team who captured ‘Corn Courtney’ in MUSA Cookstown. Loreto played against a strong breeze in the first half. Our opponents, Assumption Grammar, got off to a good start using the wind to their advantage. However, our girls, through some tenacious defending, weathered the storm and started to make inroads into the Ballynahinch girls defence through some superb goals.
A superb team performance! We now look forward to the All Ireland semi-final.
A Hero’s Welcome
Lateral Flow Testing Kits
Lateral Flow Testing Kits (Update- January 2022)
The school has received a new order of LFT kits called Flowflex. They will be in use from this week onwards. These are NASAL ONLY testing kits. Please read the enclosed information leaflet carefully. There are some changes in the instructions on how to perform the test, which are as follows:
Insert swab into both nostrils and rotate for 5 turns each.
Rotate swab in buffer tube for 30 secs.
Rotate swab 5 times while squeezing sides of buffer tube.
Place 4 drops onto text cassette.
Read after 15-30mins. Do not read after 30 mins.
The Loreto Times – Issue 1
We are delighted to launch our exciting new e-magazine to coincide with the full return to school. This first issue captures some of the highs and lows of lockdown.
Loreto Times August 2020, Vol. 1
Online Resources during COVID 19
Mandarin Chinese Speaking
HSBC Mandarin Speaking Competition
The HSBC Mandarin Speaking Competition is run by the British Council, is open to UK, Channel Island and Isle of Man secondary schools and is for non-native speakers of Mandarin Chinese. We are super proud of our Year 13 pupil, Ailis Keyes, who was the first ever participant in the advanced category of the Northern Irish heat, which took place on 20/11/2019. Her Mandarin teacher, Zhang Xiaojing and SWC’s Mandarin Coordinator Linda Beatty, accompanied her to the event. Ailis unfortunately didn’t make it through to the national final on this occasion, but it was an amazing achievement and a fantastic experience regardless. Ailis agrees that participation in the competition at this high level has increased her motivation for learning the language, has developed her vocabulary and indeed improved her pronunciation. Through her experience, Ailis has been inspired to discover even more about Chinese culture.
International Show-Jumping Sensation
We are immensely proud of Niamh, our champion Year 12 Show-Jumper, who has had phenomenal recent success in her sport. In August she represented Ireland at the European Championships in Poland, where she and her teammates won team Gold. Niamh was the only girl on the team and she also finished 9th individually. Following her top 10 finish at the Europeans, she was invited to compete at the Longines Masters show in Paris and the World Cup show in Lyon in December. She has also been selected to compete on the Irish team in Belgium later this month for the final of the Nations Cup Series, which Ireland are leading. Niamh most recently returned from the National Championships in Mullingar, where she won the u16 National Champion title.
Niamh’s mum thanked Loreto for all their support. She offered a special word of thanks to the PE department who she said “continue to foster and encourage a love of sport and physical activity in all the young girls that they teach”.
