Glenlola Collegiate School
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Glenlola Collegiate School is an all-girls grammar school
in Bangor
, County Down
, Northern Ireland
. The school was founded as a school for girls in approximately 1880. It has achieved some of the best exam and extracurricular results in the region.
On 28 May 2003, a new school opened, including a pre-school playgroup and Cygnet House. The official opening was performed by HRH The Duke of York
on 8 October 2003. For the first time, the entire school population of 1200 girls and staff could be accommodated in one building, which, aside from classrooms, includes laboratories, a resource bases, a sports hall, a lecture theatre, fitness suite, assembly and gym halls, a library, a design and technology suite and separate locker rooms. ICT provision exists in all teaching rooms and exterior playing surfaces are floodlit.http://www.glenlola.net/index.cfm?id=2
In 2002, the school was ranked second of the controlled schools in Northern Ireland
and 29th in the whole UK according to The Sunday Times Parent Power. The current principal, Mr W E Thompson, took up post in February 2010, taking over from Richard Finlay.
Grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
in Bangor
Bangor, County Down
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, County Down
County Down
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, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
. The school was founded as a school for girls in approximately 1880. It has achieved some of the best exam and extracurricular results in the region.
On 28 May 2003, a new school opened, including a pre-school playgroup and Cygnet House. The official opening was performed by HRH The Duke of York
Prince Andrew, Duke of York
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on 8 October 2003. For the first time, the entire school population of 1200 girls and staff could be accommodated in one building, which, aside from classrooms, includes laboratories, a resource bases, a sports hall, a lecture theatre, fitness suite, assembly and gym halls, a library, a design and technology suite and separate locker rooms. ICT provision exists in all teaching rooms and exterior playing surfaces are floodlit.http://www.glenlola.net/index.cfm?id=2
In 2002, the school was ranked second of the controlled schools in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
and 29th in the whole UK according to The Sunday Times Parent Power. The current principal, Mr W E Thompson, took up post in February 2010, taking over from Richard Finlay.
Notable former pupils
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