Chess Tournament

Loreto participated in the Middle Schools’ Chess Tournament, held at Caleta Hotel on Thursday 15th March.  Four Loreto teams competed against teams from all other middle schools and as always, performed wonderfully. Special mention must be made of Pablo Kussner Nunez, who played on board A1 and won all of his matches, beating some of…

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Year 5 Gibraltar Geography

On Friday 9th March, local history was taught to the year 5 pupils, on the Geography field trip as part of the Geography Topic “Contrasting Localities. The children visited areas around Gibraltar including John Mackintosh Square, Parliament House where they sat in Parliament to hear about the history from the current speaker.  Next was Convent Place, where…

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Young Engineers Build Bridges

The brief explored in this project for Technology was the following, Explore what considerations engineers have to consider when designing and constructing bridges. Research the following types of bridges, beam, suspension, cantilever and arch bridges. For the design and construction of their bridges year 7 pupils have studied the key developments, advances and materials used…

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World Book Day 2018

After many months of planning, it was finally time for the Library staff at Loreto Convent School to start World Book Day 2018.  Despite the wind and rain, the children started to arrive in their fancy dress as a book character.  After many weeks of preparation, the costumes were the best that the school has…

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