WALK ON WEDNESDAY!

Get dropped off at:

- Parade

- Canices Steps

- Black Cat

- Mary`s Church

- Kierans Collage

- McDonalds

- MacDonagh Junction

And many more places to walk from! Be imaginative!

Click on the links below for the latest news

Shauna Scannell to Represent Ireland

School extension making great progress

Board of Management Adopts Revised Child Protection Guidelines

Loreto student contributes to National Archives

Loreto Girls Compete in Irish Science Olympiad

Two Loreto students selected for Trinity Entrance Exhibition Awards

Another University Scholarship for the Class of 2011

National Swimming Title for Loreto Kilkenny

University scholarship for a member of our Leaving Cert class of 2011

All parents are invited to attend our Annual General Meeting which will take place on Monday, 24th of October.  Our Parents` Association has organised a very interesting guest speaker, Luke Monahan who will give a talk on the topic: `managing the teenage years`.  Please click here for further information.

Annie Condren and Chloe Power who were awarded ten A grades each in their Junior Certificate

Congratulations to our students who received their Junior Certificate results today.  The school community is very proud of your achievements.  A huge amount of our students were awarded A grades in higher level papers and the top performers were as follows:

• Two students were awarded a perfect 10 A grades
• Three students were awarded 9 A grades
• Three students were awarded 8 A grades
• Six students were awarded 7 A grades

All in all this was, a remarkable set of results.  Many more students achieved multiple A grades.  36 students were awarded three or more A grades at Higher Level.  Our top ten were awarded 85 As between them!

Much concern has been expressed nationally with regard the slipping standards in Maths.  23 of our students achieved an `A` grade in Higher Level Maths - this is 17% of the year group.  Nationally, only 8% of students achieved this result.  Likewise, nearly double the national average achieved an A,B or C grade in Higher Level Maths (80 of our students were awarded an Honour in Maths).

Congratulations and thanks are also due our teachers who worked with our girls for the three years as they prepared for their examinations.  Without their dedication these results would not have been possible.

We invite sixth class girls and their parents/guardians to attend our Open Night which will take place at 6:45pm on the 26th of September.  This will give families the oportunity to take a tour of the school, meet members of our staff and attend a presentation providing key information.  Please note that to attend this night you must obtain a ticket.  Tickets have been posted to those on our mailing list.  If you are not on our mailing list, tickets can be obtained by calling into the school office or by emailing us at office@loretokk.ie or by phoning 056-7765132.  Please note that there are two parts to the night: the presentation and the tour.  Your ticket will indicate which you should attend first.  We look forward to welcoming you to our Open Night.

Please find details on our enrolment procedures in the enrolment section of this site.

Mr Keher and Ms Gallagher issuing our Leaving Cert results

Our Leaving Cert results were issued amid the excitement and caos of our building programme. With Ms Gallagher and Mr Keher in their hard hats and high visibility jackets the day took on something of a surreal air!  Yet again, we were very proud of the achievements of our Leaving Certificate class of 2011. Just over 17% of our students (nearly one in five) received more than  500 C.A.O. points.  This represents more than double the national average.  Similarly, the number of our students achieving in excess of 550 and in excess of 400 points was more than double the national average.  We were also very proud of our Leaving Certificate Applied class.  55% of the class achieved a Distinction (the highest grade) and this is an incredible three times the national average.  Well done girls!

On the 27th of June 2011 our building programme started on site after eleven years of planning.  Follow our building blog here

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Three Loreto students, Sorcha O`Boyle, Rebecca Murphy and Fiona Kenealy represented Ireland recently at a Your Europe, Your Say event in Brussels recently.  Follow this link to see Sorcha featured in the official video of the event.  Click here for an account of the trip.

On the 16th of November Loreto held its first ever fashion show in aid of its new building program. The event was hosted by Karen Morrissey from Hype Model Agency in Kilkenny and Mary Kennedy of RTE`s Nationwide in Langton’s at 8pm.

The modelling team included a variety of transition and fifth year students from Loreto and St. Kieran’s College in Kilkenny as well as various members of the teaching staff from both schools. The models showcased beautiful clothing from a vast range of shops in Kilkenny, such as -A wear, Fred’s Fashions, Pauls and the Marchioness Boutique. The event proved a huge success contributing greatly to the school`s extention fund. Many thanks to all those who participated, making it a very relaxed and enjoyable evening.