Co-Curricular Programs

Loreto College conducts in-country study tours with Sacred Heart, Obayashi and Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen to enhance the study of the Japanese language.

Loreto College in-country study tour to New Caledonia Loreto College conducts a country study tour to New Caledonia, where students may immerse themselves in the French Language and culture.

Students in Years 11 and 12 have the opportunity to travel to England and Ireland on the biannual Loreto Pilgrimage during the Term 1 and 2 break. Over the course of almost three weeks, students visit Loreto schools in Ireland and sites of significance to our Loreto story in England, as well as many amazing tourist attractions and historical landmarks.

The highlights of past trips are numerous and varied. The girls were able to build significant links with some of their fellow Loreto students in Ireland when they experienced a two-night homestay with a family from Loreto Secondary School in Balbriggan. They met some of the Loreto sisters at the Bar Convent in York and learned more about the story of Mary Ward when visiting her grave at Osbaldwick. Whilst travelling the English countryside, the pilgrims visited Shakespeare’s grave in Stratford upon Avon, danced around the massive rocks at Stonehenge in a bitterly cold wind and experienced the opulence of the state apartments at Windsor Castle.

This Pilgrimage experience has proved to be the experience of a lifetime! Students look forward to experiencing friendly guides and hosts, wonderful learning experiences, and thoroughly enjoyable things to do and sites to see along the way.

The Loreto College NASA Space Camp takes off biannually in September. This trip is offered to Year 9 and 10 students. The inaugural trip took place in September 2016 and our students and staff loved it! 

The trip is held in the two-week term break between Term 3 and 4 and visits Washington, Florida and Alabama. The trip is designed to promote an understanding and love of the study of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects in the students; showing students the possibilities open to students who pursue study in these areas at a senior and tertiary level.

Itinerary

Huntsville, Alabama – NASA space camp
A five day live-in program where the students undertake training in:

• The history of the exploration of space including the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs
• Astronaut training
• Mission training
• Specialist mission training as a pilot or extravehicular activities (EVA) such as spacewalks.

At the end of the program, the trainees carry out a simulated mission followed by a graduation ceremony.

Orlando, Florida

The students spend four days in Orlando visiting a number of local attractions with the highlight being the visit to the Kennedy Space Centre.

At the Kennedy Space Centre, the students will tour the facilities, possibly witness a shuttle launch (dependent upon launch dates), have lunch with a current astronaut and tour the shuttle facility.

Washington DC

Finally, the students spend two days in Washington DC where they visit the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, the Washington Monument, Arlington, the Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall.

-> download NASA Camp details (pdf)