Tuesday was a great day for the Year 9 and 10 pupils, competing in a variety of sports for the House Cup. The day finished with all the pupils taking part in the Race for Life, raising funds to fight cancer. The pictures below show the pupils enjoying their celebration of sport. Many thanks to […]
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What a fantastic week of Crompton House music! It started with the Senior Choir singing Choral Evensong at York Minster. This is always a thrill but this year was even more of a challenge as the date seemed to clash with a wide variety of other activities. However our choir was augmented by ex-staff members
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On Saturday 4th July Mr Deane organised the first Old Boys’ 5 a-side Football Tournament. The five teams, from leavers in 2011 to 2014, played group matches lasting 20 minutes leading to a final. The winners were the 2013 team with Ben Pearson, currently with Manchester United, followed by the 2014 A team. The other teams
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Our newly appointed lollypop lady started her new job on Monday 13th July following 9 weeks of the Senior Leadership Team taking on the role. Wendy Murray, who also works in the school canteen, has already been impressed by the politeness of our pupils.
Day 3 – 8/7/15 Not as good weather today but still good for fieldwork – sunny intervals and cloudy. The two coaches swapped over routines today, Mr Douglas and Mr Smith’s groups completing their controlled assessment in the Lulworth Cove area and Mr Hardman’s group walking back to the centre from Shell Bay, completing the
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The annual Art Exhibition which showcases the work of our GCSE and A level students took place on July 7th in the school hall. The evening was well-attended by students and family and there was a range of work on display from large scale sculptures to film and digital work. All the students from our Art
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The Year 8 pupils who have chosen to study one of the Art GCSE courses next year took a trip to Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Friday 3rd July. The aim of the trip was to get to know the other pupils in the class and also to look at a variety of sculpture in the
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Day 2 7/7/15 After an early rise, we left the Allnatt Centre just after 9am. Mr Douglas’s and Mr Smith’s group had a short coach journey where they were dropped off at Shell Bay for the walk back to the centre. Initially the weather was not too great – but the cloud soon burnt away to leave
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Day 1 6/7/15 Arrived safely in Swanage at the Allnatt Centre. What a contrast to the weather back home! Glorious sunshine. After settling in, the students walked down to the beach to conduct a pilot study, in order to make the work easier tomorrow. The weather forecast is a bit mixed for tomorrow, one group
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On June 24th 2015 me and my fellow English combined students, along with Ms Ridings and Miss Pearson, went on a trip to Hull to take the Philip Larkin Trail. Larkin is a British poet who spent much of his adult life in Hull working as a librarian in the University library and writing his famous
