The experience of Taizé has been very different to what we expected. We thought the church would be boring and repetitive, especially as we visit it 3 times a day. In fact the church is calm, peaceful and intriguing. We thought the food would taste horribly. Surprisingly, it’s okay and caters for our basic needs. […]
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The 2015 Year 11 prom was a lovely occasion. Held at the wonderful Rochdale Town Hall, the pupils arrived in bright sunshine by caravan, campervan, motorbike, Ferrari, Bentley or dad’s taxi. They all looked terrific as the photos show. During the very enjoyable meal the students marvelled at the close-up table magic of Tony Ward,
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On Saturday 27th June Crompton House held its 2015 Summer Fair. It was a perfect summer’s day and over 500 parents, friends and children had a lovely time on the school fields. For the younger ones there was a bouncy castle, face-painting, sand art, card making, a human fruit machine, a toy and book stall and
GCSE History In our GCSE History classes this week we have been looking at developments in medicine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Pupils from Years Nine and Ten have been creating their own representations of the topics covered with some wonderful results! Public Health Students were asked to make play-doh representations of the following developments in
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Crompton House Girls are 2015 U-18 National Schools Water Polo Champions despite not having a swimming pool at school, or even in Shaw! What we do have is a group of determined girls with a range of swimming & water polo experience, Mr Darlington, a parent and coach who is prepared to give his
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It’s been busy and exciting week as a governor of Crompton House School. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings last week, the school welcomed its new intake of pupils who will join us in Year 7 this September. Staff and fellow governors greeted pupils and their parents who attended the school to discover which House they
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We left school early on Friday morning to travel down to Dover and caught the ferry to Calais at lunchtime. We arrived at Chateau du Broutel in the afternoon in time for dinner then we played relay games with the leaders from the chateau. After that we had some free time to look around the
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Four students from CHS were invited to participate in a performance workshop running as part of the Greater Manchester Music Hub Secondary Teacher’s Conference. The session was led by Patrick Bailey of Trinity College of Music and was designed to help teachers to help their students develop their performance skills more effectively. Logan and Alex
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Here are a selection of GCSE practical work from this years Year 11 Resistant Materials students. The brief was to design and manufacture iPhone/iPod speakers based on a design theme over the past 100 years. Some of the themes chosen by the pupils were Memphis designs, Bauhaus designs and Art Deco.
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The English Faculty are currently deciding what new books to teach next year’s Y10 pupils for the new style GCSEs. We have already decided on Macbeth but are currently fighting it out over Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’ or Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ for the novel. Let your English
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