The summer holidays are almost here! Crompton House School has launched its 2021 Summer Reading Challenge for Year 8, 9, 10 and 11 via our online E and Audio Book Library Sora. The themes are Change, Race and Equality, Love and Relationships and Conflict, Religion and War. You can check out the challenges here. Reading […]
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Holly Creevy writes about the recent fieldtrip in preparation for their Geography NEA (coursework): On the 1st July we arrived in sixth form, packed and ready to go for our 3 day Geography adventure to North Wales – we had a one hour lesson by Mr Smith where we were shown the physical geography fieldwork
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Beth Martin Nixon writes about the recent Geography fieldtrip: After an eight-hour coach journey, and several stops off at McDonald’s, we finally arrived at the Swanage Centre! We had our welcome meeting before our evening dinner and we had free time before lessons to discover the grounds of where we were staying. After an hour
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Holly Creevy writes about the recent Geography trip to Iceland. Thursday 14th to Monday 18th February 2019, such an amazing few days where everyone made memories that will last forever. A once in a lifetime experience and I think everyone will agree that these memories were made in one of the most naturalistic and beautiful
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Year 11 GCSE Geography Fieldtrip – Swanage October 2018 Fleur Marsland writes about the recent fieldtrip to Swanage. It took an agonising 7 hours on a coach to get to Swanage. When we got we went to the rooms, had tea and chilled. At around 7 we had a lesson for an hour and a
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Madeleine Bamford reviews the recent Geography trip: On Wednesday the 19th September and Friday 21st September, all year 8 Geographers went to Castleton- a local village in the Peak District National Park. The Peak District was established in 1951, adopting the size of 1,437 KM2. Around 40,000 people live in the national park and it is
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Year 9 Watersports Holiday – Ardeche, South of France. August 2018 Beth Martin-Nixon reviews the recent Year 9 Watersports holiday to the Ardeche: Watersports PGL 2018 – France We arrived at school on a rainy Sunday afternoon, not how I pictured the start of our long sunny holiday in the South of France. The French
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Beth Martin Nixon looks back on the recent Year 9 trip to Manchester: Friday 29th June was a beautiful sunny day for Year 9’s urban Geography field trip to East Manchester. We nearly didn’t get to go on the trip as the first set of coaches didn’t turn up. We did wonder if we would be
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As part of the ‘Crime and Deviance’ module of the GCSE Sociology course Year 10 students went on a visit to Tameside Magistrates Court. The court experience begins as soon as the students arrive, with students entering the same way as the defendants. Anyone arriving in court has to empty their pockets, bags and walk
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Halle Greenwood, Libby Kershaw and Jessica Evans recall the Iceand trip which took place in February. What an amazing opportunity and such a brilliant experience that we have had for the students who visited Iceland from Wednesday 7th February till Sunday 11th. I’m sure everyone will agree that it was an unforgettable few days in
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