PTFA Christmas Fair Christmas celebrations started early in December with the annual PTFA Christmas Fair. Many parents and staff helped on the day, and hundreds of pupils and their families came into to hear the choirs and swing band, visit Father Christmas, enjoy the festive food and drink, and stock up on gifts and […]
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Our Presentation Evening was held in November with our special guest Mrs Victoria Musgrave, a previous headteacher of the school. Prizes were presented to current Year 11 pupils for their achievements in Year 10. GCSE certificates and awards were presented to students in the previous Year 11 cohort. Two days later Presentation Evening was followed
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The school musicians were very busy in the Autumn Term playing music in a wide variety of Oldham locations. The Chapel Choir celebrated our 91st Founders Day singing Choral Evensong at Manchester Cathedral. It was great to be back after the renovations had been completed. Before half-term the over 200 pupils from the Lower School took
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In October the school hall was full of innovative models of schools of the future. All the Year 7 pupils had designed and built models of their designs as part of their English lessons. They came up with innovative ideas such as a school in a train, a library with reading tents and a virtual
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For many years the Crompton House Drama Department has taken part in the Shakespeare Schools Festival. Our pupils have performed at many theatres in Greater Manchester including the Oldham Coliseum, the Lyric Theatre at the Lowry, Bolton Octagan and the Gracie Fields Theatre at Rochdale, but we’ve never been to Shaw. Also we’ve only been
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Early in November our cross-country teams were jubilant when they were crowned Oldham School Cross Country Champions at a hilly and muddy Chadderton Park. In the morning the girls lead the way winning the Year 7, Year 9 and Year 10/11 team events with Erin Grime (Yr 9) and Sophie Marsden (Yr 11) coming first
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As part of the school’s commitment to trips, over 200 Year 7 pupils visited Oldham Coliseum to see their traditional pantomime, Dick Whittington. It was a great experience for the pupils with 2 hours of fun-packed song and dance. During the second act the school got a “shout-out” from Fine Time Fontayne with a special
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Six of our Year 8 pupils recently took part in The Faraday Challenge, an engineering-based competition organised by the Institute of Engineering . The event took place at Withington Girls School in Manchester. The challenge was to design an element of a theme park attraction, and Emma Astley, Jake Murray, Henry Molyneux, Freya Liles,
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Day 1. We met at Manchester Airport early in the morning with everyone wearing their Andalucía hoodies. As soon as we had checked in, we made our way to the duty-free lounge. Some of us got some breakfast whilst others did some shopping. Around two and a half hours later, we landed in Malaga and
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YEAR 11 RESIDENTIAL TO SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Monday 25th – Wednesday 27th September 2017 by Cameron Husselbury I recently had the amazing opportunity to stay at Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University, on a three-day residential, to get a taste of what life as a student there would be like. Seven students
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