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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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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Beth Martin Nixon recalls how she spent one day during the Easter holidays researching her interests: We first arrived in Sheffield at around 9am. We had two hours before the day started, so we walked down to Ponds Forge and went swimming. After that we walked up Sheffield Hallam’s Owen Building to meet Harriet, the
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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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