Crompton House School played host to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge on Tuesday 13th September 2016. Around 50 Year 13 students attended from the neighbouring schools of Blue Coat, Oldham Hulme Grammar and Oldham Sixth Form College. Students were given an overview of the Oxbridge application process and given useful tips for their personal […]
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The Real Schools Guide, compiled by the Trinity Mirror Newspaper Company. has just been published by the Manchester Evening News and Crompton House has been named the top secondary school in Oldham. The unique rating system takes into account a range of different indicators to evaluate a school’s performance. The system tracks achievement, attendance, teaching,
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Crompton House Church of England School Press Statement GCSE Results 2016 Mr Karl Newell, Headteacher says: “I am very pleased to congratulate our Year 11 students for their excellent GCSE results. This year the proportion of pupils achieving 5 A* to C grades including English and Maths is 76%, higher than last August’s results. Over a
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At the start of the summer holiday three students, Stephen Oldfield, Rachel Milligan and Josh Carr (Yr 10) went on a materials science course at the University of Manchester. Rachel has written about the first two days and Stephen about days three and four. The picture is of their group with Alan Turing, outside
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Crompton House Church of England School A Level Press Release Aug 2016 99% Overall pass rate for all A Levels (better than 2015) 50% of the A Level grades were A*, A or B (up by 8% on 2015) 8 pupils achieved at least 3 grade A passes or better. (see below) 25 of the
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A Year 10 student gives an overview of the fieldtrip. Due to sheer numbers (112), the trip operated as two trips with the other coach completing the fieldtrip the opposite way around. Day 1 – Monday 11th July 2016 On Monday morning we set off for Swanage, Dorset, the coach journey was a long one but
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The last week of the summer term started on Sunday 10th July with the Sixth Form trip to New York. More details of this can be found on the Blog on the Sixth Form Website. On Monday over 100 of Year 10 Geography GCSE students travelling down to Swanage for 3 ½ days of filed-centre work.
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The Year 8 Puzzle Day was a big success and it was great to see our students playing games, having fun, being challenged and developing new skills. The Happy Puzzle Company came in for the day and the aim of the sessions was to develop: maths skills, thinking skills, reasoning skills, team and communications skills
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Sports Days 2016 The Sports Days also had fantastic participation, and quite a bit of precipitation! But despite the weather a great time was had by all. The Sports Day Winners were 1st Cocker, 2nd Ridley, 3rd Ormerod and 4th Crompton. According to Mr Ashworth who added up all the results, it was amazingly close with just a
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