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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Activities Days 2016 Yet again there was a wide variety of trips on offer for the penultimate week of the summer term, including Flamingoland, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Alton Towers, Arial Extreme, Crazy Golf, Laser Quest, Sandbrook Park, Pony Riding, Snooker, Cupcake Baking, Sports Day Café and Theatre Skills. Whether the pupils were far away or
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Early in July Mick Nield, Team Leader of Oldham Mountain Rescue, presented Crompton House School with a plaque to show the team’s gratitude for the £8,500 the school has donated to OMR over the past 8 years. In return Jim Upton, Senior Deputy Head with overall responsibility for the Duke of Edinburgh Award at Crompton
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On Thursday 7th July at 6am, the Crompton House Brass Band assembled at school for a coach journey to Birmingham to perform at the National Festival of Music for Youth. The 35 pupils were just a small number of the 10,000 musicians who were taking part in the biggest youth music festival in the world, and
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