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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On the 6th of July we held our annual summer concert at St James Church Derker where musicians across all year groups came together to perform and celebrate the end of another successful musical year. There were performances from the Senior Wind Band, Guitar Group, Brass Ensemble, Senior Choir, Senior Orchestra and the Brass Band
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East Manchester Field Trip – Friday 24th June Mr R. Wadsworth, a graduate of Geography, who accompanied the trip recalls the fieldtrip. Last Friday the Year 9 Geographers embarked on a journey to explore the sunny city of Manchester. Using what they have learned throughout the year they aimed to contextualise the processes and examples
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Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, performed by a cast of over 70 of our youngest pupils was a fantastic success. Directors Darcey McCoy and Megan Fielden from Year 12 with Mrs Hammond and Mrs Nixon put on a fantastically colourful show in just two months. All the pupils put in so much effort into
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June 23rd 2016 was a day to remember for our Year 11students. Rochdale Town Hall was full of great looking young men and women celebrating their final Crompton House day together. As well as speeches, awards and good food, the students were entertained, and completely baffled, by table magician Tony Ward. It was good to
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The School’s wish list is as follows: A new science laboratory, a laser cutter for the DT department, new chairs for the Year 10 Common Room, new tables for the hall. 500 Club Draw Congratulations to our April winners: 1st Prize – Lottery number 32 (Staff) 2nd Prize – Lottery number 38 – Julie Hughes
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On Saturdays 7th and 14th of May, both Duke of Edinburgh Bronze cohorts completed their training for the Expedition. 50 pupils walked the 7th, split into 6 groups were blessed with warm weather. 57 walked this Saturday, again 6 groups. 14 staff gave of their time to help train the students in map reading skills
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The Year 7 Geographers made use of the excellent weather today (9/5/16) to collect weather data around school. They measured wind speed, wind direction, temperature and aspect.The work forms part of their Key Assessment, to answer the hypothesis ” Where is the best site to locate a micro-generation scheme in the school grounds”. 712 went
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