Last week our Year 11 GCSE pupils went on a visit to Quarry Bank Mill. This trip played a vital part in their course as it is the focus of their coursework. We were lucky enough to have a number of superb guides who knew the GCSE Specification inside out! The pupils’ day was packed […]
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Declan Finegan & Liam Heap write about their Geography fieldtrip today: On Friday 9th October on this glorious day, as the clouds rolled over the deep valley, Year 8 Band 2 were dropped off and proceeded to walk on the closed Mam Tor road, due to the landslide. Having set the scene for the day, we
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Jack Grennan writes about the visit to Oxford on Tuesday 6th October 2015 After an extremely early morning start and a 4.5 hour coach journey, we arrived at Corpus Christi College in Oxford. Having entered the courtyard we were met by Brendan Shepard, the Outreach Officer at the link college. Brendan explained to us the
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Eleanor Makinson writes about the 6 Form Conference attended today (Tuesday 29th September 2015): Today, after an eventful coach journey – 17 students from Crompton House School approached Old Trafford Football Stadium on Tuesday morning. Arriving fashionably late we entered the reception hall to find complementary food laid out for our leisure. Regretfully bypassing this
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Year 9 Applied Art and Year 12 Art classes made a trip to Manchester Museum to support their coursework on the theme of natural forms. At the museum the students were able to draw and photograph a range of exhibits which included a huge elephant skeleton, skulls and bones, shells and fossils and living creatures such a lizards
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On Friday 25th September Crompton House celebrated the 89th anniversary of the founding of the school. Mrs Anne Ormerod and Miss Mary Crompton founded the school in 1926, and we celebrate their generous act in a variety of ways. The whole school attended services in the school hall, this year lead by Rev Richard Hawkins
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A group of our Sixth Formers entered a lab last week to find the signs of a suspicious death, which they had to solve! There was a knife covered in blood, the outline of a body on the floor, the room had been ransacked and there were even signs of drinking taking place – all
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Crompton is the first of our 4 houses to select a charity for this academic year. They have chosen a local charity, OSCA (Oldham Support group for Carers in Autism). Last week they organised a cake sale that was so successful it had to be spread over two days. But the effort was worth
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Many thanks to all the parents who voted in the election for the posts of Parent Governor. On Friday 24th September it was announced that Mrs Jenny Carr, Mrs Sylviane Lawrence and Mr Clive Symonds have been elected as Parent Governors. Their term of office is from 25th September 2015 to 24th September 2019. Mr
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During the visit of our German Exchange students the Year 9 Hospitality & Catering class prepared and served a traditional English Afternoon Tea, which included salmon sandwiches, Victoria sponge and scones. Everyone was very impressed with the quality of the food and the high standards in service at the tables, especially as the pupils have
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