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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The year 7s have been learning about Unfair and Fairtrade in their Geography lessons. This unit of work was planned to coincide with Fairtrade Fortnight, where students were encouraged to purchase Fairtrade products and learn about development. Students had to research, plan, design and present a Fairtrade snack. The competition is organised by Traidcraft. The
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A former student from Crompton House School has been recognised as an engineering rising star and awarded with a Diamond Jubilee Scholarship The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Diamond Jubilee Scholarships offer  long-term financial support to 102 students Tom Upton, a former student from Crompton House School, has celebrated his success at receiving the Diamond
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Work Experience for our Year 11 students took place the week after they had sat their GCSE mock exams in December. Pupils were at a wide variety of businesses including hospitals, offices, schools and colleges. The reports we received from the supervisors were extremely positive and a huge credit to the pupils. “He is a
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Courtney Hitchen writes about the recent Geography fieldtrip: Day 1 (14/10/15) – On Wednesday, 24 Geographers set off from school in the two school minibuses to North Wales. We were to complete the fieldwork section of the AS Geography course, accounting for 30% of our marks. During the first day we collected primary data on
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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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