For many years the Crompton House Drama Department has taken part in the Shakespeare Schools Festival. Our pupils have performed at many theatres in Greater Manchester including the Oldham Coliseum, the Lyric Theatre at the Lowry, Bolton Octagan and the Gracie Fields Theatre at Rochdale, but we’ve never been to Shaw. Also we’ve only been […]
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Early in November our cross-country teams were jubilant when they were crowned Oldham School Cross Country Champions at a hilly and muddy Chadderton Park. In the morning the girls lead the way winning the Year 7, Year 9 and Year 10/11 team events with Erin Grime (Yr 9) and Sophie Marsden (Yr 11) coming first
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Six of our Year 8 pupils recently took part in The Faraday Challenge, an engineering-based competition organised by the Institute of Engineering . The event took place at Withington Girls School in Manchester. The challenge was to design an element of a theme park attraction, and Emma Astley, Jake Murray, Henry Molyneux, Freya Liles,
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Day 1. We met at Manchester Airport early in the morning with everyone wearing their Andalucía hoodies. As soon as we had checked in, we made our way to the duty-free lounge. Some of us got some breakfast whilst others did some shopping. Around two and a half hours later, we landed in Malaga and
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YEAR 11 RESIDENTIAL TO SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Monday 25th – Wednesday 27th September 2017 by Cameron Husselbury I recently had the amazing opportunity to stay at Sidney Sussex College at Cambridge University, on a three-day residential, to get a taste of what life as a student there would be like. Seven students
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Schüleraustausch mit der Crompton House Church of England School in Oldham Gleich von Beginn an war Team Spirit das Motto. Eine von der Lehrerin Claire Raho durchgeführte Team Building Activity, bei der deutsche und englische Partner gemeinsam vielseitige kreative und bewegungsorientierte Aufgaben zu bewältigen hatten, sorgte für ein sofortiges “Wir”-Gefühl unter allen Beteiligten. An den
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On Friday 24th September the pupils and staff of Crompton House School swapped their school trousers and skirts for jeans to show their support for Jeans for Genes, and raise awareness and funds for Genetic Disorders UK The sixth formers of the school organised a Cake Competition with the Year 7 forms competing against each
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After all the news on the television, radio, and other media about the new grades it had been a sleepless night before GCSE Results Day for many of our Year 11 students, but the relief was noticeable once the results envelopes had been opened. Mr Newell had spoken at their valedictory service of the great
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Many congratulations to all our sixth form students who received their A and AS results on Thursday 17th August. 100% Overall % pass rate (better than 2016, & 2015) 51% of the A Level grades were A*, A or B (better than 2016, 2015) 8 pupils achieved at least 3 grade A passes or better. (see
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After the fun of Activities Day on Monday and the sporting combat of Sports Day on Tuesday, which are reported on earlier blogs, the last week of term ended with Lower School Prize Giving on Thursday and the traditional Communions, Rewards Assembly and Staff Farewells. We were delighted to welcome Mr Steve Hill, MBE, to
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