It was an early rise in order to catch our flight to Madrid so well done to the Year 10 and 11 students who arrived at school for 3.30am! Unfortunately, due to an alarm clock error poor Mrs Elphick was almost late, but managed to be out of bed, get a taxi and arrive at […]
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Crompton House School’s Computer Science department ran a trip to Manchester Airport Terminal 2, to learn about the vast range of information systems and the Runway Visitors Park, to discover the wealth of job opportunities that are available at Manchester Airport. The airport employs over 22,000 staff in the northwest and the students got learn
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Samaritans Purse at Crompton House At Crompton House we are supporting Samaritans Purse, a charity which sends Christmas boxes to children all over the world, who otherwise would not get a present at Christmas. Last year we sent nearly 90 boxes, so this year it would be great to send at least 100. But we
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Tuesday 4th October was a special day for Crompton House School. As part of the 90th anniversary of the founding of Crompton House we arranged for a photograph of the whole school. With over 1,300 pupils and over 120 staff, it was a mammoth task, but the team from Tempest Photography did a brilliant job. The unique
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Friday 30th September was a very important day in the life of the school this year. Traditionally held on the Friday nearest to 1st October, the services were held at Oldham Parish Church, with grateful thanks to Reverend Derek Palmer, as Manchester Cathedral, our venue for the past few quinquennial services, has work being carried out on the
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As part of our commemorations of our Founders Day, two pupils, Beth and Tom, went round the school being photographed with classes from every year group of the school. Their uniforms were based on the first picture of Crompton House pupils taken in 1926, and were created by Mrs Harvey, our Learning Zone Manager. Beth
The Real Schools Guide, compiled by the Trinity Mirror Newspaper Company. has just been published by the Manchester Evening News and Crompton House has been named the top secondary school in Oldham. The unique rating system takes into account a range of different indicators to evaluate a school’s performance. The system tracks achievement, attendance, teaching,
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Crompton House Church of England School Press Statement GCSE Results 2016 Mr Karl Newell, Headteacher says: “I am very pleased to congratulate our Year 11 students for their excellent GCSE results. This year the proportion of pupils achieving 5 A* to C grades including English and Maths is 76%, higher than last August’s results. Over a
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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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