After 18 months of fundraising, towards the end of July a dedicated group of 11 intrepid Crompton House Sixth Form students and 2 staff began an epic 18 day expedition to Nepal. The main aims were to carry out work on a community project – helping to lay the foundations for a new […]
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Oxford University Trip to Corpus Christi College – 1st November 2016. Written by Connie Rigby Year 11. An early start was a strain for some of us, still we managed it. The coach ride there was one filled with revision, catching up on sleep and general early morning grogginess. We stopped off at M6 services
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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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Tanya Ashworth recalls the 3 days in July spent at MMU learning more about the benefits of attending University, Photos have only just arrived from MMU, hence the later than planned blog. Day 1 Tuesday 19th July On the hottest day of the year, Tanya, Zara, Roheema and Faye waited for the coach to pick the
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Year 8 Geography Field Trip to Castleton – 7th October 2016 Beth Martin Nixon writes about the Castleton fieldtrip : After a beautiful week of sunshine and clear blue skies on Friday, the day of our field trip to Castleton, it was a cold grey day. When we set off from school on the two
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Niamh Henshaw gives her review of the Watersports holiday – 22nd – 30th August 2016. This summer the annual Crompton House PGL Watersports Trip was held again and in due course, we all arrived at school one Monday morning anticipating the week or so ahead of sun, sea and sand. We hauled our suitcases containing
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Crompton House School played host to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge on Tuesday 13th September 2016. Around 50 Year 13 students attended from the neighbouring schools of Blue Coat, Oldham Hulme Grammar and Oldham Sixth Form College. Students were given an overview of the Oxbridge application process and given useful tips for their personal
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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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A Year 10 student gives an overview of the fieldtrip. Due to sheer numbers (112), the trip operated as two trips with the other coach completing the fieldtrip the opposite way around. Day 1 – Monday 11th July 2016 On Monday morning we set off for Swanage, Dorset, the coach journey was a long one but
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