The last week of the summer term started on Sunday 10th July with the Sixth Form trip to New York. More details of this can be found on the Blog on the Sixth Form Website. On Monday over 100 of Year 10 Geography GCSE students travelling down to Swanage for 3 ½ days of filed-centre work. […]
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Activities Days 2016 Yet again there was a wide variety of trips on offer for the penultimate week of the summer term, including Flamingoland, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Alton Towers, Arial Extreme, Crazy Golf, Laser Quest, Sandbrook Park, Pony Riding, Snooker, Cupcake Baking, Sports Day Café and Theatre Skills. Whether the pupils were far away or
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On Thursday 7th July at 6am, the Crompton House Brass Band assembled at school for a coach journey to Birmingham to perform at the National Festival of Music for Youth. The 35 pupils were just a small number of the 10,000 musicians who were taking part in the biggest youth music festival in the world, and
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On the 6th of July we held our annual summer concert at St James Church Derker where musicians across all year groups came together to perform and celebrate the end of another successful musical year. There were performances from the Senior Wind Band, Guitar Group, Brass Ensemble, Senior Choir, Senior Orchestra and the Brass Band
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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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On Saturdays 7th and 14th of May, both Duke of Edinburgh Bronze cohorts completed their training for the Expedition. 50 pupils walked the 7th, split into 6 groups were blessed with warm weather. 57 walked this Saturday, again 6 groups. 14 staff gave of their time to help train the students in map reading skills
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Early in February twenty of our Year 10 and 11 students left England to experience the food and culture of southern Italy. Visits to Herculaneum, Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius were interspersed with Gnocchi, Gelato, Pasta, Pizza and Struffoli demonstrations at various kitchens in the area. The pupils also learned about other traditional foods such
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Many congratulations to our musicians who gave up their Saturday morning on 19th March to take part in the Music for Youth Regional Festival at Rochdale Town Hall. In total over 40,000 young people take part in the festival all over the country and the 70 Crompton House pupils performed brilliantly as the adjudications above
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On Friday 5th February Year 11, in two groups, had a half day of Revision and Study Skills at Oldham Athletic’s new Events Centre. The sessions started with a motivating talk by Mr Newell which was followed by a short coach ride to Boundary Park and straight into the first of four sessions run by
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56 Year 11 Geography students visited the Land of Fire and Ice from 11th – 15th February 2016 to expand their knowledge and understanding of topics covered in class. Stephen Oldfield reviews the fieldtrip. Day 1 – Thursday 11th February 2016 After a pleasant flight with Icelandair from Manchester to Reykjavik, the breath-taking four days
