Church of England School
Church of England School
Thursday 5th November 2015 and 16 students from Years 10 to 13 set off with Mrs Raho and Miss Warburton and our German assistant Vikram, on an exciting adventure to Paris. After carting suitcases and musical instruments through Manchester and London, we boarded the Eurostar to Paris where we were greeted by José who showed us […]
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At 7pm on Thursday 8th October a group of Crompton House Sixth-Formers and staff were in the Queen Elizabeth Hall sitting with bated breath as a procession came down the aisle to thunderous applause. Following them was the man we were all there to see, Professor Brian Cox. After a few words from the Principal
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On Wednesday 14th October, 52 of our Year 11 and 12 students spent an exciting afternoon and evening at The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. The students watched a powerful performance of Arthur Miller’s challenging (and 3 hour long) tragedy “The Crucible”. The show was technically very impressive and many of the students were “wowed” by the
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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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Year 12 Visit to Westminster Year 12 had a brilliant day in Westminster on Friday 2nd October. A mixture of Politics, History and Law students had a tour of the Houses of Parliament and enjoyed seeing the House of Lords, House of Commons, the voting lobby, the Queen’s robing room and Westminster Hall. After the
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Last week our Year 11 GCSE pupils went on a visit to Quarry Bank Mill. This trip played a vital part in their course as it is the focus of their coursework. We were lucky enough to have a number of superb guides who knew the GCSE Specification inside out! The pupils’ day was packed
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Declan Finegan & Liam Heap write about their Geography fieldtrip today: On Friday 9th October on this glorious day, as the clouds rolled over the deep valley, Year 8 Band 2 were dropped off and proceeded to walk on the closed Mam Tor road, due to the landslide. Having set the scene for the day, we
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Jack Grennan writes about the visit to Oxford on Tuesday 6th October 2015 After an extremely early morning start and a 4.5 hour coach journey, we arrived at Corpus Christi College in Oxford. Having entered the courtyard we were met by Brendan Shepard, the Outreach Officer at the link college. Brendan explained to us the
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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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