The annual Art Exhibition which showcases the work of our GCSE and A level students took place on July 7th in the school hall. The evening was well-attended by students and family and there was a range of work on display from large scale sculptures to film and digital work. All the students from our Art […]
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The Year 8 pupils who have chosen to study one of the Art GCSE courses next year took a trip to Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Friday 3rd July. The aim of the trip was to get to know the other pupils in the class and also to look at a variety of sculpture in the
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Day 2 7/7/15 After an early rise, we left the Allnatt Centre just after 9am. Mr Douglas’s and Mr Smith’s group had a short coach journey where they were dropped off at Shell Bay for the walk back to the centre. Initially the weather was not too great – but the cloud soon burnt away to leave
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Day 1 6/7/15 Arrived safely in Swanage at the Allnatt Centre. What a contrast to the weather back home! Glorious sunshine. After settling in, the students walked down to the beach to conduct a pilot study, in order to make the work easier tomorrow. The weather forecast is a bit mixed for tomorrow, one group
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On June 24th 2015 me and my fellow English combined students, along with Ms Ridings and Miss Pearson, went on a trip to Hull to take the Philip Larkin Trail. Larkin is a British poet who spent much of his adult life in Hull working as a librarian in the University library and writing his famous
The experience of Taizé has been very different to what we expected. We thought the church would be boring and repetitive, especially as we visit it 3 times a day. In fact the church is calm, peaceful and intriguing. We thought the food would taste horribly. Surprisingly, it’s okay and caters for our basic needs.
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The 2015 Year 11 prom was a lovely occasion. Held at the wonderful Rochdale Town Hall, the pupils arrived in bright sunshine by caravan, campervan, motorbike, Ferrari, Bentley or dad’s taxi. They all looked terrific as the photos show. During the very enjoyable meal the students marvelled at the close-up table magic of Tony Ward,
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On Saturday 27th June Crompton House held its 2015 Summer Fair. It was a perfect summer’s day and over 500 parents, friends and children had a lovely time on the school fields. For the younger ones there was a bouncy castle, face-painting, sand art, card making, a human fruit machine, a toy and book stall and
GCSE History In our GCSE History classes this week we have been looking at developments in medicine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Pupils from Years Nine and Ten have been creating their own representations of the topics covered with some wonderful results! Public Health Students were asked to make play-doh representations of the following developments in
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Crompton House Girls are 2015 U-18 National Schools Water Polo Champions despite not having a swimming pool at school, or even in Shaw! What we do have is a group of determined girls with a range of swimming & water polo experience, Mr Darlington, a parent and coach who is prepared to give his
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