Church of England School
Church of England School
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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Four students from CHS were invited to participate in a performance workshop running as part of the Greater Manchester Music Hub Secondary Teacher’s Conference. The session was led by Patrick Bailey of Trinity College of Music and was designed to help teachers to help their students develop their performance skills more effectively. Logan and Alex
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For two days – Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th June, Year 7 pupils have been collecting river data for completion of their key assessment. Pupils visited Daisy Nook Country Park and conducted primary data collection in the River Medlock. Band 1 visited the river on Wednesday and band 2 on Thursday – the two hottest
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Year 7 visited Manchester Airport as part of their ICT studies. Some of the pupils reported back: “We visited Terminal 2 and saw the transport hub, the prayer room, the check-ins and the computer room. At the visitors’ park we saw the planes landing and taking off and went on a Monarch Airplane.
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Friday 20th February 2015 Upon arrival at Reykjavik Airport, the pungent smell of the geothermal power plant filled the air as we boarded our coach heading towards the Perlan. This building stores the hot water for Reykjavik and the viewing platform gave us a great view of the capital city. For dinner, we went to the
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Five Year 9 pupils attended a conference at the University of York on 20th May 2015. The 5 pupils (Kate Emmott, Josh McCracken, Mathew Stefek, Daniel Ashton, Isabel Larder) were accompanied by Mr Douglas and we tried to be as eco-friendly as possible by using public transport – metrolink – train- bus, in order to get
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