Hesketh House

Year 6 Memories...

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was going to Italy on the Ski Trip in Year 5. I loved skiing down the steep slopes with great

speed.” Serena Arya

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh house is participating and rehearsing the Shakespeare play. I loved the Ski Trip too.”

Arabella Barker-Smith

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House is taking part in the sporting events. My favourite one was AJIS Indoor Athletics; I came home with one bronze medal and one silver medal.” Ellie Bridge

“ My favourite memory in Hesketh house was the trip to Patterdale Hall because we did lots of fun activities. My favourite one was gorge walking.” Leah Brownley

“ My favourite memory in Hesketh House was going to Patterdale. My favourite activity was rock climbing. I also enjoyed doing the Indian Project in Year 4.” Jennifer Doyle

“ My favourite memory in Hesketh House is when we went to the Roman Museum in Year 3.” Maisy Ferguson

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was doing the Tudor Explorer Project. The explorer I researched was called Sir Walter

Raleigh.” Isabella Forshaw

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was the Ski Trip. It was a memorable place as I learned how to ski. It was also such fun and a great experience.” Rachel Funk

“ I have two favourite memories: the drama day where we rehearsed and acted out in a pantomime script for the rest of the class. Another highlight was competing in the AJIS Netball semi-

fi nals.” Liberty Giggs

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House is the Spring Fairs. I held a Bearded Dragon both years and had lots turns on all the tombola.” Grace Hansford

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was going to Patterdale and doing gorge walking because it was fun jumping off the big

rock.” Annabelle Gibbs

“ My favourite memory of Year 6 was when we went to Patterdale Hall and did all the fun activities. I most enjoyed gorge walking and jumping off the big rock. I also enjoyed the Spring Fair. Learning about a Shakespeare play and writing and learning a script was fabulous.” Kate Hailwood

“ My favourite part of my Hesketh House experience was doing the Shakespeare plays. I enjoyed the creative freedom of these projects. I also enjoyed the Ski Trip.” Stephanie Holland “ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was participating in the AJIS Netball semi-fi nals in Year 6; I really enjoyed the day as I spent the whole day with my friends playing my favourite sport.”

Charlotte Hughes

“ My favourite memory in Hesketh House was going to Senior School and doing the play of Cinderella, it was a fun time as we got to dress up and act. It was a very memorable thing because I love to act, now we are doing a Shakespeare play I can`t wait to go to Senior School.” Amber Kirkham

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was Charity Afternoon, because I love the feeling of giving money to charity and knowing that with every penny that I give it helps someone or something.”

Rhianna Lucas

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was the visit to Patterdale Hall because I loved all the activities especially gorge

walking.” Laura Marsden

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was when we made Aztec jewellery because I enjoy being creative and I enjoyed the whole Aztec topic.” Charlotte Moore

“ I have enjoyed Hesketh House very much because I have learned lots that I did not know before I came here. I liked learning about how to play Netball, Rounders and Water Polo. I loved Patterdale, especially this year when we were working in teams, doing the activities and fi nding out about the history of the Hall.”Eleanor Murray

“ Patterdale activities are my favourite memory of Hesketh House. This year we worked as a team and I think our team worked nicely together. I enjoyed learning about Sir Francis Drake in Year 5. I am really excited about doing our devised play of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Fatimah Naeem

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House is when the Netball Team went to AJIS Netball and we came third in the Cup. A special memory is when the swim team went to the Manchester Games and we met Rebecca Adlington.” Jennifer Taberner

“ The Ski Trip, the knock a door runners scared everyone. But my whole room had a plan to catch the knock a door runners. It was very funny when Mrs Tatlock chased them around the whole building and told them off!” Paige Twidale

“ My favourite all time memory of Hesketh House is when I swam at the Manchester School Games and Rebecca Adlington was there. She signed my swimming cap and bottle and gave my very good advice on swimming.” Ellie Wallis

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was in Year 5 when we did our Summer Concert. Some of the people including me dressed up as Aztec Priests and sang an Aztec Horrible Histories song!” Elizabeth Warburton

“ My favourite memory in Year 6 was when we created and designed a model fairground in Design Technology. In my group we had an underwater theme. It was a lot of fun!” Madeehah Ahmed

Blitz Cityscape

Year 6 Artwork created World War Two Blitz Cityscapes by blending vivid and dark colours of chalk pastel for the background and using a silhouette layer for a city landscape on top.

Ellie Wallis

Brooklyn Williams

Jessica-Rose Curtis-Walker Year 3 have created their own self portraits to convey cheerfulness and enthusiasm. They paid special attention to positioning and the size of facial features.

Harriet Dickenson

Jennifer-Mae Coetzee

Natasha Williams

Going Greek

Year 3 designed their own Ancient Greek vases and created their own collages of the famous Greek Myth ‘Daedalus and Icarus’.

Read all about it! Year 5 Year 4

Year 5 Tudor Newspapers dsigned by Gracie Grundy, Chloe Ferguson and Ruby Hill Entry from Christopher Columbus’ Diary by Estelle Pass. Reading award posters on the topic of Science designed by Ananya Agarwal and Aakifah Ismail.

Fatimah Naeem, Laura Marsden, Rachel Funk (back), Leah Brownley, Liberty Giggs, Amber Kirkham

Samantha Schofi eld, Rosie Allen, Ria Bansal, Isabelle Hood

Serena Arya, Isabella Forshaw, Ellie Wallis (back), Arabella Barker-Smith (front), Charlotte Moore, Maisy Ferguson Katherine Baker, Brooklyn Williams, Jessica-Rose Curtis-Walker, Elspeth Harper

Stephanie Holland, Jenny Doyle, Grace Hansford (back), Kate Hailwood (front), Eleanor Murray, Rhianna Lucas

Shreya Kamath, Abigail Duckworth, Phoenix Khan (back), Sana Riaz, Madeline Ashton Ellie Bridge, Annabelle Gibbs, Jennifer Taberner (back), Elizabeth Warburton (front), Paige Twidale, Charlotte Hughes

Olivia Stubbs, Natalie Taylor Towers, Saira Hussain, Mahima Raghavendra, Anna Boyers

Claris Roe, Sana Dalal, Elizabeth Lees (back), Maria Zhang (front), Madeehah Ahmed, Olivia Kaute

Hesketh House Prefects

Year 6 Memories...

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was in Year 5 when we were making headdresses with various materials as part of our Aztec learning challenge. They had vibrant colours and were fun to

make.” Rosemary Allen

“ My best memory in Year 6 was creating and building a small fairground carousel in teams and making a circuit to make it work like a real carousel. I enjoyed doing this because I like art and making circuits (Science).” Madeline Ashton

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was in Year 4 when I visited Patterdale Hall for the fi rst time. I particularly enjoyed taking part in the gorge walking and jumping into the river. Even though I was a little scared, it gave me a huge sense of

achievement.” Katherine Baker

“ In Year 6 I really enjoyed doing the short topic on the magistrate’s court. It was fun learning what happened in a court from real magistrates. I liked wearing a costume and setting up the classroom like a court.” Anna Boyers

“ My favourite memory of Year 6 was when we went to Patterdale. My favourite activity was the Aira Force art work, when we made a waterfall picture out of lots of different materials which complemented our group poems.” Jessica-Rose Curtis-Walker

“ My three favourite memories of Hesketh House are the pizza night on the ski trip (delicious pizza), the rock climbing in Patterdale (great fun) and the photography competition which gave me a huge sense of achievement when I won a prize in Year 3.” Sana Dalal

“ My favourite memory of Year 6 was designing totem poles because I really like art and this activity was great fun. I also enjoyed learning about the fascinating history of the totem poles.” Abigail Duckworth

“ I have two favourite memories of Hesketh House. One of my favourites is when I went kayaking in Patterdale and we rode down the rapids and then capsized at the end of the session (on purpose). The other activity I enjoyed this year was the Interhouse Cross-Country event.” Elspeth Harper

“ My favourite part of Hesketh House was doing the Shakespeare with Mrs. Worsley because I like acting and it is basically like writing our own play. I liked working with my friends to adapt the script of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to create our own version of the story.” Isabelle Hood

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was in Year 6 when we went to Patterdale. I particularly enjoyed working as a team and doing all the curriculum activities, it gave me a chance to work with different people and it was fun.” Saira Hussain “ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was when I went on the Ski Trip with school. I really enjoyed skiing for the fi rst time and made good progress with my skills. The evening activities were

great fun.” Shreya Kamath

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House was when I joined this school in Year 5 and ever since I have had great fun - especially at Patterdale where all the activities were really enjoyable.”

Olivia Kaute

“ My best memory in Year 6 was the World War II topic. This is because I have been interested in the Second World War since I was about 5, so I enjoyed adding my opinions, bringing work in that I had done at home and learning more.” Phoenix Khan

“ I have a lot of great memories from my time in Hesketh House but the thing that stood out for me is the Year 6 Patterdale trip. I loved the activities and being able to enjoy them with all my friends. I especially liked when we performed a dance in our Victorian costumes.” Elizabeth Lees

“ My best memory of Hesketh House is from the Patterdale trip in Year 6. Climbing to the top of a rock face and abseiling down was the most exhilarating experience ever!” Mahima Raghavendra

“ My favourite memory in Year 6 is doing the Shakespeare play. It was great fun, especially writing it! I look forward to doing more drama in the Senior school.” Sana Riaz

“ My best memory in Year 6 was the William Morris painting because I really enjoyed copying the William Morris art and designing my own art, based on his designs.” Claris Roe

“ I enjoyed most learning about World War 2, especially when Mrs Drinkwater’s father talked to us about the aircraft used during that time. I enjoy History and hope we learn more in Senior School.” Samantha Schofi eld

“ My most enjoyable memory of Hesketh House was when we did the WW2 topic, especially the talk from Mrs Drinkwater’s dad, 2nd World War veteran. I also liked learning about life during the war and how people survived the bombing.” Olivia Stubbs

“ My favourite memory of Hesketh House is when we had a teddy bear picnic in Year 3, it was really good fun and our parents were there so we could go to the park. It was a wonderful experience for both me and my parents to socialize.” Natalie Taylor Towers

“ My favourite memory of Year 6 is the art work on William Morris. I loved making my own design like his and learning about him and

his life.” Brooklyn Williams

“ My favourite memories of Year 6 are when we studied a topic based on World War II and when we went to Patterdale. The History topic was fascinating and our trip to the Lake District was great fun – especially enjoying the outdoors!” Maria Zhang