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CHORLTON HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE SPRING 2017
ANNIE WOWS CHS ALSO INSIDE WHOLE SCHOOL COUNCIL CYCLING AT CHS BATTLE OF THE BANDS HOLOCAUST ELE DAY
HELLO... Welcome to the latest issue of In the Spotlight celebrating the achievements and success of the Autumn Term at Chorlton High School. In September, over 200 students stood for election during what was a very competitive School Council election process. We were very impressed with the motivation and commitment of all the students who put themselves forward. In December, a talented cast of over 100 Year 7, 8 & 9 students took to the stage with a sell-out, show-stopping performance of the smash hit musical Annie! Students definitely demonstrated their generous festive spirit over the Autumn Term. Year 7s supported Home Instead’s ‘Be a Santa to a Senior’ project, donating gifts and writing cards for elderly people in the local community. Year 8 supported the charity Care4Calais, helping to raise much needed funds and priority items for refugees in France. This year we are proud to be part of Transport for Greater Manchester’s Cycle Schools and Colleges Project which will allow us to develop cycling at Chorlton High School. Across the Autumn Term there have been a number of exciting opportunities taking place in school to engage students with cycling. I hope you enjoy reading about all the exciting activities and successes from the Autumn Term. We look forward to the successes and achievements the Spring Term will bring.
CHRISTINE TAGGART COMMUNITY AND MARKETING OFFICER AND IN THE SPOTLIGHT EDITOR
INSIDE THIS ISSUE...
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BATTLE OF THE 8-9 BANDS & DANCE TRIPS
AIM HIGHER, LAW & SCIENCE NEWS
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HISTORICAL TOUR 10 HOLOCAUST ELE DAY 11
CYCLING AT CHORLTON HIGH
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EXTRA-CURRICULAR 12 CLUBS
WHOLE SCHOOL COUNCIL
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A VERY CHS CHRISTMAS
CATERLINK CONFERENCE
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ANNIE WOWS AUDIENCES
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WHOLE SCHOOL COUNCIL
WHOLE SCHOOL COUNCIL MEMBERS 2015-16 • SHANTI SINGH (YEAR 7) • OLIVIA ROBINSON (YEAR 7)
At the start of the school year we held our School Council elections. Over 200 students stood for election in a very competitive election process. Twenty four students from each year group were elected onto their respective Year Councils and will meet every half term. These students were then given the opportunity to go one step further and stand for election onto the Whole School Council. Candidates wishing to stand for election had to put together an election video which was shown to their year group in assembly. We saw some fantastic election videos and some really creative and thoughtful ideas. Congratulations to the students who were successfully elected!
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I enjoy being on the Whole School Council because I like helping people share their voices and I feel that everyone’s voice should be included. NIMRAH ASAD – YEAR 9
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During the first Whole School Council meeting Martha Hancock (Year 10) was elected Chair and Nimrah Asad (Year 9) was elected Vice Chair of the Whole School Council. As well as their School
Council responsibilities they will also attend Full Governing Body meetings where they will be able to present their ideas to School Governors and have a say in the strategic development of the school. Ivan Zorima (Year 8) and Lina Elhassan (Year 10) were elected as Senior Leadership Team (SLT) Representatives and will attend SLT meetings to provide an update on the key items discussed at Whole School Council meetings. We are very proud of everyone who stood for election and are delighted to have such an enthusiastic and motivated team of students on board. We look forward to seeing the positive impact that the School Council will have on the school this academic year.
• FREYA GAVIN (YEAR 7) • TYLER ECKERSALL (YEAR 7) • IVAN ZORIMA (YEAR 8) • AENGUS MCKINLEY (YEAR 8) • JORDON EDWARDS (YEAR 8) • GABRIELLA ENGINEER (YEAR 8) • NIMRAH ASAD (YEAR 9) • HARRY WILSON (YEAR 9) • JUDE PATRICK (YEAR 9) • MOLLY JARVIS (YEAR 9) • ALI SINA NAZARI (YEAR 9) • MARTHA HANCOCK (YEAR 10) • MAHNOOR KHAN (YEAR 10) • LINA ELHASSAN (YEAR 10) • PAULINA PRZYBYL (YEAR 10)
CATERLINK CONFERENCE On Wednesday 16th November 2016, the Whole School Council teamed up with Newall Green’s School Council for a special Caterlink Conference. The students got to sample a wide range of new food and drink ideas for break and lunchtime including smoothies, jelly pots, mini hot dogs and a wide range of festive treats and give their feedback. We really value our students input on our school catering provision and continually seek to include them in any new developments.
CHORLTON HIGH SCHOOL IN THE SPOTLIGHT
THE SUN’LL
Once again the students and staff of Chorlton High School have come out in full force to produce yet another musical extravaganza. Annie wowed audiences with a stunning mix of classical numbers and spectacular choreography. Thanks to its cast and orchestra of over 100 students, a mixture of Year 7, 8 and 9 thrilled audience’s night after night. The cast, orchestra and crew gave up many hours of free time to attend rehearsals around the clock to ensure that the performance achieved the professional standard likened by many to the West End. One Year 8 commented “I enjoyed it so much I’m coming back tomorrow!”. With a wonderful ensemble and some stand out performances the students truly showed their commitment and dedication to the roles they played. Annie, alone and facing the hardships of Miss Hannigan’s orphanage during America’s Great Depression of the 1930s, found solace and a new life in the billionaire mansion of Daddy Warbucks.
Annie never gives up hope and like the servants, the audience cannot help but take her into their hearts and sing along. Warbucks struggles to find Annie’s real parents and after discovering the imposters that are Rooster and Lily, finally gets to adopt Annie as his own. With the themes of optimism, love and justice, you can’t help but be swept away at this festive time with thinking of how one little girl changed the course of her own destiny. “Life is difficult, but the sun will come out tomorrow with an improved life for those who remain optimistic.” The director Mrs. Ransome felt that last year’s wonderful production ‘West Side
Story’, would be a hard act to follow. But the cast of Annie proved her wrong, with their endless determination and tenacity. “The production was amazing, an unstoppable cast, a devoted crew, as well as a dynamic and bold orchestra. Which brings me to say a fond farewell to Mr. Harrison who has been our Musical Director for the past two years and is leaving us at the end of this year - who will be able to step into your boots? Chorlton’s loss is Newcastle’s gain.” One audience member couldn’t help but ask “What could they possibly pull out of the bag next year, cannot wait!”
COME OUT... The production was amazing, an unstoppable cast, a devoted crew, as well as a dynamic and bold orchestra. MRS RANSOME
CHORLTON HIGH SCHOOL IN THE SPOTLIGHT
BE A SANTA TO A SENIOR This year, Year 7 students supported Home Instead South Manchester with their annual ‘Be a Santa to a Senior’ scheme which aims to bring Christmas cheer to older people in the local community. To kick start the project, Home Instead invited Year 7 students to design their Christmas card for 2016. Year 7 students certainly rose to the challenge and we were very impressed by the wide range of creative entries. With so many fantastic designs to choose from the decision was very tough, however after much discussion and deliberation, a special panel of community judges decided on the winners. First prize went to Jerry Horgan-Safe. Jerry’s design will now be professionally printed as Home Instead South Manchester’s Christmas card and distributed locally. Second prize went to Ciara Sills and third prize went to Amelia Wallbank. We also had four runners up: Lily Hope Upton-Bills, Lola Ogunyemi, Lulu Linward and Leoma Foster-Nash, whose designs were all highly commended by the judges. After a busy morning wrapping over 200 presents, the Santa Project Team were ready to go out with Alison Broadhurst from Home Instead to help distribute the presents. First stop was Withington Fire Station, where the students handed over their gifts to Angela from the Safe and Well Programme, who will be
distributing presents to local residents. The students were then treated to a talk from one of the fireman who gave them a tour of one of the fire engines. Next stop on the tour was Withington Hospital. Students visited the Buccleuch Lodge Day Hospital and the Intermediate Care Centre at the hospital and were able to personally give some of the gifts to the patients there. The students really enjoyed giving out the gifts and seeing the impact that all their hard work and generosity has on vulnerable older people at Christmastime. Alison Broadhurst, owner of Home Instead South Manchester said, “I’ve been blown away by the support the scheme has received from our community but I have to mention the Year 7 team at Chorlton High School in particular. It’s been brilliant to see the kids put so much into bringing a little festive joy to older people in their area.” The Be a Santa to a Senior project is an invaluable opportunity for our students to help make a difference to people in their local community. The students involved had had an amazing experience and have learnt that great things can be achieved when they all work together. “This project has been so much fun – I have really enjoyed helping people at Christmas and seeing how happy a gift can make them. I really loved going to give out the presents and seeing where they go” (Year 7 student)
COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS PARTY
CARE4CALAIS On Tuesday 13th December, we opened our doors to welcome older people in the local community for our annual Christmas party. The event is a highlight on the school calendar and we always look forward to putting on a good show for our special guests.
Thank you so much to everyone at Chorlton High School. The lunch was fantastic and I really enjoyed the performance of Annie. I look forward to next year’s party! LOCAL RESIDENT
During the Autumn Term, Year 8 students supported Care4Calais, helping to raise money and priority items for refugees in France. There were sponsored silences, Christmas quizzes, bakes sales and collections of clothes. The year group proved themselves to be a very caring, hardworking and charitable which was a pleasure to see! On Thursday 8th December, a wonderful group of friends in Year 8 raised over £150 doing a sponsored silence for a whole day. The girls worked incredibly hard to raise money which will go towards buying essential items for the winter ahead. Miss Quinn from Drama travelled to Calais over the Christmas holidays, to deliver the donations to the refugees, as well as volunteer her time with the Care4Calais charity.
This year, we welcomed visitors from Chorlton Good Neighbours, Chorlton Place Care Home, Southway Housing and Abbotsford Nursing Home. While the guests tucked in to a festive buffet lunch they were entertained by a variety of performances from Year 8 students including some poetry recitals, dance pieces and some Christmas songs. A team of Year 8 students helped to serve refreshments and did a great job serving and chatting to our guests. The students thoroughly enjoyed helping out and all agreed it was a really fun and rewarding afternoon. The highlight of the event is always the special matinee performance of our latest school musical. This year, guests were treated to a performance of the smash hit musical ‘Annie’ which was performed by a cast of over 100 talented Year 7, 8 and 9 students. The performance was a massive hit and the guests were blown away by our talented students. We hope everyone who came enjoyed the party as much as we did and we look forward to doing it all again next year!
CHORLTON HIGH SCHOOL IN THE SPOTLIGHT
YEAR 10 AIM HIGHER
LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY On Tuesday 13th December, Year 10 & 11 students attended a Law and Criminology careers event run by the Achievement Team with lecturers from the University of Manchester Law School. One group attended a mini-lecture on either studying for career in Law and what this entails. They also got the chance to analyse a case study on Family Law, where they debated what the outcome of a rather complicated divorce settlement should be. A second group attended a mini-lecture on what the study of criminology is and the careers available. They were also quizzed on their knowledge of criminology in the media.
On Tuesday 4th October, a group of our Year 10 pupils visited the University of Manchester to get a flavour for what Higher Education is like and to reflect on their own future goals. Staff were impressed by their enthusiasm, confidence and ability to tackle tough questions about the world in which we live. They became young Lara Crofts and Nathan Drakes as they explored the artefacts of Manchester Museum, considering what artefacts they would select to reflect the different cultures of our world. They also considered what our twenty-first century means to them and what artefacts they could display in their own museum. Pupils had the chance to speak to university student ambassadors, explore the rich variety of courses available to them and to challenge some of the myths of getting into university.
AMAZING SCIENCE HOMEWORK Mr Metcalfe’s Year 7 Science class made some amazing model plant cells for their homework. Some were made of pizza trying to win him over, others were made out of cake. They all made a really impressive effort!
CYCLING AT CHS
This school year we are proud to be part of Transport for Greater Manchester’s Cycle Schools & Colleges project. This allows us to access up to £100,000 to support the development of cycling amongst staff and students. Over the course of the year there will be lots of changes made to the school site to improve access for cyclists. This will include new covered student bike shelters and clearer cycle lanes into school. Alongside these changes to our school infrastructure we will also be working to raise the profile of cycling within school and engage students with cycling. Over the Autumn Term we had lots of exciting cycling opportunities taking place around school - watch this space for more opportunities in the Spring and Summer Term.
HANDLEBARDS In November, Year 7 & 9 Drama students were treated to a special performance of Romeo and Juliet by bicycle-riding theatre company The Handlebards. The allfemale troupe travel across the country during the summer, carrying all their costumes, props and set by bicycle, cycling more than 1,000 miles along the way! The students thoroughly enjoyed this exciting opportunity to see how drama and cycling can be creatively combined. “We know that physical activity levels drop during the teenage years, and especially among girls. The Handlebards actresses are great role models because they show that it is possible to be independent and self-confident young women without taking themselves too seriously. They clearly love their job, and it keeps them fit and healthy. None of them were avid cyclists beforehand: it just shows that you don’t have to be super-sporty to get on a bike and explore. Their sense of adventure is infectious.” (Alice Swift, Transport for Greater Manchester)
BE SAFE BE SEEN In October we focused on cycling safely with an emphasis on being ‘safe and seen’ - this is particularly important at this time of year as students are often traveling to or from school when it is dark. In order to help ensure that our students are visible when they are cycling to school we gave out free bike lights and high-vis vests to students. These were kindly supplied by Transport for Greater Manchester. We saw lots of engagement from students with over 60 students taking the opportunity to pick up a free set of bike lights and a high-vis vest to improve their visibility when they cycle. As well as promoting visibility we also encouraged students to keep their bikes safe and secure. To help with this we gave out free bike locks to students - again these were kindly supplied by Transport for Greater Manchester. It was great to see over 50 student cyclists taking the opportunity to claim a free bike lock during the week. In addition, we welcomed Greater Manchester Police to school who helped to security mark student and staff bikes.
CYCLE MAINTENANCE On Thursday 29th September 2016, we were delighted to welcome Revolve MCR to school to provide free bike maintenance for our students. Students were able to book their bike in for a free 20 minute service slot during the school day to ensure it is safe to ride over the winter months. We had a great response from students and Revolve MCR spent a busy afternoon servicing lots of bikes. Thank you to all the students who booked their bike in for a service! “This is probably one of the best things to happen at Chorlton High School! It makes it much easier to get to school on time with a fully working bike.” YEAR 9 STUDENT
CHORLTON HIGH SCHOOL IN THE SPOTLIGHT
CHORLTON CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD 2016
PUBLISHED POETS!
The Chorlton Children’s Book Award celebrated its 4th birthday this year. It is now quite an established feature of the main Chorlton Book Festival.
Students from a number of Chorlton primary schools and Chorlton High School spent much of the Summer Term reading masses of books. This culminated in a great shortlisting meeting in July, where students argued and discussed and eventually decided on the seven books to make up the shortlist. There was something for everyone, from the mad cap adventures of the Lumberjanes graphic novel to the bitter sweet tale of Albie Bright and his search for his mother. Students from CHS and in particular the Reading Group members have spent much of the Autumn Term avidly reading all seven shortlisted books and discussing their merits before they voted for their favourite. It can now be revealed that the Lumberjanes by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Shannon Watters and Brooke Allen was the winner of the Chorlton Children’s Book Award 2016! All the shortlisted books are available in our school library for you to read and enjoy!
Some of the Year 7 Reading Group members gave their opinions on the shortlisted books: “My favourite book in the running this year was The Many Worlds of Albie Bright because it is a heartfelt book that can make you smile, cry and laugh” ERIN CAREY “Pax is a fun adventure story, filled with excitement. I recommend this book to all animal lovers and also to those who enjoy a good heart-warming story” JACOB WEBSTER “My favourite book was Lumberjanes as it showed how strong women can also be funny at the same time. I also liked ‘Imaginary’- even though it was spooky it made me carry on until the end” AMELIA WALLBANK
Lumberjanes is an actionpacked, fun and adventurous graphic novel. I would recommend this book to all ages! JAMES NEILAND
Last year Year 7 students entered the Betjeman Poetry Prize, a national poetry competition for young people, for the chance to become a published poet. The results are now in and we’re incredibly proud to announce that SIX of our students were placed in the top 50 poems in the country and have had their work printed in the BPP’s annual anthology. Isabel Atkin, Cerys Williams, Abdullahi Ganni, Maiyana Bailey, Matthew Curry and Billie Tyrie (all now in Year 8) received the news they are now published poets and received their copy of the anthology this half term. They also received “Positive Communicator” badges from their Head of Year Ms Sarwar to recognise their excellent achievement. Isabel Atkin said “I am very pleased and proud that my poem has been published; it’s made me more confident with my writing techniques. I’d definitely recommend entering the competition next year.” English teacher Mr Langstaff believes “The fact that six of our students have been published in a national anthology just shows the outstanding work, commitment and talent present within our school. I’m extremely proud of the students for this amazing achievement. Let’s hope it’s not the last we’ve heard from these talented writers.”
BATTLE OF THE BANDS
On Thursday 13th October 2016, bands battled it out on stage for the chance to win Chorlton High School’s annual battle of the bands competition and a day out in a professional recording studio.
During the interval the audience voted for their favourite band whilst the judges conferred amongst themselves. After much anticipation, Year 11 band ‘Red Office Chair’ was announced as the winner of the audience vote. Congratulations to Dan Gregory, Curtis Wilson, Lyle Cross, Jamie Carter and Joel Tragen. Then came the judge’s choice which went to Year 10 band ‘The Vegans’.
Congratulations to Oscar Gough, Joey Demby-Harris, Finn Hollinworth, Harry Shutt and Rufus Horton. The winners received a Battle of the Bands trophy as well as a day out in a local professional recording studio.
CHS DANCERS OUT AND ABOUT GISELLE WORKSHOP & THEATRE TRIP: The Dance Department were thrilled to be invited to participate in a workshop with dancers from English National Ballet to explore their brand new work ‘Giselle’ choreographed by Akram Khan for Manchester International Festival. A group of Year 9 GCSE Dance students went along to work with other students from different schools to learn classical/ contemporary repertoire from the production and explore the themes of the piece creatively. The group was invited to be some of the first people in the world to see the performance on its preview night and were blown away by the elegant choreography that was bursting with Khan’s signature style of South Asian dance fused with classical and contemporary movement. The production also boasted a fantastic set and musical score – the Year 9 group left feeling suitably inspired!
RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY WORKSHOP DAY & THEATRE VISIT: Year 10 GCSE Dance students spent the day with a dancer from Rambert Dance Company to explore Itzik Galili’s work ‘A Linha Curva’ which is a dance piece packed to the rafters with Samba inspired contemporary movement. The lively piece is now a feature on the new GCSE Dance specification so the department were thrilled that the students have been able to learn key movement motifs and explore the work with an expert. Some of the cohort finished their day with a visit to the Lowry Theatre to see the piece performed live alongside another two Rambert works.
CHORLTON HIGH SCHOOL IN THE SPOTLIGHT
MANCHESTER HISTORICAL WALKING TOUR In History, Year 7 are currently looking at migration into Manchester. Last year we won the judge’s recommendation prize at the Manchester Histories Festival for this scheme of work. On Monday 17th October, Year 7s took a walking tour of Manchester to investigate the wide range of communities that have settled here over time.
As well as exploring Manchester, students were given a tour of Central Library and were able to carry out some independent research using the archive materials. The students were amazing on the visit and members of the public stopped and commented on how smart they were! “My history trip to Manchester was amazing, I learnt so much. I learnt about the communities in old Manchester and I now know so much more than I did before. I now know that there used to be an Irish community and that they came to England because of the potato famine and problems at home. These are push factors as they are bad things which push people out of the places they live in. The pull factor was economic opportunity. I learnt so much more but I could be here all day telling you everything! Thank you Miss Sanderson!” OLIVIA ROBINSON – YEAR 7 “Year 7 went on a history trip to study the migrants of Manchester, how they came to be here, where they lived and what it was like a long time ago. The trip was a new experience and we had a very enjoyable time. It was an amazing day and I can’t wait until the next history trip!” ABEL MATTHEW, YEAR 7
YEAR 9 HOLOCAUST ELE DAY
On Friday 21st October 2016, Year 9 students completed an Extended Learning (ELE) Day focusing on the Holocaust. Students took part in a range of sessions across the day designed to provoke challenging discussions. Dear Mr Oppenheim
The afternoon session was delivered by Holocaust survivor, Rudi Oppenheimer BEM, who delivered his powerful testimony to Year 9 students in the Blue Box Theatre. At the end of his talk, there were lots of questions from the audience including: ‘Did you meet people of different religions such as Jehovah’s Witnesses?’ ‘Do you think films such as the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas are accurate?’ ‘Do you still keep your faith after everything that has happened to you?’ At the end of the session, students had the opportunity to buy copies of the book which Rudi’s brother, Paul, had written about their experiences.
er, I am writing to you to send a big thank you from Year 9 and the whole of Chorlton Hig h school. We greatly appreciate you coming to share your experi in ences from the Holoc aust, so I would like share the day that the to school planned for us. In the first lesson, we were learning about how long anti-Semitis had been going on for m , and if it only starte d during Hitler’s dictat It had turned out tha ion. t anti-Semitism had been going on long be Hitler came into powe fore r, which most of us we re shocked to hear. The following lesson taught us about differ ent concentration ca and how some were mps worse than others. Alt hough all concentratio camps were awful, it n was unsettling to hear how death camps treated Jewish peop le compared to the oth ers. Lastly, we learnt about emotions and how be ing treated like this could affect you, not just physically but me ntally. This lesson impacted on me perso nally the most, because it gave me so much respect for survivors because of how they still kept fighting eve their mental health suf n as fered.
“We were very privileged to have a Holocaust survivor come to Chorlton High School and tell us about the brutal experiences during the Holocaust. Holocaust survivors are becoming very rare because of time and age, so for us to meet a survivor was a great opportunity. He talked to us about his experiences and made us feel very lucky to be able to live as freely as we do. We thought really hard about what questions we wanted to ask him to really learn from him, and students were thrilled when their questions were picked to be answered. Every pupil was really moved, you could have heard a pin drop My year group and I were struck when in the Blue Box while he was you talked about how your life was before normal everything happened speaking. Afterwards, we . It showed us how qu your life can change. ickly couldn’t stop talking about it, Thank you again for and it made us realise the speaking to us and try ing to prevent antiSemitism for the fut different ways we can ure generation. We are aware of how fragile is contribute to society to and we have realised life how much responsibil ity we have to ensure the world is a fair pla make sure everyone ce for everyone. is equal” Yours sincerely, TAHA HUSSAIN, YEAR 9 Lucy Cravagan and the rest of Year 9
CHORLTON HIGH SCHOOL IN THE SPOTLIGHT
EXTRA-CURRICULAR CLUBS! At Chorlton High School we have a commitment to extra-curricular activities and high quality opportunities outside of the usual curriculum. These activities are an important and exciting feature of school life and contribute enormously to our students’ academic and social development. Over the Autumn Term our extracurricular clubs were very busy with lots going on – here are a sample of the many activities that took place.
COOKING CLUB
ART CLUB Art club have made some impressive pinch pot fish and are currently working alongside Drama Club to produce puppets that will feature in the play ‘Pinocchio’. Our main puppet is based on a traditional stringed design made from wire and Papier Mache. Some of the students have created life-size cardboard cut-outs of themselves as puppets and will be designing scary shadow puppets to be projected on to the walls behind the stage.
Cookery Club is great for anyone looking to improve their cooking skills, learn amazing recipes and just have fun with their friends and class mates. It is also a great way to meet new people and mix up the ages! One of my all-time favourite things we have made has got to be the samosas and the indulgent truffles! I would really recommend coming along and signing up for next term. ZEINAB AL JEDDAL - YEAR 10
MEDIA EXTRA-CURRICULAR CLUBS Students taking part in our media extra-curricular clubs have definitely been busy media bees over the Autumn Term with lots and lots going on!
DIGITAL ADVANTAGE
Our Year 10 competition winners (Hashim, Ramesh, Tyce and Mahir) have been working closely with our friends at The White Room to start putting their business ideas into reality. They spent a day at The Sharp Project in November working with app developers Playground Squad. Watch this space to see if their idea takes off…
BANK CAMERA ACTION
The other members of our Movie Makers group have been producing a short film entitled ‘A Day in the Life of a New £5’ for the Bank of England. It is a national competition to help promote the introduction of the new five pound note. Wish us luck..!
CHORLTON GOOD NEIGHBOURS
Our Movie Makers group are working with a local film maker to help produce several promotional films about the local Chorlton Good Neighbours group. We have had several visitors into school to be interviewed and we are planning a trip to see the centre in action. These will be available to watch on You Tube in the New Year.
WELL-BEING VIDEO
Our talented Year 11s have put a short video together, using interviews from staff and students, as part of our CHS Well-being Week. This will be shown in assemblies, to encourage all of our students to look after themselves over the winter months.
BADMINTON SUCCESS
Congratulations to our Boys Badminton Team who qualified for the citywide team badminton finals at Whalley Range High School. The team played some excellent badminton and we are very proud of their fantastic achievement. A big well done to: Roshan Vyas, Ellis Greenaway, Thomas Devanish, Seb Patrick, Quinn Manchester Symons, Umar Chohan, Osama Al Jamal and Yueh-Chen Lin.
APPLE PICKING Over October and November, students have been busy picking lots of apples from our community garden in Chorlton Park. The apples were given to the school canteen who made them into a variety of apple treats including apple flapjacks and apple juice, which were sold free to students at break and lunchtime.
CHORLTON HIGH SCHOOL IN THE SPOTLIGHT
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