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Primary students

‘Discover’ the Arts Award Rhyddings has been helping local primary school children gain their first ever qualification – the Arts Award Discover.

Discover is the introductory award open to children and young people that aims to develop their skills in creativity, communication, planning and team work.

To achieve Discover, children find out about the arts around them, learn about artists and their work and share their experiences with others, gaining a nationally-recognised award certificate at the end.

Since September, Year 5 pupils from Moor End, Hippings Methodist, Green Haworth, St. Andrew’s, West End, St. Oswald’s and White Ash school have attended arts-based workshops here in school.

Over three sessions at Rhyddings, students have taken part in art, drama and music workshops in our Evolve department where they:

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took part in different art, drama, dance and music activities • experienced arts events • shared their arts skills with others This provides a great introduction to the arts and to the other award levels Explore, Bronze, Silver and Gold.

Rhyddings submits the evidence for each child to Arts Award, who then issue the qualification.

School Business Manager Carmel Cunliffe said: “It’s been a pleasure to have Year 5 students from our local primaries in school to help them get their first ever qualification.

“We have a fantastic performing arts department, Evolve, here at Rhyddings and the children really benefit from the expertise of our staff.

“By starting the Arts Award in Year 5, we hope this will boost their confidence and foster a lifelong relationship with creativity and the arts.”

(Above) Mr Bamford with Year 5s from White Ash school.

Enterprising Y7s set out their stalls for Charlie ’s Chapter

(above) Mr Dutton gets his just desserts from Sinead Brodie (left) Catalina Herne & Jessica Roberts with their cupcakes

Our students have put their enterprise popular stall by far was where students could skills to the test and raised £1000 for a pay for the opportunity to ‘pie’ our brave local youngster who has cancer. volunteers Mr Dutton and Mr Breckell.

Charlie Procter is suffering Two students, Hamerah Maskeen with hepatoblastoma, a rare and Sabah Zaman, both donated and aggressive form of liver over £200 each of their own cancer, and his parents are money for the cause. trying to raise money for Headteacher Mr Trickett said: him to have treatment in “We have a long tradition America. of raising a lot of money for Year 7 students spent the charitable organisations, and week planning and preparas always, our students have ing stalls for a fair held in worked hard and dug deep to th Charlie Procter with students school on Friday 10 March help Charlie and his family. where all other students and Priya Patel & Amanda Capstick “Charlie’s story has touched all staff were invited to come and buy cakes and of our hearts and we hope this money will go play games. some way towards getting him better.”

The Venue was packed out, but the most

We will First Aid Training with leisure on Trafford trip

Year 10 students mix Business

remember them...

Last year’s training included a session on how to perform CPR.

All our Year 9 students are about to begin First Aid training as part of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.

Rhyddings has delivered the DofE Bronze Award for several years and in 2015, we became the only school in Lancashire to extend the offer to every student in Year 9 free of charge.

Each student is enrolled onto the programme and must complete a minimum of three months’ worth of volunteering, learning a new skill (First Aid) and doing regular exercise or a sport.

Once they have uploaded their evidence online, they then have to undertake an overnight expedition in the wilderness to complete the Bronze Award.

Sleepover Readathon

Rhyddings students recently walked in the footsteps of the Accrington Pals as they visited the World War One battlefields and commemoration sites in Belgium.

During the three day visit, 30 students visited the Sheffield Memorial Park and listened to accounts of what happened to the Pals.

They visited some of their graves at Queens Cemetery and spent time reflecting on what it must have been like for the men and their families. They also visited the famous Thiepval Memorial and Newfoundland Park.

At the Menin Gate all students watched the last post, whilst 3 of our students were selected to lay a wreath on behalf of the school.

Another student had the honour of reading the ‘exhortation,’ an amazing experience both for her and for the rest of the group to watch.

The students visited Hill 60 and spent time looking inside the pill boxes, whilst learning about the frontline changing hands.

Caterpillar Crater was a spectacular sight, with

lots of photo opportunities.

Tears were shed at the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery, where all felt compelled to sign the visitor’s book. At Sanctuary Wood, the students experienced a little of what life would have been like in the trenches and how soldiers ended up with ‘trench foot’.

In an email to the Headteacher, tour guide Steven Jolly, who accompanied them for much of the trip, said: “Their behaviour was impeccable in the hotel, on the ferry and at the sites they visited. I have been fortunate to teach for over 30 years and working with your students reaffirmed my belief that young people have so much to offer. They were without doubt a credit to their school, their parents, carers, their peers and town.”

You can’t stop the School of Rock!

Year 7 students met in reception before a long night of sponsored reading in the LRC!

Thirty of our Year 7 students took part in a sponsored ‘Readathon Sleepover’ last week to help raise money for a disabled children’s charity.

They brought snacks and sleeping bags before hunkering down in the LRC to read as much as possible for before lights out.

Sponsorship money is still coming in, but the students have raised over £250 so far for Phab Kids, a charity that provides residential activities for children and young people with a range of disabilities.

In preparation for our recent performance of the new Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical, ‘School of Rock’, 26 students and four staff visited London earlier this term to see the West End show and got an exclusive look backstage.

Staying at a hostel within earshot of the bells of St Paul’s Cathedral, the students took in the sights of the city, including art at the Tate Modern, a walk along the south bank of the Thames and the amazing exhibits of the British Museum.

The group was met at the theatre by Company Director Chris Boyle, who took them backstage where they saw the inner workings of the stage, a mountain of props and two racks filled with expensive guitars.

The performance was outstanding and certainly deserving of the recent WhatsOnStage ‘Best New Musical Award.’

The students were particularly impressed by the child performers playing the pupils of Horace Green, for both their musicianship and

(Above) Daisy Clemson, Joe Miller, Tom Moseley, Phoebe Cooper & Cameron Walker at the New London Theatre. (Left) Josh Slater as Dewey Finn. acting skills and were eager to emulate what they had seen in our version of the show.

The following day, the students took part in the first ever ‘School of Rock’ dance workshop with cast member Joel Montague at the worldfamous Pineapple Dance Studios.

Joel, who is one of the actors playing Dewey Finn (Jack Black’s character in the original film), taught the group two dances from the show and answered their many questions about his life in theatre.

There was no time to rest on their return as the students were straight into final rehearsals the day after returning from the trip. They went on to perform three excellent shows the following week before half term.