Oulder Hill Community School and Language College

Oulder Hill Community School

Oulder Hill School and Sandifords Gallery on Drake Street are joining forces this summer. Mr and Mrs Sandiford have very kindly offered the use of part of their premises to allow us to showcase our students’ art, textiles and technology work. The Exhibition is free and will feature some amazing and innovative work done by our students. If you and your children are in Rochdale over the summer holidays and want to see something different, do visit the gallery – it really is a must see this summer.

Everyone is welcome to visit the gallery and see the work of our fantastically talented students. The exhibition will run from Thursday 14 July and will be displayed throughout the summer until 31 August.

Just a reminder that GCSE and A level exams are well underway now and students that are involved in these should be revising thoroughly. We would be most grateful for any support parents and carers can provide in helping their children prepare for these exams, by discussing their work with them and also helping them to revise.

Well done to our “Students of the Half Term” for May, who are as follows: from Year 7 we have Molly Williams, Matthew Marcantonatos, Chloe Thompson, Jack Emerson, David Peake, Mariam Raza, Qianhui Yang and Concetta Bunoso. Our Year 8 Students of the Half Term are Aliya Iqbal, Faisal Tahir, Siobhan Butterworth, Emma Wilding, Aesha Haider, Zainab Bi, Anisah Younas, Aleena Ali, Grace Brown and Rehan Mazhar. From Year 9 we have Molly Barr, Jack O’Neill, Daniel Buckley, Michael Moore, Mohammed Mujtaba, Katie Turton, Zeenat Zamir, Jamieleigh Bamford, James Cannings and Anthony Burleigh. From Year 10 our Students of the Half Term are Charlotte Smith, Madison Marcantonatos, Nimrah Malik, Mehreen Jamil, Sobia Bi, Thea Taberner, Saad Khan, Gemma Boothman and Hana Barzinji. Our Year 11 “Students of the Year” are Zahra Saeed, Rebecca Shaw, Megan Buckley, Iqra Zafar, Ben Kean, Ibrahim Alam, Andrew Saunders, Catherine Ayres, Beth Wilkinson and Sophie Pickles – well done for achieving this prestigious accolade.

The attendance of our students continues to be excellent. For week commencing 23 May, yet again we had several forms whose attendance was 100%. We would like to thank and congratulate our students for the commitment they show to coming to school and giving it their all, and also thank the supportive parents we have for valuing attendance as highly as we do.

A huge “well-done” to our Under 15s cricket team for a superb performance in beating Siddal Moor last week, in the Rochdale Schools’ Competition. Oulder Hill batted first, putting a competitive 118 runs on the board. In a tense chase, Siddal Moor played well but we managed to restrict them to 106, meaning that they were 13 runs short of their target. Man of the match was the impressive Dominic Fawcett, for his unbeaten 62 runs – well done Dominic, and congratulations to the rest of the team who were Abnaan Ali, Sam Fitton, Daniel Buckley, Khawaja Sheikh, Jack Simpson, James Grant, Robert Heath, Adam Ahmed, Joe Mitchell, Jack Chantrey and Saad Khan.

Continuing the sporting theme, we would like o congratulate the Years 7 and 9 rounders teams, who both beat Kingsway Park last week. They Year 9 team triumphed by a massive 25 points to 4 – the team in full were Taylor Wolfenden, Molly Crabtree, Abi Spruce, Chloe Cunningham, Gabby Hampson, Jess Bogusz, Jade Lindsay, Sophie Byrne, Alivia Marshall, Aroosa Hussain, Clarissa Barker and Amy Stewart.