Oulder Hill Community School and Language College

Oulder Hill Community School

Key Stage 3 Badminton

Well done to the Key Stage 3 Badminton team who achieved a silver medal in the Rochdale Schools’ Badminton Competition. They were unlucky not to win the tournament having been beaten by Holy Family in the final 3 games to 2. The team won their group comfortably, beating the eventual winners Holy Family in the first game and then defeating Kingsway Park and Falinge. They then played Siddal Moor in the semi-final and beat them 5-0. The players involved were: Marcus Welsby, Rory Lee-Potter, Jack Turner and Lewis Hamer. They will now go on to represent Rochdale along with Holy Family at the Greater Manchester Games. We will let you know how they get on.

Year 9 Rugby team

Last week, the Year 9 Rugby team participated in their first 15-a-side game of Rugby against Woodhey High at Rochdale Rugby Union Club.

Oulder Hill started on the front foot with excellent work from Daniel Madeley resulting in a try from Matthew Greenwood. This early try settled the team and other tries soon followed from Dayne Stewart, Matthew Greenwood and Daniel Madeley. Woodhey then returned and started to put some pressure on our forwards, yet excellent tackling from Muzamil Bashir, Callum Ruffell and Max Weaver-Bamford prevented them from scoring. Hayden Lewis then countered the attack from Woodhey to open his scoring for the evening. Woodhey finally scored on half time, but this didn’t dampen the spirits as they came in for their half time team-talk. The second half started well with Hayden Lewis scoring a spectacular try off the opposition’s kick.

Matthew Greenwood then added two more tries before a late full length try from Woodhey. Hayden Lewis kicked very accurately with the boot, scoring 6 out of 8 attempts. Outstanding performers were Matthew Greenwood, Daniel Madeley and Hayden Lewis. The final score was Oulder Hill 62-12 Woodhey. The team members were: Dayne Stewart (1 try), Jack Turner, Callum Ruffell, Jordan Parkhill, Ethan Pope, Zaki Bowden, Muzamil Bashir, Nelson McKeown, Eddy Riley, Max Weaver-Bamford, Emmerson Bradshaw, Liam Hicks, Hayden Lewis (2 tries), Matthew Greenwood (4 tries) and Daniel Madeley (1 try). Thank you to Mr Bardsley, Mr Jackson and Mr Colenutt for coaching the team.

Mission Christmas appeal

Here at Oulder Hill, we are participating in the Key 103 Mission Christmas appeal. Form 10A have pledged themselves and their classmates to raise 1000 toys and £1000 in cash for the appeal which supports disadvantaged children across the Greater Manchester area. If you know any of our pupils and would like to help with the appeal, please pass them new, unwrapped gifts for babies, toddlers, children and teenagers aged from 0-18 years. It could be anything, of any value. The point is, it will make somebody’s Christmas. Thank you for all of your support.

Year 11 GCSE Art students

44 Year 11 GCSE Art students will visit the Liverpool Tate Gallery on Tuesday 2 December to help with their preparation for the Art mock exam. The students will make sketches and take notes about the artwork that inspires them the most. This visit counts towards three of the GCSE assessment objectives. It is a great opportunity to visit a different city and see contemporary and modern art.



Year 10 Enterprise team

The Year 10 Enterprise team will be attending a Young Enterprise Trade Fair at Manchester Christmas Markets on Wednesday 3 December. On the day they will set up and trade amongst the market retailers in Piccadilly Gardens. They have been developing their product for the last few weeks and hope to have a successful day of sales, fingers crossed for good weather!

Oulder Hill Variety Show

This year’s School Production, the Oulder Hill Variety Show, takes place on Wednesday 3 December at the Gracie Fields Theatre. The show starts at 7:00pm and will finish at approximately 9:00pm. Tickets are available from the school reception, costing £4.00 for students/concessions, £6.00 for adults and £16.00 for a family ticket for 4. Students and staff have been practising at every available moment to prepare for this event, please come along and show your appreciation for their talent and hard work.

Reward trips

On Thursday 4 December, students from across all years will be going on reward trips. These trips have been organised to celebrate and reward the pupils who have displayed excellent behaviour over the last term. Year 7 pupils will be going to bowling and laser quest, Year 8 will be going to Roller City and years 9, 10 and 11 will be going to the Trafford Centre. At the Trafford Centre they will do different activities such as bowling, cinema, mini golf, laser quest and Christmas shopping! We hope the students have a lovely time.

Year 11 Art GCSE mock exam

The Year 11 Art GCSE mock exam takes place all day on Friday 5 December. If your son/daughter is involved, it is a long day so please encourage and support them. Thank you, the Art department.

Spotlight on Achievement Award

Year 9 have been following our school aims and have been ‘achieving excellence’ in many different areas. Following on from our Year 9 Readathon in aid of Springhill Hospice: Mitchell Thompson, Elisa Shafi, Jade Lomax and Lucy Crabtree visited the Hospice to deliver the money they had raised and were given a tour by Lillie Winterbottom to see the fantastic things that go on there. These students will now be leading the future Year 9 charity fundraising activities in aid of the Hospice. Last week’s Spotlight on Achievement Award winners were Madihah Aslam, Chloe Buckley and Hannah Mills for their dedication and hard work in ICT and Dance. This week’s award winners are: Emily Cavanah, for her excellent performance in her Italian language assessment and Caitlin Rea and Rachael Wilson for consistently striving to be the very best they can be and excelling in their Spanish lessons. A special mention to the Year 9 students who were involved in the Badminton Competition: Marcus, Rory, Jack and Lewis.