Oulder Hill Community School and Language College

Oulder Hill students will visit WW1 Battlefields of Belgium and northern France

Students will be taking part in various activities in the History department as part of the centenary commemorations of the start of World War One.

From Sunday 8 to Wednesday 11 February, Mrs Tarran will be accompanying two Year 10 students, Lois Wrest and Maria Asif, on a trip to the WW1 Battlefields of Belgium and northern France. This is the government initiative in which two students from each state-funded school in England visit the Battlefields during the centenary of WW1. They will proudly represent Oulder Hill when they attend the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate.

On Friday 13 February, Jason King will be in school to lead his excellent WW1 workshop with Year 8 students. The students will get the opportunity to handle artefacts from WW1 – a real hands-on experience!

Then from Friday 20 to Sunday 22 February, 24 students from Years 9, 10 and 11 will be visiting Berlin on a History trip with Mrs Tarran, Mr Holt and Miss Ward. They will be visiting Sachsenhausen concentration camp, the Olympic Stadium, topography of terror, Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag, Holocaust memorial and the German History Museum. This will help the students with their GCSE Studies on this unit.

A group of 18 Year 9, 10 and 11 Expressive Arts students will be performing at the Oldham Coliseum on Monday 9 February. Their performance of the piece “The Dark Night” is part of a borough-wide project funded by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Fund.

After winning the Rochdale Schools’ Badminton Competition, the Oulder Hill Key Stage 3 badminton team went through as representatives of Rochdale to the Greater Manchester School Games Competition, which was held at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester. They came up against some very tough opponents but performed exceptionally well and were unlucky not to qualify for the latter stages of the competition, winning one match but narrowly losing two. The players involved are very proud of their achievements and have once again put Oulder Hill on the badminton map! Well done to: Jack Turner, Marcus Welsby, Damien Green, Rory Lee-Potter and Lewis Hamer.

Some of our Year 9 boys attended the Greater Manchester County Under 14 Basketball Finals this week. The boys played four matches, of which they lost two, one against the eventual winners, and won two very convincingly ending the day on a really high note. Well done to the students involved: Babar Rashid, Matthew Greenwood, Damien Green, Jack Turner, Jordan Parkhill, Marcus Welsby, Ethan Creswell and Thomas Booth.

Thank you to the parents and carers of Year 11 students who took their IGCSE English Speaking & Listening assessment last week. Pupils were well-prepared and performed to a very pleasing standard. Your support in this is greatly appreciated by the staff in the English Faculty.

Oulder Hill closes for the half term break on Friday 13 February. School re-opens to students on Tuesday 24 February at 8:30am, due to a staff INSET Day on the Monday.