Oulder Hill Community School

Oulder Hill Community School

Congratulations to the Oulder Hill School Athletics Team who competed at the Rochdale Schools Athletics Competition, held at the City of Manchester Stadium. The Oulder Hill team finished 4th overall out of 11 schools that competed, which is our best ever result!

A huge well done to all of the students involved, representing all four year groups: Harry Toogood, Joseph Moore, Cameron Howarth, Muzamil Bashir, Gavin Nyoni, Alana Percy, Chloe Davies, Katie Hicks, Holly Fitton, Abbie Holt, Hakeem Gbajabiamila, Nelson McKeown, Matthew Greenwood, Daniel Madeley, Rory Lee-Potter, Dayne Stewart, Zara Bradley-Ahmed, Lydia Entwistle, Jake Cunningham, Olivia Storto, Sophie Charlton, Codie Hassett, Samiya Karamat, Jenna Oldham, Megan Ratu, Katie Fitton, Tri Nguyen, Kurt Hirst, Will Adamson, Liam Dignum, Anna Opincane and Mio Griffiths.

Well done to both the Year 7 and Year 9 Girls’ Rounders teams for their recent victories over Middleton Technology School. The Year 7’s won by 12 ½ to 7, and the girls involved were: Abbie Holt, Abigail Raby, Melissa Hardman (joint player of match), Brooke Needham (joint player of match), Katie Hicks, Holly Fitton, Charlotte Davies, Natalia Dec, Alana Percy and Olivia Hartley. The Year 9’s won by 12 to 3, and the girls involved were: Olivia Storto (player of match), Samiya Karamat, Zara Ahmed, Alina Akbar, Sophie Charlton, Jessica Harrison, Katie Fitton, Ella Hilton and Moet Griffiths.

Congratulations to the following boys who have reached the semi-finals of the Rochdale Schools Cricket Tournament: Brandon Kwei-Sutcliffe, Daniel Cryer, Thomas Booth, Ben Whitehead, Joe Wrest, Lewis Midgley, Danny Devine and Mohsin Butt. They played comfortably and beat both Falinge Park and Kingsway Park on their way to the semi-finals.

Every week at Oulder Hill, in our Year 8 Assemblies, we celebrate the achievements of our students. This week’s Celebration Spotlight on Achievement awards go to: class 8 English 1, for their exceptional effort and engagement all year; Elisa Shafi, Luke Hughes and Rory Lee-Potter for their wonderful Art project and our Year 8 Athletes (Hakeem Gbajabiamila, Nelson McKeown, Matthew Greenwood, Daniel Madeley, Rory Lee-Potter, Dayne Stewart, Zara Bradley-Ahmed and Lydia Entwistle) for playing a tremendous part in enabling Oulder Hill to finish 4th overall out of 11 competing schools. Special mention must go to Jack Turner, Sam Gilkinson, Ben Hayes, Daniel Shepherd and Joseph Hughes who, this week, receive the Oulder Hill Year 8 Homework Oscar for making and filming a Rube Goldberg machine.

40 Year 10 Art students visited the Manchester Metropolitan University to see the degree shows and exhibitions on Tuesday 17th June. The students were impeccably well behaved and this was commented on by our tour guide. The students saw Fashion, Fine Art, Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Animation, Jewellery Design and Graphic Illustration. The students said ‘the art work was inspiring’ and the trip ‘has given me the experience of seeing what a university is like’. We hope to work with one of the MMU designers next year by running a workshop with our students creating work with different media.

Our next Drop Everything and Read (DEAR) session will take place on Monday 30 June between 1:30 and 1:50pm. The aim of DEAR is to create a culture of reading for pleasure and to eradicate the stigma attached to reading. Students and staff will be taking part, and they will be encouraged to read from a variety of materials including books, newspapers and magazines.

On Monday 30 June, a group of Year 8 students will be visiting the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester for an educational reward trip with the Science department. The coach will leave at 9:00am prompt and students should return to school at approximately 3:30pm (traffic permitting).

Mrs Harrison, Mr McStocker and Mrs Thompson from the languages’ faculty at Oulder Hill are taking a group of year 7-11 children on a residential visit to Château Beaumont, an education language and activity centre situated in Mayenne, Southern Normandy, France. The trip will take place from Friday 4 July, 2014, to Tuesday 8 July, 2014. We will follow “Le grand weekend & Disney Day” programme, which is designed to give the students an opportunity to experience the history, culture and language of this historic region, as well as try out new and fun adventurous activities that the Château offers. The Château is situated on the borders of Normandy and the Loire and is set in 10 acres of private grounds. The pupils will also be taking part in fun and exciting evening entertainments which include; a talent show, French fancy dress and quiz night and a disco .Prizes being awarded for the best costume and talent show act.

The Oulder Hill Summer Music Concert will take place on Thursday 17 July from 7:00pm. Acts include: Ukulele Band, Choir, Year 8 and Year 11 Rock Bands, Year 7 Glee Club, Flute Group, Brass Band, Orchestra and many more, along with lots of great soloists! Tickets are available from Reception, priced at £3.00 for Adults and £2.00 for Concessions. We hope to see you there to celebrate our students’ achievements.