Head Teacher's Update
Thursday 26th January 2012
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Road Safety Sessions
This week pupils from Years 7 and 8 have been learning how to stay safe on the roads.
The Impact Partnership came in for two days this week to give road safety sessions, with Dave Godley, an assistant road safety officer running the workshops.
Dave Godley delivering a road safety lesson.
The sessions were aimed to prevent students from taking risks on the road and have hopefully made our students more aware of road safety.
Wardle High Youth Brass Band
Our Youth Brass Band took part in The Butlins Youth Brass Band Festival for the first time on Sunday 22nd January. The band managed to beat some very tough competition to take the second prize which was The George Rowell Memorial Trophy plus £600.
The Youth Band at Butlins after an outstanding performance.
The award is yet another success for the band, who earlier in the year took to the stage to perform in front of a 4,500 audience at The Music For Youth School Proms at the Royal Albert Hall on the 9th November.
A-Level Art Success Spreads
Abbie-Lee Hollister has achieved huge success with her A-Level Art project, which has now been praised by the BBC and ITV.
The sixth form student has been creating sculptures from Sellotape, based on the work of Mark Jenkins, an American artist who creates street installations using box sealing tape. She has since emailed Mark examples of her work and received a great response.
Abbie's final piece
Abbie has also received sponsorship from Sellotape, as they have sent 80 rolls of tape to assist with her work. Sellotape are also featuring Abbie in their social media promotions and her work is set to feature in various different publications.
On Wednesday 25th January, Abbie went to The Museum of Science and Industry to exhibit her work and will be teaching classes at the museum in July, as well as delivering classes at Eureka in August.
Filming for BBC North West
So far Abbie has had press coverage in The Rochdale Observer and is set to feature again, along with a piece in the Manchester Evening News.
Abbie is also set to appear on the ITV local news, BBC Radio Manchester and in The Stationery Magazine, so keep a look out!
Local shop, Occasions and Celebrations, which is based in Littleborough are also using the sculptures in their window display later this year.
Year 11 Parents Evening
The Year 11 Parents Evening will take place on 26th January 5.30 - 8pm.
It is important at this stage of the year to discuss progress and celebrate recent successes in all subject areas.
It is also important to ensure that targets are being achieved; attitude to learning is positive and independent learning routines at home are established, with work being handed in on time and of the required quality.
Inter-house Competitions
This half term we have started our inter-house competitions. The tournaments aim to celebrate the upcoming Olympics and because of this each house has been assigned a country:
Vendeen= Brazil
Balwen= Malta
Roussin= Dominican Republic
Herdwick= Chile
The tournaments have begun with the boys inter-house football competition. The results so far are as follows:
Year 8
1st- Vendeen = 13 points
2nd- Balwen= 11 points
3rd- Roussin = 8 points
4th- Herdwick= 3 points
Year 9
1st- Vendeen = 7 points
2nd- Balwen = 5 points
3rd- Roussin = 3 points
4th- Herdwick = 1 point
The Year 7 boys' football tournament will take place on the 25th January, with results to follow.
The games will combine a varied selection of sports, including dodge ball and netball. Next term it will be the girls turn with netball tournaments held within the year groups.
The inter-house competition will lead on to an inter-school competition and then onto regional competitions.
Thank you to the Gold Ambassadors and the Year 11 Btec group for their help and well done to everyone involved!
Illness in School
If your child becomes ill in school, they must in the first instance report this to their form tutor, who will then make the decision about whether they can go home. If their form tutor is unavailable they must see their Head of House/ Year or Mrs Hardman the Attendance Officer.
Form Tutors, Head of House/Year will then contact Pupil Reception to inform them that your child is ill and needs to go home. Pupils should not bypass this system by phoning or texting parents directly. These procedures have been put in place to ensure the safeguarding of all pupils.
Year 11
Revision tips and homework downloads for Year 11 students can be found on the Year 11 page.
School Prom
Our school prom will be on the 28th June at The Norton Grange Hotel.
More details to follow.
Adverse Weather - Snow Closures
The school will always attempt to remain open during adverse weather, although students, parents and staff need to be mindful of their own safety whilst travelling to and from school.
The school website is normally updated by 7.15 am each morning if there is a possibility of closure.
Please use this site as your first source of enquiry. Also, the Rochdale Council website has a page on closures, and that too is updated early and regularly.
This year we will also be attempting to communicate the situation via the 'Parent Call' text messaging system, and on the school's Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Once again, we would not advise you to listen to student word of mouth, nor accept another student's Facebook or text.
Wardle High School in Concert
Our Wardle High School in Concert CD is now available to purchase!
The CD features the Youth Band, Big Band, Folk Group, Junior Band, Training Band, Matt Pack, Wind Band and the Choir.
The CD costs £10 and is available from the main reception.
2012- 2013 Term Dates
Term dates are now available for 2012 - 2013. Please click here for our Term Dates section.
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