St Cuthbert's RC High School

35 Year 8 students were chosen by their peers to undertake training as part of the Decipher Assist Smoking Prevention Programme ran by Public Health. The programme involves training a group of influential students to act as peer supporters to encourage their peers not to smoke.

The aim of the programme is to prevent young children from starting to smoke.

The students had a busy couple of days at Heywood Sports Centre and are now ready to spread the work to their Year group.

Specialisms News:

Year 10 Health and Social Care students are facing the challenge of a full examination paper this week, they will lots of practice between now and their final exam next June.
Music News: year 7 have begun writing their stories to go with their Chinese Music compositions.

Year 8 have begun their second project on the Music of the Beatles, reacquainting themselves with the Ukulele by performing the song Let it Be.

Year 9 have started putting their new music theory skills into practice with some composing skills, and have also begun their third performance project. For their next challenge, our two classes have now been split into three or four smaller bands, each with their own different song assignments to perform.

Year 10 are continuing their in-depth studies of the Beatles Sgt Pepper's album by performing three individual study tracks as a class band.

Year 11 have started preparing for the listening Pre-Public exam paper by revising everything that they have covered so far.

Drama: Yr 11 students have been working incredibly hard on their costume designs for their controlled assessment. They are preparing for their presentations which will be filmed next week.

Media Studies: Yr 10 pupils are currently researching film trailers for their chosen genre as part of their controlled assessment. Many pupils in the group have been making outstanding progress and are expected to exceed their target grades

Art: Year 9 and 10 have been completing their studies of the human skeleton and have gained a real understanding of how the human form is structured, which will greatly help them in drawing the human figure in future work.

LINC News

This week it was Alice Ingham Primary School visiting the LINC for their final lesson. The group first joined us in Year 4 when students created a full colour leaflet promoting their school. In the next session, the students tested their speaking and listening skills by creating five different radio shows. They incorporated jingles and real radio adverts to really bring their broadcasts to life. Finally, it was time to make the last promotional item in the campaign – the TV Advert. The pupils were keen to create the media items including using the green screen, making moving text graphics and importing photographs brought from school. The class didn’t disappoint and created some wonderful very professional adverts which can be used on the school website and digital signage. Well done to the Alice Ingham. creative team.

Congratulations to the following students who have been awarded Stars of the Week:

English:

• Callum Bullen for excellent work and effort. Mr Fitzsimons
• Shannon Thwaite for her outstanding and creative witchcraft presentation. Miss Tresadern
• Jack Sammut for his dedication to GCSE English. Miss Bell
• Vitalii Iasinskyi for working extremely hard in English. Mrs Greenhalgh
• Claire Harrop for her excellent effort in English. Mrs Allen
• Bartek Malecki- for putting extra effort into GCSE English intervention lessons. Miss Nugent
• Robert Fairhurst- for his effort in English. Mr Santana
• Taylor Jordan for an awesome speech. Mrs Ibison
• Naomi Adams for her consistent hard work and achievement. Mrs Hollingworth
• Bradley Lowery for outstanding effort in everything he does. Miss Machen
• Milena Grycajenko for outstanding effort. Mr Smith
• Leo Abraham for outstanding contribution to all his lessons. Mrs Mayell

Expressive Arts:

• Rozalia Lewandowska for tremendous resilience and extra effort in her piano practice – Mr Turner
• Bailey McCallion for his characterisation skills – Mrs Maloney
• Abigail Dinnen for her strongest performance this year – Mrs Knox.

Maths:

• Elisha O’Connor for determination in her work. Mrs Didyk-Wild 
• Elliot Renshaw for working really well in lessons. Mr Duffin 
• Ciyona Richardson for continued hard work. Mr Zahoor 
• Katie Hughes for 94% on her exam paper. Mrs Easby 
• Aleksandra Andrzejczak for excellent work. Mrs Vishnyakov 
• Kieran Toohey for consistent effort. Mrs Holden 
• Ola Przysiwek for persistently working hard throughout the week. Miss Price
• Edgar Mupeta – for a much improved test score. Mrs Murray.
• PE:

Year 7
Shamaiyla Jangir
Mollie Schofield
Mack Griffiths
Ben Wilkinson

Year 8 Girls:
Holly Bardason
Lauren Connolly-Teale
Corey Larkin
Emilis Navickas

GCSE PE High Achievers of the Week:

• Year 9: Brooke O'Donovan
• Year 10: Ava Morrison
• Year 11: Ged Greaves

History:

• Mrs Burlison: KS3- Imran Khan. Great performance in the latest assessment on Martin Luther King.
• Mrs Burlison: KS4- Ava Towers. Thorough revision and commitment to the subject.
• Mrs Chudoba: KS3- Sophie Johnson. For her enthusiasm for the subject which always shines through and her consistent efforts to do well.
• Mrs Chudoba: KS4- Emily Jane Kelly. For resilience and keeping up the effort she has shown in History.
• Mrs Knight: KS3-Anisio Jesus. For demonstrating detailed historical knowledge consistently. 
• Mrs Knight: KS4- Nondja Tavares Ca. For continually working hard to achieve her MEG.

Geography:

• Miss Hildebrandt: KS3 – Maddison McGarry. Outstanding progress made in her assessment.
• Miss Hildebrandt: KS4 – Hannah Owofolaju. For her continued positive and well-mannered behaviour. 
• Mrs Chudoba: KS3- Megan Hall. Excellent effort and good class participation. 
• Mrs Chudoba: KS4- Magda Behrendt. Fantastic commitment to the completion of her controlled assessment.
• Mrs Lane: KS3 - Kuba Rosinski. For fabulous efforts in Geography.
• Mrs Lane: KS4- Latisha Mawdsley. For such hard work, commitment and fantastic improvements in Geography.

MFL:

• Mrs Ward: Holly Kendrick for consistent good effort in French.
• Mrs Gutic: Alfie Kenny-Hughes (7:2) for good classwork and participation in speaking activities.
• Miss Taylor: Sandro Loreiro (Year 9) for his excellent work in French and polite and respectful manner.
• Miss Phillips: Codi Middleton (Year 7) for her continued hard work in Spanish.

Computer Science:

Katie Taylor Year 7 - Fantastic attitude to learning. Ewa Hoffses Year 8 (again) - Fantastic attitude to her work Owen Robinson Year 9 - Fantastic attitude to his classwork
Ryan Adams Year 10 - Fantastic attitude to his classwork - completes everything on time every time.
Miss Williams

Attendance Winners

Year 7: 7.6
Year 8: 8.3
Year 9: 9.7
Year 10: 10.4
Year 11: 11.4 & 11.6

Special mention must go to both 11.4 and 11.6 who are joint winners this week with 100% attendance! Remember; every day you are absent could have a direct impact on your attainment. Attendance matters.