St Cuthbert's RC High School

Year 11 celebrate their pre-public exam results day

Congratulations class of 2017

On Tuesday 21 March Year 11 celebrated their pre-public exam results day. For many students, this was an opportunity to celebrate the subjects they have achieved above expectations but it was also a time for students to reflect on the subjects that they need to apply more effort to achieve well in the final exams.

We congratulate the following students: Caroline, Kasandra, David, Kanyun, Connor, Wiktoria, Shawn, Lilin, Nikola, Stacey, Marlena, Jack, Ella and Alex who achieved on average half a grade higher across all their subjects than would be expected for their ability level.

This represents outstanding progress during their five years of study at St Cuthbert’s. One student commented: "I can't believe I have done so well. It feels really good"

We also congratulate Wiktoria, Oliwia, Nitin, Connor, Jack, Lilin, Alex and Marlena who were our highest attainers in the pre-public exams. A special congratulation is deserved by our highest performing student Wiktoria who achieved 5 A*s, 1 B, a grade 7 and a grade 8.

Congratulations class of 2017! Two and a half months to go until the real exams. How many grades can you move up with determination and dedication in that time? Keep up the hard work.

‘Chari-oke’
On Monday 20 March, our Student Council Representatives co-hosted a lunchtime Chari-oke with members of the DEN team, the Pupil Chaplains and the CARITAS Ambassadors. It was a huge success raising a whopping £36.40 in just 50 minutes which will be donated to Caritas.

Many members of staff and students sang their hearts out and really entertained our crowd. Mrs Ellidge, Mrs Egerton, Mrs Ansley and Miss McGinty would like to thank all staff and students involved in making it such a memorable event and helping to raise money for a worthy cause. A special mention must go to Jordan Breakwell after his incredible performance of "Never Gonna Give You Up" left us all beaming from ear to ear.

Art News

In Art the year 11 pupils have been working on their design ideas for the timed piece they are to complete after the Easter holiday. Yael Batour has been looking at architecture for inspiration and has combined gothic arches with Henna pattern to create some fantastic designs!

Rugby News

Congratulations to Year 11 student Beltus Nonleh who has been selected to represent Lancashire U16s Rugby Team in the forthcoming County Cup.

Coach, Dan Kelly said: “Lancashire has been something of a closed shop for teams like Rochdale in the past, so it’s great to see the lads putting Rochdale on the map.” 

3 other students; Kyle Humphrey, Jackson Kelly and Kieran Jackson are also making great progress at Rochdale Rugby Academy and are set to achieve great things! Well done boys!

Year 9 GCSE Drama Trip

Year 9 drama group visited Oldham Coliseum as part of their GCSE research. We entered the theatre and experienced that magical experience of stepping out on stage. Our young people participated in a workshop acting out a scene from Willy Russell's 'Our day out.'

Students also explored back stage and saw the many careers in the theatre from set design, acting, director to props manager. Students were asked to explore the pros and cons of working in the theatre and saw the immense amount of work that goes on behind the scenes to make theatre happen.

They were challenged to design a costume for next year’s Panto Dame. We interviewed a panel of theatre workers including Jane the stage manager, Sue the marketing director and Chris the associate director. The insight into life in a theatre was amazing and encouraged many of our students to aspire to follow in their footsteps.

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

English:

• Jakub Przybylski for consistently working hard in English. Mr Santana
• Alex Dixon for excellent perseverance and dedication to his work. Miss Doherty
• Steven Lynch-Gough for eloquent and mature responses in our 'Macbeth' debate. Miss Tresadern
• Caitlyn Patterson for making a good start to Literature revision. Mrs Mayell
• Alysha Wilkinson for impressive knowledge of and dedication to Macbeth. Miss Bell
• Rhys Lomax for continued effort. Miss Machen
• Leo Cassandra for excellent effort. Mrs Greenhalgh
• Bailey Kershaw for improved behaviour and learning. Miss Moulton
• Emma Waldie- for great contributions to lesson. Miss Nugent
• Scarlett Ratcliff for excellent effort. Mr Smith
• Chloe Norton for excellent effort. Mrs Hollingworth
• Harvey Holden for trying really hard. Miss Miller
• Joseph Kellet for his continued hard work. Mr Fitzsimons

Expressive Arts:

Phoebe Mort for beautiful painting. Mrs Hamiton
Stephin James for her beautiful composition work. Mr Tuner
Ben Wilkinson for being brave enough to perform with me in front of the class. Mrs Maloney
Alex Darlington for his intelligent response to the theatre trip. Mrs Knox

MFL

Mrs Ward:
Ella Spence for trying very hard in her Spanish assessment.

Mrs Gutic:
Joshua Ormerod (7:8) for excellent assessment results.

Miss Taylor:
Ava Towers in Year 9 for her excellent effort in French and superb improvement.

Miss Phillips:
Joe Barton (Year 9) for good results in his French vocabulary test

Attendance Winners

Year 7: 7.3
Year 8: 8.3
Year 9: 9.4
Year 10: 10.3
Year 11: 11.4