St Cuthbert's RC High School

Mr McCabe at the London Marathon

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Mr McCabe and Mr Ward run the London Marathon

Mr McCabe and Mr Ward both completed the London Marathon on Sunday 23 April. The streets were lined with spectators offering support, encouraging the runners every step of the way.

Mr McCabe commented: “The atmosphere was magic. It is amazing the power of encouragement you can get from a complete stranger. At mile 21 when I felt like I had used every ounce of energy, the cheers from the crowds and encouragement from fellow runners helped me to keep on running.

“It made me think that with encouragement and a ‘can do’ mentality we can achieve almost anything.”

“Crossing the finishing line is such an exhilarating feeling and it was made better by imagining all the needy charities that have been supported by the event.” Mr McCabe ran to raise money for CAFOD and managed to secure over £3000 for the charity.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were joined by Prince Harry to start the race. The royal trio, who champion the race's official charity Head Together, also cheered runners along at different points of the route. Some runners wore ‘Headstogether’ headbands to make an opportunity to get the country talking about mental health.

Have Your Say Day

Friday sees the launch of our very first “Have Your Say Day”. Our student council representatives will be doing their utmost to ensure all students have their say on what really matters to them in school. Miss McGinty will collate the array of responses from students and hopefully students will start to see their ideas come to fruition – watch this space!

Specialisms News:

In Health and Social care, Year 11 are busy preparing for the exam, they are gathering lots of exam techniques and tips to make sure that they get the best grade possible.

There are some outstanding products designed by Year 11 as part of their Controlled Assessments in Technology. Products range from speaker systems to bird boxes. Many have innovative design elements.

Year 11 have done 2 days of their Art exam and the quality of work is very high in many pupils work. The themes are Architecture or Music and so there are many weird and wonderful creations inspired by details such as church windows, guitar necks and piano keys

In Media Studies Year 10 are creating ideas for their film trailers as part of their controlled assessments. They are considering genre and how to produce a convincing product for a specific audience.

In Drama Year 7 have begun some work on Shakespeare and Elizabethan Theatre. They have brought lots of enthusiasm and prior knowledge to this work and have enjoyed using Shakespearean insults.

Instrumental and vocal lessons continue in Music. Students need to check the timetable to ensure they turn up for the appropriate session.

Chaplaincy News

Our Pupil Chaplains have been leading our Easter Celebration assemblies this week.
They began by reminding us that Easter, not Christmas, is the most important season in the Christian calendar.

They also explained why we eat Easter eggs as a symbol of new life in Christ.

Quoting Saint John Paul II "We are the Easter People and Alleluia is our song!", we were challenged to think about how we are changed personally by the events of Easter.

Through the Gospel story of Thomas, the Pupil Chaplains helped us to understand that even Jesus' closest friends were challenged by his Resurrection.

It wasn't until Thomas was able to see and touch Jesus' wounds for himself that he was then able to say "My Lord and my God!"

During a few moments of quiet personal reflection, pupils were then invited to think about their own faith journey.

LINC News

This week we welcomed St. Patrick’s Primary School for the first of three creative media sessions. The Year 4 group were delighted to hear their fantastic radio broadcasts which we listened to via our state of the art classroom speaker system in the LINC.

The students selected commercial adverts and songs to accompany their shows and included a jingle, selling points and an interview.

All of which were planned and rehearsed here at St. Cuthbert’s. Each student took part in one of the six radio shows and then were given copies of the media files to share with the rest of the school.

Well done St. Patrick’s – we look forward to seeing you after the summer break.

Rugby

On Tuesday, the year 7 boy’s rugby team played their first matches, taking part in Rochdale's very own 'State of Origins' tournament.

This included teams representing Rochdale, Pennine District and Middleton. Our lads played superbly well going through the tournament unbeaten and only conceding two tries due to some resolute defending.

Due to their performances, they have now gone through to the final which will be played at Rochdale Hornets in the near future, date TBC.

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

Expressive Arts

Charlotte Ostafijczuk for her excellent contribution to extra-curricular Drama. Kieran Joy for his excellent Unit 4 composition.

Cornelius Loveridge for his consistent effort in Drama lessons.

MFL

Mrs Ward: Teegan Smithies (Year 8) for continued effort in her French classes.
Mrs Gutic: Christy Joyce (9:6) for excellent participation in class speaking activities.
Miss Taylor: Franklin Sadiki (Year 7) for his excellent effort in Spanish.
Miss Phillips: Elisha O’Connor (Year 7) for her continued enthusiasm in Spanish.

English

Mrs Mayell – Jack Griffin for a mature and focused approach to his work.
Mr Fitzsimons - Alex Skalinskas for her continued effort and perseverance
Miss Bell- Peter Winyard for his excellent revision
Miss Machen – Helvis Kalau for his excellent effort.
Miss Tresadern- Dawid Polachowski for an outstanding assessment effort.
Miss Nugent - Mathew Fogarty for a huge improvement in his PEED paragraphs
Mr Smith - Sonny Joyce for his enthusiastic start to term
Mr Sanatana- Alex Pilkington-Steele for excellent contribution in lessons
Mrs Greenhalgh - Shania Smith for her excellent effort
Miss Doherty Norman Robak for excellent perseverance and effort in lessons.
Mrs Hollingworth- Zoe Beaumont for her amazing perseverance in English Literature.