The new Chorlton High Calendar is now on the website. Further information regarding start dates for individual year groups will be sent out during the last week of the holidays. The calendar can be found here
5 pupils attended Chorlton Arts Festival Radio station on Thurs 27th May They were live on the web during 10.30-11.30 and their show was about events that were taking place during the festival and also what is happening at the school during the summer.The students also talked about issues that surrounded young people today and Lorraine talked about the book awards/reading buddies within the school set up by Ms Hockey.
Every year Chorlton High School runs a programme of free Arts in Schools events as part of Chorlton Arts Festival. For the 10th year of the Festival Chorlton high's programme included puppet theatre, mask workshops, circus skills sessions and music making with The Halle! These free sessions provided thousands of Primary & Secondary school children across Chorlton to experience a range of art forms.
In the evenings our Blue Box Theatre played host to a variety of productions. "The Arabian Nights", Chorlton High's Primary Arts outreach production featuring hundreds of children from schools in the community, played to sold out houses on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday evening we crowned CHS Year 7 singer Rachel Turner, 'Chorlton Young Musician of the Year 2010' and Friday evening saw the re-imagining of 'La Boheme' as a Chorlton community opera. What a week! And the plans for next year have already begun..!
The central and East School Sports Partnership are hosting their first presentation evening on Monday 5th June at Broughton Park. This will be a fantastic opportunity to celebrate pupil’s participation in the extensive PE programme, and recognise the hard work and commitment of teachers and support staff.
The Chorlton cluster are hoping to walk away with an award for innovation and commitment to sustainability, for the successful setting up and running of the Chorlton League.
KS3 and KS4 girls are participating in their first tag rugby festival at Tyldesley in June. The Girls have received training from Jamie Anthony our community rugby coach in preparation for this event. Good luck girls!!
As part of their celebrations for this year's World Cup, Manchester are constructing a 'Beach Football' facility in Castlefield in Manchester city centre, to hold up to 18,000 spectators for England's World Cup fixtures.
Chorlton High School are able to access the facility in June for a beach football competition. A KS3 girls and boys squad will participate in this exciting event with the hope of returning victorious.
The Olympic Challenge started on 25th January and ended on 26th March 2010. This challenge was launched in conjunction with the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Students were given the opportunity to achieve Bronze, Silver and Gold badges along with year group prizes for 100% attendance. 100% attendance was measured over three week blocks during the term.
All Year groups took part and students rose to the challenge. As a result of this we have seen a huge improvement in students’ attendance and they are proudly displaying their badges!
Vouchers were presented to 10 students in each year who had achieved Bronze and Silver. This half term there will be a draw for an Ipod, open to all Gold winners.
The Olympic Challenge has been a huge success and congratulations to all students who achieved Bronze, Silver and Gold. Watch this space for the next Attendance Challenge!
BBC School report is a national initiative for KS3 students to find, create and film their own real news report. Led by CHS ICT department and the Arts technicians, 12 Year 9 students participated in the National BBC School Report on Thursday 12th March.
Students had lots of preparation time, where they learned how to find, gather, write, assemble, order and broadcast the news. Each student played a key role, including editor, anchor, features reporter etc. Geraldine Douglas, Curriculum Leader of ICT, said:
“Students did an outstanding performance on News Report Day, showing real confidence and flair both behind and in front of the camera. They developed literacy, media, ICT and presentational skills through the innovative project and showed real promise to be roving reporters of the future.”
Students prepared two special features on E Safety and Specialist Schools Status, with a particular focus on CHS Arts Status. On the News Day, they covered current issues of the day, including Police response to Anti-Social Behaviour, Anti-Gangs education in schools, Women’s History Month, Beckham’s return to Old Trafford and many more!
Huge congratulations to all of the students involved.
You can watch Chorlton High's BBC School report in the Student Work section
A number of Year 10 students recently visited Key 103 and produced two short adverts about truancy.
Practise all your conversation questions for your Spanish Orals
Education and Training Foundation
House Home and Daily Routine Foundation
Media, Entertainment and Youth Culture Foundation
Social Actvities, Fitness and Health Foundation
House, Home and Daily Routine Higher.mp3
Entertainment and Youth Culture Higher
Entertainment and Youth Culture Higher 2
Social Activities, Fitness and Health Higher
The next Chorlton High Parent & Pupil Activity Night takes place on Wednesday 24th March 5pm - 7pm. Further information can be found here.
The Chorlton High Exam timetable is available here. This timetable may be subject to minor amendments. Arrangements for students who have exam clashes will be sent directly to the students concerned
Practise all your conversation questions for your French Orals (4th and 5th May 2010)
House Home and Daily Routine Foundation
Media Entertainment Foundation
Education, Training and Employment Higher
House, Home and Daily Routine Higher.mp3
Media. Entertainment and Youth Higher
Social Activities and Fitness Higher
Last half term, a group of Y9s worked on a radio drama project in their English lessons, and produced scripts for a short radio drama on the theme of war. Their brief was to imagine they were a poet, known for being inspired by the experiences of soldiers and civilians affected by war, who had been asked to try their hand at a new medium, the radio play, and commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to write a programme with this theme.
Students listened to an example of the format, the recent afternoon play All Quiet on the Western Front, discussed ways to utilise the potential of the radio medium, invented convincing characters and planned and plotted their own scenes.
Following these lessons, they went into the school’s recording studio and acted out their drama in groups.
The students have produced moving, thoughtful and sensitively written drama, which focuses on a very wide range of contexts and experiences of war and conflict. We hope you will have a listen, and will enjoy what you hear!
Students who are unable to travel to school due to the severe weather conditions should work though the 'Distance Learning tasks' that have been set for them by their teachers. Students can access this by clicking on the link below for their year group.
Students can also work on their Independent Assessments for the Spring term which can be found on the website or access SAMLearning for online revision. Log-in details are attached to each year groups’ 'Distance Learning'
View the Year 7 Distance Learning Document
View the Year 8 Distance Learning Document
View the Year 9 Distance Learning Document
View the Year 10 Distance Learning Document
View the Year 11 Distance Learning Document
Chorlton High School will be open as usual, for all year groups, on Friday 8th January. Pupils must be able to travel safely and sensibly to school on foot. No bikes should be ridden to school and pupils must not be dropped off outside of the school or within the school car park due to very poor road conditions.
The only entrance available to pupils will be the main pedestrian entrance on Nell Lane. All other access points to the school will be closed. Pupils attending school should wear sensible, sturdy shoes, hats, gloves and a coat. Would all parents please ensure that pupils are aware of the risks posed by the poor weather conditions. Pupils must follow staff instructions and behave safely at all times. Any pupil who puts the safety of others or themselves at risk will be sent home from school.
The Chorlton High School Parents Calendar 09/10 is now available. Click this link.
The Chorlton High School extra curricular booklet for Autumn 2009 is now available. Click this link.
To mark National Parenting Week, Chorlton High School will be offering a variety of activities for parents and carers including coffee mornings at local venues and parent– pupil activity sessions.
After the success of last year’s school musical, ‘Bugsy Malone’ the Performing Arts team are following the Yellow Brick Road in search of ‘The Wiz’. This year’s musical is a
modern adaptation of the popular classic ‘The Wizard of Oz’, complete with new soul songs and an updated story line.
The show itself hits the stage from 7th-11th December and tickets will be on sale after the October half term. We look forward to welcoming you to the magical land of Oz!
The school’s annual Photograph Day will be on Tuesday 6th October 2009. On this day all students will have their photograph taken.
Parents will be offered the opportunity to purchase a range of photographs as a result.
Specific information will be issued about 2 weeks prior to this day.
Orders must be returned on October 6th only. All orders are dealt with by the photograph company directly.
Chorlton High School open day takes place on Wednesday 30th September, from 6.00pm to 8.30pm. To help accommodate this the school will close at 2.00pm on this day. Some students will be invited to help teachers during the evening. If this is the case your child will bring home a permission slip from their teachers.
On Wednesday and Friday ELE days Anjali Mahto, Claire Robertson and Anna Nelson worked with a web designer to create a blog for year 8 classes which celebrates their culture, heritage and family history.
All the pupils created a picture of someone in their family who comes from a different country to themselves. Some of the pupils have told wonderful stories about members of their family - past and present. Click on the link below to access the site.
Chorlton High Heroes.
(Chorlton High School is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.)
Chorlton High School was this week awarded 'Healthy Schools Gold' Status in recognition of our success in delivering the Every Child Matters agenda.
The panel of assessors praised the school for the way in which Student Voice lies at the heart of everything we strive to achieve to move our school forwards. Our commitment to the transition of pupils from Primary to Secondary school, physical activity, sustainability and student support were also highlighted as examples of "outstanding practice."
Sharon Austin, Director of Student Support said, "We are absolutely delighted to gain gold status. The hard work and commitment of so many of our staff and pupils to promote emotional health and well being has been recognised."
The ICT computer suites have recently been completely refurbished using low power consumption technology. All computers have been replaced with mini ITX and all CRT monitors throughout the school replaced with low power lcd flat panels.
This has improved the teaching environment with the pupils having a lot more workspace and the added benefits of less cables and wires. Overall this will reduce the schools carbon footprint.