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Latest News Tameside Maths Challenge - Activity Day, Monday 8th February 2010
Enterprising Pupils
All year 9 pupils now take part in an enterprise programme ran by Manchester City Football Club. The programme involves year 9 pupils working with representatives from City in the Community over a ten week period. Staff come into school and deliver sessions on business and enterprise skills. Pupils learn about advertising, marketing, and customer complaints procedures, completing CV’s and interview skills and techniques. The underlying theme throughout the ten weeks what goes into running a successful business. Pupils that complete the ten week programme are rewarded with a stadium tour around the Manchester City Football Ground. If they complete all the required work they will receive a Level 1 Certificate in Enterprise and Business. Pupils will be invited to attend an awards evening at Manchester City Football where they will be presented with their Level 1 Certificate by one of the Manchester City players. Remembrance Day 2009
School became quiet as Miss Lundberg, our Head of Music began to play 'The Last Post'. Pupils and Staff at the school observed the two minutes silence and remembered.
The 2009 Copley High School Cross Country Run The annual Cross Country fund-raising event took place on 9th October. The Friday weather forecast began dull and was not promising but the race took place as planned and the sunshine broke through the clouds. Everyone had a fantastic time and raised lots of money for their charities. More information to follow shortly! Click here to view photographs from the race! Following on from the excellent appeal last year, which raised over £2500 for the Key 103 'Kids for Cash' charity, the school council met with Mr Joyce and it was decided that this year’s theme for the appeal would be 'Charity Begins at Home'. Each form group in the entire school was able to choose their very own charity to nominate and donate the money raised!
Pupils to Shine on Stage!
Copley Pupils travel across Europe PARIS 2009 Thirty five noisy Year 7 and 8's and three stressed teachers took a three-day trip to Paris over half term, which the teachers are said to be recovering well from. The group set off on a lovely, air-conditioned coach on Sunday 24th May, and began the drive to Dover to catch the ferry to France. Problems began only a few miles after leaving school, when it became clear that nobody knew where we were supposed to pick up Mr Scragg. We eventually drove past him on the motorway, and he gave us a slightly puzzled wave as we sailed past him at 60 miles an hour. If anybody is wondering if we went back for him; don’t worry, after a few wrong turns, we did eventually find him again. After that there were no problems – the pupils sat quietly on the coach all the way to Dover, apart from a few who played ‘I-spy’ and sang ‘Ten green bottles’ to keep themselves amused. The air-conditioning kept everybody lovely and cool, and not one person complained about the long drive or asked if we were nearly there yet, even when we were still in Manchester. The coach arrived in Dover and we boarded the ferry at about 3pm. It quickly became clear, after a few slightly stupid questions were asked, that not many year 7s had fully grasped the concept of a ferry: “Is the driver going to get to France before us?” “Will he drive across the sea because it’s quicker than the boat?” “Why can’t we just get the boat all the way to Paris?” Once the boat arrived in Calais, we drove to a hypermarket where we had something to eat in a restaurant called ‘Flunch’. Although a few people moaned, most students were brave and tried some of the French food (not a frog’s leg or snail in sight though!) We arrived at the hotel late in the evening and everybody settled in and got acquainted with the hotel manager, and although the teachers had trouble getting everybody to stop locking themselves out of their rooms, eventually everybody settled down. The next morning we drove a few kilometres to Parc Asterix, which is a theme park on the outskirts of Paris. The weather was sunny and very hot, and most people (including the teachers!) spent the day on the log flume trying to keep cool! The park also had a number of other rides, including some very big rollercoasters. Note to certain pupils: if you get travel sick, rollercoasters are probably not a good idea! Afterwards, the coach driver (a kindly fellow called Roger) took us to another, bigger, hypermarket, where we tried some more French food, and a few people practised their French on the cashiers. We then had some time to go shopping, and some of the pupils bought souvenirs and things to take home with them. A few of the girls took advantage of the fact that we were in the fashion capital of the world... and went to New Look. The next day we went on an hour-long boat tour down the River Seine. The boat took us past the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre and Notre Dame Cathedral, which everybody got photographs of. We then had a drive round Paris to see the Champs Elysees, Place de la Concorde and a famous McDonalds (which, if you went off the reactions of the pupils, was the highlight of the trip!) Mrs Clarke and Mr Scragg would like to thank pupils for their fantastic behaviour!GERMANY 2009 During Easter on 4th April, 32 pupils along with Mrs Barnes, Mrs Coxon, Miss Flatley and Mr Bradley set off for Germany at midnight. We arrived tired and weary at 5pm Sunday afternoon and quickly settled into our rooms at the Hotel Anker in Brodenbach with its lovely views of the River Mosel. The next day we walked to Cochem Castle where we had a very interesting guided tour. In the afternoon we enjoyed shopping and sightseeing in Cochem followed by a trip to the local Wave Pool.On Tuesday we travelled by coach to Koblenz – the nearest big city. We took a boat trip at the Deutsches Eck and cruised along the Rhine and the Mosel as the two rivers meet here. This was followed by more sightseeing. Wednesday was the day everyone had been waiting for as we visited Phantasialand the biggest theme park in Germany and everyone enjoyed the day. In the evenings we had a very entertaining general knowledge and music quiz, a bowling night and a farewell disco night. This was a really great trip, thoroughly enjoyed by staff and pupils mainly due to the lovely weather, places visited and above all, the outstanding behaviour of pupils. Look out for details of our MFL trip next year – coming soon! |
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