Castle Hill Blog 01/03/24

One of the things that makes Castle Hill such a fabulous place to be is the determination and resilience of our pupils to succeed, even when faced with unknown or difficult challenges. With encouragement from friends, we can all achieve far more than we think!

Connor in Year 7 proudly showing off his certificate of achievement for completing the welly walk. Well done Connor and to everyone who took part!

Admirable Art

Here is some impressive work created by Mrs Mullen's fabulous Y11b art group:

Jayren Cooke

Kaine Risk

Caring for Children

This fabulous year 10 Caring for Children class have been working on the topic ‘Play and learning in the home’. They have worked hard researching toys and activities appropriate for babies and toddlers. They planned a session for a 2 and 3 year old with activities appropriate for both age groups. The whole class worked really hard on this and when Ivy and Eva came in to experience the session everyone seemed to have a wonderful time. Ivy and Eva were sad the session ended and wanted to stay and play some more!

Looking Ahead...Dates for the Diary:

Date	Event
Thurs 7^th March	World Book Day (dress up as your favourite book character)
Thurs 7^th March	KS3 Silent Disco – 3.00-4.15pm KS4 Silent Disco – 4.30-5.45pm
Thurs 14^th March	Year 7 Kingswood Parent Meeting (4.30-5.00pm)
Wed 20^th March	Bag2School Collection
Wed 20^th – Fri 22^nd March	Year 11 London Residential
Thurs 21^st March	World Down Syndrome Day – odd socks
Mon 25^th – Wed 27^th March	Year 7 Kingswood Residential
Tues 26^th March	Year 11 GCSE Drama Performance exam
Thurs 28^th March	Break up for Easter holidays Rewards morning and school finishes at 1pm
Mon 15^th April	Return after the Easter holidays
Tues 16^th & Wed 17^th April	Year 11 GCSE Art exam
W/c 22^nd April	Year 11 Work Experience week
Wed 24^th – Fri 26^th April	Year 13 Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award Practice Expedition
Thurs 25^th April	Let’s Get Quizzical (Family Quiz night) More details to follow
Thurs 2^nd – Fri 3^rd May	Year 11 Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award Practice Expedition
Thurs 23^rd May	Lost Property Collection – in school reception (2.30-3.15pm)
Fri 24^th May	Break up for May half term holidays
Mon 3^rd June	Return after the half term holidays
Fri 14^th June	Year 11 Leaver’s Assembly (more details to follow) Year 11 Leaving Date
Wed 19^th June	Year 13 Leaving Date
Wed 26^th – Fri 28^th June	Year 8 Residential – Condover Hall
Fri 28^th June	INSET day – no pupils in
Thurs 27^th June	Year 11 Prom (more details to follow)
Wed 3^rd July	Year 14 Leaving Date
Tues 23^rd July	Finish for the Summer Holidays – 1pm

World Book Day

Feast your eyes on this incredible bonanza of activities taking place next week...

- Gruffalo Trails during forest school

- Exploring 'The Ugly Five' in science

- Visit 'The Smeds and the Smoos' in outer space in performing arts

- Design book covers and spines in ICT

- In food tech, Year 7 will make 'Yeti' Spaghetti and Year 8 will make 'Pirate' Pizza

- English lessons will promote a love of reading and the idea of "getting lost in a book"

On World Book Day, there are a number of exciting events for pupils to get involved in:

- The World Book Day: Footy & Booky Quiz 2024

- Julia Donaldson immersive reading activities will take place in the library all day

- P2-P5 we have The Poynton School of Dance in to teach some of our pupils a dance from Matilda the Musical.

- 8S will experience the Gruffalo read in Glaswegian during morning reading

Plus don't forget there are exciting prizes up for grabs for dressing up as a book character.

Silent Disco

If you haven't already booked a ticket for this exciting event do it now...there are a few tickets remaining!

And Finally...

Sixth Form Success: Congratulations to Sixth Form student Brandon Goodier who has secured part time paid work in the Food and Beverage department at Stockport County.

Castle Hill High School