History Enrichment activities
Year 7 – Trip to Skipton Castle
Year 7 and 8 – Experiencing University Life Trip to Manchester University
Year 8 – Slavery Awareness – Touchstone Museum Rochdale
Year 8 – Inter school history competition – using pioneers museum
Year 8 – Attended a movie premiere for Amazing Grace – interviewed cast and director
Year 10 – Trip to London Dungeon – to experience Jack the Rippers England
Year 11 – ‘Kip on a ship@ - one night stay in London on the HMS Belfast with trips to the Imperial War museum, Churchill cabinet war rooms, London Eye, Planet Hollywood and a West End Show
PE Enrichment Activities
Annual ski trip
Visits to international sporting events – England Netball
Visits to Man United school of excellence
Specialist coaches in Basketball and Football
Bobby Charlton School of Soccer
Extra curricular clubs in Football, Basketball, Rugby, Netball, Dance, Trampolining, Rounders, Badminton with teams entered in most leagues.
Junior Sports Leaders Certificate
Rochdale dance festival entered every year
Dance fever’ show every year
Swimming lessons and Rookie lifeguard courses
Geography
Year 7 – Geography club – quizzes, guest speakers, trips out, discussing and solving issues in and out of school, taking action to go green, links with schools abroad.
Year 7 – Trip to Manchester Centre to see changes and look at how mapping works
Year 8 – Trip to Paris and Eurodisney
Year 8 – Trip to Malham
Year 9 – Kingsway project – get involved in a real life case study as it is happening in Rochdale
Year 10 – Trip to Blackpool
Year 10/11 – Geography masterclass
Whole school geography worldwise week – activities and competition to win a weekend fieldtrip away
Technology
The workshops are open every lunch time for the students to use.
Maths
Maths challenge – junior and intermediate categories
Junior Year 7 and 8 – 1/05/08
Intermediate Year 9 and 10 – 7/2/08
Art
Graffiti project over winter and spring
Jewellery Club and workshops
MMU visits and workshops
MMU textile visits and workshops
Gallery visits and local colleges
Music
Christmas concert including emseble and solo performances
Vocal workshops including choir which are usually involved in an association of British Choral Directors Workshop
Music Festival annually
Exams – Associatd Board grade exams throughout the year
Production – annual.
Drama
KS3 – Locally filmed soap recruiting for extras
Trip to theatre year 10 and 11
Christmas Pantomine
Life Education
Year 7 – internet safety assembly
Year 7 – Cragrats Theatre company ‘Wasted’ performance
Year 7 – Road safety visit
Year 8 – School council certificate
Year 8 – Endangered species competition
Year 9 – Connexions input
Year 11 – Connexions input
Year 11 - Work based learning ‘drop in’ session
Rochdale Youth Parliament opportunities
Elections, meetings
MFL
French and Spanish Entry Level – Set One Students get the chance to become dual linguists and gain an extra qualification.
Latin Club.
English
Public speaking competition ( can feature students from all years)
Performance poetry for school events such as Awards Evening
Reading Friends scheme (pairing good readers in y9 with weaker students in y7 to improve reading age)
Theatre visits
Book Weeks in years 7 and 8
Shadowing Carnegie scheme in y9 - shared reading and contributing to the Carnegie prize for literature
Science
Year 8 - Monday Lunchtime Forensic Science Club - Earn Crest certificate bronze level
Year 8 - Blackburn Rovers Football Club visit- Fitness and Sport Science- October
Year 9- SAT's Revision (tues lunch time)
Year 9 -Liverpool John Moores Forensic Science visit - Forensics- July
Year 9- Body Worlds at the Museum of Science and Industry- Physiology- May
Year 11- Manchester City Football Club- Sport Science - March
