Welcome back

A warm/hot welcome back to the new school term. I hope that everyone had a good Easter break and is ready for the short term ahead. It’s shorter, but all the same ‘summer term’ events will be taking place so it will just feel busier than usual!

It’s at this time that the focus is very much on our examination year groups, Year 9 but of course predominantly Year 11. I’m hoping that students made the most of the Easter break to both recharge but also reinforce their learning, and that they are ready for a final push before the written exams start in just over a week. On Wednesday this week we had the annual Year 11 photograph, where 300+ teenagers and staff pile on to an impossibly small temporary stand ready for probably the biggest group pic of their lives. The class of 2025 were exemplary in their conduct during the photograph, receiving great praise indeed from professional photographer David in the process.

Speaking of being exemplary, we are hitting a rich vein of form at the moment with the school football teams. The U15 girls are having a stellar season under Mr Stretton’s leadership with a Semi final in the Greater Manchester cup, a final in the Stockport League and amazingly a quarter final of the nation-wide English Schools FA Cup to come. I’ll update you on their progress in due course. Not only that, but the Year 11 boys team are still in the hunt for the Greater Manchester cup themselves, playing the semi final later today. Whatever happens they will finish the year with silverware, having beaten Laurus Cheadle Hulme to win the Stockport League earlier this week. The lads played brilliantly and with a wonderful attitude, testament to themselves, their families and the hard work of Mr White, Mr Southern and Mr Opoku before them. Well done Matt, Dylan, Thom, Ben, Michael, Alfie, Alfie, Rio, Charlie, Noah, Alfie, Isaac, Ed, Harvey, Eddie and Year 10 student Fin.

Great achievements all round and fingers crossed for more.

Best wishes and enjoy the long weekend,

Joe Barker

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