School Games Mark – Bronze Award
The School Games Mark is a government led awards scheme launched in 2012 to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community. The key criteria are divided into four sets of questions. They cover the following …
READ MOREFunMaths Roadshow
Recently over 500 pupils from Years 7 to 9 took part in the FunMaths Roadshow held in the sports hall. The Roadshow consisted of over 80 mathematical activities. Pupils working in pairs moved around the room tackling the activities in any order. This problem solving event was non competitive …
READ MORELeavers’ Ball 2018
On Tuesday 3rd of July we celebrated our Year 11 Prefect Leavers’ Ball. The evening began with some spectacular arrivals at Barton Grange Hotel, followed by a beautiful sit down meal. We had the added bonus of an important football win, which was dually celebrated …
READ MOREDuke of Edinburgh Silver Expedition
Whilst most reach for a deck chair when the temperatures soar to 30 degrees, our intrepid Year 10 Silver DofE Groups loaded up their bags, put on their boots and jumped in the minibus heading to the Lakes for 3 days of navigation, camp craft and fitness training. The …
READ MORERefugee Week
OLCHS has just celebrated another successful Refugee Week, with this year’s theme of “20 Simple Acts”. In Geography lessons, Year 8 pupils learned about the global refugee movement and wrote some creative writing pieces as a response to what they had learned. This work has …
READ MOREGeography River Fieldtrips
Over the past 2 weeks our Year 10 students have travelled out to the source of the River Wyre to study to what extent the river matches the Bradshaw Model. Throughout the afternoon the different groups visited 3 sites and conducted a range of experiments …
READ MOREPoetry Slam Finals 2018
The finals of Our Lady’s 5th Poetry Slam competition took place this week. Having progressed through the group stages held in English lessons, the finalists from Year 7 took to the stage on Tuesday morning and, in front of their whole year group, boldly performed …
READ MOREPreston Schools’ Athletics
The annual Preston City Athletics competition took place on Tuesday, 19 June. The girls’ team had great depth in both the Under 13 and Under 15 age categories. We had many individual winners throughout the course of the day. Ellie Sumner, Angel Ojumobi and Anna …
READ MOREMarafiki Gardening Update
Over the Easter holidays we applied for our Level 3 RHS School gardening award certificate and we are pleased to announce that it has now been received and the certificate is displayed proudly in the Marafiki Garden. From this we will receive a Rocket Gardens …
READ MOREStitch a Tree Project
Members of the Marafiki Gardening Club were involved in the Thread Bearing Witness ‘Stitch a Tree’ project run by Manchester University. The project aimed to connect communities and individuals across the UK to show support for displaced people around the world. Pupils spent their lunch …
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