Cross Country
On Wednesday, October 10th, 55 Our Lady’s students ran in the District Cross Country competition held at St Cecilia’s Catholic High School. It was a fantastic night which was rather unusual for the time of year the event takes place. All students ran with courage …
READ MORE36km Disneyland Challenge Weekend for CAFOD
Challenge weekend has been and gone and what a weekend it was! With a mad dash to the airport we arrived at Disneyland Paris at around 6.30pm ready for our first Disney run at 7pm! To say it was a quick turnaround was an understatement! …
READ MOREBlackpool Zoo Well-being Project
On Friday 21st September, 10 pupils attended Blackpool Zoo as part of a a project aimed at encouraging positive health and well-being. The activities are designed to allow pupils to develop new skills, such as decision making and problem solving, encourage working both independently and …
READ MORESchool Therapy Dog
Arlo, our school therapy dog, is now approaching 6 months of age and has been undergoing intensive training during the summer holidays. He has now reached the stage in his training where he is able to support pupils in the classroom. As Arlo is a …
READ MOREMarafiki Gardening News End of Year Update
It has been a very busy half term in the Marafiki Garden. Preparing the garden for the summer as well as various sales, a trip to Barton Grange Garden Centre and saying good bye to two key members of the gardening group, Mr Robinson and …
READ MORESchool 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 …
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