Parents and students are invited to a Live Online Free Webinar hosted by The Degree Gap: How to Maximise Every GCSE Mark. 📅 Date: 26th March⏰ Time: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM With over a thousand parents already signed up this month, this complimentary session is a fantastic opportunity to gain expert guidance on making every GCSE mark count. 👉 Register Now for the GCSE Exams Webinar What will be covered? Where marks are commonly lost How to use exam mark schemes … [Read more...]

Dear Parents and Carers, As part of our preparation for next year we will be administering some online tests to all students. These tests are part of the GL Exact testing programme and provide us with information on students’ word recognition, spelling, reading comprehension and dictation (handwriting and typing speeds). We are aware that difficulties in these areas can compromise success in lessons and assessments so we are committing to assessing all students in order to identify anyone … [Read more...]

Dear Parents/ Carers of Year 9 Students, I am contacting you to inform you that your child will be taking part in an exciting Religious Studies unit over the next half term called 'Faith in Oldham'. We have worked in partnership with the Oldham Interfaith Forum and Year 9 students will be asking questions to an interfaith panel, creating their own presentations on a topic of their choice and presenting back to their teachers. On Thursday the 11th of July we will be hosting an interfaith … [Read more...]

Dear Parent/Carer, On Thursday 28th March, our Equality and Diversity Student Leadership Team are organising a Cultural Dress Day! This is an opportunity to promote cultural diversity and celebrate all cultures here at The Radclyffe School. Students are encouraged to attend school wearing clothing to reflect their own culture or clothes in the colours of their cultural flag for a suggested donation of £1, this will be collected during their PLG lesson. Please note, make up, jewellery, … [Read more...]

Dear Parents and Carers, We are pleased and happy to let you know that The Radclyffe School has received our Academy Order. This means that the Department for Education has approved our becoming part of The Cranmer Education Trust. The Governing Body set this course for The Radclyffe School in 2022-23 to ensure that, in the rapidly changing education environment, the future and security of our school is safe in partnership within a strong, high-quality local trust which shares our vision and … [Read more...]

{gspeech}Dear Parents/Carers, Throughout your child’s time here at The Radclyffe School there will be key points where they will have to make some key decisions about their future plans. With this in mind, we wish to draw your attention to some key dates and opportunities for your child to get involved in. Tuesday 26 September 2023: Young Persons Career Event 3pm - 7pm: This event is organised by Oldham Local Authority and will be held at The Queen Elizabeth Hall Wednesday 13th … [Read more...]

{gspeech}Dear Parent / Carer, In October of last year we conducted a survey of our students and asked them a wide range of questions about their school experience. One of the questions asked related to how students travel to and from school. Your child indicated that they often travel to school in a car and are dropped off and/or collected on Hunt Lane. You will be aware that the school has significant issues with traffic congestion on Hunt Lane and we are constantly looking at ways to … [Read more...]

Dear student, I hope this email finds you well and you are looking forward to a nice long summer following the completion of your GCSE exams. As you have now completed all your GCSE exams, I would like to remind you that you need to return the school laptop that was loaned to you to assist you with your studies. Laptops should be returned to school before Friday 8th July 2022. You must return your laptop to Visitors’ Reception between 9am and 4.30pm, Monday to Friday. In order to … [Read more...]

A paper copy of the letter below will be handed to all students as they leave their exam this morning.   Dear Parent/Carer, As you are aware, the main GCSE examinations for our Year 11 students began on Monday 16th May. Since that date students have experienced full days in school, attending their ‘regular’ timetabled lessons when they are not sitting an exam. In a number of subject areas, there are no further exam papers to take and during these lessons students have been … [Read more...]