Months of rehearsals, learning songs, and choreographing dances have led to another outstanding production. In its 50th anniversary year, the well known songs of Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat provided superb entertainment. As well as two evening shows, the talented cast performed for local primary school audiences, teaching the pupils songs and dance routines. Audiences enjoying the recent performances could also admire the superb, … [Read more...]
Students’awesome performance brings poetry alive
Poems from modern Mancunian verse to Shakespeare’s sonnet graced the annual Poetry by Heart competition, with the quality of recital the best yet. Students showed more than just memorising words, with passionate performances that entertained the judges and made decisions about the winners very difficult. So many congratulations to our Year 7 winner Lia, who read brilliantly Nick Toczek’s The Dragon who ate our school. The runner up was Hanifa with an excellent telling of Michael Rosen’s I … [Read more...]
Student team steps up
The candidates promoted, manifestoes published and votes counted - once again we have held our very own leadership election. Not leading to a new Prime Minister, but to the appointment of our new Head Girl, Head Boy and Student Leadership Team. Nineteen students put themselves forward, and after a vote of all students and staff, the process reached its conclusion with the students interviewed by Headteacher Mr Hayer and other staff. Our new Student Leadership Team has now officially taken up … [Read more...]
Girls take a view of career opportunities
Many students leave The Radclyffe School with a firm idea of a future career, whether following friends or relatives, or having been inspired by someone they have heard at school through our careers education. For all students, appropriate advice and guidance takes place throughout their school career, raising awareness of the huge range of career pathways available. With constant changes in technology, it has been said that many jobs that will be available to our students in the future do … [Read more...]
Garden renamed in tribute to departing headteacher
The Hardial Hayer Outstanding Legacy Garden Over recent months students have put hours of work into restoring an area of the school grounds that had previously been used as a garden but had fallen into disrepair. Working with Mr Munro and staff from the Design & Technology faculty, students have helped to install raised beds, a shed and greenhouse. They have planted trees and shrubs, and paths and the pond have been restored. We have reported the progress on this Legacy Garden … [Read more...]
Goodbye Mr Hayer
On behalf of current and former staff and students of The Radclyffe School, we would like to thank our retiring Headteacher Mr Hayer for his service to the school, and wish him a long and happy retirement. Mr Hayer joined the school in January 1998, when the school was on two sites, Hunt Lane and Broadway. Among the highlights of Mr Hayer’s time in charge of the school have been; the granting of Specialist Technology College status in 2004, the opening of the new £28 million school … [Read more...]
Students show what inspires about the UK
What do you think of when you think about Britain? That was the question asked of Year 7 students in Geography, who got creative to put ‘Britain in a Box’. From shoeboxes to something bigger, the creations ranged from the Lake District to the White Cliffs of Dover and from tourism to the music industry - the boxes dealt with both physical and human geography. The students described what the project was all about. Freya said she had learned about the differences between various places in … [Read more...]
Beating Maths anxiety
In any subject, students can suffer from anxiety, whether from new topics, a disappointing test result or worry over forthcoming exams. To reduce anxiety here are a few suggestions and strategies that might help: Positivity Try to reflect with your child on positive successes in mathematics. Remind them of times when they have had praise from their Maths teacher or a positive post-card or letter; or when they have achieved a good mark in a test. Challenge negative or unhelpful … [Read more...]
New prefects receive their ties
Congratulations to our Year 10 students who have been successful in their application to become prefects at The Radclyffe School in the coming year. They will now be allocated to the twelve faculties and other departments around the school where they will take on a variety of roles and responsibilities. The process of becoming a Prefect helps students to develop important skills. They first need to write a letter to their Year Manager explaining just how they can demonstrate the attributes … [Read more...]
It’s all up for debate
An activity which promotes our students’ communication skills and ability to think quickly, that encourages critical and creative thinking. A chance to challenge existing views and open up to new ideas and arguments. These were all on show as The Radclyffe School sent a team to the regional final of the PiXL Up For Debate Challenge, held at the University of Nottingham. Over a full day of proposing, opposing and interrupting the team tackled the motions that ‘This house’ would televise … [Read more...]
