We are organising a visit out of school for new year 7 students on Monday 26th September All of year 7 will be spending a day off site focusing on outdoor activities such as bushcraft, archery and pioneering. The visit represents a fantastic opportunity for teambuilding early on in your child’s secondary education, and will help them form friendships and work together with others in their year group. The trip is heavily subsidised by the school. We are asking for a contribution of just £11 … [Read more...]
Your chance to find out what’s in your child’s curriculum at The Radclyffe School
We’re delighted to welcome parents and carers to find out all about the subjects their children study at The Radclyffe School. Five Curriculum Information Evenings are planned in the coming weeks, one for each year group. They will explain the breadth of topics taught across all our faculties and departments, as well as how parents & carers can support their child with home learning. In addition, details of our intervention and support programmes will be shared. The presentations take … [Read more...]
Support for Y11 Leavers from Positive Steps over the summer holidays
Dear parent/carer of Year 11 leaver, Positive Steps will be offering a drop in session every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon at Medtia Place (next to Sainsburys) in Oldham Town Centre. This is an opportunity for your child to check in with an adviser and discuss their plans and transition. In addition to this, your child will be able to access support to look for summer jobs, start a CV and can even sign up for a customer service AQA Qualification to enhance their CV. Please see the image … [Read more...]
School closing and opening times
The Radclyffe School will close to students for the summer holidays on Friday 22nd July at 12.50pm School reopens to students on Tuesday 6th September. Please note the staggered start for each year group below Year 7 will start at 8.30am Years 8, 9, and 11 will start at 9.50am Year 10 will start at 11.10am For students who have left Year 11 this year, GCSE results day is at 9am on Thursday 25th August … [Read more...]
Year 7 First Day Back
Dear Year 6 Pupil and Parents/Carers, RE: Year 7 first day back, 6th September 2022 We would like to inform you about the plans for the first day back for year 7 students. Please can students arrive at school on Tuesday 6th September at the usual time i.e. 8:20am. They will be the only year group in the school until 9:50am. Students will be directed into the café where they will sit with their PLG group. After an assembly, they will then spend the day with their PLG group completing … [Read more...]
Uniform for 19th July 2022
Due to the forecast of even warmer weather on Tuesday 19th July students will be allowed to wear one of the following combinations of uniform for school tomorrow. School shirt/blouse, trousers/skirt and school shoes (normal school uniform but without the school tie and blazer) OR School PE kit and trainers Any student who attends school on Tuesday not wearing the approved uniform in the combinations outlined above will be sent home to rectify their uniform. The approved school … [Read more...]
Y11 Leavers – Return of Student Laptops – June 2022
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...]
Find out how you can support other parents in Oldham…
Bounce Forward in partnership with Oldham Opportunity Area are delighted to announce we are offering up to 25 parents the opportunity to complete foundation and facilitator training to become certified to deliver parent resilience sessions at your child's school. You will have completed a previous Bounce Forward course and you will know the benefits of building psychological fitness, mental resilience and emotional intelligence in children. This is an amazing opportunity to extend your … [Read more...]
Change to Mathematics Faculty Home Learning
Dear Parent/Carer, I am writing to keep you informed of changes to home learning in the Mathematics Faculty. As you may know we have used Hegarty Maths for many years as our online learning platform. After the half term break we will be moving to Sparx Maths. We will be showing students how to use Sparx in the second week of the Summer half term. To support you in helping your child we encourage you to take a look at the short parental video and top tips sheet from Sparx. Sparx … [Read more...]
Year 11 Study Leave Live Lessons
Dear Parents and Carers, In order to support the continuity of Education for our year 11 students during study leave all subjects will be providing live lessons via a screen sharing platform (TeamViewer Meeting) from Thursday 26th May. Lessons will continue until the final exams have been completed for each subject. Once all the exams for a particular subject have been completed then students should use the time to prepare for their remaining exams. School laptops will have the TeamViewer … [Read more...]
