NGHS UPDATE

Newall Green

High &School Sixth Form Centre

May 2018

YEAR 11 TRIP TO CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY MACMILLAN COFFEE

9 students from Year 11 were thrilled to visit Cambridge University for the day. We got a tour of the University, were served lunch with current students and lecturers and took part in 2 workshops, a debating workshop and an engineering workshop where they had to build a dome out of straws and sellotape! Since this trip, Cambridge University have been into Newall Green High School to run a debating workshop with Year 7 students and some of our Year 11 students have recently been offered places at Cambridge University’s summer school in August – all expenses paid. Look out Cambridge – here we come!

MORNING... ...WITH A TWIST SUMIT

STRIVE BADGE FOOTBALL AND FUTSAL CHAMPIONS WINNERS The NGHS girls’ football team made history this month when they won their fifth consecutive Manchester Cup. This means that they have won every year since they started NGHS in Year 7! The team have also championed in Futsal, winning the Manchester Futsal Cup for five consecutive years. The players showed fantastic school spirit and display outstanding teamwork. Congratulations to Kelsey Marsh – player of the match, Kenzie Rowe, Katie Whipp, Grace Burke, Ellie Mae Condron, Ellie Smirthwaite, Amy Morgan Smythe, Alisha Tallents, Jess Nelson and Freya McGrillen.

This half-term students who have a work ethic grade of an average of 1.5 or less have been awarded a STRIVE badge. This means that those students are exceeding our high expectations. This measure is decided by looking at students’ progress, behaviour, attitude to learning, punctuality and attendance, uniform, equipment and their ability to manage their own learning and work independently. Congratulations to all students who were awarded a badge! Pictured are the Year 7 STRIVE badge winners.

PERFORMANCE AT VICTORIA BATHS

Young women from Newall Green High School and Cedar Mount Academy have worked together to uncover hidden histories of everyday women and explore them creatively through drama, dance and music. Now they want to share their thoughts and ideas with you in this special site-specific performance taking place on the 31st May, and the 1st of June. Turning Tides: First in the Fight is presented by enJOY arts in partnership with Victoria Baths and is part of the Her Hidden Histories project. Her Hidden Histories is an ambitious cultural project, devised and delivered by ‘enJOY arts’.

NGHS HAS A COMMANDO JOE’S Joe’s, the company seen on the GROWTH MINDSET! Commando BBC 1 hit show ‘Dragon’s Den’, have been

Since September, students and teachers at Newall Green High School have been developing our Growth Mindsets. We have been learning about how the brain adapts to new challenges and how we can all learn new things by sticking at it and being resilient. Students have taken part in workshops and assemblies throughout the year and we are all practising the Growth Mindset maxim, changing “I can’t do it” to “I can’t do it…yet!” We hope that parents and carers received their Growth Mindset leaflets – look out for more information coming soon!

working with Newall Green High School for the past six months. Groups of boys and girls in Years 9 and 10 have been put through their paces by Paul, our ex-British Army instructor. They have had a wonderful time developing their teamwork skills, problem-solving and learning how to maximise their relationships with students and parents alike. Well done to all these students!

Newall Green High School, Greenbrow Road, Wythenshawe, M23 2SX 0161 413 8546 @NGHS_STRIVE [email protected] www.newallgreenhigh.manchester.sch.uk

Newall Green

High &School Sixth Form Centre