News Archive - Autumn 2007
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The Hollins celebrates being in Top 100 schools for value added at Key Stage 3
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Clothes Show visit - December 2007

Thirty nine GCSE Textile students from years 10 and 11, accompanied by six staff, travelled to the Clothes Show at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham to pick up ideas for coursework and their final exams. It was a long day - the coach left school promptly at 6.30am. returning at 6.45pm. The students shopped till they dropped and the fashion show was amazing with a more male influence the year - a lot of "scantily" clad males-in speedos!!! – in one section wearing ONLY white jackets and speedo style underwear!!!! Wow, what a sight!!! Mrs Wild, Head of Department, reported ‘the students behaved brilliantly – the best group we've ever taken’. Photo Gallery
Science Enterprise Day - November 2007

Incident tape around the entrance to the hall and staff scurrying around in white protective overalls, as seen on all good crime shows, alerted the rest of the school to the forensic science workshop enjoyed by Year 9 students on Friday 30 th November. Organised by SET POINT, the aim was to allow the students to solve a crime, brilliantly acted by the year 11 drama students, using various investigative procedures. The final session brought all the students together for a PowerPoint presentation which showed them how evidence is collected to solve real crimes.

Key Stage 3 Gymnastics - November 2007

 


Year 7 student Leah Taylor put on a fine performance at the Hyndburn and Ribble Valley inter schools gymnastics competition held at Norden High School on 27 th November. She finished 2 nd overall in the vault competition, which is an excellent achievement considering she was competing against fifty other gymnasts. The Hollins team of five did very well overall and put in a more solid performance than last year. Although they did not win, the girls put on a good performance.

My Life As Your MP - by Greg Pope

Mr Pope is a regular visitor to school and on this occasion he met a group of year 10 & 11 pupils to discuss his role as MP for Hyndburn.
A Visit from the Bishop of Blackburn
A group of pupils met with the bishop as he discussed his role as Bishop of Blackburn. The group asked him his views on a number of topics that are covered in the RE curriculum.
Wear It Pink

Staff and students wore pink accessories on Thursday last week and raised a total of £245 for Breast Cancere Research. Prefects made and sold pink ribbons as their contribution to the total.
Hollins News

12/10/2007
Football
Alexis Nikandrou represented Lancashire at weekend against Preston North End and won 2 – 0. Alexis scored both – well done!
Year 11 football drew with Mount Carmel 1 – 1.
Year 7 football drew with Mount Carmel 3 – 3.
Netball
Year 9, 10 and 11 were victorious at Netball against Moorhead. Megan Pilling, Aimee Booth and Lois Boyd were named players of the match.
Swimming
Well done to Rebecca Ellwood in Year 10 who managed some personnel bests in her recent swimming gala.

 
Mel is an International Gymnast

Melanie Evans (year 10) has been selected to compete at international level, where she will be resplendent in the red of Wales.
Melanie is eligible to compete for Scotland, through her father, or England, but if all goes to plan she may be standing with a gold medal around her neck at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi - all thanks to her Welsh grandfather.
She first began at Accrington Gymnastics Club aged eight and received her national tracksuit and leotard ahead of making her debut in the Celtic Cup gymnastics fixture on 24 and 25 February in Lisburn, Northern Ireland.
She is also due to compete against gymnasts from across northern Europe in another international fixture later this year, after impressing in recent competitions.
Among highlights were finishing third in 2006 North West championships and fourth in the 12-13 year old 'espoir' class at the British Challenge Cup last year.
As well as travelling a round trip of 65 miles from her home to Blackpool six times a week for training, Melanie also regularly joins up with the North West regional squad in Liverpool, and now faces racking up more miles to train in Cardiff.
Tesco Computer Vouchers

Mrs Wild and pupils receiving their equipment from Mr Greg Pope MP

Pupils from local schools at the presentation at Tesco Haslingden

Pupils and staff attended a presentation by Greg Pope, MP, at Tesco Haslingden, as local schools converted their 'Tesco Computers for Schools' vouchers into valuable, new equipment.

Hollins pupils collected:

  • a microscope for examining fibres & fabrics in Textiles.
  • a selection of computer software for use in Pupil Support.

Two year 9 pupils attended with Mrs Wild and after the presentation they heard a brief talk from the store manager about Tesco's community support initiatives.

Many thanks to all parents, pupils, staff and friends of The Hollins who donated their vouchers. We'll be doing it again next year!

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