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On Thursday 3rd April 2008 three year 8 pupils took part in the Accrington Science Challenge hosted by St. Christopher's High School.
Alan, Elliot & Lance worked extremely hard on preparing a presentation on 'The Circulatory System' which they demonstrated to the judges and fellow competitors. They also carried out a dissection on three hearts to better illustrate their message.
Whilst they did not win the event they did prove that they could research their given topic independently and with great enthusiasm. Well Done!
The team will be running the demonstration again for their year group, in assembly, on Tuesday 29th April.
As a reward for all their hardwork, the boys will be accompanying Mrs Bowler, head of science, to to Dr Gunther von Hagens ‘Body Worlds 4’ exhibition at Manchester Museum of Science and Industry  on 16^th May.
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This year’s Engineering Day was held on 13th March, when all year 9 pupils rotated round the various activities;
The Royal Navy, brought an articulated lorry which simulated the inside of a submarine. There was information on quantity & building surveying and in the plumbing area there was a realistic demonstration where a puzzle had to be solved in a limited time frame to avoid getting wet!
There were representatives demonstrating engine maintenance and once you had them going the police showed how they catch speeding motorists with the help of their mobile speed cameras!
There was also a Liquid Nitrogen Lecture/demonstration by Liverpool University focusing on changing material properties which was also seen by pupils from 4 local primary schools as well as year 7 & 10 from The Hollins.

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Year 7 tetrahedron day, a great success for 64 of our year 7’s who thoroughly enjoyed working in small and large teams to eventually produce a giant tetrahedron which reached the top of the sports hall.

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The Hollins was again asked to host the Rotary Technology Tournament for Hyndburn and Ribble Valley schools. 120 pupils from 16 schools took part in the challenge to build a bridge which could open to let a boat through, yet support a 1KG weight, using only card, paper straws and lots of cello tape. The successful schools were Westholme, in the Key stage 3 category, and St Augustine’s at key stage 4. Our own pupils performed very well on the day with no collapsing bridges but didn’t quite manage to make it into the prize categories well done to:

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On Thursday 20th March, the last day before the Easter Bank holiday, it was 'Wear a Wacky Hat Day'. Many people joined in (staff as well) and donations of over £170 were collected which will be sent to the fund to help save the 'Accrington Pals Chapel'.
There was a winner picked from each year group and this photo shows three of them.

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On Thursday was also the day we held the prize draw for the Easter Egg Raffle. There were eggs of all shapes and sizes to be won and an atmosphere of great anticipation just prior to the draw.
There are just two prizes still to be claimed; numbers 200 and 451.

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On Monday 17th March, 24 year 9 & 10 pupils visited the Houndshill Shopping Centre site at Blackpool for a 'Careers in Construction' site visit and presentation by Balfour Beatty.
All pupils were kitted out with high visibility jackets and regulation hard hats during the site tour which made sure they looked the part!
This was followed by a presentation on careers in construction and a range of related activities.
Everyone really enjoyed the experience and found the information and guidance very useful and informative.

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A cheque for £216 was presented to Reverend Sharif Gulsher by Hollins pupils on Tuesday 18th March.
Year 11 students, Callum Dunn and Katie Kilcoyne organised a school Valentine’s Disco on Wednesday 13 th February to help Mr Stockburn raise much needed funds for the East African Outreach project. The East African Outreach group aim to build an extension to a local school, in order to house more orphans, and fix a new roof to the building.
During the disco Mr Stockburn had his head shaved by the raffle winners Paige & Melissa. The event raised £216 and will help to make a real difference to the lives of these children.
Heath Stockburn, our Head of Drama, is to join a group of volunteers visiting Uganda at Easter.

The Hollins Technology College held a design competition for all Key Stage 3 pupils, in a bid to promote the Technology College ethos of improving design skills and aiming to create our next Great British Designers. The challenge was to design a hat to keep away flies!
After 200 entries, Victoria Hughes in Year 9 was successful in winning the ipod shuffle and was presented with the prize on Tuesday the 18 th March by Miss Hargreaves, Head of Technology and Headteacher Mr Jackson.

15 Year 10 pupils travelled to Burnley Football Club and spent the day learning about how chemistry is applied in the workplace. The work options looked at included hairdressing; hair composition, fibres and layers. Conservation; safe storage and preservation of fabrics. Forensics; examination of a mock crime scene. Food Safety; looking at preventing contamination from pathogens in food production.
After lunch there was an interesting hour long presentation on the history of chocolate, followed by the chance to sample some!

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This year the ski trip took place in Montgenèvre, a small village in France close to the Italian border. This meant that we had to fly into Turin airport and then cross the border into France on a gruelling 2 hour coach trip.
When we arrived at our 3-star hotel called Les Rois Mages we were allocated our rooms, unpacked our bags and were given dinner. After the meal we went to get our boots fitted and were allocated our ski equipment for the week.
Over the next 6 days there were 3 ski groups, one was for the people who were very skilled at skiing, there was another group for people who were just a little less skilled and finally there was another group for the beginners on the ski trip.
In the evenings we took part in lots of different activities. On the second night we had some games of bingo where the prizes were different items which had been bought from the local village. Some of the prizes were t-shirts with the ski village logo and ski gloves.
On the third night we all went to a restaurant in Italy by taking a taxi to the bottom of the mountain and then boarding a ride on a skidoo which took 4 people in a cart and one person behind the driver. There were 2 skidoos so it took 3 trips for all of us to get to the restaurant. When we reached our destination we were given a delicious hot chocolate drink and caramel tart.
On other nights we took part in ice skating, pool tournaments and karaoke. Our pool tournament was a very close competition but in the end the winners were Sebastian Van Noortwijk and Joe McDermott.
By the last day, Sunday, most people were getting tired and starting to feel homesick for England and their families.
On arrival back at school, parents were waiting in the pouring rain to welcome us back – some things never change. The end to yet another successful Hollins ski trip!

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Report By Robert Evans 9LFB

At lunchtime on Pancake Day a number of pupils had great fun creating, cooking and tossing their own pancakes.

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Sixteen Hollins students took part in the Hyndburn and Ribble Valley School Sports Partnership orienteering competition held at Wilsons Playing Fields.
They were one of nine schools to take part in the event which has now been running for three years.
The heavy rain for days before had cast doubts over the event going ahead but the weather held off on the day and the event went ahead. The muddy and slippery course made it all the more exciting.
Once all of the teams were back, the fastest four pairs from each school’s times were added up to decide who the winners were. Agonizingly, Hollins were pipped to second place by a mere 18 seconds.
This is a great achievement from our boys and girls, many of whom had never even participated in the sport before.

Well done everyone involved.

On Wednesday 9 th January all year 11 students were involved in the Lionheart Challenge for the whole day, with groups of students tackling the tasks involved in starting and running a business. As the day developed, students improved their communication, cooperation, leadership and business skills and a number of budding entrepreneurs were identified.

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