TERM DATES 2019-20 Summer Newsletter 2019

Start of Autumn Term As we come to the start of my fourth year at I would like to thank you all for your continued support. It is with great pleasure Monday 2nd Sept 19 that I would like to share and celebrate with you everything our staff and pupils have achieved and to also let you know about a number of changes Staff Training Day coming up.

Uniform Friday 18th Oct 19 We will be looking forward to getting the new year off to the best possible Half Term start and as you are aware we will be rolling out the changes made to the school uniform last year to ALL pupils in September. This means that NO Fri 18th Oct - Fri 25th Oct 19 skirts should be worn at all by any girls in any years. Please see full details below:- End of Autumn Term Pupils who attend school in incorrect uniform will be sent home to Wednesday 18th Dec 19 change All Staff will check regularly for the wearing of the correct uniform by pupils. Staff Training Days When pupils are given a Non-uniform Day, the School are still expecting pupils to be dressed appropriately. Instructions for this will be given on the 19th/20th Dec & Mon 6th Jan website. 20 The following are also included in this policy, as they embody the School Start of Spring Term Rules concerning dress and appearance:

Tuesday 7th Jan 20 1. Football scarves, hooded tops and hats are not to be worn to School. 2. Jewellery, except wristwatches, should not be worn to School – this Half Term includes any form of piercings. 3. Pupils should not wear any form of make-up including fake tan, Mon 17th Feb - Fri 21st Feb eyelashes, coloured or acrylic nails. 4. Extreme hair styles or colours are unacceptable. 20 5. Hair should be tied back using plain bands or slides. 6. Any form of Headdress worn for religious purposes must be in plain blue/ End of Spring Term black material.

Mon 6th Apr - Fri 17th Apr 20 The Headteacher will have the final decision on all uniform issues.

Start of Summer Term Blue Shirt (no “button down” collars) Blue Open Neck Shirt Mon 20th Apr 20 Clip on blue tie – only available from school Bank Holiday Navy Blue Blazer with school badge Navy Blue Blazer with school badge Navy Blue V Neck Jumper (optional) Navy Blue V Neck Jumper (optional) Friday 8th May 20 NO SWEATSHIRTS NO SWEATSHIRTS Plain BLACK SMART “suit style” trousers Plain BLACK SMART “suit style” trousers Half Term NO LEGGINGS/JEGGINGS etc. Plain navy blue or black socks Plain navy blue or black socks Mon 25th May - Fri 29th May Plain ALL BLACK “business like” shoes Plain ALL BLACK “business like” shoes 20 YEAR 11 BOYS YEAR 11 GIRLS

End of Summer Term All above except – White Shirt All above except – White Shirt (no button down collars) (no button down collars) Fri 17th July 20 Year 11 Tie Year 11 Tie All Pupils are requested to wear a plain outdoor coat

Personnel Changes New Head Boy and Head Girl / Pupil Leadership Team

We welcome the following new staff: The New Head Boy and Head Girl have now been Mr J Shepherd - Maths appointed. Congratulations to Mariam Ahmed and Mr T Bennett - History Anton Collett. As we had so many pupils of such a

high calibre apply for the position we have appointed The following staff are leaving: two Deputy Head Boys and two Deputy Head Girls. Mrs P Shepherd Mr P Patel We also have 12 Senior Prefects and a Pupil Leadership Team as follows:- Miss E Duthie Miss J Armstrong Deputy Head Boys: Cole Schofield and Dhanitha Additional/Changes in Staff Roles Rajapska Mr C Hibbert - Deputy Headteacher - Quality of Deputy Head Girls: Jessica Rigby and Ellie Gent Education Senior Prefects: Alexa Adetimehim, Khalil Aslam, Mrs D Makin - Associate Assistant Headteacher - Nadia Ali, Elaina Calberbank, Nicholas Hopkins, Daniel Curriculum Standard Galloway, Mae Chadwick, Jacob Long, Leah Taylor, Mrs E Tachauer - Associate Assistant Headteacher - Halle Davies-Ferneyhough, Matthew Taylor and Caleb Personal Development Woods. Mr C Clayton - Second in Science (permanent)

Mr D Sullivan - Instructor of Psychology Pupil Leadership Team: Mrs C Gill - Temporary Head of Year 7

Mrs T Clayton - SEN Administrator Year 7 - Nefeli Leach, Aleesha Zafar , Bodhi Leniham- Miss I Bruce - Temporary Assistant Second in Parker and Summer Darwin Dowell English

Year 8 - Dylan Halstead, Maria Ahmed, Montana Breakfast Club Ugbomah and Pritika Puri

We have been successfully running a Breakfast Club Year 9 - Leon Halstead, Jessica Taylor, Edith open to all pupils who can receive a FREE breakfast of Sedgwick, Rebecca Liggett and Aaron Nabi bagels and/or cereal with milk. Lots of pupils have taken this up. This initially started off slowly but Year 10 - Mariam Ahmed, Anton Collett, Alexa numbers have now increased. We will be starting new Adetimehin, Dhanitha Rajapaksa and Leah Taylor initiatives in September to get more pupils to access this. Overall it has been a success and of great benefit All of the above are considered to be School Officers to a number of our pupils. As you know eating a and assist in the running of the school. The Head Girl healthy breakfast goes a long way in setting up children and Head Boy will oversee all duties and for the day ahead. responsibilities. Each Deputy Head will be responsible for one of the S,T,A,R quadrants and will lead a project Mentally Healthy School relating to their quadrant with the support of 3 Senior Prefects. We are involved in a mental health pilot scheme where we are receiving additional support for our pupils. A Newsletter counsellor from Early Break is coming into school one day a week in order to support our pupils. As part of Our end of term Newsletter will be published on the this pilot a number of pastoral staff have now received School Website at the end of this term where you will mental health first aid training. In addition to this, our find much more information about the wonderful and Head of PE has attended a course which is supporting exciting events that have taken place at Philips, the pupils with mental health issues via PE. We also have trips and sporting activities etc. that our pupils have a great deal of support in school from the Place2Be been involved with. I hope you will take the time to organisation which can be accessed by both pupils and read this and celebrate with us the amazing staff in school. achievements our pupils have attained. I also hope Exciting Changes to the School Curriculum you will follow us @philipshigh on Twitter.

As previously mentioned the major changes to our Finally, I would like to wish you and your families an curriculum include introduction of four different enjoyable and relaxing summer break and look forward pathways in Year 10 - 2019-20: Aspire study 9 GCSEs, to the next academic year. Inspire study 8 GCSEs, Explore study 7 GCSES and Thrive study an individual bespoke curriculum. This has been received extremely well by both parents and pupils. We are currently in the process of building the timetable around these different pathways. College courses are still being explored as part of our extended curriculum offer, this is likely to be offered to a small Ms T Owen number of pupils in both years 10 and 11. HEADTEACHER

CONGRATULATIONS

School Officers 2019-20

ongratulations to our new school officers:

HEAD BOY - ANTON COLLETT C HEAD GIRL - MARIAM AHMED Deputy Head Boys - Dhanitha Rajapksa / Cole Schofield

Deputy Head Girls - Ellie Gent / Jessica Rigby

Princes Trust Award

ongratulations to Dylan Swain-Findlay who has successfully completed a 6 week programme, focused on developing C personal, social and life skills. The programme ended with a one night residential, where Dylan took part in activities such as absailing.

Philips High School joins new military Combined Cadet Force

UPILS at a Whitefield high school could be set to get a taste P of military life as part of a new initiative with the MoD.

Philips High School has successfully bid to have a new Combined Cadet Force (CCF) unit based at the school after joining the Cadet Expansion Programme. The Cadet Force youth organisation operates in schools giving young people opportunities for unique, life-changing military themed activities including flying planes, completing army obstacle courses and learning to sail.

The project is overseen by dedicated staff to help participants develop life skills for the future. Headteacher, Tina Owen, said the school is "immensely excited" about the opportunity, adding : "We have been welcomed into a great organisation and we look forward to offering life changing experiences for our pupils over the coming years." The school's initial contingent will be drawn from the Army Section of CCF (Lancashire ) and aims to hold its first parade in September.

Brad Marshall, Bury Times

Bolton Book Awards 2019

When we arrived at Bolton School we were greeted by the staff and ambassadors which gave good expectations for the day, we were amazed at the size and design of the school. My friend described it as a real life Hogwarts! After we finally finished going on about how amazing the school looked, we were quickly shown to our first venue where we were informed about what would be happening throughout the day….

After the introduction ceremony we went for a session with Will Mabbitt, the author of the book ‘Embassy of the Dead’. He gave us several tips about how to improve our writing, which he expressed in a creative way. He also introduced us to his picture book ‘I can only draw worms’ which he illustrated himself. When he read it to us we were crying with laughter it was so funny. Just those simple images made the whole book perfect. Will Mabbitt’s session was probably the best thing part of the day.

We then has a session with the author of ‘I have no secrets’, Penny Joelson. She spoke about what the inspiration behind the book was and how she had to really understand the feelings of someone who can’t move or talk. Her talk gave us may tips on how to improve our writing.

The last thing was the award ceremony. There was great excitement throughout the hall, with Andy Brigs as the host, he made it very fun and exciting……

……And the winner is….

….PENNY JOELSON - I HAVE NO SECRETS

Penny Joelson won the award with her book, I have no secrets. I think she deserved the award because the book really captures the feelings, emotions and problems Gemma had to go through.

Overall the day was a very good experience and I learnt a lot about how interesting writing can actually be, meeting the authors really helped me understand the amount of work and effort that went into writing those books.

Daisy Poole 7L

Browns Book Bus visits Philips High School

ccessibility to books is crucial to a good education. In order to ensure we are providing the best A books for our pupils to read and borrow we organised a visit from the Book Bus.

wonderful time, adjectives overheard were magical, wonderful, fantastic and amazing.

Pupils selected a large number of books

some of which we will be adding to the

School Library. A wonderful time was had by all.

Pupils went on board with hand held scanners and chose books they would like to see in the school library, excitement was high as the pupils boarded the Book Bus which is essentially a bookshop on board a double decker bus.

The Book Bus is an Alexander ALX400 low- floor double decker with a 2002 Dennis Trident 2 chassis that has been completely

refurbished and customised by Blackpool Design Coachbuilders to the company’s unique requirements.

There were 4000 individual titles on board which the pupils could browse and the pupils who came aboard really did have a

Elms Bank—The X Factory Show

Pupils from year 7-10 visited Elms Bank School to watch their summer show The X Factory.

After a walk to their school and avoiding the rain we were seated by Elms Bank students in readiness for their show. And what a show it was. All the pupils took part and everyone was involved in making their own costumes and the set on stage.

The pupils at Elms Bank were amazing with lots of variety of acts including role plays, solo singing, rapping, group singers and the staff were also involved. There was lots of work going on around including the sound and light systems, props and making sure everyone had what they needed to put on a fantastic show.

Mrs J Bailey Call for dog owners to clean up after their pets

CHOOL pupils have been busy making The winning posters have been put up in Park Lane, 'poop patrol' signs in a bid to encourage Pinfold Lane, Higher Lane and Hamilton Road, as dog owners to clean up after their pets. well as Hamilton Road Park. S Further signs are due to be put up in Springwater The signs are being installed on several streets Park, Whitefield Park and Copper Lane at the surrounding the school and in nearby parks, where weekend. dog fouling is a persistent problem. Ms Bailey said: "Our pupils are always enthusiastic Pupils in Year 7 at Philips High School in Whitefield to help the community and this was an ideal chance helped design the "colourful and eye-catching" for us to get involved. posters as part of a competition organised by Pilky "The majority of our pupils walk to and from school Park Poop Patrol. and they should be able to do this without having to The community project exists to reduce dog fouling step in mess which has not been cleaned up by dog in Whitefield and prides itself on "taking poop off the owners." streets and out of the parks." The signs were judged by Ms Green and Chair of Governors John Mallon, who was formerly a Project co-ordinator Debra Green, who runs Pilky councillor for Pilkington Park where the school is Park Poop Patrol with funding from Bury Council’s situated. Pitch scheme, said: "We asked the pupils to design Mr Mallon said: "When I was a councillor, dog a colourful, eye-catching poster with a strong fouling was one of the main issues raised with me message and they came through brilliantly! by residents. "It was really difficult to pick out the winners because "Most dog owners clear up after their pets, but the there were so many great designs. minority who don’t let us all down. "A lot of thought had gone into them and I’m not "This project is a great idea and it’s great to see the surprised because it’s the kids who are walking into pupils getting involved." the poop on the way to school and getting covered Ms Green plans to approach other schools in the in it while playing in the parks and on school playing area to see if they would like to be involved. fields." Ms Green approached assistant headteacher Poop Patrol is currently looking for volunteers. To Justine Bailey to ask whether pupils would be get involved, contact Ms Green via the Pilky Park interested in taking part. Poop Patrol Facebook page or on Twitter @PoopPark. Several Year 7 pupils took part in the competition, with the four winning designs created by Ellie-Louis Rosalyn Roden, Bury Times Wilson, Claudia Catterall and Arielle Lenihan- Parker, with two winning designs.

The Perfect Way to Encourage a Love for Learning

An amazing trip. An incredible opportunity. The point describing it and proving its worth. On the Future Opportunities Days (1st and 2nd July) morning of the second day we were given was the perfect way to enlighten students to all some time to perfect out presentations….. the academic and work-related options they And then it was time to sell our products. have before them. It was, and will continue to be for future attenders, an unforgettable Everything went without a hitch and all teams experience. did their best to make their products stand out, however, only one team from each group could The Future Opportunities Days were split into win. After the presentations, we had lunch and two days. On the first day we were sorted into went around the campus on tours. We also got groups that worked on separate projects. to listen to talks from teachers within the school Within these groups teams of six to seven were and two outside organisations – UCLAN and made. There were four groups; the ethical app, Siemens. the sports app, the cheese making and the windmill planning. Next, the four winning teams were announced. After two days of hard effort and creativity. The The real fun started once we began brain best teams were chosen. While we were all storming for ideas. winners only a handful of those attending were The objective of the first day was to come up given prizes! with an idea tied to your group’s project. How Looking back, I believe this was an amazing this was done depended on which group you way for me and my peers to get an insight into were in. In the ethical apps teams, those what life after high school will be like. The involved were split into finance, marketing, environment was very friendly and product design and ethical research teams. It encouraging, we were able to express was up to them to come together and make ourselves and learn many new skills in a their product realistic and good enough to foreign environment. present to judges on the second day. The future Opportunities Days is a very On the last day it was time to present. While beneficial trip for all. I know everyone who was the groups had built their products from the invited will look back on it and be glad they ground up they also had to make a power were able to attend. Alexa Adetimehin 10C Inspire to Aspire

group of year 8 & 9 went to a company called Property Tectonics to finish off a 6 week program with them learning about the company and doing A team building and problem solving.

They had to pitch a music festival whilst they were there. Both groups did extremely well and had some excellent ideas.

Trevor Mole the founder of the company. We had a tour of the company and the building is a converted School House 185 years old.

Mrs A Dolan

Congratulations

ongratulations to Mr Park and Miss Armstrong on the completion of their NQT year. C

Cologne, Germany - Spring Break

61 pupils from school boarded a coach for Cologne, Germany, at midnight on 31st March 2019. Highlights were the Odyssium Science Museum, the Neanderthal Museum near where the oldest human relics were found, Cologne Zoo, and Phantasialand Theme Park. All of these excellent science and fun opportunities were sadly eclipsed by finding a McDonalds! Pupils were in good spirits and a credit to the school.

Mr C Clayton

ENRICHMENT DAY

ear 9 Humanities Curriculum Enrichment Trip - Blackpool Pleasure Y Beach - 12th July 2019

What is the oldest Roller-coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach? What is so special about the new ride Icon? Why does the wind speed effect the operation of the Big One (and so why was it closed during our visit)? These are some of the questions posed to our Year 9 students who went to Blackpool Pleasure Beach on Friday 12th July for the Humanities Enrichment Trip. We were lucky with beautiful weather (but sadly high winds) during our visit and throughout the day staff watched as pupils screamed on Icon, got drenched on Valhalla and enjoyed the view of the park on Ice Blast.

Some of the staff even enjoyed the rides too! At the end of the day, students reluctantly carried their giant teddy bears and Vimto slushies back to the coaches but had smiles on their faces of a good day at the seaside and stories of riding the thrill rides)

The students were a credit to the school showing exceptional behaviour both on the journey and in the park.

D Makin: Head of Humanities

or this year’s Enrichment Day Year 8, pupils were F given a choice of a trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach with follow-up in French and English, or a team sports championship and quiz in school. 100 pupils chose to go to Blackpool and a fabulous day was had by everyone. Despite a drizzly start, the afternoon improved to show the best of British summertime and pupils really enjoyed themselves on the rides and sideshows – plenty of prizes were won by the skilful and deft of hand! Once back in school, pupils have had French lessons about theme park vocabulary and finding their way in a new place, whilst the English department has used the trip as the stimulus for creative writing about a fairground.

or the pupils that remained in school a sports F tournament created an air of excitement that filtered through each of the year eight forms. The morning was spent making banners (with a combination of English and French phrases) and cheers to support form teams during the football contest. Pupils were extremely competitive and took to posting ‘loser’ notes under the doors of other forms, much to the amusement of staff and students!

The football competition was intense, with J Garstang leading the way as coach, all pupils worked hard to win for their form! 8R were victorious and won every match of the day! After a tiresome tournament, the afternoon was spent quizzing in forms. The day was absolutely fantastic, seeing pupils work together as a team and support each other regardless of competition was truly heart-warming.

ear 7 pupils visited the Museum of Science Y and Industry for their curriculum enrichment day. Pupils had the opportunity to take part in a sound workshop where they tested amplitude and frequency using a Ruben’s Tube. They pitched eco-home designs to a panel of experts following a Materials workshop and investigation.

They listened attentively to presentations about the textiles industry and the Manchester Mills, and engaged in a presentation about Stephenson’s “Rocket”, an early steam locomotive that won the Rainhill Trials in 1829. Our budding engineers were also inspired by a trip to the Air & Space Hall. A very enjoyable day was had by all.

Science & Maths Department

or year 10s curriculum enrichment day we F decided to visit the seaside town of New Brighton, on the Wirral. None of the pupils had visited before, so this was a new experience for all, including 3 of the 4 staff who accompanied them.

The pupils brought cameras and phones to take photographs of Liverpool from across the river Mersey that could be used in Art and GCSE projects and we got a fair amount of steps in by walking along the promenade and beach to the main attractions of the town. It was slightly drizzly, but nobody seemed to mind!

Pupils enjoyed activities such as Adventure Golf, Ten Pin Bowling and shopping during their visit. Some groups of pupils went to restaurants for lunch, with a seaside view of Fort Perch Rock. The sun finally came out for the afternoon and put the icing on the cake of a lovely day out.

Miss S Williams

ear 10 with an interest in photography went for an image collecting walk to Y All Saints, Stand and to Philips Country park. We had a fabulous day and even the weather was kind to us. They collected hundreds of images of architecture and nature to bring back into school to edit using Photoshop. Here is a small sample of the images they took, which I’m sure you’ll agree are fantastic. Well done! Art News

n June, a group of year 10 Art and Photography pupils took a trip to the End of Year Exhibition. The I pupils saw work from A Level and BTEC Art, Photography, Textiles, Graphics and Game Design and took lots of photographs to put in their coursework! They were also able to speak to possible future tutors about work and what is expected to progress onto college.

Next year we expect to take a bigger cohort and look at both the Holy Cross Exhibition and the Bury College Exhibition, in order for pupils to have clearer understanding of work and be inspired!

Miss Lindsay

Languages Department

e have had an exciting year of trips and visits in the Languages department!

W In January, twenty Year 9 pupils took part in a languages experience day at the University of Manchester where they scripted and performed their own sketches in French, and then had a taster session of Arabic.

Then in June, twenty-three Year 10 pupils went to a ‘languages at work’ day, also at the University of Manchester. They subtitled short films, had a tour of the university campus and took part in a Q&A session with current students. They were also given the chance to do a taster in a brand new language.

At the end of the summer term and start of the holidays, we will be taking 43 Year 7 and 8 pupils for a long weekend in Paris, to see the sights of this wonderful city, and in summer 2020 we have begun planning our visit to Nice, on the Côte d’Azur. You will be able to see the report of the Paris trip in the next newsletter! Mr N Ralph

Austria 2019

6 staff and 42 pupils headed off to Austria on the last day of term before the Easter holidays, the majority of whom had never skied on snow before! After travelling for 26 hours on the coach and ferry we arrived in our resort, Alpendorf.

We spent 6 days skiing in beautiful conditions, blue skies, sunshine and plenty of snow. The pupils were in ski school for 5 hours a day, overcoming challenges, learning new skills, facing fears but most of all having lots of fun!!

Apres activities included traditional Austrian bowling, quiz night, disco, table , volleyball, shopping and pizza night.

We were extremely proud of all the pupils, their behaviour was exemplary throughout the week, they made loads of progress on the slopes and lots of memories were made.

We have already filled our ski trip for Easter 2020. Mrs K Carinci Duke of Edinburgh

On a sunny day, in early July, a group of 21 intrepid Y10s set out to conquer the wilds of Bolton. Between them they carried enough sweets to put Willy Wonka to shame. Nonetheless off they went into the great unknown. They battled their way to the peak of Rivington Pike, braving the sheep that threatened to bar their way. They negotiated the restored terraced gardens on the way down likening the dry stone walls to the Great Wall of China. A visit to Liverpool castle was next and the discovery of a secret passageway that led nowhere!

On the last leg of day 1 a mysterious tall figure emerged from the flora and fauna. Turned out to be Mr Coldwell who, later at camp, would put us all to shame by delivering a masterclass in how to cook a curry from scratch on a camping stove.

Camp that night was a solemn occasion to begin with. Tired, worn out teenagers trying to light a gas stove with a damp match would have tugged at anyone’s heartstrings. After the hot chocolates and marshmallows everyone picked up and the staff were treated to an impromptu show fit for Broadway. They laughed. They sang. They shouted… a lot.

The second day was overcast and spirits were low as the group set out. Never fear as we had a secret weapon. Mrs Rothwell appeared and brightened everyone’s spirits for the final push to the end.

All participants were impeccably behaved throughout this expedition. A big thankyou must go to the staff who came out to help: Mr Park, Miss Rothwell, Miss Duthie, Mr Coldwell and Mrs Rothwell.

Mr Grundy, Duke of Edinburgh co-ordinator

Summer Concert

ur summer concert this year was a mixture of solos and small group items. There was a real range of style and ability from new starters to more O experienced players. There were several woodwind players performing pieces from recent music exams and ensemble arrangements.

The guitarists showcased solo pieces and the guitar academy did a fantastic performance of ‘Heart of Spain’, whilst the pianists each played a solo slot. The highlights of the night were Hassan’s rendition of ‘Endgame’ on piano and Thomas’s performance of ‘The Acrobat’ on the trombone.

There were also fantastic performances from our vocalists, who grow in confidence and talent year on year. Special thanks to the staff from Bury Music Service who make this possible. Your commitment and support is much appreciated.

Mrs J Dalziel

hanks to the dedicated design crew, Kelsey Gadikor, Scarlett Hamilton, Seth Bagley and Lucca Mollo, who worked tirelessly over a series of weeks to create the back drop for show life. The sponging of a brick design onto fabric seemed T like it would never end! The finished result looked great and really enhanced the amazing talent of the actors, singers and dancers. Thank you also to the caretaker for their invaluable help in putting the back drop up, couldn’t have done it without you. Miss V Craig

h what a night! 20 pupils from across Year 7 – 10 have been working so hard in preparation for their one night only performance of – Show Life! And what a show it was! O

The pupils were spectacular as they performed an original production written by Ms Crossley and Miss Dunn. The show was based on a teen’s journey through high school and the choices and pressures pupils can be faced with in their school careers.

The story was helped along with musical interludes of hit songs from all your favourite west end shows such as ‘hard knock life’ from Annie & ‘Circle of Life’ from Lion King. A huge Thank you to Mrs Dalziel and Miss Williams for their amazing work with the choir and soloists to have the pupils sounding pitch perfect!

I am so immensely proud of the dedication, hard work and level of performance every single pupil inputted into their final performance and I look forward to working with these pupils again!

What a way to show of the spectacular talent we have here at Philips High and what a way to show what true stars our pupils really are!

Miss R Dunn ‘Take to the Stage’ @ RNCM

9 & 10 pupils had an enlightening day learning about possible routes into Further Education in the performing Y arts.

There was an exciting start to the day with live Music in the café area and we were issued with goodie bags!

The day consisted of workshops and panel lectures about the arts. Pupils particularly enjoyed the drama and dance workshops and getting expert advice in the Singing Masterclass. Leah was lucky enough to receive first class vocal coaching from George Crawford, currently performing in ‘The book of Mormon’ at the Palace Theatre.

Pupils also learnt about the back stage possible pathways of set, lighting and sound design, wardrobe and prop roles, and directing.

A thoroughly enjoyable day was had by all, inspiring pupils for their future. Mrs J Dalziel

‘Bury Young Musician of the Year’ 2019

his year the competition was held at St. Gabriel’s High School. Each school get the chance to enter two pupils; one for the vocal T class and one for the instrumental class. Pupils had to perform two contrasting pieces in front of an expert panel of judges and a large musical audience - nerve racking for anyone! Edith and Daniel performed brilliantly. Unfortunately neither of them made it to the final however they received fantastic feedback and are both keen to try again next year. Competitions of this calibre certainly do open our eyes to the breadth of talent out there, with the instrumental class being won by a xylophonist playing at break neck speed with several beaters in both hands. Congratulations to both of our pupils for having the guts to get up there and perform. You are both fantastic! Mrs J Dalziel Y11 Leavers Prom

ear 11 Leavers 2019 of Philips the white chairs. Their year group photo High School celebrated their 5 was placed at their seat with years at school with an personalised sweets. amazing Prom at the Village Y Hotel, Bury. Lots of family and friends turned up to see the arrival of their son’s The evening started with their buffet meal and daughter’s arriving in their beautiful and then we did the awards which pupils suits and dresses. had voted for. We were extremely proud to award the Prom King and Queen to Nicoli Nabi and Molly Alexander. Students had made so much effort in Following the awards the pupils danced their preparation and luckily the rain the night away, it was difficult to get them stayed away for that hour whilst they all off the dance floor because our DJ arrived. Once they said goodbye to Tomkill knew exactly how to keep them their family and had posed for hundreds on their feet. of photographs they made their way into the venue, and what a venue it was. The room was amazing with black white and It was a lovely night had by all and we silver balloons which were all made by wish the Leavers 2019 the very best for Vicky at ABC Balloons in Radcliffe, their future, they will be sadly missed by candle tea lights flickered away, the silver all at Philips High and we look forward to sequins glistened on the lovely black seeing them on results day in August. tablecloths which contrasted perfectly to J Bailey

Captain Lou Rudd MBE visits Philips High School

Captain Lou Rudd MBE is the first and only Briton to trek unaided across Antarctica.

Captain Lou Rudd, 49, finished his gruelling 925-mile journey after 56 days.

The Englishman became only the second person in history to complete the expedition without any assistance after American endurance athlete Colin O’Brady finished the day before him.

Capt Rudd, a motor transport officer based at the Infantry Battle School in Brecon, Mid Wales, said he was “delighted” to have finished the expedition, which he undertook in memory of close friend and explorer Henry Worsley, who died attempting the unassisted solo trip, collapsing from exhaustion towards the end of the trek.

Captain Rudd visited Philips High School today to speak to pupils, parents and grandparents about his expedition, he also spoke about others whose journeys inspired him. The Terra Nova Expedition in 1912 which was led by Robert Scott, where unfortunately all on the team died but later it was found if they had done an extra 11 steps per day on their expedition that chances are they would have survived. Captain Rudd spoke to our students and said no matter what whilst he was doing his trek, when he was ready to stop for the day, he always made sure he did those extra 11 steps. Captain Rudd emphasized to our students that this is the same mentality they should be taking in their own studies and ambitions, to always go the extra steps.

There were lots of questions asked by our students which included our new Cadets for the school’s Combined Cadets Force Course which starts in September 2019. Questions asked where ‘what was your best memory’, ‘what was your biggest mistake on the expedition’, ‘what happened when your ski broke’, and the most comment question ‘how did you go to the toilet’.

Captain Rudd spoke to our students after the talk and showed them the equipment he used for his expedition.

This was an amazing opportunity for our school to have such an influential person to come and speak to us about his life and journey. We are looking forward to seeing the movie in the future about his expedition, and who better to direct the movie than local Danny Boyle and Brad Pitt to play Captain Rudd.

Holy Cross STEM day 2019

10 year 9 pupils attended Holy Cross college to embark on various Science and Technology projects. Projects included E-fit, building racing cars and computer control of robots. The pupils acquitted themselves well as usual and the school was able to win one of the four prizes on offer for the day. Pupils worked with other schools and I was delighted when the organisers praised two of our group for their outstanding contribution and team spirit with other schools. We look forward to participating for a 15th year next year.

C Clayton

Both staff and pupils had a fantastic time during the fun run activities.

Stationary on sale in the Library

Ties (Years 7-9) £6.00 Ties (Years 10-11) £7.00 Swipe cards £3.00 Black Pens 20p Red Pens 20p Pencils 20p Rulers 50p Erasers 15p Pencil Sharpeners 15p Highlighters 50p Glue Stick 80p Pencil Case £1.20 Filled Pencil Case £2.50 Calculators £5.50 Maths Geometry Set £1.70 Revision Guides Various

A new way to record, track and monitor homework at Philips High School

Online tool, Show My Homework, was recently launched to help you keep track of your child’s home- work. This gives you;

 24/7 access to your child’s homework  A view of the quality and quantity of homework  Free apps for your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android devices  Automated notifications of homework due date

For more information please read the help sheet on the school webpage.

Appointments

Years 7-9

All pupils must be collected from reception by a parent / carer or responsible adult aged over 18 years. A letter or appointment card to be handed in at reception when signing out.

Years 10 & 11

Pupils are allowed to make their own way to appointments if they have a letter of authorisation from a parent / carer or a phone call has been received by office staff (letters must be handed in at reception and either copied or kept as confirmation evidence)

Unwell Pupils

Head Of Year must authorise pupils to go home (unless medical emergency).

All pupils to be collected from reception by a parent / carer or responsible adult over 18 years. Depending on the nature of illness some pupils are allowed to be sent home via taxi if the parent /carer requests – Head Of Year must authorise this.

Parking around Philips High School

Parents/Carers should be considerate when parking around the school area. You should NOT block any residents' driveways.

The Police and the Traffic Enforcement Officers from the Local Authority are now pa- trolling all schools in the Whitefield Area on a rota basis. They have and will issue fines for vehicles incorrectly parked/blocking driveways etc.

Thanking you in anticipation, Ms T Owen

Online /telephone payment for school meals

To help make it as easy as possible for you to pay for school meals we have introduced an e- payments system which allows you to pay for school meals over the internet www.bury.gov.uk/ payforit or by phone 0845 305 2197.

Please contact school should you require your child's individual log in details to enable you to benefit from this system.

BURY ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019 PHS OVERALL WINNERS AGAIN

hilips High School took part in the Bury School Athletics Championships on 2 July 2019 at the Bury tracks alongside another 14 schools. Philips High is proud to announce that they came 1st in the overall event and this is the 11th P time in 17 years Philips High has achieved this. Lots of students from year 7 to 11 took part in the events with some outstanding results. Anya Williams in year 7 received a Gold for 100 metres run and two Silver awards for 200 metres and the relay. Romario Swaby in year 11 received a Gold for the discus and three Silver awards for 100 and 200 metres and the relay. Charlie Ireland in year 10 received two Gold awards for 800 and 300 metres run and one Silver for the long jump. The year 8/9 girls team walked away with four Gold and two Bronze awards out of ten events.

The pupils worked extremely hard with their training and special thanks goes to their coaches Mr Carinci, Mrs Carinci, Mrs Davies and Mr Barlow who have dedicated their time to coaching the young athletes to aim for their best athletic sporting potential. MEDAL WINNERS

GOLD Yr 7 REECE LYDEN – RELAY

ANYA WILLIAMS – 100M KIAN BYWATER – RELAY ALISTAIR REED – RELAY Yr 8/9 JOSH CROPPER – RELAY FREYA POTTS - 1500M ROSELLA TOGO – HIGH JUMP SUMMER WHITFIELD – RELAY Yr 10/11 DEBORAH EDE – RELAY CHARLIE IRELAND – 800M, 300M ANNA KEELING – RELAY, LONG JUMP ROMARIO SWABY – DISCUS MILLIE ASHWORTH-HILL – RELAY DAANISH SULAMAN – JAVELIN

SILVER

Yr 7 Yr 10/11 LOLA POTTS – 1500M, RELAY LACHLAN BURKE – 1500M ANYA WILLIAMS – 200M, RELAY ROMARIO SWABY – 100M, 200M, RELAY HOLLY WATSON – RELAY BAILEY DAWES – RELAY, LONG JUMP SARAH EDE - RELAY RYAN MUKOKA – RELAY Yr 8/9 TYLER CASTLE – RELAY ALISTAIR REED – JAVELIN CHARLIE IRELAND – LONG JUMP KIAN BYWATER - DISCUS

BRONZE

Yr 7 ROSELLA TOGO – SHOT

JIMI CLIFT – 100M, 200M ROBBY HALLAM – TRIPLE JUMP

Yr 8/9 Yr 10/11

DEBORAH EDE – 100M SETH LEACH – 800M

JOSH CROPPER – 300M HALLE DAVIES-FERNEYHOUGH – DISCUS

KIAN BYWATER – 100M BAILEY DAWES – HIGH JUMP

Football

e managed to advance through most first round matches this year. The Year 11’s were very close to reaching the final and to W playing their game at . Unfortunately, we narrowly lost to St Gabriel’s 3-2 at home in the semi-final.

The year 10’s played away at in the quarter-finals, the pitch was in excellent condition allowing Y10 Football Team for a high level of technical ability to be displayed. Tyler Castle scored two goals for Philips but we lost 3.2.

. Rugby

All year 7, 8 and 9 rugby teams progressed out of the Bury group to play in the finals at the AJ Bell Stadium.

Y7 Rugby Team Y8 Rugby Team Y9 Rugby Team

Rounders

he year 10 girls were runners up in the Bury Schools Rounder’s tournament, they lost narrowly to St Monicas. Leah T Taylor and Olivia Cokayne were brilliant in the field and Olivia Robinson batted very well.

Y10 Rounder’s Team INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENTS IN SPORT

ongratulations to Anya Williams,

C Best player Manchester Thunder

ongratulations to Victoria and Samantha Durigon who both competed in the Barcelona dance championship.

C Victoria achieved 2 first place awards, 2 Platinum Awards, Outstanding Performer Award and 2nd place in the Teen/Senior Competition.

Samantha achieved 2 first place awards, 2 Platinum Medals, The Broadway Bound Awards and first place in the Junior competition.

ongratulations to Chloe Scott Banks for representing England in the World Dance C Championships, Croatia.

7I Adopt a Panda

7I had a bake sale and raised an astonishing £87.27 to adopt a Panda. The form worked great as a team and were determination to achieve their goal. The form have now adopted a Qinling panda found in the Tai- bai County of Shaanxi Province, Central China. Within the welcome pack there was a cuddly toy which the form have named Oreo. The form team leader Melissa Morris put the most determination and great effort into this project.

After adopting the panda there was £20 left over and the form teacher Mrs Hazzelby Owens made the self- less decision to donate the rest of the money to the homeless.

Thank-you to everyone who supported 7I. School Day and Bell Times

Bell to allow children onto corridors 8:35am

Registration / Assembly 8:40 – 9:00am

PERIOD 1 9:00 – 10:00am

PERIOD 2 10:00 – 11:00am

BREAK (warning of end of break bell to ring at 11.10 am) 11:00 – 11:15am

PERIOD 3 11:15 – 12:15pm

PERIOD 4 12:15 – 1:15pm

LUNCH (warning to move to form rooms bell to ring at 1.45pm) 1:15 – 1:50pm

Registration 1.50 – 2:00pm

PERIOD 5 2:00 – 3:00pm Up to 60 minutes detention without notice and without 4:00pm parental permission

Arrangements for the End of Term and the First Day of Term

School closes for the Summer Break on Friday 19th July at 12:15pm

The new school year begins on Monday 2nd September at times below:

Year Group Start Time All Pupils Year 7 11:15am Report to Year 10 11:35am the Year 8 11:55am HALL Year 9 12:15pm on arrival Year 11 12:35pm

All pupils will finish at 2:00pm, phased dismissal by Head of Year.

25 Years of Service

Thank you to Elaine McCaffery for 25 years of loyal and dedicated services to Bury Local Authority and Philips High School.

GOODBYES

Sadly we say goodbye to the following colleagues whom we wish all the very best for the future;

Trish Shepherd - Head of Food - 21 years service Channy Patel - Maths - 3 years service Emily Duthie - History - 2 years service Jordanne Armstrong - Maths - 1 years service Louise Crompton - Attendance Officer - 5 years service

You are cordially invited to attend our Open Evening Thursday 26th September 2020 6:00pm - 8:00pm Open Day Friday 27th September 2020 The school will be open for visits 9:15am—10:45am

Produced and edited by Mrs L Waring