ISSUE No.11 SADDLEWORTH SCHOOL MAGAZINE 2019/2020 Page 09 Page 14 Page 22 Page 26 SKI TRIP COMPUTING LIVE ANNIE PROM Our annual ski trip to Disneyland Paris Our musical production Saddleworth Hotel Innsbruck Seefeld, Innsbruck February 2020 - CONTENTS- - LETTER FROM THE HEAD- A value driven school 03 FOREWORD 30 FOSS Headteacher's letter Fundraising events Saddleworth School is a value driven school. This means of every opportunity”, and this applies to students and staff that every decision we make and everything that we do alike. We were all proud to take part in our annual sponsored 04 ARTS FESTIVAL 32 CHARITABLE GIVING and say should reflect those values. It all sounds very high walk where our students build on their great commitment Plastics revolution Raising money for good causes brow, but about five years ago we did a lot of work as a to raise money for charities as well as funds to support year school around our moral purpose and from this came our group activities by quite literally going the extra mile through 06 ART TRIP 34 EXAM RESULTS DAY values which provide us with a reference point to make the beautiful countryside we are so fortunate to work in. At the Whitworth Art gallery Congratulations to all our students sure that all that we do is done for the right reason and It is easy to take the wonderful art and photography work in the right way, and also on the occasions when things permanently displayed in our hall for granted, but it is yet 07 DOVETAILS 35 CHANGING HORIZONS don’t go as planned or hoped. another example of students grasping the opportunity to Voices in Verse At the Queen Elizabeth Hall find something they are good at and really shine. Our mission as a school is “To empower and inspire” and this is reflected in all of our outward facing materials It is perhaps even more important now than ever before, 08 SKI TRIP 36 TECHNOLOGY & and we believe that this applies to all staff, students given the current crisis we find ourselves in, that we hold fast Annual trip to Innsbruck PHOTOGRAPHY TRIPS and Governors of the school. Our mission statement to our values. We very often sign off our correspondence Out in Manchester and values are on the school website, but it is worth with “stay well and stay safe”, and this is not simply a 10 WORK EXPERIENCE refocussing on them in this article of The Voice because platitude, but comes from the heart. As I leave Saddleworth Pupils share their experience 37 MMRC it is important that they are not simply words, but borne in the summer, one of the things I will take with me is the Transforming the Library out in action. incredible sense of how much everyone genuinely cares 12 PAST STUDENT about and cares for each other. The weeks following the Our values state that Saddleworth School is a place where: lockdown and the partial closure of the school have thrown SPOTLIGHT 38 THE DAILY NEWS up many challenges to the staff and students of the school, Roshni Parmar-Hill Stem Day success • We each feel that we are valued by and belong to the both physical and emotional. As our students and parents Saddleworth family cope with the strange new world of home schooling, and • All work hard and are considerate and courteous 13 MUSIC FOR YOUTH PROM 40 GO COMPOSE those in school with the strangely quiet atmosphere of Royal Albert Hall Youth music project towards each other socially distanced learning in classes of 6, it is all the more • There is a strong belief in and practice of “can do and important that we work hard and put down the foundations will do” 14 COMPUTING LIVE 41 MISSION CHRISTMAS for future learning, and be “nice” to each other in the way • We all embrace opportunity Paris Trip Delivering presents that we care for and support each other through these • We are all encouraged to nurture and develop our difficult times. When we look through the wonderful articles passion in this magazine, we are reminded of what a fantastic place 16 DUKE OF EDINBURGH 42 FESTIVE CHEER • Everyone has a shared sense of community or of Saddleworth School is to work and learn in; they also provide Silver Award Christmas Concert themselves Bronze Award Community Service Carol Service inspiration and an aspiration of what might be again once • We develop a sense of our place within the global Senior Citizens Christmas Party we work our way through the truly insane times in which we community Community Christmas Carols find ourselves. 19 HISTORY TRIP • There is strong mutual respect, pride in self and in London others, tolerance and collaboration Stay well and stay safe. 44 FISHING TRIP • We all model the behaviours of responsible and Les Webbers Angling Project 20 MFL successful individuals promoting aspirational attitudes Highlight on Language Trips and enabling fulfilment of potential in others 45 NATIONAL SUPPORT • We have a community based on equality and opportunity in which all are valued and can and do 22 MUSICAL PRODUCTION SCHOOL Dave Watson Annie What it means access • We embrace success and take pride in our own Headteacher achievements and those of others 24 SPORTS AWARDS 46 FAMILY HUB Sporting achievements Supporting families It is my great privilege as Headteacher, to be able to speak with the staff at the start of each week on all that 26 PROM NIGHT 48 SUCCESS has happened the previous week that has been great At the Saddleworth Hotel Sporting highlights and reflects our values. We have so many examples of staff and students going the extra mile for the school 28 PRESENTATION 50 IN LOVING MEMORY and for each other. We have seen fantastic musical and Tribute to Barrie sporting performances, and every student grasping the EVENING opportunity to speak about their learning and share it Recognition of achievements with their teachers, parents and peers during the PDR days. Alongside the PDR days we have seen arts, literary 29 MATHS TRIPS and sporting events that our students have grasped with Inspirational trips both hands, and as I visit classrooms in the school every day, I see fantastic teaching and learning taking place. Our values essentially break down into a simpler form as “Work hard, be nice to each other and make the very best 2 voice voice 3 - ARTS FESTIVAL- Plastics Revolution During the four days of the Arts Festival, students and of seabirds, dying of starvation, some with the equivalent, staff explored issues around plastic pollution in the in human terms, of twelve pizzas’ worth of plastic in their world today and came up with practical solutions and stomachs. alternatives that we can all adopt in order to make our Finally, we explored recent discoveries about microplastics, contribution towards mitigating this environmental crisis. which may ultimately affect our own health, being found At the start of the day, students arrived at the door of in the air and in food such as shellfish, salt and honey. We Boarshurst Band Club to find that they would only be reflected on the way that microplastics are now found in admitted entry if they were wearing plastic. A few bemused plankton, and the importance of these creatures as both faces soon came to realise that blazers, ties, etc. all contain a food source for our ocean species, and in terms of the polyester and nylon. Many realised that the soles of most immense contribution they make in providing over fifty 1. Replace single use water bottles and disposable of our shoes are plastic-based too. The purpose behind this percent of the oxygen we breathe. We explained that the cups with refillable alternatives. task was to encourage students to reflect on how ubiquitous concern for scientists – and us all – is that we don’t know the 2. Avoid cling-film to wrap sandwiches, replacing it plastic is today – we are almost ‘blind’ to its usage. long-term implications of all of these findings. with reusable lunch boxes, recyclable foil, etc. Having explored artwork inspired by the need to spread To conclude, we asked students to make one pledge – a 3. Use a metal rather than a plastic straw. the word on the impact of plastic pollution, we encouraged change that they could make in the way they use single- students to think about all the plastic they had encountered use plastics. To support them with this, we explored 4. Use a refillable pen/fountain pen – plastic is still since getting up in the morning: toothpaste tubes, cereal various options, which are being trialled by the leaders of involved, but quantities are less. packets and milk containers were all examples. the session. We discussed the negative and positive cost 5. Find out if there is a glass milk bottle delivery in implications of some of these alternatives, alongside the In light of the fact that we as a school want to make your area. idea that the simple polite refusal of plastics after paying for changes to the way we use single-use plastic, we started goods at our supermarket tills– a strategy recently explained 6. Replace plastic-based wet wipes with washable to encourage students to consider how just making one on the BBC ‘War Against Plastics’ programme, and popular alternatives that can just go in with your washing. change can have immense impact when we make those with many social media groups – is still a pledge in itself. changes together, the example of single-use plastic water 7.