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  • Our Pass Applications 2022

    Published 06/04/22

    The Our Pass application portal is opening earlier this year for young people across Greater Manchester. It’s the membership pass for 16-18 year olds that they and their families can use to save up to £500 a year in bus travel costs. Our Pass will open for applications from the 3 May 2022. It’s a membership scheme that gives school leavers a free bus pass, plus all sorts of special offers, discounts and experiences – designed to support young people at a crucial moment in their lives.

    To apply, students need to go to: ourpass.co.uk find out more below.

    What is Our Pass?

    Our Pass is a UK first, a simple scheme that ensures that all eligible 16-18 year olds in Greater Manchester have the chance to become an Our Pass member – and gain access to two things: free bus travel, and exclusive experiences:

    Travel. For a one-off £10 administration fee, Our Pass provides free travel on most local buses across Greater Manchester. It also gives members half-price off peak 1 day and weekend travelcards on Metrolink.
    Exclusives. Membership also unlocks exclusive offers and experiences that range from discounts and event tickets to careers talks, tasters and workshops.

    When can students apply?

    Applications for this year’s membership (which starts on 1 September) open on 3 May. Those who are eligible this year must live in Greater Manchester and have been born between 1 September 2004 and 31 August 2006. Once they have applied, students will be posted their cards in late August, ready for use on 1 September.

    We don’t want any eligible school leaver or college student to miss out. Can you help spread the word, and support your students as they apply?

    How can students apply?

    Students need to go to: ourpass.co.uk They will also need to have some documents ready, and a valid payment card (so that they can pay the one-off £10 administration fee).
    The documents and information they will need:
    – An email address
    – Passport-style photograph
    – Proof of date of birth
    – Proof that they live in Greater Manchester
    – A valid payment card

    How can I support students?

    Some young people find the applications process difficult and sometimes applications are rejected – often, because the photo, proof of address or date of birth documents have been uploaded process hard, please encourage them to look at the information and diagrams on this web page: ourpass.co.uk/before-you-get-started. They can also call Transport for Greater Manchester’s Customer Services team for help, on 0300 232 0777 (open Mon-Fri 7am-8pm-and 8am-8pm at weekends).

    What about students who don’t have internet access?

    They can apply using a paper application form, which they can collect from a TfGM Travelshop. They can pay the fee in the Travelshops by cash or by card. Nearest Travelshops can be found at: tfgm.com/public-transport/travelshops

    What are Our Pass Exclusives?
    The Our Pass website contains an exciting range of discounts special offers and experiences. Our members have accessed Exclusive offers, from free theatre and gig tickets, merchandise, free swimming, sport and leisure centre passes, and career taster days and experiences only available to Our Pass website members – please encourage students to sign up (this is a separate process to the Our Pass card registration).

    Why does Our Pass matter?

    The only scheme of its kind in the UK, Our Pass supports young people at a crucial moment in their lives. As they leave school at 16, they face decisions that will shape their future. These aren’t easy decisions to make, as they make them – challenges
    Coronavirus pandemic. Our Pass tackles these challenges head on. Membership not only improves accessibility to jobs and learning through free bus travel – essential to those who couldn’t otherwise afford it – but through its membership opens up a world of experiences, connections and opportunities that they might not otherwise discover. Our Pass broadens the horizons of our young people, in every sense.

    More information

    All queries about the application process, problems in applying, and use of the travel card: help@ourpass.co.uk
    For more information and feedback about Our Pass, and Our Pass Exclusives: opportunities@ourpass.info

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  • Year 10 GMHAP Launch Event

    Published 04/04/22

    The online Year 10 GMHAP launch event will take place on Wednesday 4 May at 6pm

    Greater Manchester High Achievers Partnership (GMHAP) is a partnership between Loreto College, The University of Manchester and high schools across Greater Manchester. GMHAP focuses on inspiring the brightest students to academic success through masterclasses in a range of subjects. The partnership has been a great success for the students, not only in terms of personal development and being stretched to achieve the highest grades at GCSE, but also for progression beyond college. Many of those taking part have gone on to study at some of the most prestigious universities in the country, including Oxford and Cambridge

    Throughout the year the main focus of GMHAP is subject specific masterclasses designed to support and extend students’ understanding and engagement with the new GCSE curriculum in keys areas including English, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, French, Spanish and Geography. There are also other events which take place throughout the year.

    The launch event will give more detail on the GMHAP Programme, we hope you can take part!

    On the evening there is no need to register, you just need to access the event via this link: bit.ly/3DwvXYZ and click the box that says ‘Watch on the web instead’

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  • A wonderful week of celebration!​​​​​​​

    Published 01/04/22

    What an amazing half-term we’ve had with our students excelling themselves at every turn and demonstrating our Ways of Being. To celebrate this we’ve had a week of recognition events to reward those students who have gone above and beyond.

    Delicious Doughnuts!

    Firstly this week the students who had received ZERO Behaviour Points for the whole half-term received a voucher for a free doughnut and what an excited queue we had on Tuesday collecting their doughnut from Principal, Mrs Ali!

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  • British Science Week 2022​​​​​​​

    Published 24/03/22

    Our students from every Year Group have just completed a week of activities for British Science Week around this years’ theme of ‘Growth’ 🌱.

    The week-long programme of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths events was designed to inspire our future minds and our students really excelled themselves. From planting seeds and monitoring their progress, to building spaghetti towers, quizzes and designing posters, it’s certainly been a fun packed week.

    You can see from these photos that they have really enjoyed the activities and we’re told their favourite task was to grow a plant…with some seeds already starting to sprout!

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  • Actions Have Consequences Workshops​​​​​​​

    Published 11/03/22

    This week we have been thrilled to welcome into our academy Paul McGovern MBE, the HMP Manchester Community Team and several GMP Salford Police Officers for workshops with our Year Groups 7, 8, 9 and 10 as part of their ‘Actions Have Consequences’ programme and ‘Save a life, drop the knife’ campaign.

    Paul and the team have been delivering these sessions to schools nationwide since 2009. The informative and hard-hitting sessions deal with the effects of anti-social behaviour including knife crime, gangs, drug use and violence and the importance of staying safe online. The programme builds bridges between local children, teachers, local neighbourhood policing teams, school based officers and the youth offending team.

    Paul, a serving prison officer dog handler with HMP Manchester, delivered the engaging sessions with real life stories and examples of the cases he’s dealt with, what it is like to be in prison and the effects that the actions of the inmates have on their victims and their families.

    On the second say of workshops we were also honoured to be joined by Superintendent Caroline Hemingway-Head of Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit, Detective Inspector Roger Edwards-Greater Manchester Violence Reduction Unit, Michelle Metcalfe-Deputy Governor at HMP Manchester who all also spoke to our Year 7 and 8 cohorts reinforcing the warnings around anti-social behaviour.

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  • Year 7 World of Work Day​​​​​​​

    Published 10/03/22

    Yesterday our Year 7 students took part in a ‘World of Work Day’ as part of National Careers Week.

    In rotation the students visited seven presenters from different sectors of the world of work. These included; the Dakota Hotel for hospitality and HR and a chef for catering, Greater Manchester Police, Manchester United Foundation, Digital Bees from the Co-operative Bank, B&K Business and Salford College. The presenters told them all about the places where they work, how they got into their chosen career and the opportunities available to our students. 

    We would like to offer a huge thank you to all of the presenters for giving up their time to share their knowledge and experience with us. Our Year 7 cohort really enjoyed the sessions.

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  • PlanBEE Manchester Higher Apprenticeship Programme

    Published 21/02/22

    Are you in Year 11 and interested in a career in design and construction? Have you though about an apprenticeship?

    PlanBEE Manchester is a new and unique higher apprenticeship programme in Design, Construction and Management where you’ll earn and learn with some of the city’s leading employers.

    Developed by Manchester City Council, Manchester Life, Ryder Architecture, and Gateshead College, the programme prepares you for a career in in building design and construction with a strong emphasis on digital skills and collaborative working.

    You’ll earn while you learn on schemes including the Our Town Hall project to restore, repair and partially refurbish Manchester Town Hall, Manchester Life’s developments in Ancoats and The Factory arts venue.

    During the 2 year programme, you’ll rotate around different employers and be taught multiple disciplines within the sector, including architecture, structural and building services engineering and management and project and cost management on various schemes.

    You will complete a Higher Apprenticeship programme in Design, Construction and Management, underpinned by HNC/D, providing a pathway to progression at a wide range of universities.

    You’ll spend one day a week studying and developing your knowledge in building design and performance through a combination of lectures, tutorials, field work and site visits. There are five areas of study with each module ending in an integrated team based project:

    • Leadership
    • Economics
    • Design
    • Technology
    • Production

    Find out more: www.gateshead.ac.uk/planbee/Manchester

    Or download their information booklet below:

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  • Year 11 Revision Sessions : February Half-term

    Published 14/02/22

    During our February half-term we will be holding History and English Literature revision sessions open to all students in Year 11.

    This is a great opportunity to revise, in-person with our teachers from these faculties.

    On Monday 21 February Mr Greenhalgh and Mr Jones will be delivering a History workshop between 9am and 11am

    On Tuesday 22 February Mr Hood and Mrs Fagan will be delivering an English Literature workshop between 10am-12noon

    Please encourage your child to attend.

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  • Train to Teach with Co-op Academies

    Published 11/02/22

    Andy Gibson- Head of Early Career Framework with Initial Teacher Training

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  • Year 7 Chinese New Year Dragon Challenge

    Published 09/02/22

    Yesterday we held our Year 7 assembly and the judging of their MFL Chinese New Year Dragon Challenge.

    What an amazing showcase of their creativity, commitment and resilience and the culmination of weeks of hard work from all Form Groups.

    In honour of Chinese New Year our entire Year 7 cohort were tasked with creating their very own Chinese dragon using a minimum of ten cardboard boxes. Their brief stated they must be prepared to explain how they created and decorated their dragon and also use some Chinese symbols.

    In front of a strict judging panel, including Head of Academy Mrs Ali and our guest Mr Rob Neal from Swire Chinese Language Centre Manchester, each of our Form Groups stepped up to present their wonderfully elaborate and colourful creations.

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  • Girls 2 Women Project with Manchester United Foundation

    Published 09/02/22

    Earlier this week, as part of their Girls 2 Women Project with Manchester United Foundation, a cohort of our Year 7 girls completed the ‘Poncho Task’.

    This consisted of students creating a poncho from flip chart paper, then moving round the room and writing on the back of other student’s ponchos the things they appreciated about that person.

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  • SEND Drop-in Sessions​​​​​​​

    Published 28/01/22

    Mr Dodd is currently acting as our SENDCo at the academy in the absence of Mr Daly.

    He is now inviting identified parents/carers of children into the academy to meet him and some of the SEND support staff to discuss any concerns they may have around their child’s provision in school, their strengths and areas where we can support them further.

    During the visits parents/carers will be able to look at their child’s ‘Learning Passport’ and discuss any changes you would like to see implemented. They will be able to see the online packages their child has access to in school, and at home to improve their numeracy and literacy. These packages have been paid for by school and are aimed at consolidating and extending students’ understanding of numeracy and literacy. Ideally students should spend at least 20-30 minutes on this per day. We cannot stress enough the importance of utilising these online programmes.

    After February half term we are also introducing some new Intervention Sessions before school, during lunch and after school. The clubs are listed below and more information will be given during the drop-in sessions in February.

    Letters have been posted home to those students who Mr Dodd needs to meet with. When you receive your letter, please could you indicate which session you plan to attend, this will help us with staffing the different times. You can arrive at our Main Reception at any time during the allocated times and we envisage your visit to be around 15-30 minutes.

    We look forward to meeting you and working with both yourself and child in our SEND department.

    New Intervention Sessions from Monday 28 February 2022

    Handwriting Club
    Monday 8am-8:25am in TE6
    Tuesday 8am-8:25am in TE6

    Dyslexia Gold / IDL / Private Study
    Every morning 8am-8:25am in TE5 and the STRIVE Centre

    Homework Club
    Every day after school 2:55pm-3:30pm

    Lunchtime Club
    Every lunch in the STRIVE Centre (option of social and learning time)

    Existing Intervention Sessions for Identified Students

    Nurture
    Two lessons per week during curriculum time

    EAL
    Five lessons per week for intense English intervention

    Reading Club
    1:1 sessions aimed at improving literacy and understanding texts

    Year 7 Dyslexia Gold
    Each student on SEN register attends one afternoon form time session

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