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Audenshaw School breaks away from council to become academy

Audenshaw School Headmaster Mr Steve Turner

Audenshaw School was granted Academy Status by the Secretary of State for Education on 1 September 2010.

The school is one of only 32 schools who were given permission to convert by the start of the new academic year.

Headmaster Mr Steve Turner said: “We are delighted that the school has been able to achieve Academy Status for the start of the school year. There has been a long history, at Audenshaw School, of autonomy and independence.

Date published: 03/09/2010

Inspirational teenager is Neighbourhood Champion

John Lomas-Wilson collects his Neighbourhood Champion award from Carol Matthews, Chief Executive of Guinness Northern Counties.

A teenager from Ashton-under-Lyne who triumphed over personal difficulties and became an inspirational tenant whilst living in supported housing has been given a Neighbourhood Champion...

Date published: 29/08/2010

Record GCSE Results for Tameside Schools

Official GCSE results have now been released confirming that Tameside pupils have registered the borough’s best ever results by a big margin.

For the first time Tameside Secondary School pupils have achieved at the national level with a superb 69% of pupils achieving 5 or more A*-C grades. This is a 9% improvement on last year, which is twice as much as the national...

Date published: 24/08/2010

Colours of Life

Food being prepared for the event

Level 2 Catering students recently organised a charity event at Ashton Town Hall with the assistance of Level 1 students and first year BTEC students.

The ‘Colours of Life’ event was...

Date published: 24/08/2010

Pupil misses university place - despite three A*s and two As

Meera Mistry, 18, from Ashton Under Lyne was rejected from four medical schools after gaining three A*s and two As.

A second Greater Manchester teenager who fled war-torn Afghanistan three years ago has also failed to win a university place - despite gaining five A grades and one A* at A-level, reports the Daily Mail.

Rohilla Maarji, 18, was rejected by four medical...

Date published: 21/08/2010

National pass rate smashed again

Jade Greenwood will be studying Law and Criminology at Salford University in September

Hyde Clarendon students achieved an amazing 99.5% pass rate at A level, beating the national average of 97.6% and exceeding last years outstanding pass rates of 99%.

Over two thirds of...

Date published: 20/08/2010

Continued Success with Key Stage 2 Results

Children in school

It’s good news for Tameside’s primary schools, where results for Key Stage 2 pupils (aged 11) are at or above national averages for the sixth consecutive year.

Results for maths are...

Date published: 16/08/2010

Beat exam result stress with ChildLine

Beat exam result stress with ChildLine

A leading helpline service for children and young people has put some top tips together for pupils in who may be anxiously waiting for their exam results.

The NSPCC’s ChildLine service...

Date published: 12/08/2010

Audenshaw wins academy status

Audenshaw School has won its bid to become an academy school.

It is one of the 900 schools deemed ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted to be given the go-ahead by the coalition government to acquire the status from September.

Schools will have more freedom over their schools curriculum, term times and the length of the school day, budgets, buildings, and are also free to set their...

Date published: 09/08/2010

Induction Day

Hyde Clarendon hosted a successful Induction Day for prospective students that will join the college in September.
After an initial welcome, the students were split into tutor groups and spent some time getting to know each other by taking part in ice breaker games and finding out what life at college will be like. Subject tutors then ran short workshops giving students a...

Date published: 28/07/2010

The Annual Bakery Students Conference

Success in the Bakery Department

The Annual Bakery Students Conference is an extra curricular event which enriches our students. They have an opportunity to meet other students on Bakery programmes from all over the UK and...

Date published: 24/07/2010

Pupils given cyber bullies advice

PCSO Biddle with school pupils and sticker designs

Police in Tameside recently visited a primary school to tell pupils how to stay safe when using the internet.

Year five and six children attending St Stephen’s Roman Catholic Primary...

Date published: 23/07/2010

Annual Food Studies Competition

Winners at the Annual Food Studies Competition

The Annual Food Studies competition was held in the Courtyard Theatre again this year with a fantastic display of what our talented students do best. As always the students produced some...

Date published: 23/07/2010

Pupils show they have flower power

Tameside in Bloom, 1st: Greswell Primary School, Denton - £100 prize

Tameside schools got blooming this year by entering a new gardening competition. 18 schools were provided with a planter, compost and summer bedding plants. The schools then had free reign...

Date published: 23/07/2010

Bridal Fayre

Bridal Fayre

BTEC National Hospitality students had 12 weeks to organise a wedding fayre this term as part of their assessment for planning and organising an event. The event took place at Dukinfield...

Date published: 21/07/2010

GW celebrates end of tour at Tameside Arts Festival

GW Theatre Company marked the end of its highly successful six month tour of ‘One Extreme to the Other’ by performing the hard hitting, award winning production, at Mossley Hollins High School

Following its Parliamentary Premiere at Westminster, GW Theatre Company will mark the end of its highly successful six month tour of ‘One Extreme to the Other’ by performing the hard...

Date published: 18/07/2010

Tameside high achievers shown route to top career

Engineering graduates from Tameside College Career Academy June 2010

High achieving school leavers will get the chance to learn about landing a top career in engineering through a dedicated open evening for this industry at Tameside College this month....

Date published: 06/07/2010

Greswell Gets the Gold

Greswell Primary School, in Denton, is one of a small number of schools in the North West to achieve Gold Standard Investors in People (IIP) status.

Greswell Primary has now become an Investors in People Champion School The school now stands out as one of only 8 schools and 180 businesses in the North West to achieve this status.

Date published: 06/07/2010

Computer Wizards

Left to right: Matthew Simpson, Thomas Jackson, Thomas Williams

The National Diploma in Computing at Hyde Clarendon has been exceptionally successful this year with fantastic achievement from all of their students. 90% of the class have achieved three...

Date published: 05/07/2010

Footballer Aid

An injured footballer receiving treatment

Level 4 Sports Massage students recently volunteered their services at a charity match at Manchester City football ground. They were responsible for looking after the players before, during...

Date published: 04/07/2010

Public Services Students Take to the Road

Concurrent activity to ensure the casualty is extracted safely but quickly

Public Services students at Hyde Clarendon recently took part in a pre-driver awareness day at Hyde Fire Station. The day involved a number of activities and was designed to make the...

Date published: 03/07/2010

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