In The Spotlight #19 - Chorlton High School - Newsletter, Autumn 2019

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CHORLTON HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE AUTUMN 2019

GREASE IS THE WORD ALSO INSIDE: CHS GENERAL ELECTION EDUCATE AWARDS ANTI-BULLYING OPEN EVENING

HELLO...

Welcome to the latest edition of In The Spotlight.

Inside you will find all of our fantastic news, achievements and successes here at Chorlton High School.

CHS GENERAL ELECTION

During this term, we were thrilled to be nominated for two Educate Awards, celebrating excellence of schools in Greater Manchester, Lancashire Merseyside and Cheshire. We were shortlisted for the Community Partnership Award and the WOW Recognition Award, read on to find out if we won!

We enjoyed our 15th Christmas Musical performance! Presenting an amazing version of Grease, with our students showing an unbelievable level of commitment, energy and creativity.

Our Chorlton High sustainability strategy has enabled our Eco Council to support positive change in our school community. Read all about their fantastic tree planting project and our sustainability achievements so far.

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE...

Year 7 took part in an Election assembly on Friday 6th December and this was followed by a week of supporting materials to work through during their Tutor Time.

Years 8, 9 and 10 have explored the main policies of various political parties in their RESPECT lessons.

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GENERAL ELECTION

In the lead up to the General Election, we ran a series of events in school aimed at raising the political understanding and awareness of all our students.

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ELE DAY

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Year 11 took part in an election debate during their Life Skills lessons.

Our Whole School Council also planned and organised a mock Chorlton High Election.

A selection of our Year 11 students and Year 11 Alumni (currently working at CHS as Teaching Assistants) offered to stand as ‘candidates’ to represent the views of the main political parties. They each wrote and recorded a party broadcast to set out their intended policies and vision for the future.

Before our election, each candidate broadcast was shown in our dining room to begin a special political debate/question time for Year 11 students. This brilliant event allowed the candidates to present their policies at depth, fielding audience questions and leading a discussion on a huge breadth of issues and topics in order to hopefully secure votes.

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Hannah Jowell-McHugh, also joined them to represent Green and Liberal Democrat Parties.

The debate itself inspired many students to question the political viewpoints they have heard and seen around them, whether on social media or in the news. It allowed them to challenge rumours and misconceptions in the lead up to the election and before casting their school votes. As students learn about governance in our Respect lessons, the Debate also challenged students to become more aware of the democratic system in the UK and highlighted the British Values that have been included across their studies within school. This also linked to their rights which have been celebrated previously as part of the Rights Respecting school programme. It gave students a chance to develop and present their oracy skills, something they have been working hard to test and improve across a broad range of subjects at CHS. The students found the Live Debate enjoyable and entertaining to be a part of. It gave those students with a keen interest in current issues a chance to participate and question many key policies being put forward from the political parties in their local area. Students were able to investigate how different parties planned to work on Education, Brexit, the NHS and many other key policies and legislature that will affect their future. *We have shown no bias or affiliation towards any political party and have endeavoured to represent them and their policies in a non-partisan way. With this mock election we aim to present an opportunity to equip our students with the skills to inform themselves and become actively involved in the world around them.

Our Chorlton High polling station opened on Thursday 12th December during break and lunch times for each student to make their vote! The votes were counted overnight with The Labour Party winning with a 67% landslide result.

ELECTION LIVE DEBATE ISSUES, VIEWS AND POLICIES

SUSTAINABILITY 12 STRATEGY EDUCATE AWARDS 6-7

WICKED LONDON

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The CHS Live Debate gave students an opportunity to question the different political parties in the form of their school representatives. CHS alumni, including James Muir (Conservatives), Dan Gregory (Labour) and Curtis Wilson (Brexit), kindly agreed to sit on the panel of representatives and have students from all Year groups question their party policies. Some of our current students, Theo Francis, Jessie Tomlinson and

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The Arts Department at Chorlton High School have celebrated their 15th Musical performance, with a fabulous production of the classic and much loved Grease. The rock and roll affected us all and the cast delivered another spectacular show!

This was by far the most challenging show to date and we really have raised the bar for next year. The standard of commitment and creativity, from all the students, is always very impressive and it continues to blow our Arts Department away.

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After each performance, we have collected donations for the young people’s homeless charity Centrepoint Manchester, and along with refreshment sales, we have raised just under £1000!

Thank you to all who contributed and supported a cause that is really close to our hearts. With your kind generosity, we will sponsor a number of beds for young people who may find themselves out in the cold in Manchester over Christmas.

The musical does not happen overnight and we would just like to thank everyone involved all of the Arts and support staff who give up their free time.

A big thank you also goes to the parents and carers who offer lifts and get students to rehearsals in the dark nights, we really could not have done it without you.

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WLP – WORKING LUNCH PARTIES

OPEN EVENING WELCOME TO CHS On Wednesday 25th September, we invited guests, families and prospective new students into CHS to enjoy another fantastic Open Evening!

Upon arrival, our visitors were warmly welcomed into the Blue Box Theatre where Ms. Morris, Chorlton High School Headteacher, offered an exciting introduction to our school and school aims of ‘enabling academic success alongside creativity and inventiveness throughout our school curriculum’. Ms. Morris went on to describe our CHS Learning Journey, developed to encourage every student towards a path of creative, happy and successful learning, and celebrated our recent, exceptional GCSE results for 2019, saying - “We are delighted to see 57 of our students achieve a grade 9! Indeed, this grade was achieved across 23 different GCSE subject areas. A phenomenal achievement!”

One of our Year 8 students also delivered an enthusiastic and inspiring ‘Ignite’ speech, describing all the learning opportunities they have experienced here at Chorlton High School.

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Our guests were then able to explore our school, visiting each department to enjoy a fantastic range of fun activities and games. Our inspirational staff were on hand to encourage participation and conversation, helping to present the ways our broad and balanced curriculum and an extensive enrichment offer support our students to achieve stunning creative, academic and sports success. Staff also provided further information about our CHS Learning Journey, values and continued achievement. Our students represented themselves brilliantly, showcasing their academic, musical, artistic and sporting talents whilst providing a lively and fun atmosphere throughout the evening.

During the last academic year, we began to run a series of highly successful Working Lunch parties. Due to the overwhelmingly positive student feedback we have continued this monthly event with a series of new and exciting visitors and speakers.

These sessions offer invited students a fantastic opportunity to gather insight into potential future career routes and hear first-hand accounts from successful key figures from various areas of work and industry.

Held in our board room at Chorlton High School, the monthly lunches

were developed alongside Jonny Kidd, Director and founder of Media Clarity Ltd, and have enabled the school to host a number of meaningful and empowering meetings. Our students have benefited enormously from the inspiring, and at times incredibly moving, guest presentations, life stories and conversations.

We recently invited Christian Pathak, Professor from Manchester Business School, who presented an inspiring message on the advantages of balancing your passions with hard work, determination and focus to drive yourself and others towards success.

Leaving our students with a motivating challenge - to go further, try new things, new hobbies, extra-curricular and enrichment opportunities, and to create their own next ‘big idea’!

COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS PARTY AN AFTERNOON OF CELEBRATION We invited guests from our local community to attend our annual Christmas Party.

Every year, we look forward to presenting an afternoon of seasonal cheer and entertainment. Guests were welcomed by our student helpers with a warm and friendly greeting before enjoying a buffet lunch and festive cheer provided by our CHS Choir.

After lunch, the cast of Grease took to the stage and our guests settled in for their matinee performance. On show was a fantastic array of talent, helping to create an exciting and thrilling musical production, with our guests remarking on the superb quality and professionalism of our cast and band.

We would like to thank everyone for attending our Community Christmas Party and for helping to make it such a wonderful day!

The evening concluded as successful treasure hunters returned to our reception to receive goodie bags filled with prizes for finding our CHS Qualities of Success symbols hidden all around our school.

Each visitor also left with a prospectus pack, full of primary transition information and exciting details of life and learning here at Chorlton High School.

We would like to thank all of our hard working students and staff, and everyone who attended our Open Evening for helping to celebrate Chorlton High School and the amazing Chorlton community.

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EDUCATE AWARDS 2019 The Educate Awards celebrate the excellence of schools in Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester. A total of 21 awards are contended for, via nominations, which are then shortlisted by a panel of judges. The winners were announced at an amazing event in Liverpool Cathedral on Friday 15th November.

This was the first year that Chorlton High School has been involved, we were shortlisted for two awards, the Community Partnership Award; for a school who has developed close community partnership links and had driven community led

projects, and the WOW Recognition Award; for a school who have achieved an outstanding performance, success or achievement for 2018-19, an award designed to recognise a real stand out and totally inspirational project by a school.

It was an incredible night, and we were represented at the event by members of our School Council who had been at the forefront of the work that led to the nomination.

COMMUNITY PLEDGE

Both nominations, and in particular our WOW award, have been achieved for work highlighting our ‘CHS Community Pledge’ of Community, Action and Campaign. This has enabled Chorlton High School to lead and develop numerous successful charity drives and positive social action projects in a coordinated and meaningful way.

Over the last few years all students and staff have helped to drive and contribute to our Pledge.

We pledge to fundraise for local and global charities to support others.

Raising funds for MIND, Cancer Research, Children in Need, Macmillan Coffee Mornings and over 30 different charities.

We also continue to celebrate the “Choose Love” concert dedicated to our refugee campaigns and many, many more. The Pensioners’ Party is hosted every year to make sure that the elderly in our community come and enjoy the festive season with us.

As our students serve tea and sandwiches, the pensioners with their carers watch a special performance of the school musical.

This is also the opportunity for our students to chat and connect with our visitors.

This year has also marked our own Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) Club enabling students to promote inclusivity and diversity within our school, embracing the work of the Proud Trust and organising our very first Chorlton Pride event.

COMMUNITY:

We pledge to raise awareness of local and global issues to make changes for the future.

Working with local Food Bank Charities, like Barakah Food Bank, over many years to collect much needed food and distribute it within our community; especially over the holiday period where we know families struggle.

The Refugee Crisis centre is very close our hearts as teachers have spent time in Calais as well as supporting refugee students within our school community.

The Centrepoint Homeless hub for teenagers in Manchester; we have been raising money to sponsor a room to get young people off the streets and back on their feet.

As a school we also have pledged to carry out “12 Acts of Kindness” in December, something that is simple but makes such a difference to our school community and this is part of what makes us all happy. We also held the Great Get Together in school celebrating the diversity and multi-cultural community that makes CHS so fantastic to be a part of.

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ACTION:

Below are just a few examples of how this work has been led by our students, and has involved Chorlton High collaborating alongside a fantastic array of amazing community partners and to highlight important social causes, both locally and worldwide.

We pledge to work as a community and show kindness for others.

AN AMAZING EVENING!

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Raising funds for MIND, Cancer Research, Children in Need, Macmillan Coffee Mornings and over 30 different charities.

We also continue to celebrate the “Choose Love” concert dedicated to our refugee campaigns and many, many more. The Pensioners’ Party is hosted every year to make sure that the elderly in our community come and enjoy the festive season with us.

As our students serve tea and sandwiches, the pensioners with their carers watch a special performance of the school musical.

This is also the opportunity for our students to chat and connect with our visitors.

This year has also marked our own Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) Club enabling students to promote inclusivity and diversity within our school, embracing the work of the Proud Trust and organising our very first Chorlton Pride event.

“We were greeted by the neon sign designed by Trace stepped out of the magnificent hallways of Liverp y Emin as we ool Cathedral. We were then hit with sparkling dresses and black ties; all, the Educate Awards. Specifically for schools acros this was, after West, the Educate Awards celebrate a wide range s the North of innovative projects within schools. This year, our very first opport unity to attend, we were in the running for two awards, includ ing the Community Partnership Award and the WOW Recog nition Award the biggest award of the night!

The ceremony opened with a medley of The Beatles’ sung by primary school students dressed as John, greatest hits, and their associates, including a very accurate YokoPaul, George, Ringo moved across the floor and into the cathedral’s main Ono. As we hall, tables adorned with glass candlesticks and multitudes of cutler y made it impossible for us and the hundreds of other guest s not to get excited!

As our plates filled up with starters, performances were slotted in between servings of our three-cour from LIPA College were dimmed, the candles were lit, and everyone wasse meal. The lights on the edge of their seats. It was time….

The host travelled through each category, announcing and runner up in turn, and after what seemed like each winner first nominated award was declared. We were placed an eternity, our second nomination, the WOW Recognition award was as finalists. Our announced. Seated next to Netherton Moss Primary soon to be Sefton, we were all waiting in anticipation for the School from final award of the night.

“And the winner of the Educate Awards ‘Wow Recog nition Achievement’ 2019 is… CHORLTON HIGH SCHOOL!” Our table erupted into cheers, with scenes of Mrs into the air with delight, and chairs being pushed Ransome jumping excitement! The journey to the red carpet flowing back in the seemed to be the most important walk of our life; up to the stage had been leading up to this, and to win the final the whole night award felt incredible. We were so pleased to have this opportunity to represent Chorlton High School and receive recognition for our projec ts across the school community.

Well done to everyone who was involved, and a specia Miss Quinn for putting forward the school in order l thanks to for us to be included in the short listing process.”

REPORTED BY ELEANOR MAHER, YEAR 11 STUDENT COUNCILLOR

WOW INDEED!

We are so proud of all the work completed by our students and staff, and a huge thank you to the Educate Awards for a fantastic evening and a stunning award that celebrates the work of all!

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ELE DAY In their Arts and Technology subjects, YEAR 7 celebrated the Mexican tradition Day of the Dead! Students chose to spend the full day in their favourite subject and ended the day with a celebration event in the Blue Box Theatre.

YEAR 8 investigated the amazing human body! Tom from Medical Mavericks came into school to deliver a session on the NHS, medical procedures and career paths available in health care.

EXTENDED LEARNING EXPERIENCE

ANTI-BULLYING The school was delighted to welcome a number of likeminded schools as we hosted the Anti-Bullying Ambassador training from the Diana Award.

Each and every one of the students attending were a credit to their schools and their community.

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The student then went on to three separate workshops where they learnt more about the human organs, how to study DNA and ethical issues including the science of saving lives. Students also got the chance to investigate light and its importance in ICT.

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YEAR 10 spent the day developing their mental fitness in a range of exciting and challenging activities with the PE and English departments.

YEAR 11 spent their morning developing new revision strategies to help support their college entry exams. Then, during the afternoon, they had the opportunity to focus on their wellbeing with activities such as pet therapy, reading and meditation.

Thank you to all our brilliant visitors and guests, and to all our fantastic students and staff for making this day such an amazing celebration!

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‘Bullying can be both physical and emotional and I want to help students to overcome it!’

‘I’m here as a support for people facing difficult issues’ Huge congratulations to all of our AntiBullying Ambassadors for completing a very intense training day and gaining their @AntiBullyingPro badge.

Students attended from:

“The Human Guinea Pig show! This takes students on a journey through the NHS with some fab live demos and fascinating video footage of some of the medical tests I’ve been through for the fun of it!

This includes a bronchoscopy, so you get to see the inside of my lungs!” – Tom Medical Mavericks.

YEAR 9 explored the different communities and lives affected by the Holocaust. We are extremely privileged to announce that all students had the chance to meet a Holocaust survivor and learn first-hand of his experiences. This was a real opportunity to develop students’ empathy and a sense of community.

‘I’m involved to help my friends’

AUDENSHAW SCHOOL, DEAN VALLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL, EDEN GIRLS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, ST HELENS PRIMARY ACADEMY, CHEETHAM CofE COMMUNITY ACADEMY, Anti-Bullying Ambassador training empowers students and staff to change the attitudes, behaviours, and cultures of bullying by building skills and confidence to address different situations both on and offline. Charlton, Hannah and Alex from the Diana Award were inspirational and true role models for a wonderful charity.

ANTI-BULLYING WEEK

Following on from their recent training, our second cohort of student AntiBullying Ambassadors have introduced themselves to their fellow students during Anti-Bullying week.

Using this national event as a platform, they have engaged in conversation and discussion, delivered a whole host of positive messages and provided support, and links to further support, within school.

Last year, in consultation with our first Ambassador cohort, we developed and created our Chorlton High Anti-Bullying Charter, shared throughout our school as a way to recognise the signs of bullying behaviour.

This year, our newest Ambassadors will continue this positive work, meeting regularly to plan further projects and opportunities to help any students who are experiencing or know of a bullying behaviour.

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CHILDREN IN NEED 2019

STUDENT BAKE SALE Our Community Ambassadors enjoyed a fantastic charity event to raise money for Children in Need!

Keen student bakers helped to mix, bake and ice biscuits, cakes, flapjacks and other treats, for sale during break time and lunch. They sold out of everything by the end of the day!

A huge thank you to our Community team for your enthusiasm and commitment to helping others.

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September saw Roald Dahl’s birthday and Chorlton High School celebrated the wonderful magnificent world of Roald Dahl.

The master storyteller is not only known for his amazingly funny children’s books, but also for his creative use of language and in particular, the way he made up words. Made-up words might sound a bit “propsposterous” (that’s “ridiculous”), but to Roald Dahl, they were a way of making sure his young readers were entertained and didn’t get bored

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Our amazing staff and students worked hard to create a brilliant morning of cakes, conversation, balloons, coffee and games! This is always a fantastic event that helps to raise donations and awareness for such a vital charity.

Many thanks to everyone who attended our Macmillan Coffee Morning!

when reading his books.

Gobblefunk is the official term for these words and the greatest gobblefunk user of all, was the BFG (Big Friendly Giant)!

Second place went to Year 8 student, Ella for “Polyplayable”, something that can be played/ watched many times and still be consistently amazing!

Students were challenged to create their own gobblefunk and there were some amazingly creative results.

Third place went to Mai for her “Monoshoeism”, the belief of only wearing one shoe!

In top place was Year 7 student Daniel with his super gobblefunk, “Superpizzaism” - a deep belief in pizza! We can all believe in that!

Thank you to all who took part in this creative competition.

CHORLTON COMMUNITY TRAVEL SAFETY We often talk to our students about the importance of travelling safely to school. We feel that it is important for our student to make their own way to school. This is in the best interests of their long term health by establishing active

lifestyle habits and also by ensuring we are not negatively effecting the air quality of our local area.

We also remind students and parents of the importance of remembering good road safety habits as they make their way to and from school.

At present we are aware that there is a community response to a local road safety concern in respect of the pelican crossing on the corner of St Werburgh’s Road and Wilbraham Road.

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OUR SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY Our strategy was developed following the findings of our Student Eco Council’s Audit and based on ‘Student Voice’ feedback from March 2019. This information, aligned with the Greater Manchester Environmental Strategy, has enabled us to develop a framework for future action planning.

Our sustainability strategy has been informed by the Student Eco Council and the Greater Manchester environmental strategy.

We wish to play in active role in raising awareness and taking action to make positive changes for all our global futures.

We support and will actively work towards supporting change in our community and in supporting the ambition of Manchester to be one of the Greenest Cities in Europe.

THE AIM OF OUR SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY IS TO:

To educate all members of our school community about need for environmentally friendly and sustainable practices, ensuring that all can make a positive impact on environmental sustainability within the local and global community.

To define and measure the environmental impact of the school’s actions and activities and to subsequently develop and set targets to reduce its negative impact and reduce costs.

To ensure that both staff and students are encouraged to play an active role in the school’s environmental and sustainability agenda.

To encourage behavioural changes and increase participation in environmental and sustainability issues.

ECO COUNCIL - SUCCESS AND ACHIEVEMENTS AUTUMN TERM - 2018

The Eco Council was launched to Years 7-10 in all assemblies. This led to initial interest and then applications for the role

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of Eco Councillor. The full council were established in December, with students meeting to discuss the ten key areas of Eco Schools (Biodiversity; Energy; Global Citizenship; Healthy Living; Litter; Marine; School Grounds; Transport; Waste and Water).

SPRING TERM - 2019

The start of the term the Eco Council began to work Manchester Youth Council and develop the Peace Garden through a gardening project. They planned and raised funds for seeds and equipment.

The Eco Council began to research into local ‘green’ projects and searching for ideas of how we can be more sustainable and reduce our carbon footprint. During the national strike day (15th March) the Eco Council, as well as other students, worked in the library to sketch out their thoughts and ideas, particularly focused on reducing climate change at a local scale.

In the final weeks of the term the Eco Council were organising and driving the ‘The Big Pedal’, a national competition to clock up foot-powered journeys to school.

They have also registered for the Eco Schools awards and carried out their Environmental Review.

SUMMER TERM - 2019

The completion of the Peace Garden project marked the first ‘re-wilding’ project to be completed. In addition to driving the next stages of the awards and associated action with the Eco Code, there was be a planning meeting with MEEN. On Clean Air day students from the Arts joined with the Eco Council to mount a dance flash-mob and protest outside of

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the school gates to focus issues in respect of air quality and pollution.

We were also excited to welcome members of Manchester Metropolitan University into our school at the end of the summer term to work with 100 of our students in teaching them about Carbon Literacy.

were treated to a stunning performance of ‘Wicked’ in the West End’s Victoria Apollo Theatre. Staff and students were awestruck by the incredible talent, stunning vocals and emotive plot – there were tears!!

AUTUMN TERM ACTION AND FUTURE PLANNING: PLANT A TREE DAY A day of re-wilding at CHS with Beechwood Industries

Members of the School Council and the Eco Council participated in a tree planting event with Beechwood Industries.

This meant that Chorlton High School was able to pledge to plant 200 trees for the Woodland Trusts Climate Fightback campaign.

We started the day by meeting to discuss why re-wilding was important and the positive impact this could have on our community. The students were all talked with confidence about why this is an important strand to our Schools Sustainability Strategy.

We then went out to plant a range of different trees in the school grounds, where everyone got involved choosing and planting the trees. After all the hard work in the morning the students all were all invited to the Starlight Café, where they enjoyed hot chocolate and biscuits and talked with the people from Beechwood Industries about horticulture.

Our thanks to Beechwood Industries for your valuable support.

Performing Arts students had a fantastic two days in London for our annual Performing Arts residential. The group were given a backstage guided tour of the National Theatre, learning about its

RESPECT EVENT PRISON, A REALITY

history as well as being shown the workshops where the set and props are made. Students were thrilled to learn about all the different theatre careers they could pursue in the future. Next we

We welcomed Colin and Matthew from ‘Prison, A Reality’ to deliver a hard hitting presentation, for our Year 8 and 9 students, as part of our ongoing RESPECT programme.

Drawing upon their long and varied careers within the Prison Service, they shared their experiences and insights on

The next day we headed to the famous Pineapple Dance studios to participate in a West End workshop with a professional actor. The group worked with a scene from Wicked, exploring the text and characters before settling down for a Question and Answer session with Lewis Easter, a cast member from Wicked. Lewis is a ‘Swing’ in Wicked and explained that this means he knows an incredible nine parts in the show. Students asked a range of interesting questions about training, audition processes and what his dream job would be (his answer was cast member of Wicked!).

After a spot of lunch and shopping in Covent Garden we made our way back to Chorlton with a head full of amazing memories.

what life is actually like for prisoners behind bars. Sadly, they understand that going to prison can often be glamorised in the media and their work aims to dispel this false interpretation. Their programme supports students to develop a socially aware and positive life whilst also building the skills to help make the right choices when faced with difficult scenarios.

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