Spotlight On South - CHS South Issue 4

WE ARE

CHS South

Autumn 2019 has been a very exciting time at CHS South! The Autumn Term saw our family double in size, both in staff and student numbers and of course the families we serve! It has been a real pleasure to welcome more members of the community into our school to experience the creative, happy & successful family we are all striving to build together. I also feel very proud of our existing community of staff, students and families and the warm welcome and hand of friendship they have extended to everyone joining us. The past term also brought the exciting announcement that planning for the new site had been approved; we will see work commence on site in February 2020, on track for our September 2021 opening date. With all of these exciting developments ahead, the new decade feels like it promises to be a golden period in CHS South’s history!

Thank you for your continued support on our journey together; I hope you enjoy reflecting on the successes of the past term as much as we have when compiling this issue. Have a peaceful and restful holiday.

Mr D Prophet

Headteacher, CHS South

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Students were welcomed by a slick team of student guides who showed families around the building. They participated in experiments in Science, tried out their cooking skills in Food Technology, sampled a taste of European cafe culture in Modern Foreign Languages and found out more about our partnership with Manchester University’s esteemed Armitage Centre from the PE team. Mr Prophet shared his vision for CHS South and shared more details of the exciting building developments at our permanent site. As we waved the families off with their CHS South goody bags, we allowed our thoughts to race to September 2020 and the exciting potential of the next additions to the family!

In order to kick start the transition process early, a number of alumni visited our feeder Primary Schools (Our Lady’s, Oswald Road, Wilbraham, St.Mary’s, Webster, St.Hilda’s, Rolls Crescent, Ladybarn, Chorlton Park, St Philip’s, Seymour Park, Manely Park, Old Moat, Claremont) to speak to the Year 5 and Year 6 students about life at CHS South. All students and staff had the opportunity to ask questions and meet staff and students in time for the Year 6 high school choices submissions. Our Buddies loved visiting their former Primary Schools and were thrilled to share their wisdom regarding high school life!

Come along to our next Open Evening, held in October 2020, to find out how to be part of the CHS South journey!

ELE WEEK (EXTENDED LEARNING EXPERIENCES)

New school, new term, new challenges and new friendships!

The first three days of September centered around introducing the new Year 7 to our founding members of the community, Year 8.

Due to last year’s introductory week, we built on this to share our ethos and plan a wide variety of activities so that Year 7 and Year 8 could spend time together and develop our core qualities of success as one-year group became two!

CHALLENGE FOR CHANGE - TEAM BUILDING

Qualities of Success: Resilience, Practice, Motivation

Students spent a full day developing the skills and qualities they need to become successful, confident individuals and responsible citizens. Students worked in teams to brave leaps of faith, problem solve, scale climbing walls, run through tyres and develop those all-important team building skills with people they knew well and people they had only just met.

They met the challenge brilliantly; forging new friendships, displaying resilience and kindness as they supported one another.

Z ARTS - HOPES AND DREAMS

Qualities of Success: Creativity, Empathy, Reflection

Within our English sessions, students explored articles linked to hopes and aspiration. They developed their reading strategies and created speeches, developing their oracy skills. A professional singer worked with groups to develop lyrics and choral singing techniques and Art produced dream catchers all in the atmospheric Z Arts theatre and its studio spaces.

CHS SOUTH – HEALTHY LIFESTYLES

Qualities of Success: Curiosity, Responsibility, Optimism

In technology, students made healthy smoothies. Ms Galbraith taught mindfulness and how to improve our mental health and science experimented on food groups, especially fat and it’s impact on the digestive system.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Inspirational speakers, histories, heroes...and amazing food!

Black History Month at CHS South kicked off with a visit to Manchester Central Library where pupils explored the Race Relations archive and enjoyed some tasty food with African and Caribbean roots. Our next Black History Month event was a visit to the University of Manchester to hear a lecture from historian and TV star, David Olusoga. Pupils were really interested in the lecture format and a tutorial style workshop in which they looked at “Rap as Counter-Narrative”. Back in school, there was a Black Heroes discovery trail and quiz, a Black Lawyers Matter workshop with a University Law student and a session looking at BAME Women in science. We are enormously grateful to the University of Manchester for helping CHS South to provide an inspiring set of Black History Month events.

Sharing colours and togetherness for our Unity Day

CHS South’s Unity Day was organised as a celebration of togetherness during Black History Month. We took inspiration from Kick Out Racism’s Wear Red Day and said that pupils could accessorise their uniform with any colour, to show our unity as a school and community.

Figan Murray - A message of hope

As part of Unity Day, Year 8 listened to a moving and extraordinary talk from Figan Murray, the mother of Martyn Hett, who was killed in the Manchester arena bombing. They asked questions and reflected on Figan’s messages of hope and forgiveness. Unity day got lively at lunchtime when the dining room became a music venue complete with a popular local DJ. The menu? Jerk Chicken, rice and peas of course!

STUDENTS TAKE LEAD ON SOCIAL ACTION

Year 7 and 8 Champions

Fundraising ideas for a new community project!

Year 7 and  8 Form Champions have been working with “Greater Manchester Youth Network” with Joe Webster leading the sessions. The sessions are focussed around the students leading on and creating a project to improve the school grounds or community. The students got together and came up with lots of fun ideas including a school pet and a planting area. Following on from our vegetable planting in Chorlton Park, the pupils agreed they would like a planting area on site. A session planning how this would look, where this would go and the budgeting for the project was all done by the students own research. An opportunity for the students to apply for a £500 grant towards the costing of the project was put forward. They created their own speeches and this was presented in a video presentation to a panel for GMYN. This was the response:

“The school were successful in their Social Action Grants application for £500 from GMYN. We had 25 applications from over 20 schools and 11 schoolsweresuccessful.Oneofthethingsthepanellikedwastheidea to do additional fundraising to support the grant” – Joe Webster.

This is the link -https://www.gmyn.co.uk/main/2019/10/25/manchester-schools-winfunding-for-social-action/https://twitter.com/gmyn.

Our champions are working on further ideas for fundraising so watch this space!

Helping to build a learning community across Manchester

Our Year 8 students attended a meeting to plan a young carers event in January. This is to be planned alongside lots of schools around the city. UK Fast are holding the event and it is to be planned and presented by the young people.

We will be working on this event in partnership with Manchester City council and as part of “Our Manchester Experience”.

Socktober

Year 8 will be fundraising throughout the year for one of their chosen charities which is “Reach Out to the Community”. We joined in their Socktober appeal collecting new socks to give to the local homeless people. These were delivered by some of the Year 8 Form Champions.

WHOLE SCHOOL COUNCIL NEWS

Our Champions organised a student referendum

The first week in Autumn Two half term was UK Parliament week. This was an national opportunity for students to learn about the UK Parliament, its composition and activities. There was a UK Parliament Week discovery trail and quiz presented by form tutors. The Whole School Council organised a mock referendum.

We decided not to focus on the debate circling in Parliment, but instead students voted on whether Sex and Relationships education should be a compulsory part of the high school curriculum for pupils in England and Wales. Students conducted a referendum vote and counted the ballot papers.

The result was quite close but a majority of pupils agreed that sex and relationships education should be part of the high school curriculum. The Department of Education has decided this is the case from September 2020.

Students have been recognised for their work in consulting their peers as part of Have Your Say Day. All students at CHS South were asked to indicate the issue that they considered to be most important to them as young people.

As a school we identified “End Knife Crime” as the most important issue from a choice of five. At our visit to the Manchester Youth Council’s awards and project day, our whole school council were presented with a trophy and certificate in recognition of their work.

We are very proud that CHS South is a school where every pupil has a voice and opportunities to use it.

The CHS South whole school council are Youth Buzz Award winners!

YEAR 7 AND 8 CHAMPIONS

Year 7 Form Champions selected

Year 7 were given the opportunity to apply for the role of form champion. Each student had the chance to deliver a short presentation to their form class. Form classes then voted anonymously for one candidate. The form tutor collated the votes and the form champions were announced in the Year 7 assembly.

Our Year 7 form champions are:

7AF: Finley Jobbins-Howarth and Lily Tait

7AU: Juliette Garrabet-Thomas and Wasim Aloui

7BL: Ashi Behroozi and Gabriela Pietralczyk

7CC: Layla Ayyub and Ramel Ashley

7EH: Ruby Downing and Meshech Reid

7ET: Asha Osman and Shia Mendez

7LS: Laithen Carroll and Maryam Waqar

Our Year 8 form champions are:

8EP: Thomas Donkin and Ahmed Samatar

8RM: Jeziel Hercules and Maddison Austin

8SD: Joe Hunt and Bilal Shaikh

8AK: Eesa Samli and Haajira Masood

8JW: Zeiko Duhaney and Megan Jack

8HS: Jada Thompson and Saad Rahumy

8JM: Errin Shelmerdine and Dandre Davis

Voice Box with Manchester Healthy Schools

A group of Year 7 and Year 8 students attended a Voice Box event organised by Manchester Healthy Schools. Students enjoyed listening to wisdom from a range of speakers from the NHS & Cancer Research UK. We also had the opportunity to share project ideas with a range of schools at the event.

Remberance Service

On Friday 8th November 2019, Year 7 and Year 8 form champions attended the remembrance service at Southern Cemetery, which was organised by the friends of Southern Cemetery. We had the opportunity to pay our respects with other schools, members of the community, local councillors and past and present soldiers.

Recycling workshop with Recycle Manchester

The Year 7 champions are passionate about reducing our carbon footprint and reducing waste and litter around school. We invited Recycle Manchester to come into school and they ran a workshop with some of the Year 7 champions and also some other interested students from Year 7 and 8.

The session was extremely informative and the students were clearly passionate about what we can do to effectively recycle as much as possible, reduce the energy we are using and reduce greenhouse gasses. The following week these students raised awareness around recycling and completed some litter picking activities around school.

ENGLISH AT CHS SOUTH

Studying Anne Frank

Year 8 pupils enjoyed a day out at the Imperial War Museum to explore the different exhibitions and learn more about life during the Holocaust. They have been studying the novel ‘Once’ in lessons last half term, which is the story of a young boy living in Poland at the time of the war. This half term they are focussing on Events that Shaped the World and are looking at the Holocaust in the context of wider issues. Students have read parts of Anne Frank’s diary and looked at her life. At the museum pupils will explore objects and stories from the Holocaust and get to understand the impact of the Holocaust on the world today.

Adventure Story Writing

During the Autumn term, Year 7 students were honing their adventure writing skills by exploring a range of classic texts. We read Hansel and Gretel and saw an exciting adaptation of this story at The Lowry theatre.

The students enjoyed watching the imaginative new take on a favourite fairy tale, where Uchenna Dance’s twist to this well-known story included fierce and distinctive dance styles of House, Waacking, Vogue, African and Contemporary dance.

This fabulous piece further inspired our students to complete their own adventure story with their own unusual twists and turns.

Debate Mate

After an exciting launch at Manchester University, where students had the opportunity to see an exciting live debate, CHS South’s debating team were thrown into fast paced and challenging sessions with official debate mate mentors. In these sessions, students have debated everything from how our prison systems operate to which kitchen appliance would be most useful in a zombie apocalypse. These students from Year 7 and 8 have been working extremely hard in their after school Debate Mate sessions to learn how to be informed, eloquent and passionate debaters who have a real chance of making it to the grand final in London next year.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR PROVISION

Our extra-curricular provision continues to be outstanding

Over 30 clubs are on offer free of charge across the school week. Year 7 and Year 8 embraced the opportunity to attend clubs they love, try new things and make new friends.

• 85% of Year 7 have attended at least one club

• 81% of Year 8 have attended at least one club

We would love this to be 100% in Autumn 2!

Some highlights of the year were the new Performing Arts clubs with well attended Drama and Dance clubs and of course South Voices – this seems to be very popular with the staff! Board Games, STEM club, Film Club and Cryptography continue to be popular and of course the famous Cycling Club had to move to two nights due to popular demand as we tour the local area on the brilliant mountain bikes.

Form champions asked for Swimming Club so that is now available at Hough End on a Thursday night and Running is a newly featured club to help us ensure that every pupil is doing something active each week.

Doddle Club continues four nights a week to help with home learning.

CRYPTOGRAPHY AND CODING CLUBS

Cryptography Club

Our new Year 7s have joined forces with our existing Year 8 cryptographers and entered the National Cipher Challenge run by the University of Southampton. They have been learning about Caesar Shift Ciphers, Affine Ciphers and Vigenère Ciphers and scored almost 100% accuracy on each code so far.

It has been challenging, but our young cryptographers have shown resilience every step of the way. The competition ends in December, but we will be entering the Alan Turing Cryptography Competition run by the University of Manchester in January.

For

details visit: www.cipherchallenge.org

Code Club

The coders at code club have been hard at work. We have encrypted secret messages, we have made some ASCII art, and we have created racing turtles.

Our focus is now shifting towards a coding competition, and our team is starting to develop ideas that could potentially change the world.

STEM OPPORTUNITIES AND FUTURE CHOICES

Our students learn to ‘Think Big’ about shaping their own futures

Continuing the theme for Black History Month (BHM), CHS South invited in a guest speaker to talk to the pupils about Black, Asian, and minority ethnic women in science.

The engagement, curiosity and maturity shown by the girls during the lecture was fantastic and hopefully helped to inspire our girls to make STEM based choices in the future.

The presenter, who is currently studying for a master’s degree at Newcastle University talked passionately about the roles women have played in science and how our pupils should think “big” and believe they can be the ones who shape our future. This was demonstrated by the fact that their  future goals changed considerably throughout the session from being rich to saving lives and curing diseases, impressing both myself and the facilitators running the talk.

MACMILLLAN COFFEE AFTERNOON

Parents, students and staff raise money for this brilliant charity event

We held a parental event on Friday 27th September 2019.

It was an opportunity for staff and parents to meet in an informal setting and for Year 7 parents to have a look around the building. Our generous staff and parents donated the most wonderful cakes and we raised an impressive £250 helping Macmillan be right there for people living with cancer.

A special thanks to our form champions who were great ambassadors serving the hot drinks and collecting the cash!

MATHS JOURNALING AND COMPETITION!

The search is on for our best ‘journalers’!

This term we are running a competition to find our most brilliant Maths journals. Maths journals form a major part of our Maths lessons and allow students to reflect upon a task that they have completed, recording their learning in their own words.

Journaling shifts the focus from ‘what’ students are learning to ‘how’ and ‘why’ they are learning it. In lesson, students are asked to describe as many methods as they can, with the intent of making connections between different areas of Maths. The best journals often compare a variety of mathematical strategies, explaining which is the most efficient, and making use of visual representations.

Each week, every maths teacher will nominate up to 5 students who will go into a prize draw – the winner will be announced in the Champions Assembly at the end of this term.

luck ‘journalers’!

ARTS LEADERS AT SOUTH

Art, Dance, Drama and Music all nominated pupils from their subjects who had shown great attitude in lesson. They have formed the new Arts Leaders who will help shape the Arts Provision at CHS South. Our first meeting reflected on the strengths such as the curriculum, the extracurricular provision and the variety in lessons. We also discussed developments such as more Drama performances and residential trips such as an Arts trip to London.

A new and arts rich student voice

NEXT GENERATION OF PERFORMERS

In the first half term, Year 7 have been studying a range of dances from around the world. They have developed their performance skills in Salsa, Samba, Paso Doble, Street Dance, Bhangra and Line Dancing. As we visit each dance, the students have been exploring the culture and origin of the styles and have engaged in each lesson with energy and enthusiasm. A great start to their dance education.

Year 8 Dance students develop new dance pieces

This term our students have been introduced to Urban dance and Urban Fairytales. They have learnt key movements like locking and ripples. They have been choreographing their own urban dance pieces based on themes from Little Red Riding Hood and the Mad Hatters Tea party. The second half term has seen our students being introduced to visual and auditory stimulus, where they have been developing their own pieces to include a range of actions, space, dynamics, relationship content and choreographic devices.

Year 7 explore the origin and cultures of world dance,

ART CLUBS AND INSPIRATION

Lively and lovely art sessions

We have had a lots of lovely sessions in Art Club, with around eighty students taking part over this term. The students have spent their sessions creating a personalised graffiti wall. They have been building their colour mixing and application skills.

Crafting together

This term our students have been making jewellery with beads; learning new techniques. Each week the students have been building their craft knowledge to help them learn new and more challenging patterns. Their final products are their own unique rings and bracelets.

Year 7 Art students learn new skills to create Christmas card designs

This term our Year 7 students have being studying the artist and children’s illustrator Oliver Jeffers. They have been creating their own Christmas card in spired by his work for our annual Christmas card competition. Our students have also been introduced to colour theory and mixing paint for different skin tones. They have responded by creating their own design sheets to display their work this term. Whist developing their colour pencil, observational drawing and paint application skills.

Year 8 Art students inspired by the animation of Tim Burton

This term our Year 8 students have being studying the artist and director Tim Burton. They have been creating their own characters inspired by ‘A Nightmare before Christmas’. Our students have been introduced to stop frame animation and have responded by creating their own design sheets for their characters. Whist developing their colour pencil, observational drawing and clay manipulation skills.

DRAMA AT DARKWOOD MANOR

Mysterious and ghoulish goings on

Year 7 were getting ready for Halloween early this year, exploring the spooky world of Darkwood Manor. They developed their characterisation skills and how to build tension on stage. Their Victorian-inspired scary portraits are a great example of how they used still images to represent the family that may have once lived in this haunted house. The students displayed boundless imagination, creativity and teamwork in their murdermystery performances.

INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE

Odd Arts present - ‘Isolation to Radicalisation’

In October Odd Arts Theatre Company performed their play ‘Isolation to Radicalisation’. This is an interactive forum theatre performance and workshop using professional actors and specialist facilitators to explore key issues around radicalisation.

This particular performance focused on media influence, male radicalisation, hate crime and Islamophobia. It explores people who have been influenced by the extreme ‘far right’ and also Daesh or I.S. All Year 8 saw the performance and took part in the workshop as part of their PSHE provision.

One Year 8 student commented‘If only everyone can be taught not to hate’

FABULOUS FREE MUSIC LESSONS!

Student interest in instrumental lessons has taken the Music Department by storm!

Nearly forty students are currently receiving lessons on flute, clarinet, saxophone, ukulele and piano. Each student’s commitment to music has really shone through.

Well done to all participating!

All lessons are provided by Ms. Crerand free of charge, in her own time and brand new instruments were bought to support students giving them an opportunity to try out learning an instrument before committing to buying their own.

Individual musical achievement!

Well done to Zayn Ahmad for his fabulous musical achievements with the Royal Northern College of Music. Each year the RNCM allocate 4th year students to teach children piano. Zayn performed at their Christmas concert on Friday 6th December, playing a duet with his tutor Fruzsina - “The first of May - by the Bee Gees”.

WINTER WANDERLAND

A festive treat for all!

We celebrated the end of term and festive period with our Winter Wanderland extravaganza.

A showcase of our amazing students who performed a mixture of dance styles, songs, sketches and oracy performances. It was a night where many of our students, parents, carers and siblings enjoyed watching the range of amazing talent we have at CHS South.

We are very proud of all our lovely students who took part, from our performers, to our tour guides, to our wonderful Art club for making the decorations and making our school look so beautiful.

HEALTHY SCHOOLS GOLD AWARD!

We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the Healthy Schools Gold Award for the 2018/2019 academic year

Manchester Healthy Schools Team has been working in partnership with Manchester schools for over seventeen years - tackling health inequalities and improving the health and wellbeing of children and young people. In November 2016, the team merged with the School Nursing service to create the School Health Service; closely aligning the work of both teams to the Healthy Child Programme. The School Health Service has a crucial role in Manchester to implement public health interventions and support schools in putting health and wellbeing at the heart of their schools.

As part of our application, we were asked to fulfill criteria’s in the areas of: healthy active lifestyles, emotional health and wellbeing, mental health and resilience, Relationship and Sex Education (RSE), drugs and alcohol education. In October we had our accreditation visit and we received gold recognition in all areas.

Our curriculum leader of PE, Mr Singh received a special recognition award for his commitment to healthy active lifestyles and proactive approach at CHS South. His enthusiasm for physical education and health has driven school teams to success and participation in school sport remains high. In addition, our school nurse, Rachel Tunnacliffe also received recognition for her work in promoting health and wellbeing at CHS South.

CHSSoutharethefirsthighschoolinManchestertoreceiveGoldstatus and we are very proud of the culture that we have created.

INTERNATIONAL MEN’S DAY

Our first event was was a Careers Event. We invited men from a wide variety of job roles, from Barristers to Accountants, Geologists to Advertising, Train Drivers to Nurses. All Year 8 boys had the opportunity to speak to all the men in a ‘speed-dating’ network event asking them questions about their careers paths. One visitor said: ‘Thank-youforinvitingmetothecareersfair.Itwasaprivilegetosharethepositivesa careerinnursinghastooffer.Theladswerepoliteandaskedarangeofinterestingand challenging questions.’

In our second event, we also addressed issues surrounding male mental health. Mr Williams, Mr Unia and Mr Mundell shared an assemblyto both year groups about male suicide rates and theimportance of talk. We also shared all of our male colleague’s advice on how they look after their mental health including physical activity, sports, cooking and eating with friends.

We look forward to International Women’s Day and a similar careers event for all Year 7 girls.

We marked International Men’s day in school with two exciting events!

BEAUTIFUL BOOKS

Positive study habits for lifelong learning

The students here at CHS South have been taking great pride in producing beautiful books. They have developed how to display the work in their books to best aid their learning. For example they used the key information boxes to summarise the key points to store in their long term memory and writing any questions to think about further in the next steps box.

The quality of the work we have seen is extremely impressive and they have been acquiring positive study habits for lifelong learning. They have also been developing effective revision strategies and by the amount of knowledge they have been able to recall they are displaying their ability to store and retrieve information. Well done!

TREE PLANTING WITH THE WOODLAND TRUSTS

CHS South Loving where they live!

In conjunction with the Woodland Trust CHS South our students, alongside Mrs Paton, planted a number of young saplings to create an outdoor classroom in our local, Chorlton Park.

Woodland Trust are the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity and have provided schools across the country with trees to help build a greener future for the UK, combat climate change and create havens for wildlife.

During this term, our Form Champions also worked to keep CHS South tidy by volunteering to litter pick around our school site. They were loving those High Vis Jackets!

SOUTH SPORTING SUCCESS

BOY’S FOOTBALL - YEAR 8

CHS South A team have had brilliant start to the season. The boys have progressed to the last 16 of the Greater Manchester Schools Cup competition, beating Moorside High 5-2 in the second round. In addition, the boys have also beat William Hulme Grammar 7-3 in the Manchester School’s League and drawn to Royton Crompton 6-6. We are all very proud of their achievements so far year and we hope the success continues into the Spring Term.

BOY’S FOOTBALL - YEAR 7

Our new Year 7 football team have had brilliant start to the season. They have beat Chorlton High B 2-0, St Pauls RC 2-1 and reached the second round of the Manchester Schools Cup competition; beating Burnage Academy 5-2. They have also won their first league game against Wright Robinson 4-1.

The team will work through an intense competition calendar this year and we hope they continue to grow and develop.

Our sporting teams and individuals continue to grow and succeed

GIRL’S FOOTBALL

CHS South girls’ football has had a huge number of girls attending training over the first half term, even in the torrential rain. This just shows their dedication to the team. CHS South girls’ team have had huge success in their debut performance in the Manchester Cup against Coop Academy winning the game 4-0. A special mention must go to Neishai Gordon for scoring a hat-trick in the game. The KS3 team have also demonstrated superb performances at the KS3 Manchester League tournaments winning all their games in the first round against TEMA, Manchester High and Levenshulme. The girls have shown fantastic team work in training and competition and we are all very proud of their performances so far and we hope that the success continues for the rest of the year. If you haven’t been to practice yet and would like to join, football club is on every Thursday after school.

KINGSWAY ATHLETIC CLUB TRIP

CHS South A team have had brilliant start to the season. The boys have progressed to the last 16 of the Greater Manchester Schools Cup competition, beating Moorside High 5-2 in the second round. In addition, the boys have also beat William Hulme Grammar 7-3 in the Manchester Schools League and drawn to Royton Crompton 6-6. We are all very proud of their achievements so far this year and we hope the success continues into the Spring Term.

BOY’S RUGBY

The partnership with the RFU All Schools Programme has continued to develop at CHS South. Year 7 have thrived in the Manchester Schools League and are undefeated in the tournaments. We have had wins against MEA, Newall Green, Chorlton High and Altrincham College. Our working relationship with Broughton Park Rugby Club is also working really well, with huge numbers regularly attending our rugby club.

In addition, Year 8 have also made a brilliant start to the year. They are also undefeated across Manchester schools, with wins against Manchester Cooperative, Newall Green and Manchester Enterprise Academy. This is a brilliant reflection on how hard the boys have worked in lesson and at our rugby club.

GIRL’S NETBALL

The Netballers have had an impressive start to the season this year, we have had record numbers at training with the girls keen to work hard and develop their skills. Year 7 have won both of their games so far against Levenshulme High School and MEA Wythenshawe in the Manchester

League. Year 8 have played Levenshulme High School coming away with a draw in a friendly fixture in preparation for their league games this half term. Well done to all girls that have participated so far this year. It still not too late to join – practice takes places every Tuesday after school.

We even had the staff getting involved this year in creating their very own CHS Netball team.

Thanks to all the staff and girls who have attended training to help develop as a team.

CROSS COUNTRY

Boys and girls across Year 7 and 8 took part in the Manchester Schools Cross Country competition. Congratulations to all students who took part and completed the course. Special mention to Alfie Strutt who was placed 11th in the Year 7 boys’ competition.

SOUTH SPORTING SUCCESS CONTINUES

BOCCIA

Another first for CHS South this year, with students representing school in the Manchester Schools Boccia competition. We are really proud of the students that took part. A massive well done to James, Abeera and Aaryan.

INDOOR ROWING

The Manchester PE Association and school games organisers ran the rowing competition in a slightly different format this year and we were able to host our own competition at CHS South. We had over 100 pupils take part in the 2-minute rowing challenge. Congratulations to the following students who finished in the top 3 within their year group.

RESULTS TABLE

Place 1st 2nd 3rd

Y7 Girls

Kiana Wilson 401m

Olivia Davies 399m

Aniya Farooq

Y7 Boys

Shia Mendez 425m

Laithen Carroll 414m

Y8 Girls

Xariya Barnes 442m

Ruby Sykes 440m

Y7 Boy8

Jordan Mbakop 514m

Mustaqueem Hassan 475m

Ashi Behroozi 411m

Rosa Morrello 429m Zanae Duhaney 429m

Taylor Everett Jones 448m

INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS

INTERNATIONAL GAELIC FOOTBALL

Eva-Grace Kelly competed in an International Gaelic football competition in Scotland where she was captain and led the team to success gaining first place in the U10 competition. It was a tough competition playing against 6 different teams.

WRESTLING

Taylor Everett Jones has had a very busy year since our last update on his sporting achievements in freestyle wrestling.

He began the season with confidence, competing at Manchester Academy and sailing through to the final, proving all those hours training have been worthwhile. Taylor took first place and earnt himself the title, ‘Northern Champion 2019’.

His success continued in the next few competitions around the UK, picking up 3 more golds.

At the British Championships Taylor, battled his way to the final, but just missed out on the title after a very close match, being placed a respectable 2nd place.

Due to his recent success and technical ability, Taylor has been chosen to join the National Development Squad, where he trains alongside the top 20 youth wrestlers in the UK.

Taylor is now setting his sights outside Great Britain and looking forward to competing in his first international tournament at the Helsinki Open in Finland.

CongratulationsfromallofusatCHSSouth.

INCLUSIVE SPORTS AT SOUTH

Helping to build and develop team work and communication skills

This half term four students attended a sporting event through Manchester PE Association at Levenshulme High School. The students went along with two teaching assistants and took part in a range of inclusive team sports. They developed their motor skills, team work and communication skills whilst working through the activities.

They all achieved a medal and Manny was awarded a special badge for his superb effort and engagement.

HEALTHY ACTIVITIES FOR OUR STAFF

Staff Sports Teams helping to support well being

The staff here at CHS South are aware that being part of a team and exercising are great for developing morale and staff well-being. With this in mind, we have set up some successful staff sports teams.

Ms Smith has kindly delivered some netball training sessions and Ms Galbraith, Ms Burke, Ms Marshall, Ms Deegan, Ms Penrose, Ms Leach, Ms Smith, Ms Iredale, Ms Crerand are now Chorlton Challengers and are in the Simple Netball League.

Inspired by the netball team, staff football has recently started! Department rivalries have been cast aside as Mr Tollast, Mr Lear, Mr Unia, Mr Williams, Mr Knipe, Mr Peppard, Mr Khokar, Mr Kenny, Mr Singh and Miss Deegan have all battled it out on the field.

Mr Lear, the hat trick hero, is leading the goal scoring charts and Mr Peppard was recently denied a last minute winner thanks to a superb Mr Williams save.

Mr Knipe and Mr Khokar have been running rings around the others, showing their significantly higher levels of fitness.

Mr Mundell is currently recovering from injury; the players are eagerly awaiting his return. Watch this space!

PROUD

PARENTS