Tickets available from Reception now!

£5.00 per adult and

concession tickets at £4.00

Book early as tickets will be in high demand!

LITERARY FESTIVAL

11TH – 18TH MARCH 2010

8-12th March: Swap-a-book week 11th March: Whole School Reading Time 8.40-9.00am Manchester Book Award Ceremony 15th March: Author Visit – Joe Craig 16-19th March: Book fair (Forum) with Simply Books 17th March: 6th Form & Y11 Reading Group Poetry Workshop with Vivienne Neale 18th March: Reading Group in partnership with King’s School Macclesfield

Keeping In Touch!

We have a new facility for contacting parents and carers called Groupcall. This enables us to send urgent messages concerning your child directly to your mobile phone as a text message. If you do not have a mobile phone, the message will transfer to your home telephone number. Less urgent messages can be sent by e-mail. It is therefore very important for parents/carers to keep us updated of any change of contact details, particularly mobile phone numbers. Please either leave a note of any changes at Reception or e-mail: vanessa.lees@whgs-academy.org

‘At a Glance’ - Events from 8th March – 19th March

Monday 8th March • Book swap collection starts Tuesday 9th March • Nursery Class to visit Chorlton

Library Wednesday 10th March • Y8 &U15 Netball tournament Thursday 11th March • Whole School Reading Time • Y12 Geography Field Trip • Y1 visit to Bramhall Hall Friday 12th March • Y8/Y9 Finals Manchester Indoor

Athletics • Swap-a-book - LRC Monday 15th March • Author visit – Joe Craig Tuesday 16th March • Book Fair (Forum) • Y11 Parents’ Revision Session Wednesday 17th March • Poetry Workshop with Vivienne

Neale Thursday 18th March • Y7 Science Day at Manchester

Museum • School Production of ‘Oliver’

7.30pm Main Hall Friday 19th March • School Production of ‘Oliver’

7.30pm Main Hall

Newsletter

Issue no. 4 Friday, 5th March 2010

Quote for the week: “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life” Charles Darwin

SUMMER SCHOOL 2010

Week 1: 26th - 30th July Week 2: 2nd - 6th August Week 3: 9th -13th August Information on all courses will be

available from April 2010

School Production of

OLIVER!

18th, 19th & 20th March

7.30pm Main Hall

‘Food glorious food’ ‘Where is love?’ ‘Consider yourself’

COMPETITION WINNERS

Year 7 students were invited to design an alternative book cover. Well done to three WHGS students whose prizewinning designs were chosen.

Kalen Ruddock for Blood Hunters

Iram Raja

for Season of Secrets

Shameer Silva for Malice

Food Technologist of the Week

Flapjacks

Flapjacks by

Holly Shirley-Rush 7A2

NEED TO RE-TAKE YOUR EXAMS? If you need to re-sit an exam in the Summer you must: 1 Discuss it with your subject teacher 2 Fill in a Re-sit Form (available from the school reception) 3 Return the completed form

AND fee to Ms McNicholas (Examinations Administrator)

NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY

17TH MARCH 2010

After this date the fees will increase to include a late entry

fee!

Mrs Lees’ World Famous

Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe

Cake ingredients 2ozs softened butter 6ozs caster sugar 8ozs plain flour 1tsp baking powder 1 egg 6ozs stoned dates (chopped) ½pt boiling water 1tsp bicarbonate of soda 1tsp vanilla essence Sauce ingredients 5ozs brown sugar 3ozs butter 4Tblspn double cream Method Cream butter and sugar together, sift flour and baking powder, beat the whisked egg into the butter and sugar with a little of the flour, continue beating for a minute, then add remaining flour. Flour dates lightly and chop finely, pour the boiling water over them. Mix in bicarb and vanilla essence, add this mixture to egg, sugar and flour mixture. Turn into buttered tin 11” x 7” (bottom lined with buttered greaseproof makes it easier to turn out) and bake for approx 40 mins (180C, 350F, Gas Mark 4) For toffee sauce coating, heat gently the brown sugar, butter and cream and simmer for 3 mins, pour over hot pudding and place under grill until it bubbles (the sauce burns easily). Serve hot with whipped cream. NB: The cake can be made in advance, freezes well too!

T A F A L

TEACH A FRIEND A LANGUAGE 12.40 – 1.10pm Classroom Z16

Monday: Yoruba Tuesday: Arabic Wednesday: Urdu 1.10pm – 1.40pm Dutch Thursday: Mandarin

SWAP-A-BOOK-DAY

Do you have any books that you have already read?

Please bring them to the LRC from 8th March 2010.

On 12th March 2010 students and staff are invited to the LRC

to browse through the collection and take their pick!

On Monday 1st February, Reception class travelled by coach to The Trafford Centre to BUILD-A-BEAR. All the children helped to make their bear, which is called Billy. They chose to dress him in pyjamas, dressing gown and slippers. Billy now lives in his very special house in the Reception classroom.

Fones4Schools is the UK's leading mobile phone recycling campaign for schools and groups. William Hulme's will receive £300 for every 200 phones collected. Please leave your old

phone at reception or with Ms Douglas in the Primary Phase.

GRADE ONE-A-THON

The Grade One-A-Thon entrants are all practising hard for their exam (especially Mr Mulholland), which will be on 15th April 2010. There is a notice board with details of those taking part by the stairs leading to the Main Hall. Anyone wishing to sponsor this event can send money and cheques (payable to WHGS but marked clearly with 'Grade 1-a-thon') to the Bursary or contact the individual participants.

CHINESE NEW YEAR

The Nursery class has been celebrating Chinese New Year. Miss Lee (our Year 5 teacher) came to visit the Nursery class and told them all about what would be happening in her house on the first day of Chinese New Year. The children all made their own dancing dragons and ended the day with a dragon dance in the classroom.

Languages and Food Technology Year 9 groups have recently enjoyed cross-curricular lessons with Languages and Food Technology. 9A2 watched Mrs Thomas demonstrate how to make egg fried rice in celebration of Chinese New Year. Miss Cunningham translated the ingredients, equipment and method into German as Mrs Thomas cooked. The pupils sampled the rice dish and even tried out using chopsticks! The pupils then made their own egg fried rice in their next Food Technology lesson. 9B2 have also been studying ‘food and cooking’ in their language lessons. As part of their learning they have watched the film ‘Ratatouille’ to help them recognise French words for ingredients and cooking skills. The pupils made delicious ratatouille dishes in their Food Technology lesson whilst Mr Hofton tested them on their French knowledge!

Ski Trip 2011 – Zell am See, Austria See Mr MacCallum for further details

SKI TRIP T0 SERRE CHEVALIER, FRANCE FEBRUARY 2010

Staff and students left WHGS on Friday, 12th February to travel to France for the annual Ski Trip. After a long journey, they arrived in the beautiful resort of Serre Chevalier. Ski lessons started on the Sunday and the group was split by ability into Absolute Beginners, Advanced Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced. Mr Richardson, who was unable to ski due to a sports injury, spent his days walking up and down the slopes helping the Beginners to stay on their feet! Various après-ski activities were enjoyed in the evenings. The ladies were treated to a spa session whilst the boys managed to watch a football match. Ice skating was also enjoyed by a number of staff and students, however, Mr MacCallum and Mrs Kerins will not be invited to perform on ‘Dancing On Ice’! The students would like to thank the staff who accompanied them on this excellent and very enjoyable trip!

SCHOOL UNIFORM

Please note that Senior Girls are no longer required to have rugby shirts or socks. If they do wish to purchase these items, they are the same colours as the boys and can be bought at John Lewis, Cheadle

Kids Corner

JOKE OF THE WEEK ☺ Why did the chicken cross the playground? To get to the other slide

PUZZLE OF THE WEEK ALPHA-CROSS No. 02 The first letter of each answer appears next to its clue in alphabetical order. All the first letters have been entered into the grid. Can you complete the puzzle?

A. Small insect (3) A. Fruit (5) B. Somewhere to sleep (3) B. Flying insects (4) B. Large (3) B. Building block (5) C. Type of fuel (4) D. US coin (4) E. Used for listening (4) E. Snakelike fish (3)

G. Worn on the hand (5) I. Frozen water (3) I. Cake topping (5) I. Ice hut (5) K. Young goat (3) L. Lawful (5) L. Top or cover (3) P. Part of something (5) R. Something to listen to (5)T. Part of the foot (3)

Answer to puzzle in Newsletter Nr.3: Guitar

R E M I N D E R!

PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION

Next meeting Tuesday, 9th March 2010

7.30pm Conference Room at WHGS

On 22nd January John Hofton, our International Director, and Emma Forshaw, Head of Psychology and Sociology, met with two teachers from: Copenhagen 6th Form College (Københavns Åbne Gymnasium). They formally established a link with our two schools during their meeting. On the 9th March, 2010 some of the sixth form pupils from Copenhagen will be visiting our sixth form Sociologists and taking part in their lessons. Watch this space for further information about this new link!

3rd HPV VACCINE (Girls only) Thursday, 11th March 2010 at 9.10am (Main Hall)

PREFECTS’ CHARITIES WEEK

8th – 12th February 2010

‘Prefects’ Charities Week’ this year raised an outstanding amount of £2020.42! This was collected from the following organised events:

• Valentine Magazine • Valentine Roses • Own Clothes Day • Tuck Shop • 5-a-side Football • Soak-A-Prefect

As you can see from the photos displayed ‘Soak-A-Prefect’ was very popular!

Forthcoming Event Prefects’ Review April 2010

WORLD BOOK DAY

The children in the Primary Phase were invited to come to school dressed as a character from a Roald Dahl book. We had a variety of Willy Wonkas, a stunning Aunt Spike, various Oompaloompahs, a Roly Poly Bird, Mr & Mrs Twit, Mike Teavee and an incredible Fantastic Fox! Yr 2 won the prize for the ‘best cheer’! Please look out for more photographs in our next edition!

C C F On Saturday, 27th February, 2010 the Combined Cadet Force was guests of Levenshulme British Legion and the Lord Mayor of Manchester. The CCF were publically thanked for the thousands of pounds it had raised over the last 10 years for the Poppy Appeal. CSM Warren Moore and CSgt Abi Bryant, our two heads of school, were presented with a framed certificate of thanks on behalf of the staff/students. Mr P Mulholland and Lt Col M P Jones also attended the event. It is a credit to the whole school that the CCF NCO’s/Prefects and all cadets and students over the years have raised so much money. Well done everyone!

SECOND HAND BOOK SALE On 4th March, 2010 a second hand book sale was held in the Primary Phase.

£167.35 was raised, which will go towards the new Primary Phase Playground. Thank you to all who donated and bought books!

YEAR 3 TRIP TO MANCHESTER MUSEUM

Year 3 enjoyed an action packed afternoon at Manchester Museum’s ‘Rocks Revealed’ workshop. We found out about the rock cycle through a fantastic drama session, created word banks, identified some amazing rocks and carried out a series of investigations. The afternoon was a great success and was thoroughly enjoyed by children, staff, parents and sixth form helpers.