7/29/2019 Stretfordian Spring 2013

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Headteacher’s Message:

May I wish a Happy Easter to families celebrating in the Spring break, also a happy New Year to

families celebrating the Persian New Year in March. Best wishes also to our families celebrating

Vaisakhi and the birth of Guru Nanak in April and to families celebrating Rama Navami.

Thank you to parents who are supporting their children by attending parent’s evenings. These

meetings are important opportunities for us to work together to ensure your children make

progress with their learning. If parents have suggestions as to how we can improve reports and

parents consultation evenings, I would be delighted to speak with you or receive your emails via

admin@stretfordhigh.com

The school has been busy with activities and visits both locally and abroad. We hosted an event

last week where children from Belgium, France, Spain, Iceland and Portugal visited Stretford High

with their teachers. The visitors joined lessons and met a number of our students, making many

new friendships. We hope to travel to Portugal in January 2014 for a similar visit.

The annual Year 7 international visit to Rome took place

last week. Year 7students ( pictured ) visited the Coliseum

and were also present in St Peter's square in the Vatican

City on Sunday March 17th to hear the new Pope's first

speech. Seven student teams also recently competed in

the Youth Philanthropy Initiative, where they had to

research a charity and pitch for prize money of £3000.

Leading local figures were on the judging panel and the

winning group gave the best pitch to win £3000 for the

worthy charity 'Destination Florida', a charity for 

terminally ill children. 

Catering Notice

Due to the recent press

statements and the food

standard agency reports

about horse meat in

ready meals, we would

ike to reassure all

parents that we as a

school do not purchase

any ready meals. All our

meals are made in-house

from scratch. All our

beef produce is bought

fresh from our local

butcher, HG

Beard. If parents have

any queries, please

contact Mrs S Horan,

Catering Development Manager on 0161 975

1558, she is happy to

discuss our food sources

and food preparation

with all parents.

Key Dates for your diary… 

School closes for the Spring holiday on Thursday 28th March at 12.20pm. Student lunches 

are available on the day through the in school pre-order service. 

School is closed to students on Mon 15th April for Staff training.

School re-opens on Tues 16th April, usual time for all students.

School is closed for Bank Holiday on Monday 6th May, re-opens Tues 7th May usual time for

all -students.

School closes for summer half term on Friday 24th May.

School re-opens for Half term 6 on Monday 3rd June.  

Three staff members have recently moved on from school. Ms V Baxter Assistant Headteacher

and Mrs T Rees-Cook both left Stretford High School in early spring for new challenges. Mrs C

Lamb sadly leaves the school in March after a long period of illness. We wish them all well for

the future. Congratulations to Mrs R Bhogal-Welsh who was appointed as Assistant Headteacher in March. Miss P Howarth was appointed as Interim Director of English in

March. Also Ms S Simons was appointed as the school’s new HR Director. She will be joined by

Mrs V Arrowsmith, our new Finance Director, in April. We wish them well in their new posts.

Have an enjoyable Spring Break.

J Haseldine, Headteacher