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‘Putting students at the heart of everything it does’, every young person in our care is known as an individual (Ofsted January 2010). Trentham High School is a mixed, non-denominational school situated on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent. The school was awarded Specialist Science Status and Healthy Schools Award (September 2009); becoming a Foundation School and then a Co-operative Trust in April 1st 2010. This ‘change in status’ helps us to continue to build strong links with our community and become a truly member driven organisation; preserving and developing our ethos for future generations. Our ‘co-operative’ members are the community: parents, staff, students, governors, local organisations and businesses. The Trustees of our school include Newcastle-under-Lyme College, the Co-operative College and Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form. We believe that Co-operative Trust status will develop our already successful school.’
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LATEST NEWS
Our best results ever! – 75% 5 x A*-C
Congratulations to all our Year 11 students on their fantastic exam results:
5 or more grades A*-C including English and Maths = 53%
3 or more grades A*/A = 21%
Well done to all our students and staff for their hard work.
Specialism Update July 2010
Our first Trentham Lecture took place this month. This was given by Dr John Wilson (pictured below) from Birmingham University. The subject matter was a challenging one relating to particle physics & what actually goes on inside the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He also demonstrated how to detect the particles hitting the Earth from the destruction of distant stars using a Spark Chamber. Dr Wilson is part of a team researching at CERN on the ATLAS project & was part of a Nobel Prize winning team in his earlier career.
100 students from 4 local High Schools attended. The pupils selected are the ones who have chosen to study Triple Science courses at GCSE. This fits in with our vision of becoming a centre of excellence for science in the local area. We aim to raise the aspirations of pupils we hope that through meeting with working scientists they will see studying science at University in the future.
We also ran an evening lecture for our local community. The audience included governors, teachers, parents & local residents.
We will be continuing our lecture program in the new academic year.
Mr S Cartwright
Director of Specialism.
Careers update “The Media Challenge”
We are pleased to announce that selected year 9 pupils breezed through the preliminary rounds of The Media Challenge in order to get through to the Final Stage which took place on the 2nd of July at Staffordshire Fire Headquarters.
This particular competition enables students to raise aspirations while experiencing different careers linked to journalism, but also to work as part of a team in highly competitive situations.
The final involved team briefings, press conferences and a staged major incident. The whole day was very exciting and each school was judged on 4 different categories. The first three categories were to produce a video news report, a radio news report and a newspaper front cover. The final
category was awarded to the best overall journalists of the day.
Unfortunately this year we didn’t win any of the categories but were highly commended for questioning and video editing skills. Each member of the team did a fantastic job on the day and received a certificate and a medal for gaining a place in the final. A big well done to Angelena, Daniel, Elise, Hazel, Kieran and Sam.
Miss Bradley
Bric-a-Brac Day
Come along and support a Bric-a-Brac Day to be held on Wednesday 28th July from 10am to 12.30pm at Hanford Health Centre.
All proceeds are for ‘Children with Diabetes’.
For further details contact Louise Errington on 0300 123 995 extn 3524.
OFSTED Performance 2010 – U.K’s Top Performing and Most Improving Schools
The school is delighted to announce that it has recognised on a Government Initiaives website as one of the UK’s top performing and most improving schools. Please click on the link below to see the article.
http://www.governmentinitiativesiq.com/Trentham/profile.html
This really is fantastic news and Mrs Martin, the school’s Headteacher, would like to congratulate all students, staff, governors and parents for all their efforts in achieving this recognition.
** If you would like to see the whole document then please click on the link below
http://www.governmentinitiativesiq.com/home.html.
The click on ‘Editorials’ at the top. The username is ‘hamilton’ and the passwork is ‘pallmall’. Click on OFSTED Performance 2010 on the left hand tab. You can then click on Trentham High School and browse the pages
Athletes Shine at County Athletics Championships
A big WELL DONE to Callum (Year 9) and Tom (Year 11). The boys represented the City at the County Athletics Championships at Northwood Stadium on 12th June. Both performed superbly to qualify to represent Staffordshire at the Mason Trophy event to be held on 19th June. Good luck boys!
City Athletics Championships
A number of our Year 7 & 8 students represented the school at the City Athletics Championships held at Northwood Stadium on 15th June. Congratulations go to the Year 7 boys who won the team event and several of our athletes will go on to represent the City at the County Championships at the end of the month.
National Schools Rowing Championships
We are proud to announce that a number of our students featured in the medals at the recent above event. Laura, Lucy, Tammi along with cox Joanna came third in the final of the girls J16 coxed 4.
Laura, Lucy and Tammi then teamed up with Katie and Izzy plus 3 girls from a neighbouring school to finish a fantastic second in the J16 8 final.
Not to be outdone by the girls, Lee also qualified for a final, where he finished a creditable 4th in the J16 single event.
County Athletics
The following students will be representing the City at the County Athletics Championships at Northwood Stadium:
Katie (Y9) – 100m
Jess (Y10) – 1500m
Sam (Y9) – Discus
Jack (Y10) – 200m & relay
Tom (Y11) – shot putt
Specialism Update – June 2010
Pupils from 9X2 & 9Y2 have recently taken part in a science enrichment activity entitled the SMART Materials project. This has involved them being given a challenge by some staff from the construction company Balfour Beatty. The pupils were asked to work out a way of producing 10% of the energy that the school requires by using sustainable technology. This activity involved pupils using actual data relating to the amount of energy produced and the cost of the different technologies, and then plan where to situate this technology around the school.
Different teams of pupils were then asked to present their ideas to the Mr Colin Harper and Mrs C Nurrish from Balfour Beatty.
Pupils and staff then used voting pads to decide which presentations were the best.
The best teams will be asked to present their ideas in a city wide event in July. The results will be announced soon.
Well done to all the staff & pupils involved in this activity.
Mr S Cartwright
Students Climb Aboard The Cooking Bus
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Specialism Update May 2010
Our F24 racing team took part in the Darley Moor testing day on the 24th of May.
This event allowed us to test some of the modifications that Mr Knight & some of the pupils have made to our F24 car.
Pupils who took part in the test day were; Talitha (Y10), Jacob (Y10), Sarah (Y8), Chelsea (Y8), Jack (Y8), Harrison (Y8) & Paul (Y8). The pupils posted some excellent times and we hope to take the F24 car to the Midlands Regional Heat at Mallory Park in Leicester in July.
The aim of GreenPower is to advance education in the subjects of sustainable engineering and technology to young people.
This sort of activity fits in with the ethos behind our Science specialism to engage pupils in Science Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM) related subjects with a view to allow them to see the applications of science. We hope that this will encourage more of our pupils to engage in STEM related careers in the future.
Thanks to the staff, pupils and parents who supported this event.
County Call-Up for Badminton Stars
We are proud to announce that Mitch (Year 9) has just been notified of his inclusion in the County Badminton Squad. He joins current members Amy (Year 11), Ryan (Year 9), Amy (Year 7) and James (Year 7).
Golf
Star golfer Ryan has qualified to represent Staffordshire at the Midlands Championships. Watch this space for news of his performance.
Trampolining Champions
Congratulations to all our trampolinists who competed in the inter-school championships held at Trentham High School on 29th April 2010. 
Particular congratulations go to our U13 team who won the Novice Team competition.
The individual novice event was dominated by Trentham students: Josie clinched the gold medal, Ellie the silver and Ben the bronze.
Specialism Update – Science / D&T Project
April 2010 Year 9 Pupils take part in a cross curricular project entitled Heat Transfer. This project has enabled pupils to make links between their science knowledge and investigative skills to help them find out about the reasons for using different materials for food packaging. The project has involved the pupils using new resources that have been purchased recently using the extra money that comes with Science Specialist status. This equipment included mini-laptops & data logging technology. Mr Cartwright / Miss Hully
Cooperative Trust Consultation
please click on the link below to read the consultation report
20100223TrenthamConsultationReport
Please click on the link below to see the Statutory Notice which appeared in the Sentinel on 1st March 2010
Please click on the link below to see a copy of the full Statutory Proposal
TrentahmStatutoryProposalComplete
Tesco Vouchers
We are currently collecting Tesco Vouchers for Schools. Please send your vouchers in to your child’s form tutor or the school reception. Remember … the more vouchers we collect, the more free equipment we receive.
STOP PRESS! This will now form part of the House competition so the more vouchers you send in, the more points your House stands to receive. To date we have collected over 10,000 vouchers!
OFSTED Inspection
The school has recently been visited by Ofsted Inspectors. The full report has already been sent to all parents and is available by clicking on the link below:
V10 Trentham High – Published Report sent to School (January 2010) (2)
‘The Sentinel’ 10th February 2010
Click on the link below to read the article: ‘Saved School Praised by Ofsted Inspectors’