Newsletter
Issue no. 4
Quote for the week:
“A man who dares to waste one
hour of time has not discovered the
value of life” Charles Darwin
School Production
of
OLIVER!
‘Food glorious food’
‘Where is love?’
‘Consider yourself’
18th, 19th & 20th March
7.30pm
Main Hall
Tickets available from
Reception now!
£5.00 per adult and
concession tickets at £4.00
Book early as tickets will be
in high demand!
Friday, 5th March 2010
‘At a Glance’ - Events from
8th March – 19th March
LITERARY FESTIVAL
Monday 8th March
11TH – 18TH MARCH 2010 • 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
8-12th March: Swap-a-book week Friday 12th March
11th March: Whole School Reading
• Y8/Y9 Finals Manchester Indoor
Time 8.40-9.00am Athletics
• Swap-a-book - LRC
Manchester Book Award Monday 15th March
Ceremony • Author visit – Joe Craig
Tuesday 16th March
15th March: Author Visit – Joe Craig
• Book Fair (Forum)
16-19th March: Book fair (Forum) with • Y11 Parents’ Revision Session
Simply Books Wednesday 17th March
• Poetry Workshop with Vivienne
17th March: 6th Form & Y11
Neale
Reading Group
Thursday 18th March
Poetry Workshop with • Y7 Science Day at Manchester
Vivienne Neale Museum
• School Production of ‘Oliver’
18th March: Reading Group in
7.30pm Main Hall
partnership with King’s
School Macclesfield Friday 19th March
• School Production of ‘Oliver’
Keeping In Touch! 7.30pm Main Hall
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 SUMMER SCHOOL 2010
therefore very important for
parents/carers to keep us
Week 1: 26th - 30th July
Week 2: 2nd - 6th August
updated of any change of Week 3: 9th -13th August
contact details, particularly
mobile phone numbers. Please Information on all courses will be
either leave a note of any available from April 2010
changes at Reception or e-mail:
vanessa.lees@whgs-academy.org
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
NEED TO RE-TAKE
Mrs Lees’ World Famous YOUR EXAMS?
Sticky Toffee Pudding
Recipe If you need to re-sit an exam in
the Summer you must:
Cake ingredients
2ozs softened butter
6ozs caster sugar 1 Discuss it with your subject
8ozs plain flour
1tsp baking powder teacher
1 egg 2 Fill in a Re-sit Form (available
6ozs stoned dates (chopped)
½pt boiling water from the school reception)
1tsp bicarbonate of soda 3 Return the completed form
1tsp vanilla essence
AND fee to Ms McNicholas
Sauce ingredients (Examinations Administrator)
5ozs brown sugar
3ozs butter
4Tblspn double cream NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY
Method 17TH MARCH 2010
Cream butter and sugar together,
sift flour and baking powder, beat
After this date the fees will
the whisked egg into the butter
and sugar with a little of the flour, increase to include a late entry
continue beating for a minute, then
fee!
add remaining flour.

Flour dates lightly and chop finely,

Iram Raja pour the boiling water over them.
Mix in bicarb and vanilla essence,
for Season of Secrets add this mixture to egg, sugar and
flour mixture.
Shameer Silva Turn into buttered tin 11” x 7”
for Malice (bottom lined with buttered
greaseproof makes it easier to
turn out) and bake for approx 40
mins (180C, 350F, Gas Mark 4) SWAP-A-BOOK-DAY
Food Technologist
For toffee sauce coating, heat Do you have any books that
of the Week gently the brown sugar, butter and you have already read?
cream and simmer for 3 mins, Please bring them to the LRC
pour over hot pudding and place
under grill until it bubbles (the
from 8th March 2010.
sauce burns easily). Serve hot On 12th March 2010 students
with whipped cream. and staff are invited to the LRC
to browse through the
NB: The cake can be made in collection and take their pick!
advance, freezes well too!

Flapjacks TAFAL
TEACH A FRIEND A LANGUAGE
12.40 – 1.10pm
Classroom Z16
Monday: Yoruba
Tuesday: Arabic
Wednesday: Urdu
1.10pm – 1.40pm Dutch
Thursday: Mandarin
Flapjacks
by
Holly Shirley-Rush 7A2
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 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!

Ski Trip 2011 – Zell am See, Austria

See Mr MacCallum for further details
 Kids Corner SCHOOL UNIFORM
Please note that Senior Girls are
JOKE OF THE WEEK ☺ no longer required to have rugby
Why did the chicken cross the playground? shirts or socks. If they do wish to
To get to the other slide purchase these items, they are the
same colours as the boys and can
PUZZLE OF THE WEEK be bought at John Lewis, Cheadle
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?

On 22nd January John Hofton, our

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)
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!

Answer to puzzle in Newsletter Nr.3: PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION

Guitar
Next meeting Tuesday, 9th March 2010
7.30pm Conference Room at WHGS

R E M I N D E R!
rd
3 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
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CCF
On Saturday, 27 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!

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!

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.