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2008 school exam results

A team of four pupils from years 7 & 8 travelled to John Moores' University in Liverpool for a Festival of Chemistry. The event was organised by the Salter's Institute to promote science, and give able pupils a chance to see chemistry in a wider context.

The four (Jack Rimmer, Matthew Brown, Gemma Walker, Bethan Shaw) competed in two challenge events against teams from other schools across the northwest.

The Junior Mathematical Challenge is an introductory challenge for pupils in Years 8 or below. This takes the form of five multiple choice questions to be say in exam conditions.

Several pupils from Moorland School sat the exam and performed fantastically across the board. Jack Thomson, Matthew Brown and Alex Bozdog all came away with Silver awards, whilst Adrian Bozdog also achieved a Bronze award.

Pupils at Moorland School celebrated Red Nose Day by taking part in a variety of fun activities. Sticking to the theme of doing something 'Funny for Money', the pupils and teachers dressed up in fancy dress, took part in a football competition and a 'Fun Run'.

Pupils and teachers came to school dressed in some of the most elaborate costumes ever seen at Moorland. There was a competition for the best dressed pupils, which was won by Sam Taylor and Jacob Bower who came as characters from the Tv series Little Britain. The runners up were the fantastically dressed Lauren Gray and William Clark who came as a horse and the Joker respectively.

The football tournament took place all week and saw teams of pupils compete against each other, which raised £75 alone. The winners were Sean Creeley, James Quigley, Luke Powney, Louis Wright, Alex Webster and Matthew Window. The tournament concluded with a special match against the 'Celebs' (teachers), who came away as modest and exhausted victors.

Pupils at Moorland School have always been known for their commitment to sports and this time they have really proved it. Moorland School students finished as runners-up in the UEFA event which was open to schools from across the continent.

The UEFA challenge competition is renowned for being one of the most competitive competitions of its kind. It gives the participants the opportunity to show off their silky skills.

The pupils were coached to success by Charlie Jackson, the schools coach, who is UEFA licensed to coach and also runs the Matrix Soccer Academy in addition to being a technical coach at Blackburn Rovers Academy.

The school received a generous amount of football kit from UEFA for doing so well but not being put off by being runners-up the pupils at Moorland School are determined to finish first next year!

To view some of the talent at Moorland School, filmed by the UEFA Challenge Team click HERE

Friday 18th July - Fantastic KS3 SATs Results!!!
Our year 9's certainly did us proud with our best ever year 9 SAT results. Our results were simply miles above the national average. Here are some highlights. (Remember that level 5 is the minimum expected level at this age; level 6 is above national average and 7 is excellent performance. Level 8 is only achievable in maths):-

Maths
50% achieved level 7 or 8 - (17% level 8)
72% achieved level 6 and above.
100% met the expected national level (5).

Science
33% achieved level 7
78% achieved level 6 and above.
95% met the expected national level (5).

English
83% achieved level 6 and above.
100% met the expected national level (5).

Overall, 30 % of the scores were at level 7 & 8!

Our average point score is fantastic!! Level 5 scores 33 points, level 6 scores 39 points, level 7 scores 45 points and level 8 scores 51 points on the governments scoring system.

Maths: average = 41.4
Science: average = 39.3
English: average = 38.7
Test overall average = 39.8 (just a tiny bit above a 6, 6 ,6 average SAT score)

Mr Smith, Mrs Spouse & Mr Edwards took year 9 out for a curry in Clitheroe just after the SATs test.......... they did us proud!!!! Well done year 9, and good luck in year 10!!

Wednesday 13th May 2008 - Paul Woods Visiting
Paul Woods will visit Moorland as part of a UEFA street football tour. Our children will also enter the Ford Team Challenge where a minimum of 3 players are filmed for 1 minute demonstrating as many innovative tricks as they can. See Paul's youtube video here or his UEFA video here

Monday 17 March 2008 – Year 9 trip
The Lowry Theatre in Manchester to see The Shakespeare 4 Kidz production of The Tempest.

Thursday 14th March - ISA membership confirmed
Following our super ISI inspection, the Independent Schools Association Inspections Committee have accepted Moorland as a full member of the association. ISA website

Friday 21st september - Uefa feature for former pupil
Former Moorland pupil, Rhesia Baron, has made an appearance on the uefa.com website highlighting her work with uefa on the grassroots programme for European football. Rhesia left Moorland in 2005 and studied A levels at Clitheroe Grammar school. She is now in America on a football scholarship (with pre-law).

Welcome back!!
We start the autumn term with new staff and lots of new pupils. Mrs McPartlin joins the senior school to teach English (with Mrs Spouse) and Mrs Cooley joins to teach French and German (with Mrs Wilson). Click here for a full list of staff. We were behind schedule on the new classroom block so our efforts went into improving our existing ones.

We now have record numbers in the school with our largest year group being year 11 with 37 pupils (split into 2 classes).

30th April 2007 - Mr Jackson's Matrix dvd now on Youtube
(Search for matrix soccer on youtube.com). You can now buy it at www.matrixsocceracademy.com

17th April 2007 - welcome back after the Easter break
We welcomed some new pupils after the Easter break. Alex and Bethany in year 8, Safaa in year 7 and Harley in year 5. Just before Easter, we welcomed Benn into year 8, Chris into year 9 and Kya into year 1.