THIRTEEN-year-old cousins completed a 147-mile coast to coast cycle ride in just five days raising more than £1,000. The marathon ride was completed by Robbie Barton, from Helmshore, and his cousin Oli Smith, from Glossop, Derbyshire. For Robbie, from Haslingden High School, the achievement came just two years after a […]
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April 2020: School makes visors for frontline healthcare staff
OUR Design and Technology (D&T) faculty has manufactured over 1,400 safety face visors for frontline NHS and care home staff. Staff responded to the national call and by Friday of last week, two members of staff were making deliveries in the school minibus, whilst observing social distancing guidelines, across Lancashire, […]
March 2020: Tears and sadness at last day of school
‘I WOULD rather be doing my GCSEs’. Those were the words of one of our Year 11 students, who left school for the last time on Friday. With less than two days’ notice, Mr Wilson and Miss Dickinson hastily arranged a leavers’ assembly, just as we do every year, but […]
March 2020: Cricketers score hard earned third place in county
CONGRATULATIONS to the U13s girls cricket team who were third in the Lancashire finals. The team, who are all but one from Year 7, took on the county’s best teams at Bolton Arena and fought hard. Lola Whittles, 11, said: “There was a catch which although our teacher and the […]
March 2020: Trampoline team third best in country
A TEAM of trampolinists from Haslingden High School bounced their way to the bronze medal podium in a national competition. For two members Harry Sneddon and Josh Lowthion, it was the third time they had competed in the national schools’ final; this time at Southampton. The team of four, including […]