THE NEWS MAGAZINE OF FALINGE PARK HIGH SCHOOL


Curtain up on ‘Sleeping Beauty’


OUR annual pantomime, Sleeping Beauty, has been reworked into a tale of supermarket rivalry, in which our heroine plunges into a hundred-year sleep in a supermarket freezer. The cast of approximately 100 students from across all year groups has been taking part in after-school rehearsals, while the crew has been preparing costumes and constructing the set.


Performances will take place on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th December. We hope you can come along and join in the fun!


Simon DeCourcey


Casting spells: Kurtis Tweedale, Joshua Toft-Wild and Grace Healy, Year 10.


Staff news


MRS Uddin has been awarded a hamper and free cinema tickets by The Times Educational Supplement (TES) online for her teaching resources. Her fun spelling booklet was the second most downloaded resource during the summer term, with more than 10,000 hits. She was also named a top English contributor in August, with 90,080 resource downloads to date.


In addition, teacher Chris Haigh has helped to design a series of applications, or apps, which can be downloaded onto smartphones for around 60p. These will help students to revise for their GCSE English exams via a series of games and quizzes.


Robin Lonsdale 6


Dramatic take on RE


FPHS has


organised a special training session for primary school staff in December, combining Drama techniques


and Religious Education. The session will


feature a range


of exciting activities, which staff can then implement in their classrooms. The event will be led, in part, by Susan Phillips, a renowned Religious Education trainer across the North West.


Simon DeCourcey


Going underground


STUDENTS in Year 7 have responded enthusiastically to our new CALL (Creative and Literacy Learning) curriculum. The students have completed the first unit, entitled ‘How to Change the World in Five Easy Steps’, and are now undertaking the second topic, ‘Underground’. In between reading books such as Fantastic


Mr Fox by Roald Dahl and Redwall by Brian Jacques, the students have undertaken a range of presentations and exciting learning activities. They have also taken part in a dynamic PSHEE (Personal, Social, Health and Emotional Education) Day, and some exciting visits are planned for the future.


Simon DeCourcey


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