Extra-Curricular Activities

We have just finished our first two weeks of the extra-curricular programme and we are overwhelmed with the participation and motivation we have seen from our students. I am constantly in awe of how our fantastic our students are and they certainly showed their resilience and competitiveness in their first two weeks back. Well done, girls on a fantastic first two weeks in extra-curricular. If you haven’t yet attended, we would love to see you there!

Mrs Naylor
Curriculum Leader for Performance, Sport and Health

Planting in Spring

Spring is in the air and it’s time to get growing something…..anything!!!!! So we, (the Science Department) have taken over the raised beds outside The Haven.

Over the next few months we will update you all on what is growing in the beds. Can anybody guess what is growing by the bamboo canes and why the tin foil?

While clearing weeds out of the raised borders and preparing the beds, I noticed the first ladybird of 2021; hopefully there will be plenty more as we will not be using any chemicals.

In time, we will start up our sunflower seed growing competition, which proved quite literally a huge success in previous years!!!!

Hopefully, in the next few weeks seedlings will start to appear.

Mr Turner,

Science Technician

RE in the world this Week

What is Ramadan?
During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn to dusk.  It is intended to focus the mind on prayer, spirituality and charity,as well as to purify the body and mind.

How will COVID change Ramadan this year?

With strict curfews and physical distancing to limit the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19 disease, many of Ramadan’s rituals and traditions will be curtailed this year.
Breaking of the fast is usually a communal affair. It is common for mosques to host large iftars, especially for the poor.
Because of the pandemic, which has spread to 185 nations, many countries this year have advised citizens to avoid large gatherings and have suhoor and iftar individually or with family at home.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/4/23/how-will-the-coronavirus-pandemic-change-ramadan-for-muslims

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/4/23/how-will-the-coronavirus-pandemic-change-ramadan-for-muslims

Miss Brooks, RE Department

An Inspirational Speaker

Based on the PGHS value of social responsibility and as part of International Women’s Day, KS3 had the opportunity to hear from an inspirational speaker, Emma Slade via zoom. Here’s some snapshots of our assembly and the book which she has written telling her story in depth. We will certainly be purchasing a copy for our RE library. Will you?

 

Miss Brooks

 

Modern Foreign Languages News April 2021

As well as learning how to communicate in French and German and learn all our vocabulary and grammar, it is also one of our priorities here in the MFL department to learn about the culture and people in that country.  With this in mind during the last few weeks, we have been exploring our links with France and Germany and we have begun our venture into setting up our pen pals with our Year 9 German classes.  This is something our pupils have been really excited about and we started by sending Easter cards over to our new German school just before the Easter holidays.

We are exchanging letters with the Sickingen-Gymnasium in Landstuhl, a grammar school in the Kaiserslautern district in southwestern Germany.  The town of Landstuhl is steeped in history and culture.  It has a population of over 8,000 people and is situated northwest of Stuttgart, an hour away from Heidelberg and not far from the French and Luxembourg borders. It is home to the Sickinger Schloss, a small castle.

  

The school itself was founded in 1873 and is a wonderful school that offers a huge range of subjects to all the pupils ranging from geography, art, sport, IT to a huge range of

We began writing our cards and letters just before Easter and we wrote a little bit in English about our own traditions over the holidays.  We also wrote some information about ourselves in German.  We wrote about our hobbies, our interests, what we do at school and our ambitions for the future.  Some of our students also drew some pictures and wrote some little poems for the German pupils to read.  We are now eagerly awaiting our returned cards from our German school so that we can return their letters with information about us, our school and our family traditions.  We hope over this term to video call the school during our lessons and talk in German to them.   We are also planning a video tour of our school for the German pupils and we hope to see their school too.  Who knows?  One day we may get to visit in person!

Here are some photos of the cards we sent:

languages such as Russian, Spanish, French, English and Latin.

Here is what our Year 9 students thought about our new penfriend programme:

At the end of the Easter term, we wrote letters to a German school telling them about our Easter traditions.  We also told them about ourselves and what we enjoy.  We hope to do video calls with the German school and maybe go and visit them. I can’t wait to receive my letter.   Lola U 9P

Closer to the Easter period, our class decided to get in touch with a school in Germany and we made festive Easter cards.  In doing this, we hope we can make some new friends, share our Easter traditions with them and when they reply, we will get a taste of their culture too.  This is a fantastic experience, as we get to apply vocabulary into real life situations.  Sanuli W 9P

At Easter my class began our exchange with a German school.  We made creative Easter cards to send to Germany whilst waiting for a return letter.  This lesson was not only fun but very important for our grammar knowledge.  We learnt lots of new vocabulary, which we are currently applying as we prepare for our upcoming assessment.  Liv W 9P

In German, we have been learning a lot about a ski resort in South Germany and what we can do there and we had the opportunity to write pen pal letters to students in Germany.  In the letters, we wrote about our Easter traditions and what we enjoy about our holidays.  I hope to continue writing to them so that I can improve my German and make world-wide friends.  Hibba A 9P

Mrs Gill
Curriculum Leader for MFL

 

Life Skills Update

KS3 Life Skills lessons are now being taught with the new Collins resources. The feedback has been extremely positive from both staff and students.

This half term, students will be exploring some of the more sensitive topics of RSE and health education. Here is the half-termly update with sources of further information and support should you wish to continue to conversation at home.

Year 7

L1 – You and bullying.

L2 – Cyberbullying.

L3 – Protecting your online identity.

L4 – The Right to education. (Linked with international women’s day and the rights of a child.)

L5 – UNICEF – Rights of the child.

L6 – Gender and your identity.

L7 – Exploring your sexuality.

https://www.bullying.co.uk/

https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/feelings-and-symptoms/bullying/

www.thinkuknow.co.uk/11_13/

www.safetynetkids.org.uk/personal-safety/online-safety/

https://www.unicef.org.uk/what-we-do/un-convention-child-rights/

https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/for-parents/parents-guide-to-support-a-z/parents-guide-to-support-gender-identity-issues/

www.childline.org.uk/info-advice/your-feelings/sexual-identity/sexual-orientation

www.youngstonewall.org/get-support/coming-out-lgbt

Year 8

L1 – Your developing sexuality.

L2 – Understanding your gender identity.

L3 – LGBT+ rights.

L4 – Sex facts and myths.

L5 – Consent and contraception.

L6 – Sexting.

https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/for-parents/parents-guide-to-support-a-z/parents-guide-to-support-gender-identity-issues/

www.childline.org.uk/info-advice/your-feelings/sexual-identity/sexual-orientation

www.youngstonewall.org/get-support/coming-out-lgbt

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/campaigning-global-lgbt-equality

www.healthforteens.co.uk/sexual-health/

https://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers/hot-topics/sexting

Year 9

L1 – Money and mental health.

L2 – Credit and debit.

L3 – Gambling and online fraud.

L4 – Social media and body image.

L5 – Sexually transmitted infections.

L6 – Symptoms of STI’s and sexual health clinics.

https://natwest.mymoneysense.com/students/students-12-16/

https://www.bigdeal.org.uk/

https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/feelings-and-symptoms/body-image/

https://lancashiresexualhealth.nhs.uk/

https://www.healthforteens.co.uk/health/about-chathealth/

https://legacy.brook.org.uk/press-releases/new-sexual-health-services-for-lancashire

Mrs Cahill

LIfe Skills Co-ordinator

Important Letter to all Parents / Carers

Please read below an important letter sent to all our parents/carers today about the sudden and unexpected death of one of our students, Zaynab Bhula.

Perfect Presenter

As a school, we actively promote the importance of the content and presentation of work that students complete in their exercise books and our staff routinely reward students for work that has been completed to the highest presentational standards.

To further inspire our students to take the utmost pride in the presentation of their work, we are holding a ‘Perfect Presenter’ competition for all students in years 7-9. 

This half term, staff will be taking special notice of the presentation of student work and will award the ‘Perfect Presenter’ medal on Class Charts to those students who have demonstrated that a real pride has been taken or if they have made impressive recent progress.  Prizes (including impressive stationary hampers) will be awarded at the end of the half term to individual students, as well as the form group in each year that accumulates the most perfect presenter medals.

To help students better understand the high expectations that we have of the presentation of written work at PGHS, Mr Ramsdale has created a poster which shows the steps to follow in order to be awarded the perfect presenter medal, now displayed in each form room.

Mr Herbert
Associate Assistant Headteacher

  • Artsmark Platinum Award - Awards by Arts Council England
  • Lancashire Socio-economic Equality Badge
  • SMART
  • UNICEF
  • School Mental Health Award
  • Ofsted - Outstanding Provider
  • International School Award
  • Artsmark Platinum Award - Awards by Arts Council England
  • Lancashire Socio-economic Equality Badge
  • SMART
  • UNICEF
  • School Mental Health Award
  • Ofsted - Outstanding Provider
  • International School Award