Extra-curricular booklet 2024 - Summer

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

WE HAVE AN EXCEPTIONAL COMMITMENT TO EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND HIGH QUALITY OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE OF THE USUAL CLASSROOM.

These activities are an important and exciting feature of school life and contribute enormously to our students' academic and social development

The vast majority of extra-curricular provision and educational visits are provided voluntarily by teaching and support staff as a commitment to our young people

Please encourage your child to embrace the vast array of opportunities available to them and attend at least one activity*

If you have any questions or enquiries regarding extracurricular please contact Ms Quinn:

r.quinn@chorltonhigh.manchester.sch.uk

PLEASEBEAWARE:

RevisionSessionsare drop-inandDONOT requirebooking.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

ART

ART CRAFTERNOON

All things art, design and craft-based, ranging from model making, sculpture, printing, painting and craft projects

Each half term we continue a weekly project theme also looking at individual creative tasks and a variety of techniques and processes!

CURRICULUM AREA DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Art

Thursday 14 45 - 15 45pm

Y7 - Y9 S84

Mr Bacanin

KS4 ART CATCH UP

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Art

Wednesday and Thursday 14 45 - 15 45

Wednesday, Mrs Taylor Art and 3D students

Thursday, Mrs Weeks and Mrs Daly Art students

Thursday, Ms Needham Photography students S84

*Please see above

ART REVISION

KS4 EXTEND DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Tuesday 14 45 - 15 45 Y10 and Y11 S80, S82, S83 Ms Needham, Ms Weaks, Ms Daly

PLEASEBEAWARE:

RevisionSessionsare drop-inandDONOT requirebooking.

COMPUTINIG

CODING CLUB

Students are taught creative coding techniques and are then encouraged to put into practice what they have learnt, adding their own ideas, experimenting and creating their own games

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

DANCE

M21 DANCE COMPANY

This club is for male identifying students to work towards creating a new dance piece for performance

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME YEAR

ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Dance

Tuesday 14 50 - 15 50

Y7 - Y11 P40

Ms Madeley

CHAT:SS DANCE REHEARSALS

This club is for students who successfully auditioned to perform as a dancer in our upcoming site-specific and studentled CHAT:SS project as part of Chorlton Arts Festival

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME YEAR

ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Dance

Wednesday 14 50 - 15 50

Y7 - Y11 P41

Mrs Shaw

COMPOSERS & CHOREOGRAPHERS – DANCE

This project is a week long intensive where students will work together to create a new piece of dance that will be performed alongside an original piece of live music

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME YEAR

ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Dance

Every day 14th- 23rd May, 14 50 - 15 50

Y7 - Y11 P40 and P41 Dance team

DANCE REVISION

SESSION

Ms Madeley and Mrs Shaw

PLEASEBEAWARE:

RevisionSessionsare drop-inandDONOT requirebooking.

DRAMA

CHAT:SS DRAMA REHEARSALS

This club is for students who successfully auditioned to perform as an actor in our upcoming site-specific and student-led CHAT:SS project as part of Chorlton Arts Festival

CURRICULUM AREA

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

ENGLISH

EDUCAKE CLUB

Need extra help with home learning or revision Pop along and get support from our English teachers

CURRICULUM AREA DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

JOURNALLING

English

Wednesday 14 45 - 15 45 Y10 F40

Miss Mallon

Enjoy the crafting and art of journalling A meditative and creative process that will give you the skills and confidence to record and journal your thoughts and feelings, and your observations on the world around us Suitable for budding writers who are interested in honing their writing skills and are interested in careers in the creative media industry

CURRICULUM AREA DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

English

Tuesday 14 45 - 15 45 Y8 and Y9 F44

Miss Harris

All activities MUST bebooked viaArbor, unless specified.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

ENGLISH “EDUCATE”

Led by our Homework ambassadors, this will give Year 7 the opportunity to complete and build their homelearning skills, supporting students with their English homework

CURRICULUM

PHILOSOPHY CLUB

Explore the leading BIG questions that consume us as humans, consider what makes the world tick and build our capacity for critical discussion and knowledge.

CURRICULUM

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

ENGLISH REVISION

SESSIONS

DAY AND TIME YEAR

ROOM STAFF MEMBER

SESSIONS

DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Wednesday 14 45 - 15 45

Y11

F42 and F43

Teaching staff on rotation

Thursday 14 45 - 15 45

Y11

English corridor

With class teacher in their classroom

PLEASEBEAWARE:

RevisionSessionsare drop-inandDONOT requirebooking.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

HUMANITIES

BIG THINKERS

Are you fascinated by the world around you and why things happen the way they do?

Do you have a specific interest that you’d like to explore further –politics, animal rights, a period in history?

Would you like to learn research and debating skills?

Come along to S14 – we will research, present and debate, and the topics are decided by you

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME YEAR

ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Humanities

Monday 14 45 - 16 30

Y8 - Y9

S13

Mrs Haygarth

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

HUMANITIES REVISION

GEOGRAPHY REVISION

S12, S49

GEOGRAPHY BREAKFAST REVISION

Scott and Ms Corrigan

PLEASEBEAWARE:

RevisionSessionsare drop-inandDONOT requirebooking.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

HUMANITIES REVISION

HISTORY REVISION

AND TIME

STAFF MEMBER Thursday 14 45 - 15 45 Y11 S40 and S44 With class teacher

HISTORY BREAKFAST REVISION

and S44

Mrs Scott and Ms Corrigan

PLEASEBEAWARE:

RevisionSessionsare drop-inandDONOT requirebooking.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

LIBRARY

YEAR 10 AND YEAR 11 READING GROUP

This is a drop in session and no need to book via Arbor. Come and read some stunning YA books chosen by the National Teen Book Club Join other young people around the country in online sessions discussing the book and listening to some inspirational speakers

CURRICULUM AREA DAY AND TIME

YEAR

ROOM STAFF MEMBER

KS4 Reading Group

Friday 14 45 - 15 45

Y10 and Y11 Library Ms Hockey

YEAR 7 AND YEAR 8 READING GROUP

This is a drop in session and no need to book via Arbor. Stuck in a rut with your reading?

Not sure what to choose next?

Need some inspiration?

Come along to Reading group and read some amazing books!

CURRICULUM AREA DAY AND TIME

YEAR

ROOM STAFF MEMBER

KS3 Reading Group

Monday 14 45 - 15 45 Y7 and Y8 Library Ms Hockey

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

LIBRARY HOMEWORK CLUB

Need to do some homework? Want to choose a book? Need a revision guide? Come to the library after school

Library sessions

Monday 14 45 - 15 45 Y7 and Y8 only

Tue - Fri 14 45 - 15 45 Y7 - Y11 Y7 - Y11

Library Ms Hockey

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

MATHS

CIPHER CHALLENGE CLUB*

We meet up on Thursdays to train on the theory of Cipher cracking and learn techniques for code breaking competitions Join the team and become a determined and hard working cipher cracker!

CURRICULUM AREA

Maths

Thursday 14 45 - 15 45

Y7 - Y9 S71

Miss Tingle

MATHS SPARX CLUB

A space for students to come along and complete their sparx homework and access the support of a maths teacher

CURRICULUM AREA DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Maths

Thursday 14 30 - 15 45

Y7 - Y11

S71 and S67

Maths teacher

MEDIA

MOVIE MAKERS CLUB

Anyone interested in film can come along to discuss films, and try out different movie making methods - we might try stop motion animation, horror film filming/editing, music video filming/editing, using a greenscreen, sound effects, etc!

CURRICULUM AREA DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Media

Tuesday 14 45 - 15 45

Y7 and Y8

G69 Ms Morrison

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

MFL

SUPPER CLUB - POP UP EVENT

Learn how to prepare food from around the world with the MFL department teachers

Once we have prepared the food, we sit and eat together

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME

YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

*DATES TO BOOK

MFL and Tech

See below*

Y10 only

G49

Ms Miller

16th May and 20th June

SPANISH HIGHER WRITING CLUB All activities MUST bebooked viaArbor, unless specified.

CURRICULUM AREA DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

MFL

Tuesday 14 45 - 15 45

Y10 - Y11

F12

Mrs Baron

MFL REVISION

FRENCH - FOUNDATION

FRENCH - HIGHER

PLEASEBEAWARE:

RevisionSessionsare drop-inandDONOT requirebooking.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

MFL REVISION

SPANISH - FOUNDATION

SPANISH - HIGHER

PLEASEBEAWARE:

RevisionSessionsare drop-inandDONOT requirebooking.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

MUSIC

STEEL PANS

Ever dreamed of playing in a steel pan band?

Now is your chance! Come along to Mr Calame’s Steel Pan band

CURRICULUM AREA DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER Music

Monday 14 45 - 15 45

Y7 - Y11 F83

Mr Calame

CHOIR

Do you love singing?

Do you want to work as a team? Do you want to perform to a live audience? If so, come along to our fantastic new choir

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER Music

Monday 14 45 - 15 45

Y7 - Y11 F83

Team music

MUSIC TECHNOLOGY CLUB

Become a producer! Come along and learn skills on Logic Pro and make new friends in our Music suite

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Music

Wednesday 14 45 - 15 45

Y7 - Y11 F81

Mr Lindsay

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

MUSIC

UKELELE CLUB

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER Music

Tuesday 14 45 - 15 45

Y7 - Y11

F83

Mr Daniel

REHEARSAL ROOMS

In a band? Come along and hone your skills in the rehearsal rooms!

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME

YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Music

Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 14 45 - 15 45

Y7 - Y11

Practise Rooms

Mr Lindsay

PLEASEBEAWARE:

RevisionSessionsare drop-inandDONOT requirebooking.

ACTIVITIES

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

PE

KEY STAGE 4 (YEARS 10 & 11) CATCH-UP CLUB

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME

YEAR

ROOM STAFF MEMBER

CAMNAT Sport Studies

Thursday 14 45 - 15 45

Y11 - 30 attendees maximum

F13

Mrs Barrow

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

SCIENCE

STEM CLUB

Still waiting for your Hogwarts letter?

Don’t worry, come to STEM club and discover the science of magic!

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER Science

Tuesday 14 45 - 15 45

Y7 - Y10 S51

Mr Vass & Miss Higgs

All activities MUST bebooked viaArbor, unless specified.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

SCIENCE REVISION

COMBINED REVISION

TRIPLE REVISION

PLEASEBEAWARE:

RevisionSessionsare drop-inandDONOT requirebooking.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

A Year 7 baking club to learn how to follow recipes, make sweet treats and build confidence working in our food classrooms All activities MUST bebooked viaArbor, unless specified.

TECHNOLOGY REVISION

DROP-IN

DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

FOOD PREP AND NUTRITION

PLEASEBEAWARE:

RevisionSessionsare drop-inandDONOT requirebooking.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

WELLBEING

NINTENDO CLUB

A fun and friendly club for Nintendo fans and enthusiasts!

GSA (GENDER AND SEXUALITY ALLIANCE)

This is a drop in session and no need to book via Arbor. Students from all years who are part of the LGBTQ+ community and allies can come and use the club as a safe space, to discuss issues around equality and diversity, learn about LGBTQ+ rights around the world, plan fundraising opportunities, listen to music, get recommendations from peers about LGBTQ+ books, films, music

Tilley

EXTRA-CURRICULAR

WELLBEING

ACCESS AND ACHIEVEMENT HOMEWORK CLUB

We offer support with homework and Teams Our team provides help across all curriculum areas with expert advice of revision techniques and managing time effectively

CURRICULUM AREA

DAY AND TIME YEAR ROOM STAFF MEMBER

Access and Achievement

Monday - Friday 14 45 - 15 45

Y7 - Y11 F13

Access and Achievement Team