Election fever hits Salendine Nook Academy As the final week of the General Election reached its conclusion pupils at Salendine Nook were given their own chance to make their own decisions about the future of our country by participating in their very own Mock Election on Thursday. The Library was turned into a Polling Booth and pupils from all Year …
On Wednesday 16th October, as part of Restart a Heart Day 2019, our wonderful Year 7’s learned CPR. The aim is that in 5 years time every single student at SNHS will have the knowledge and ability to save the life of someone suffering a cardiac arrest. The Restart a Heart campaign (RSAH) is an annual initiative led by the …
‘Future Fashion Group Are Go!’ The workshop for the ‘Future Fashion’ design group will be taking place after school on Wednesday 3rd April in TF1. If you couldn’t make it to the initial meeting, don’t worry, just get yourself along to the Wednesday night workshop and try out some decorative techniques to inspire your designing. If you need any more …
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Design and Technology Options 2019
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This term, Year 11 GCSE Drama pupils, took on the play ‘Two’ by Jim Cartwright, for part of their GCSE performance exam. The play is set in a pub and shows the lives of the customers and the Landlord and Landlady. Typically there are only two actors, but several different characters, so for the exam each drama student picked two …
Sally Nook’s Got Talent 2019 was a huge success and showed just how much talent we have here at SNHS! There was a variety of acts including singing, dancing, acting, and much more! The acts were incredible and we felt it was the highest standard of talent we have ever had! We were also lucky enough to have some special …
The Performing Arts Department will be hosting Sally Nook’s Got Talent during the 2019 Autumn Term. Maybe you have a hidden talent it’s time you showed off, or maybe you just want to help out? Either way, make sure you get to Drama Studio 1 at 12:30 on Wednesday 18th September and GET INVOLVED!!! All students welcome!!!
In the final few weeks of term, the Performing Arts Department hosted The Cabaret 2019! The night was a sell-out event with the best of SNHS talent on show. This year’s theme ‘The Greatest Showman’ saw musicians, actors and dancers perform scenes inspired by the award winning musical. The night was a huge success and all performers, technicians and backstage …
Welcome to SNHS Cabaret 2019!!! This year, on July 3rd, we are putting on a production of The Greatest Show!!! Tickets are £3.50 and available now on ParentPay! Don’t miss it! See the full poster here!
Children’s author Clare Weze delighted year seven with her recent visit to the schools Learning Resource Centre [LRC]. Every year seven student was given a copy of her debut book The Lightning Catcher to read over the summer break, and the book was a hit with both staff and students! Students queued eagerly at lunchtime to talk to Clare …
Team English dressed up as our favourite Shakespeare characters for Open Evening last night. HG6 was transformed into Castle Dunsinane and prospective students and their families were guided around a series of stations to complete puzzles. If they worked out the playwright’s name correctly, they got a tasty treat at the end 🙂 Huge thanks to Mrs Gibson for the …
Creative writing sessions are re-starting this Friday, 24th September in HF9 with Miss White and Mrs Hepworth-Tweed. Look out for our first magazine issue of 2021-22 which will be released before half term!
As a bit of fun in lockdown, KS3 and 4 students were set the challenge of decorating a toilet roll inspired by their favourite literary characters/GCSE Literature texts. Some excellent effort – winners to be announced after the Easter break. – Miss White
Here is the first issue of ‘Write It Out’, the Creative Writing group’s magazine. This showcases the writing talents of our students. Please take a read of some of the brilliant, creative work they have created so far. – Miss White, Director of English Issue 1
These are some of the projects produced by our Year 7 students as part of their ELT (extended learning task) Projects whilst we have been studying A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The ELT allows students to actively engage with their research surrounding Shakespeare and the Elizabethan era. There was an array of entries that showcase how creative our students can be, …
Here is a range of revision resources I have collected for you all. I hope you find them useful!! Miss Emily Newing Teacher of English Macbeth Exam Practice Pack AQA Poetry Anthology Revision Booklet An Inspector Calls Revision Booklet A Christmas Carol Revision Workbook Romeo and Juliet Workbook
Congratulations to Jonathon Spencer who has had his Poem, The Civilian, picked for publication. The Poetry Escape competition was open to Secondary School students of all ages across the country and had over 8000 entries. Jonathon’s poem, which can be found below, was picked out as one of the best and will be published at a later date. While you …
A group of Y8 and Y9 pupils went to France with the MFL Department for a duration of 4 days in the Summer Term. Once in France they stayed at the Chateau du Broutel situated in the historic town of Rue. The first day was spent travelling down to our destination. We took the ferry on a lovely sunny day …
A fantastic success by the Year 9 boys basketball team last night. The team are not only the Huddersfield Champions but have also won the North vs South Kirklees play off final beating Whitcliffe Mount 25-16. This fantastic team are unbeaten over the past two years and train religiously every week with some great assistance from Aqil Iqbal from the …
On Wednesday 16th October, as part of Restart a Heart Day 2019, our wonderful Year 7’s learned CPR. The aim is that in 5 years time every single student at SNHS will have the knowledge and ability to save the life of someone suffering a cardiac arrest. The Restart a Heart campaign (RSAH) is an annual initiative led by the …
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This term, Year 11 GCSE Drama pupils, took on the play ‘Two’ by Jim Cartwright, for part of their GCSE performance exam. The play is set in a pub and shows the lives of the customers and the Landlord and Landlady. Typically there are only two actors, but several different characters, so for the exam each drama student picked two …
As a bit of fun in lockdown, KS3 and 4 students were set the challenge of decorating a toilet roll inspired by their favourite literary characters/GCSE Literature texts. Some excellent effort – winners to be announced after the Easter break. – Miss White
Here is the first issue of ‘Write It Out’, the Creative Writing group’s magazine. This showcases the writing talents of our students. Please take a read of some of the brilliant, creative work they have created so far. – Miss White, Director of English Issue 1
Election fever hits Salendine Nook Academy As the final week of the General Election reached its conclusion pupils at Salendine Nook were given their own chance to make their own decisions about the future of our country by participating in their very own Mock Election on Thursday. The Library was turned into a Polling Booth and pupils from all Year …
Children In Need 2019 was the most successful charity event in SNHS History, with a final total reaching a massive £2004.07. The students had stalls selling cakes, sweets and homemade cookies, dart competitions, penalty shootouts, table football, cup ping-pong, slush puppies, make-up, hook-a-duck and more. We even had a few members of staff get involved, with Year 7’s Head of …
UPDATE!! Year 7 pupils took part in our traditional Christmas Carol service at St Stephens Church on the 10th December 2019. The service comprised of traditional readings, carols and music to celebrate Christmas. This was a wonderful event that we have organised for our Year 7 pupils that retelling the story of the birth of Jesus in readings, carols and …
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Children’s author Clare Weze delighted year seven with her recent visit to the schools Learning Resource Centre [LRC]. Every year seven student was given a copy of her debut book The Lightning Catcher to read over the summer break, and the book was a hit with both staff and students! Students queued eagerly at lunchtime to talk to Clare …
SEE FULL POSTER HERE!!
This term, Year 11 GCSE Drama pupils, took on the play ‘Two’ by Jim Cartwright, for part of their GCSE performance exam. The play is set in a pub and shows the lives of the customers and the Landlord and Landlady. Typically there are only two actors, but several different characters, so for the exam each drama student picked two …
Sally Nook’s Got Talent 2019 was a huge success and showed just how much talent we have here at SNHS! There was a variety of acts including singing, dancing, acting, and much more! The acts were incredible and we felt it was the highest standard of talent we have ever had! We were also lucky enough to have some special …
The Performing Arts Department will be hosting Sally Nook’s Got Talent during the 2019 Autumn Term. Maybe you have a hidden talent it’s time you showed off, or maybe you just want to help out? Either way, make sure you get to Drama Studio 1 at 12:30 on Wednesday 18th September and GET INVOLVED!!! All students welcome!!!
In the final few weeks of term, the Performing Arts Department hosted The Cabaret 2019! The night was a sell-out event with the best of SNHS talent on show. This year’s theme ‘The Greatest Showman’ saw musicians, actors and dancers perform scenes inspired by the award winning musical. The night was a huge success and all performers, technicians and backstage …
Welcome to SNHS Cabaret 2019!!! This year, on July 3rd, we are putting on a production of The Greatest Show!!! Tickets are £3.50 and available now on ParentPay! Don’t miss it! See the full poster here!
Election fever hits Salendine Nook Academy As the final week of the General Election reached its conclusion pupils at Salendine Nook were given their own chance to make their own decisions about the future of our country by participating in their very own Mock Election on Thursday. The Library was turned into a Polling Booth and pupils from all Year …
UPDATE!! Year 7 pupils took part in our traditional Christmas Carol service at St Stephens Church on the 10th December 2019. The service comprised of traditional readings, carols and music to celebrate Christmas. This was a wonderful event that we have organised for our Year 7 pupils that retelling the story of the birth of Jesus in readings, carols and …
A tremendous effort once again for this years Harvest Festival. Thank you to all those who contributed and to Lyn Davies for organising as usual, who personally drove all the goods down to the Distribution Centre (quite a few car loads!!)
In light of changes to Relationships, Sex and Health Education to all schools from September 2020 please find a link HERE to a guide for parents. At Salendine Nook Academy we have been delivering high quality lessons to all year groups on Relationships, Sex and Health Education successfully for many years. Our curriculum rationale and scheme of lessons for all …
Year 10 Religious Studies GCSE and Citizenship GCSE classes had a fantastic 2 hour wokshop discussing the problems facing Israelis and Palestinians as they work towards a peace agreement. Representatives from a charity called Solutions not Sides came into school with presenters from Israel to explain the issues for both Israelis and Palestinians living in Israel. Pupils were able to …
Year 9 Health and Social Care students go back in time and evaluate the games 4-10 year olds play. They had to play the games and evaluate the PIES development the games encourage in children, that’s the physical, intellectual, emotional and social development. The students played Egg splat, Tumble Tower, Beat the flush, Guess who and Hamster race. Can you …
30 pupils attended a dramatic production of Yizkor a play inspired by the heroic lives of Jews facing the suffering of the Holocaust. Pupils were also treated to an answer and questions session with the actors and author of the play. Students were also then able to investigate the Holocaust Museum recently established at Huddersfield University. It was a remarkable …
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Well done to Hessa Akhbar for achieving a bronze medal at the 2019 Open European ITF Taekwon-Do on 3rd November 2019. A massive achievement, well done!!
We are appealing to parents and our local community to see if any local businesses or self-employed people would would be willing to invest in new sports kits for our hugely successful sports teams. We are working with local company Oneill’s Sports who have produced new fashionable kit designs that can have various different sponsors on the front, back and …
Our Year 9 Boys Football Team won the Kirklees Schools Cup, beating Whitcliffe Mount 3-1!! Well done to all those who took part!!! Nick Robinson Zak Sykes Levent Dalbal Joe Taylor Daniel Baldwin Marco Mellor Kobe Simpson Joe Lloyd Bailey Peaker Lucas Lawley Will Roberts Cole France Tom Henderson Sam Horner Joe Murphy Mr Joe Flaherty Head of Year 11 …
Our Year 7 Boys Rugby Team were runners up in the Kirklees Schools Rugby League Tournament on 1st May. Well done to all those who took part!!! Max Turner Fletcher Scott Conor Tracey Max Hallas Oliver Morton Amaar Aslam Harrison Turner Oliver King Isaac Jepson Nathan McCauliffe Ethan Scrutton Tom Senior Darcy Mbabazi Oliver Salmon Christian Gilbert Mr Joe Flaherty …
On May 25th 65 pupils are travelling to Salou for a Netball and Football tour. We will be playing games against local teams and taking part in a tournament. We have been very kindly sponsored by Glyn Johnson from Yorkshire Packaging Systems and Andies Gents Hair. We wish all the pupils the best of luck for the trip. Mr Joe …
A fantastic success by the Year 9 boys basketball team last night. The team are not only the Huddersfield Champions but have also won the North vs South Kirklees play off final beating Whitcliffe Mount 25-16. This fantastic team are unbeaten over the past two years and train religiously every week with some great assistance from Aqil Iqbal from the …
A group of Y8 and Y9 pupils went to France with the MFL Department for a duration of 4 days in the Summer Term. Once in France they stayed at the Chateau du Broutel situated in the historic town of Rue. The first day was spent travelling down to our destination. We took the ferry on a lovely sunny day …
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Winter is on its way as temperatures have started to drop. Updates on weather that may affect the travel to school or the school building itself will be posted here.
