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2nd September 10

Welcome to Mount Carmel website. We are a specialist Science College. We re-open for Year 7 and Year 11 students on Tuesday 7 September and for all years on Wednesday 8 September.

Best Ever GCSE results!

We are celebrating our BEST EVER GCSE results this year thanks to the hard work of our students and staff and the support of our parents.
71% of our students gained 5 A* to C grades.

Pictured here are just some of our successful students
52% gained 5 A* to C grades including English and Maths, which is a 10% improvement on 2009.
As always we are extremely proud of our students' achievements and wish them all the very best with their chosen career paths.

Parental letters - July 2010
End of Year letter to parents dated 20th July 2010
Information regarding Home to School transport

Open Evening
Mount Carmel are holding their Open Evening on

Thursday 30th September 2010

The Headteacher's address will commence at 7pm
Year 6 and Year 5 families are welcome to attend.

Animation & Film Workshop

As part of our Extended Schools programme Mount Carmel held a successful Animation & Film workshop for Year 4 and Year 5 pupils and their parents from St. Anne's & St. Joseph's R.C. Primary School on Wednesday 14 July 2010.
Assisted by a group of Mount Carmel Year 9 and Year 10 students they produced some fantastic 'adverts' for a travel company.
You can view their work below:
C.C. Company
Jess Travel
Holiday Away

Visual Voices at the Haworth


An exhibition of Art from Mount Carmel, Norden, Hollins and Rhyddings 24th July - 30th August 2010

A group of our students have had the wonderful opportunity of working closely with Yvonne Robins from the Haworth Art gallery in Accrington in the organisation of an Art Exhibition featuring Hyndburn High schools.
They came up a name for the exhibition - 'Visual Voices' and designed posters, invitations, leaflets and information sheets. The students have also helped write a press release and have sent out a mail shot to many venues across the North West.
They are currently mounting and framing all the pieces of work selected from the high schools to be exhibited and will be hanging the work in the gallery and preparing for the preview.
The exhibition will be open from Saturday 24th July - 30th August 2010
To view the selected poster design by Melissa Flynn, Year 10 Mount Carmel student, click here
To contact the Haworth Art Gallery Tel: 01254 233782

Leavers Prom 2010
Our Year 11 students enjoyed a lovely evening at Mytton Fold Hotel for their Leavers Prom on Thursday 1 July.
They all looked wonderful and were a credit to our school community. They will be greatly missed. Good luck to you all.

School Sports Week

Mount Carmel P.E. department organised a week full of sports activities for our students including Golf lessons at Accrington Golf Club, participation in an inter-schools Athletics competition and fun activities for Years 7 and 8.

The week culminated in our whole school Sports Day. We were fortunate to enjoy good weather despite heavy rain during the night. Students (and teachers) participated in tug-of-war competitions, sack races, three legged races, sprints and egg and spoon races.

Watch a film clip of our Sports Day here

Southworth came out worthy winners despite strong opposition from our other Houses; Arrowsmith, Clitherow, Hurst and Rigby.

Blood Brothers
The Musical
A chance to get involved in something fun and exciting over the Summer holidays?

click here for more details
click here to download an application form

Newsletter
May 2010

We are proud of all the achievements of our students, please enjoy reading about some of them in the latest edition of our school newsletter.

Click here to view or download our latest newsletter.  

Summer 2010 Examination Timetable
click here to open the Summer 2010 examination timetable


The candidates for Head Students for 2010-2011 produced very strong presentations during their recent interviews and the Senior Leadership Team at Mount Carmel were faced with an extremely tough decision. After much deliberating they are pleased to announce the Head Students for the academic year 2010-2011 will be as follows:
Head Boy - John McKenna-Hughes   Head Girl - Uzma Ali
Deputy Head Boy - Adam Dad  Deputy Head Girl - Bethany Bolton
Senior Prefects - Louis McKenna, Tyler Whittaker-Law, Naomi Bury, Jessica Mason, Abbie Newson, Bethany Thompson and Abbie Walsh.

We would like to thank our current Head Boy and Head Girl, Joel and Ellis along with the Deputy Head Boy, Deputy Head Girl and Senior Prefects for all their hard work over the past year and wish them every success in their future studies. They have been great ambassadors for Mount Carmel and we are sure that our new team will be just as successful.

BBC Film Crew

BBC Horizon is producing a programme for the 10th Anniversary of the Human Genome Project. One of the genetic conditions they are profiling is Cystic Fibrosis. Mount Carmel's Academic Mentor, Miss S. Longton who has Cystic Fibrosis has been chosen to feature in the programme.

The BBC has been in school filming Miss Longton at work with the students. The programme will be aired on BBC2 in the Autumn. We will publish details nearer to the time on our website.

Rebecca bowls them over!

Well done to Year 8 student Rebecca, who has been chosen by the British Tenpin Bowling Association to represent England at the World Sports Festival in Vienna this Summer.

Good luck Rebecca, we hope you get those strikes!

A Hard Act to Follow
Congratulations must go to Year 10 student, John, who after a gruelling audition at the Manchester ZION Arts Centre on 19th February, has gained a place on a National Youth Theatre Acting course which takes place this Summer!
The course will be in London at the critically acclaimed venue, LABAN in Greenwich. The competition for a place was exceptionally tough this year and the NYT had its highest number of applications ever, so this was a truly brilliant achievement.
Well done, John, and we wish you good luck – or should we say Break a Leg??!

 Hyndburn Family Day

Mount Carmel are contributors in organising the Hyndburn Family Day on Thursday 3 June 2010 from 10a.m. - 4p.m. in Accrington Town Hall. More details will follow nearer to the time but it promises to be a fun filled day of activities for all the family.
National Family Week takes place 31 May - 6 June 2010 - visit the website for more details www.nationalfamilyweek.co.uk

We are the Champions!

The Year 10 team consists of;
Goalkeepers
Declan Ryan and Alex Kelly
Defenders
Marco Cirino, Declan Connolly, Sam Beardsworth, Ryan McCaffrey, Max Hudson and Kurt Irwin
Midfielders
Declan Keeney, Sam Griffin, Lewis Wissett, Jake McIvor and Matt Fletcher
Forwards
Callum Carter, Connor McWilliams and Callum Kennedy

We are extremely proud of our Year 10 boys' football team who have become the Hyndburn and Ribble Valley champions - the local equivalent of winning the World Cup! Out of the 8 games played they won all 8, scoring an impressive 27 goals and only conceeding 4. Worthy champions indeed. Thanks to Mr Cottam for all his hard work during the season.

School Meals
The free school meal criteria have changed. If you think you may qualify please contact Mrs Sharon O'Brien, Mount Carmel School Business Manager on 01254 357192 for further details.

Easter Activities
As part of our Extended Schools service, we were pleased to offer our students activities during the Easter holidays. An energetic 'street' dance session was held in the school gym and a screening of the new 'Alice in Wonderland' film was screened in our school hall. 
A group of students also had the opportunity to go on a day trip to Borwick Hall doing adventurous activities such as canoeing and kayaking. 



 

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