For the past twelve weeks on a Tuesday after school a variety of students from year 8, 10 and Sixth form have taken part in a beginners learn to row course at Runcorn Rowing club.

The course was very successful and well received by students. A number of students who completed the course intend to join the rowing club. They could be competent rowers and could become the first members of St Chad’s rowing team!

Well done to all who took part.

Recruitment for the second programme will take place in September.

St Chad's launch Career Academy UK

From September St Chads will become the first Career Academy in the area and one of only three in the Northwest. This is a national initiative to foster links between local businesses and A level Business Studies and ICT students.
The hope is that the links will not only provide long term career opportunities for students, but also that it will enhance their learning experiences.
Companies already signed up include Stobart Ports, DATS and SOG.
We intend this programme to be a great success in our Sixth-Form and hope to branch out into other subject areas after an outstanding business launch.
Any businesses, parents or students wishing to know more about our Halton Career Academy should contact Gill Marnell, our Career Academy administrator, at school.

Pictured: St Chads Career Academy staff at the Career Academy UK National Conference in Canary Wharf,London, June 15th 2010

Farewell to our most successful team to date!

As Year 11 leave, we say farewell to the most successful team in the history of St Chads. Our Year 11 squad have maintained a glittering career throughout their time here, never going a season without winning a title.

Each year, all the netball teams in the borough compete throughout the season in both the Halton League Championship and the Halton Cup.
In their first season in Year 7, the girls won both of these titles, thus doing the double.
In Year 10 and 11 they replicated this achievement and remained unbeaten throughout those final two seasons, often winning by a margin of 10 or more goals!

Perhaps the most impressive feat however, is the fact that, as a group they have supported each other so well and remained so committed and motivated over such a long period of time.

Well done girls, we are proud of you!

Keven to bear the National Flag!

Keven, a year seven pupil at Runcorn’s St. Chad’s Catholic and Church of England High School, will be jetting off to South Africa on the 15th of June for the trip of a lifetime. Keven has been chosen to lead out the England football team for their World Cup match, against Algeria, at the magnificent 69,000 seater Cape Town  Stadium, on the 18th of June.

Keven is the youngest of six students who have been selected nationally to carry the national flag as the team takes to the field.

The trip, sponsored by Coca- Cola and Special Olympics, will also take in Table Mountain and a sight seeing trip around the Cape Peninsula.

Keven, who has represented Great Britain in gymnastic competitions throughout Europe, is looking forward to meeting the England team and hopes he can bring some luck to the national side.

He says, “I can’t believe I’m going to walk out in front of Steven Gerrard,  John Terry and the rest of the England team in front of such a huge crowd. I can’t wait to go, and I’ve been counting the days until I leave. My school friends have been asking me to get autographs for them, but I think I’ll have to concentrate on making sure I hold the flag straight!”

The Comenius project 2009/2010 “Regionalism in Europe”

The last week of April was a buzzing European week at St Chad’s, as we welcomed our three partner schools to celebrate the end of a common European project entitled “Regionalism in Europe”.

This is the second time that we have run a European project with our partner schools thanks to a generous European Comenius grant given to us by the British Council. This grant enabled us to send ten students to our partner school in Brittany last year and it helped us meet the costs of hosting our partners in April.

For the last two years sixth formers from St Chad’s and pupils from the German, Polish and French schools had been doing research work and study visits to various sites in their regions with a view to present their region to their European partners. Click here…

Language Assistants Review of St Chad's

On 14th May Halton's Foreign Language Assistants got together to review their experience overthe last year. Xacobe Santamaria Pazos, Bettina Aicard and Ren Qin have been working at St Chad's High School since October. Amelie Garcia and Magda Wisniak have been working at St Chad's and in local primary schools including Halton Lodge and Castleview. All FLAs have been helping pupils with their language skills and telling them about their countries. When asked what they had most enjoyed about their time in Halton they said "Relationships with staff and students" , "playing games with small groups of pupils to practise their speaking skills", "everyone was very welcoming","it's great when pupils greet you in your own language", "the students and teachers are really nice and helpful".