Prudhoe Community High School

We'd like to wish you all a resful holiday, we definitely need it after such a busy end of term.
Here are some of the highlights, including Year 9 at their Carol Service at St Mary Magdelene church. Then our Sixth Form leaders whad a great time helping out at the Parish Christmas lunch. And some of the cast of our upcoming school show visitted The Manors to perform some of the songs they are rehearsing.
Tickets for Les Miserables will go on sale in the new year, we will let you know on here. Make sure to snap them up fast as it is sure to sell out like Grease last year. There's also a picture of this years amazing foodbank collection too,

Thanks to everyone who took part in all of these events, or donated to the collection, and to all of the wider school community for your continued support.

See you all back on Monday January 6th 2025!

You are all very warmly invited to join us next Tuesday evening for our annual Christmas Concert.
Featuring a range of performers from across the school, this is always a great way to get into the holiday spirit.
Refreshemts are available from 4.30 pm, the Concert will start at 5, until 6pm and is free to attend.
We'd love to see you there.

Year 12 got hands on in science this week, building plasticine models of different molecules, to help them think about their shape and electron repulsion.

Miss Neale was really impressed, these are better than some of the models we've bought in the past.

Sometimes actually making things in real life can be a great way to learn or revise a topic alongside textbooks, notes and all the other resources that we often use.

Great news from another of our super talented ex-students, Paul Innes, who was a student here from 1989 to 1994. You may have seen Paul at events all around the area - including last years Year 11 prom!

Paul won the ‘Magician of the Year’ award for the North East & Yorkshire Region at the prestigious Wedding Industry Awards ceremony earlier this month!

A fantastic achievement, especially as Paul has only been performing magic as a full-time occupation for the past 18 months, after a big career change, having spent the previous 24 years in the telecoms industry.

Paul will be heading down to London for the National Finals in January. Good luck, Paul. We’re all rooting for you to bring the National award back home to the North East! 😃 We'll let you know how he gets on

If you'd like to book Paul for an event, we've put a link to his website in the comments - have a look to check out some of the famous names he's performed for in the past .

We are recognising lots of successes today. Huge congratulations to Daniel, Lilly, Jake, Harry and Jake in Year 10 who won the Northumberland Games Panathlon 10 Pin Bowling Competition at The Wentworth in Hexham.
The Panathlon Challenge is an inclusive set of sporting events where teams with a range of different abilities compete together. The team really enjoyed being part of the event, and the whole school is delighted for the team who worked so well together - superstars!
Check back in next week for loads more great sporting success, and few other surprises!

Huge congratulations go out to Jasmine in year 9 who last weekend qualified for the Irish Dancing World Championships 2025 in Dublin.

This is the third time that Jasmine has qualified and is a huge achievement. She has been dancing since the age of 3 and has competed as far away as Canad previously.

We'll keep you updated with her progress in April, but we are so proud that she will represent Prudhoe at this prestigious event.

Go N-Éirí Leat Jasmine!

Last week we welcomed back former PCHS student Sean Brown, to talk to our Media students.

As well as talking about his career as a professional rugby player, and now the owner of Petsercise, Sean gave students some really helpful advice from his experience as one of the team of trainers on The Dog Academy on Channel 4.

We also heard about the making of the new series, which will launch next year, and how some of our students might help make some promotional clips for Sean and the program.

If you want to find out more about the services offered by Petsercise, we'll put the link in the comments.

Prudhoe Family Hub on Broomhouse Lane are hosting two workshops to help families to develop their own strategies to support and encourage their children's positive behaviours.
If you would like any more information, or to sign up, then contact Jillian or Jen on 0191 281 8737 or email [email protected]

Congratulations from everyone here to Luca in Year 13 who attended the Dystonia UK National Awards ceremony on Friday where he was named as the Young Dystonia Champion of 2024.

We are very very proud of you Luca, we all know you are an absolute legend, but now it is official!

If you want to learn more about Dystonia, or to donate to the work that the charity does to support people living with Dystonia we'll put the linkin the comments.

If you're watching the new series of Strictly Come Dancing, keep an eye out for Jamie Squire one of our talented ex students.

When not on tour with The 1975, Jamie is one of the amazing 'Dave Arch Band' singers, who had the very tough job last week of recreating the sound of The Prodigy, Harry Styles and The Beatles. The producers even choose some of the songs because of how good Jamie's voice is - listen out for it.

We first heard it here when he was still a student at Ovingham Middle, but came to our Talent Show as a guest star. Then in many school shows and performances, and at least one staff members wedding!

We love sharing updates from former students, so do please send us any stories of your successes, or any news at all, we know so many of you are doing so many different things - it is great to hear about them, and pass them on too!

GCSE & A Level Art work

Could all former students please collect their GCSE & A Level Art work from Summer 2024 by the end of September 2024.

Unfortunately we will be unable to store your work beyond that date. Please email: [email protected] or tel 01661 832486 to arrange collection.

PCHS Autumn Concert
3rd October 2024
5pm - 6pm

Everyone welcome, donations will be taken on the door towards our concert and production fund.

Open Evening
Monday 23 September 2024
4.30pm - 6.30pm

We invite parents/carers of pupils in year 7 and 8 to our Open Evening event. This is an opportunity to meet our staff and students and to see our wonderful school. If you would like to visit our school and are unable to attend, please contact the school via [email protected] to make an appointment.

This Monday at 6pm in the School Main Hall
All parents/carers and students in Year 13 are welcome to attend.
Key issues to be covered will consist of:
- Choosing the right courses based on predicted grades
- An introduction to the UCAS application system and website
- Personal Statements and References
- Information on Student Finance
- Key dates for your diary
- Our support and guidance package for apprenticeships

We hope everyone has had a good first week. The atmosphere around school has been so positive.
It has been great to see all of the new students fitting in so quickly, and to welcome back everyone else.
There is a lot to process at the start of a new school year so if you have any questions, or suggestions do get in touch.
We hope you all have a restful weekend!

Start of term arrangements

Monday 2nd September 2024 - Teacher Training Day

Tuesday 3rd September 2024 - Teacher Training Day

Wednesday 4th September 2024 - Year 9 start and Year 12 have their Induction

Thursday 5th September 2024 - Years 10, 11 and 13 return

Congratulations to all of our Year 11 students on their excellent GCSE results. They have demonstrated great commitment and resilience throughout their GCSE courses and their excellent results fully reflect this.
We are incredibly proud of all of our year 11 students. We would like to thank all of our parents and carers for their support throughout what is a stressful time for our young people, and to our teaching and support staff who have worked very hard to prepare and support students for their examinations.

Congratulations to our wonderful Year 13 students who achieved some fantastic results today.
Well done to all of our students who have gained places on apprenticeships or who are going straight into employment.
Of those applying for university 4 in 5 of our students gained their first choice place which is a great achievement and all of our students who wanted to apply to university have a place on a course for September.
Well done to all of our Year 13 students on their hard work over the past two years, we will miss you all in September, enjoy your next adventures!