Moorside High School

🥞Shrove Tuesday 🥞
Thanks to the first few photos we've had in via email!
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Don't forget to send in your pancake photos to our Facebook messenger or email to [email protected]

🥞✨ Happy Shrove Tuesday from Moorside High School! ✨🥞
Pancake Challenge!
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We’d love to see your best pancake creations — sweet or savoury, classic or creative!
👉 Pupils: send your photos to school via FB messenger or email to [email protected]
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Let’s celebrate both the fun and the meaning behind the day.
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Shrove Tuesday, the day before the Christian season of Lent begins. Traditionally, it was a time to use up rich ingredients like eggs, milk and sugar before a period of fasting — giving us the delicious pancake tradition we enjoy today!
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In Religious Education at Moorside, students learn about Christian practices such as Lent, reflection and preparation, and how festivals and traditions connect to belief and community life. Shrove Tuesday is a great example of how faith shapes everyday customs that continue across cultures and generations.
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🏊🏼‍♀️Good luck swimmers🏊🏼‍♀️
You've been up early with warm ups! Go gem em! Day 2 of Staffordshire County Swimming
Cosacss - City Of Stoke Swimming Club Cheadle Swimming Club Biddulph Amateur Swimming Club - BASC Leek Swimming Club

📣 Young Writers Poetry Competitions for Secondary Students (11–18) ✍️📚
We’re excited to share two fantastic national competitions from Young Writers, open to secondary pupils aged 11–18. 📚
Both are FREE to enter and offer the chance for students to have their work published in a real anthology book.
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I Have a Dream
Students can write a poem inspired by hopes, dreams, ambitions or imagination — from personal goals to fantasy worlds or ideas for the future.
👉 Enter / learn more: https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/competitions/i-have-a-dream
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Winter Wonderland
A seasonal poetry challenge inviting students to capture the magic, atmosphere and imagery of winter in any poetic style.
👉 Enter / learn more: https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/competitions/winter-wonderland
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How to enter
• Write an original poem on the theme
• Submit online or via school
• Include student name, age and school
• Selected poems may be published
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Explore all competitions: https://www.youngwriters.co.uk/?override_country=1

Young Writers We run poetry and creative writing competitions throughout the year for Primary and Secondary Schools in the UK and USA. Let's make writing fun!

🤗 Children’s Mental Health Week round up😀
The children's mental health week may be coming to an end but our 365 support continues all year round.
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At Moorside, wellbeing is everyone’s responsibility — and we’re committed to making school a place where pupils feel safe, valued and supported every day.
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Thank you to our whole community for helping make Moorside such a caring place to learn.
🔗 https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/
🔗https://moorside.staffs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/Moorside-High-School-Prospectus.pdf

🎉👏 That’s a Wrap on Apprenticeship Week! 👏🎉
What a fantastic week celebrating the huge range of opportunities apprenticeships can offer our students — from creative and digital careers to engineering, animals, robotics and everything in between!
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We hope our posts have helped spark ideas, open minds and start some exciting conversations at home about future pathways after school.
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Remember — if you’d like to find out more about apprenticeships, please speak to Mr Gordon in school, or explore opportunities online at:
👉 https://naw.appawards.co.uk/
Thank you to everyone who engaged with our posts this week — and here’s to supporting our students as they take the next steps towards bright and ambitious futures!
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Well done to Beth R in Year 9! Congratulations - we're so proud of you! 🏊🏼‍♀️

🌟 Half-Term Library Adventures 🌟
Looking for something free, fun, and inspiring this half term? Why not visit one of our fantastic local libraries and let your child get lost in a world of stories and adventure
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From picture books to page-turning novels, libraries are the perfect place to discover new favourites — and borrowing books is a wonderful way to support reading at home and school. Books borrowed from the library can absolutely be used as part of your child’s school equipment and reading too
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At Moorside High School, we encourage students to Engage with reading and Achieve their very best — and libraries are a brilliant way to support both at home.
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Werrington Community Library & Wellbeing Centre
https://www.staffordshire.gov.uk/libraries-0/find-library/werrington-community-library-and-wellbeing-centre
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City Central Library, Hanley
https://www.stoke.gov.uk/directory_record/235/city_central_library_hanley
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Meir Library
https://www.stoke.gov.uk/directory_record/237/meir_library
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Libraries offer free book borrowing, digital resources, activities, and welcoming spaces for families across our community.
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So this half term, pop in, choose some amazing books, and enjoy a reading adventure together
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📢 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝟏𝟏 - 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞! Pre‑register for our 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 Open Event of the year! 🗓️Thursday 12th March ⏰ 5pm-7pm Curious about life at our Sixth Form College? This event is your chance to: 🎤Attend the Principal's presentation⁠ 🗣️Chat with expert staff and current students⁠ 🤩Explore our state-of-the-art facilities⁠ 🤗Experience our caring community⁠ ✈️Discover amazing enrichment opportunities⁠ Don't miss out! 𝐏𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 👇 https://www.stokesfc.ac.uk/events/open-event-120326/ Please share: Clayton Hall Academy Co-op Academy Stoke on Trent Endon High School Moorside High School Ormiston Meridian Academy St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy The Orme Academy Haywood Academy Birches Head Academy Alpha Academies Trust The Discovery AcademyChesterton Community Sports College

❤️🌟 Valentine’s Day at Moorside High School 🌟❤️
Today marks Valentine’s Day — traditionally a time to celebrate love. At Moorside, we like to think of this as an opportunity to celebrate something just as important: kindness, respect and community.
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Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be about romance — it can be about appreciating friendships, supporting one another, and showing gratitude to the people who make our school such a positive place to be
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Our REACH values remind us what really matters:
🤝 Respect – treating everyone with kindness
📚 Engage – being present and supportive
🏆 Achieve – helping each other succeed
🏫 Community – looking out for one another
💪 Hard Work – encouraging others to do their best
This weekend, let’s celebrate by showing appreciation, offering encouragement, and choosing kindness — because strong communities are built on everyday acts of care.
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❤️Children's mental health week - kindness🌟
Kindness creates belonging.
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Holding a door open, checking in on a friend, including someone at lunch — these small actions help make Moorside a place where everyone feels welcome. The photos shows are examples of pupils showing kindness - speaking at a church service, cheering on at sports day, supporting a cake sale, etc!
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At Moorside High School, our REACH values — Respect, Engage, Achieve, Community and Hard Work — help shape the way we treat each other every day. Being kind isn’t just a nice idea… it’s something that helps make Moorside a place where everyone feels welcome, valued and supported
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Kindness comes in many forms — saying hello in the corridor, offering help in class, including someone at lunchtime, or simply listening when someone needs to talk. Small actions like these strengthen our community and show respect for one another, and that goes a long way in supporting everyone’s wellbeing.
Let’s challenge ourselves today to do one kind thing for someone else.
🔗 https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/
🔗https://moorside.staffs.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/Moorside-High-School-Prospectus.pdf

🚀🤖 Space, Engineering & Robotics🚀🤖
Yes — even space and robotics can be part of apprenticeship routes!
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Students can train in:
🔧 Advanced engineering
🤖 Robotics
✈️ Aerospace manufacturing
🛰️ Satellite systems
Big futures start with practical training and ambition!
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👉 We’re highlighting some apprenticeships which you may be interested in.
See Mr Gordon for further information or visit the apprenticeship website for more details:
https://naw.appawards.co.uk/