Maghull High School

Art Exhibition

Art Exhibition Celebrating World Book Day at Aintree Davenhill Primary.

Drawing and literature go hand in hand. We are all familiar with illustrated books but it doesn't stop there.

Drawing has the power to increase understanding, enjoyment and engagement across the curriculum.

On Thursday 26th February Miss Garnett had the pleasure of judging an Art Exhibition organised by Shelagh McNicholas, children's book illustrator and Art Teacher at Aintree Davenhill Primary School. The Judging panel included Ian Moncur, Cabinet Minister for families and schools and Mrs Ridway, Head of Art at Deyes High school.

The children of Aintree Davenhill, Melling County and Holy Rosary Primary School had collaborated together to showcase their artistic talents, celebrating World Book Day.

The art work was created by Reception children up to and including children in year 6 and was exhibited at Aintree Davenhill on Monday 2nd March. 

There was a huge variety of media, detailed pencil drawings, watercolours, poster paints, colour pencils, soft pastels, mixed media and 3D work. 

Prizes were donated by Molyneux Ward council budget and Maghull High School Art Department.

Miss Garnett was very impressed by all of the Art work entered into the competition and hopes to see some of the budding young artists in her year 7 class in September.  A very well done to all involved!

Computing Workshop

MyKindaCrowd and CragRats delivered a computing workshop on November 27th to year 8 students recently in partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)

TCs are the IT consulting arm of Tata Group

The students participated in several to gain practical insight into these IT trends and then in group they had the opportunity to develop their own app of the future and present it to the rest of the class

The course was delivered by Samantha Michaels and Owain Ford, with support from two colleagues from TCS.

Samantha commented: 

“The MKC with TCS workshop at Maghull High was a great success!  The year 8 students were full of enthusiasm and were engaged from the very start of the session.  The students participated in group discussions and it was great to see so many hands up to answer questions!  The groups came up with really great ideas and both the MKC and TCS team were really impressed by the work produced in such a small amount of time!  The ideas were all things that the students had a passion for and were actually excited about!”

Just some of the ideas for a new App

Where’s my Bus App to tell you if the bus is late, give alternative routes, tell you how long it might take to walk

•Applying Style

•Automatic  emails sent from your favourite stores, scan bar code, or take photos of items, footwear section, helps you decide what to wear based on weather and your style

•Id App- everything you ever wanted to know and have from 1D

Well done to all the students, it was a really fun, productive session!!  Big congratulations to the winners of the App design: 

Sophie Bresnahan, Anna Reed, Leah Rogers, and Jess Stephenson

Politics Conference

On Monday 1st December, 15 Vi formers attended the PolEcon conference in Central Hall, Westminster.

They listened to speeches and presentations by several prominent politicians including the Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, the Leader of UKIP Nigel Farage, Shadow Education Secretary Tristam Hunt, Former Foreign Secretary William Hague, Minister for Overseas Development Alan Duncan, Minister for Justice Simon Hughes, Conservative M.P Nadine Dorries and Labour M.P Rachel Reeves.

After each speech, students were given the opportunity to question the politicians. Several students volunteered to ask questions and two of our students were selected to ask their question in front of an audience of 400 other students. This took an enormous amount of courage and confidence and was an excellent opportunity to speak directly to the people who control how the country works. Their questions were intelligent and thought-provoking and were taken seriously by the politicians addressed.

In addition, we had the opportunity to meet our local M.P Bill Esterson who was keen to listen to our students’ thoughts on the speakers and on politics in general. We look forward to welcoming Mr Esterton to Maghull High School in the near future after he agreed to come into school for a more in-depth discussion.

Minggang High School

We recently welcomed 13 students and four teachers from Ningbo Beilun Minggang High School in China to our school for a week. Whilst with us they spent every morning shadowing sixth formers and had the opportunity to sample lessons in every subject we offer. Every afternoon the students, accompanied by some of our sixth formers, were able to visit some of the top tourist destinations that Liverpool has to offer, such as Aintree Race Course, Albert Dock, the ferry across the Mersey but the highlight of the week was an evening of bowling, something the Chinese students have never done before. The teachers also were able to observe lessons and spend time discussing curriculum content with staff and senior management. Our Chinese visitors also gave a performance, to our top 100 vivo students from year 7, which included demonstrations of Chinese opera, dance and calligraphy as well as musical performances.

We aim to start a long term relationship with Ningbo Beilun  Mingang High School over the coming years- to share the best of our education with the best of their, exchange ideas and learn about our different cultures, so look out for information on the development of this relationship over the coming months and years