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News @ Birkdale
2008 - 2009
27/08/2009
GCSE pupils have achieved best ever exam results with nearly one third (32%) of all entries achieving an A*.…
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26/08/2009
The new boys entering the first year of the senior school spent a day together recently assembling chariots …
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20/08/2009
Birkdale are extremely pleased to announce that over half (51%) of all A level entries this year resulted in A grades…
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19/08/2009
Dr Newton has successfully completed the UK Ironman Triathlon in Bolton. …
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08/07/2009
Olympic great Jonathan Edwards, ambassador for the London 2012 games, faced some challenging questions …
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08/07/2009
The Board of Governors is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Paul Owen as the successor to Robert Court…
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06/07/2009
Nottingham Rugby scrum half Charlie Davies has recently penned a deal with French rugby giants Stade Francais…
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06/07/2009
A group of fourteen S1 boys have won the Yorkshire Regional Social Enterprise Challenge…
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01/07/2009
Birkdale U15 Cricket team played against Monkwearmouth School from Sunderland in the North semi-final…
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30/06/2009
At the early time of 6.30 am a group of 18 Government & Politics, Economics and Business Studies students assembled at Sheffield train station…
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30/06/2009
40 Lower School pupils accompanied by several staff went to central London for three days …
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29/06/2009
Congratulations to Birkdale's U12 cricket team who played and won two important games last week in the County Cup competition…
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25/06/2009
The adventures of 'Tom Sawyer' and his friends have fascinated young people [and millions of adults] ever since Mark Twain created his immortal classic in 1875…
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23/06/2009
Friday 12th June dawned cloudless and sunny and it remained that way all day…
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19/06/2009
Congratulations to Hall House who won the overall athletics event…
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19/06/2009
Talented cricketers from Birkdale School have successfully become the Yorkshire U15 champions…
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17/06/2009
Birkdale Senior School Golf competition took place at Abbeydale Golf Club this week…
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15/06/2009
75 of our middle school pupils were entered into the second Biology Challenge organised by the Institute of Biology…
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15/06/2009
The Charities Fair was a successful event yet again…
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12/06/2009
S1 visited Warwick Castle and Bosworth Field on 18th May…
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12/06/2009
37 S1 boys arrived slightly apprehensively at the Yorkshire Museum of Farming near York…
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05/06/2009
S1 spent the last day of internal exam week engaged in an activity day which simulated a production line producing paper…
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04/06/2009
Having arrived safely in Santander at their hotel situated on the beach overlooking the sea in the resort of Isla, northern Spain, members of S2 and S3 visited …
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03/06/2009
The Onatti Theatre Company visited Birkdale School for the first time on Friday 22nd May…
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08/05/2009
Birkdale Sixth Form pupil Michael Fuess has won the British National Schools Individual Championship in Judo (weight class -73kgs)…
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05/05/2009
Winning its 6th National Enterprise challenge of the year, the MYM Tenner Team travelled to London last month to meet and collect their award from Peter Jones of the Dragons Den…
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05/05/2009
Seven boys who are all studying Ancient Greek as an extra GCSE subject, went to London recently …
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30/04/2009
A group of Birkdale pupils have recently returned from their annual trip…
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28/04/2009
24 year old Andrew Ledger, from Sheffield, who was a member of the Shackleton Expedition to the South Pole earlier this year, gave a fascinating lecture recently…
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24/04/2009
Talented sportsman Ben Stoney, having been selected to represent England to play hockey for the U18 team…
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23/04/2009
Congratulations to Joe Brown (L6) and Frances Smith (U6) who each won their Art categories…
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21/04/2009
During the Easter holidays, 11 Birkdale Sixth Formers had a unique opportunity to gain an insight into the Chinese business world…
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25/03/2009
Twenty five pupils left for the annual Birkdale School Easter visit to Nepal yesterday where they will be teaching within several local schools in Kathmandu…
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23/03/2009
A group of sixth formers and two staff leave for China this week…
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23/03/2009
In unusually glorious sunshine at Castle Dyke, the Old Birkdalians gathered to challenge Birkdale 1st X1 at football…
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23/03/2009
Seven extremely talented pupils and Birkdale’s equally talented music staff, performed largely solo pieces in the unique setting of the Painted Hall…
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19/03/2009
Many thanks to all those very generous parents and pupils who offered a whole range of services and facilities at the recent Auction of Promises…
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11/03/2009
Congratulations to Adam Turner in S1, David Fleming in S3 and Matthew Jarvis and Will Harrison both in S5, all of whom have been recognised for their sporting talent…
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11/03/2009
Birkdale sixth former Matthew Stent, has won the award for Design, Innovation and Presentation, at the recent national final of the Young Engineers for Britain competition…
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06/03/2009
Birkdale's Sixth Form History Society hosted its Annual Lecture on Friday 6th March…
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05/03/2009
Congratulations to all members of the senior Rugby 7’s team who defeated Lady Manner’s School from Bakewell, in very closely contested final…
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03/03/2009
Well done to our pupils who took part against five other schools from the region…
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02/03/2009
Congratulations to the Birkdale Rugby 7's squad…
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27/02/2009
Amidst global economic uncertainty and concern about financial markets, the Birkdale School team of Calum Mitchell, Jack Broskom, Alex Bentley and Soumithri Mamidipudi came a creditable 3rd …
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24/02/2009
Thirteen S1 and S2 pupils have just completed the Bikeability Cycling proficiency test run by Pedal Ready of Sheffield …
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23/02/2009
Three S2 boys, Rohin Athavale, Ciaran Doyle and Thomas Aird, recently achieved successes in the Herculaneum Society Schools Competition …
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12/02/2009
Birkdale School won the Open Category of the One Water project, Make Your Mark Social Enterprise Day Challenge …
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12/02/2009
On Tuesday 10 February, a four strong team from Birkdale Sixth Form travelled to the Camden Centre in London for the national final of the UKMT Senior Team Maths Challenge…
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28/01/2009
Congratulations to three of our high flying sixth formers…
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28/01/2009
Congratulations go to Aidan Smith, aged 13, who has been chosen to represent England Schools in the under 15 age class at the World School Orienteering Championships…
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27/01/2009
A packed full house in the Heeley Hall recently enjoyed what is hoped to be the first of many meals prepared for parents…
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15/01/2009
The following is a comment from the Head Master concerning the recent release in the newspapers of the GCSE league tables…
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09/01/2009
Two S4 boys recently won Book Tokens when they were awarded Commendations in the national Jowett Sendelar Essay Competition.…
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08/01/2009
The Wednesday Afternoon Climbing Group has been awarded four RED CARDS which allows the holder to lead climb while at the Foundry Climbing Wall…
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08/01/2009
Birkdale School Enterprise Club, run by Miss McKay and now in its second year, has won the National MYM (Make Your Mark) ‘Be Seen’ Enterprise Challenge…
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05/12/2008
This term witnessed a vibrant and moving production of Shakespeare's timeless classic, 'Hamlet'…
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04/12/2008
The whole of S2 recently went to enrol and train as Roman soldiers for the day at Brigantium…
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03/12/2008
During the Autumn Term 2008, Mrs Sherborne has been in contact with Dr John R Elliott, Reader in Intelligence Engineering at Leeds Metropolitan University.…
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28/11/2008
Against 7 other teams from Yorkshire & Humberside, the Birkdale team ‘won comfortably in every area’…
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28/11/2008
A four strong team from Birkdale attended the regional finals of the UKMT Senior Team Maths Challenge at Sheffield Hallam University…
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21/11/2008
Four Birkdale Boys emerged victorious from a top City Enterprise Challenge…
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19/11/2008
A squad of four talented tennis players from Birkdale School recently became U15 Yorkshire Champions which qualified them to compete at the National Quarter Finals …
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12/11/2008
Birkdale Sixth Form girls are hosting the UK Working Women Expo 2008…
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04/11/2008
Twenty two adventurous Birkdale pupils have just returned from a Geography visit to Iceland and New York…
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24/10/2008
Jamie’s Ministry of Food concept of 'Passing it on' reached the stage at Birkdale today with a live cooking demonstration by Head Chef Chris Allison…
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14/10/2008
Birkdale School U19 Ski team recently took part in the National Finals of the British Schools Skiing Championship…
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06/10/2008
Alice joined Birkdale teaching staff as a PP1 teacher with 1B shortly before April 1943…
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30/09/2008
Following trials on Sunday September 28 at QEGS Blackburn to select the North ISFA teams…
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29/09/2008
In celebration of European Day, Friday 26 September, pupils at Birkdale School had the pleasure of experiencing…
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25/09/2008
Birkdale School U19 Ski team have qualified for the National Finals at Rossendale Ski Centre…
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23/09/2008
Sixteen science and language pupils from Birkdale School made a four-day trip to Geneva last week …
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22/09/2008
Six Birkdale students presented the results of their individual research to an interested audience…
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18/09/2008
Calum Mitchell (U6) has won a runner-up prize in the Institute of Economic Affairs national student essay competition…
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16/09/2008
Staying up to date with Birkdale News is now even easier …
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15/09/2008
Birkdale boys played a range of entertaining musical numbers to the delight of the visitors …
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08/09/2008
Birkdale School has appointed Esther Hyde as the first female Head of School…
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04/09/2008
Exciting new culinary developments have taken place at Birkdale School.From this September, Birkdale School has contracted out all its catering to Wilson Vale…
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03/09/2008
Lower Sixth pupil Joseph Brown, has been awarded an Arkwright Scholarship…
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21/08/2008
Birkdale School is celebrating outstanding GCSE results this year. 30% of all the exam entries resulted in an A* grade…
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14/08/2008
Students from Birkdale School in Broomhill, Sheffield, gained best ever A level results with an overall pass rate of 99% and nearly half of all the entries resulted in A grades…
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