As exam season approaches, the Modern Languages Department share 12 tips on how parents can offer help with Languages homework. Modern Languages is a subject area which many conscientious parents fret about. At Parents’ Evenings we, the teachers, regularly hear things like, “I worry because I just […]
Charlie Troup, Class of 2012 is currently studying a Masters in British and European History at The Queen’s College, Oxford. Here, Charlie shares his passion for learning, his thoughts on how today’s politics become tomorrow’s history and advice for young people looking for their ‘spark’. […]
Upper Sixth student, Phoebe McGowan is a member of Cheadle Hulme School’s Equality Society and has been promoting International Women’s Day throughout the school. Here, she explores the origins of International Women’s Day and how the messages translate in modern media. On March 8th, 1917 […]
Leisha Morrison, Class of 2001 is a Data Analytics Recruitment Consultant based in Sydney, Australia. Outside of her day-job with Precision Sourcing, she helps to promote STEM subjects to girls and encourage more women to take up Data Analytics roles through the networking group she set-up, […]
[Extracts from this article, written by Second Master, Mr John Winter, first appeared in The Waconian magazine] In the extremely entertaining and tense Cold War thriller Bridge of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg and released in 2016, Tom Hanks plays a savvy New York insurance […]
English Teacher, Mrs Catherine Gregory explains how we can all benefit from the power of reading, at the launch of the inaugural CHS Big Read 2017. ‘A room without books is a body without a soul.’ – Cicero There are few activities that receive such relentless […]
[This post first appeared on the Independent Schools’ Council Blog] Following recent comments by the Children’s Commissioner regarding online safety, Mrs Caroline Dunn, Deputy Head (Pupil Progress and Welfare) argues that adults do not necessarily have a greater understanding of emerging technologies than young people. I don’t […]
Head of Modern Languages, Mr John Wilson asks how School’s can encourage more students to study languages at A Level and Pre-U and offers his 10 tips to recruit linguists in to the Sixth Form. The challenges of recruiting linguists in the Sixth Forms remain. We […]
The internet is awash with revision advice for stressed students at this time of year, but what about parents? How can we best manage the carrot and stick balance, whilst maintaining our own sanity? Recognise this is genuinely a very stressful time for students – […]
Parents know that no two children are the same. So why is it that for so long schools have treated students with the same academic results as essentially being the same, when experience tells us this is simply not true? At this time of the […]
History and Politics Teacher and Head of Year 10, Mr Michael Jones’s take-aways on last year’s Leveson Inquiry: 1. What was it? IT WAS NOT A SELECT COMMITTEE! It was a judge-led inquiry, set up by Prime Minister, David Cameron to …
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Mr Peter Tann, Head of Upper School, considers how to make, and keep, effective New Year’s resolutions: The year 2013 is now two weeks old and like many people all over the world, you may have made one, or several, New Year’s resolutions. If so, you […]
