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Cancer Research – Tug of War!
Year 9 were involved in a tug of war charity event to raise money for cancer research. Head of Year 9, Mr Pickup, said he was “unbelievably proud to be leading the year group and see the whole year...
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Award Winning Author’s visit
Pleckgate High School students were inspired by Sufiya Ahmed, the award-winning author of ‘Secrets of the Henna Girl’ when she made her fourth visit to the school. Sufiya was born in India, before...
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Reg Johnson Cookery Competition
Pleckgate High School pupils were cooking up a treat taking part in the prestigious Reg Johnson Cookery competition. The cookery competition, for Years 8 and 9, was set up in memory of a local poultry...
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Anne Frank Reception – #IstandwithAnne
Mrs Savage, Head of RE, was invited by the Anne Frank Trust to a reception to mark the 90th anniversary of Anne Frank’s birth in the State Rooms, Speakers House, House of Commons. Mrs Savage said...
View ArticleBeing Human Club – Charity Events – Secret Santa and Secret Shaikh
During the school year generous Pleckgate students and their families have been helping pensioners and children alike. The Year Seven ‘Being Human Club,’ which takes part in such events as random acts...
View ArticleRace For The Line – National Finals!
National finals! Pleckgate’s Year Seven girls have rocketed to the final of a national competition. All Year Sevens took part in the Race For The Line event, with the aim for student teams-of-four to...
View Article#Imnotamuslimbutiwillfastforoneday
Pleckgate High School teachers have been fasting to help them understand how some of their students feel during Ramadan. Head of RE Mrs Savage, whose department has a Gold Level Quality Mark, fasted...
View ArticleHumanism as part of Religious Education
Humanism is one of the main non-religious views that is studied in Religious Education at Pleckgate as it features heavily on the GCSE paper. Tony and Keith from Humanism UK visited school to speak to...
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Inter-Faith Day
Pleckgate hosted their Inter-Faith Day which was also part of ‘The Great Get Together’, a national initiative and celebration inspired by MP Jo Cox’s belief that ‘we have more in common than that which...
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Summer Reading Challenge
Collect more information from Ms Jones at lunchtimes throughout July 2019, G32 Please click here to download the Summer Challenge Booklet
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‘Joseph’ Year 7 Production
Pleckgate Year 7 students wowed a packed audience as they treated family members and primary school pupils to their performance of Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat. Student Nabeel wore his coat of...
View Article‘We are a Dementia Friendly School’
Pleckgate High School has become a ‘Dementia Friendly’ school. One Voice Blackburn, through Baiter Sehat and the Aviva Fund, have created 279 Dementia Friends through students and staff at Pleckgate...
View ArticleOutstanding Progress Award
Pleckgate has won national recognition at the prestigious Education Business Awards in London. Head teacher Mr Cocker and deputy Mr Hamilton collected the ‘Outstanding Progress Award’ at the event,...
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Cathedral and Mosque Visit
Below is an account from one of the pupils of their visit to Blackburn Cathedral and Jaame Masjid Mosque: “I enjoyed going to Blackburn Cathedral. We firstly learnt about the history of the Cathedral...
View ArticlePupils have work published!
Year Nine pupils at Pleckgate High School enjoyed seeing their work published in a new book. A competition from Young Writers encouraged secondary school pupils to be creative and set them a task of...
View ArticleOpen Events 2019
Open Evening – Thursday 12th September, 5pm – 8pm Open Day – Saturday 14th September, 9am – 12noon On behalf of the staff and pupils at Pleckgate, I would like to invite you to our Open Events in...
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GCSE Results
Pleckgate High School Year 11 students are aiming high as they look to the future after their GCSEs. Fatima Patel will study A-Levels in Biology, Chemistry and Maths after achieving 9s in Maths,...
View ArticleOpen Evening
Pleckgate High School held another successful Open Evening as they showed off their ‘Outstanding’ school to prospective parents and pupils. The new entrance and reception area has now been completed...
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Open Evening Activities
Sisters Zainab and Fiza enjoyed trying out the English quizzes at our successful Open Evening last night. There was also poet-tree and pupils got the chance to paint Shakespeare’s face! The heat was...
View ArticleYouth Ambassadors
Pleckgate’s Youth Ambassadors attended a game at Blackburn Rovers where they gave out leaflets about togetherness in the community as part of their Social Action Project. “We became Youth Ambassadors...
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