Bright Young Sparks 2008 l Get in Shape at Calder High l Cooking for Fun l Year 6 Reading Challenge l Pace Egg l Leap Year Day Concert l Return of Royd FM l Summer School 2007 l Calder Eye Team makes news at Yorkshire Post l Simon Armitage reads at Calder High l Family Learning Fun Day l Spring Planting l Flag Record broken at Piece Halll Advanced Cycle Training l Student Voices on Metro l Comic Relief l SAFEMark Award l Community Champions Award

Community News

Calder High School/Elmet Trust Partnership

Pictured are Stephen Ball, Headteacher, and Rodney Watson, a trustee of the Elmet Trust, at the partnership agreement signing ceremony.

Calder High School has entered into an exciting partnership with The Elmet Trust, an organisation which promotes the life and work of Ted Hughes in his birthplace, Mytholmroyd. The Elmet Trust has provided funds for a feature wall in the soon-to-be refurbished foyer of the new Ted Hughes theatre. Calder High School will provide performance space in the theatre for a number of events and performances in The Ted Hughes Festival in October, which will celebrate Ted Hughes around the tenth anniversary of his death.

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Colden Cooks


Children from Colden Primary School came to Calder High School to do a cookery class with Miss V Black. Fourteen pupils were collected in our school minibus and made healthy mini pizzas in our Food Technology classroom. The children loved the class and are looking forward to learning some new cookery skills when they come back for their next session in July. Calder High School is committed to providing Technology support to local primary schools and would welcome enquiries, which should be made to Mr. C Unwin (Head of Department).

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ICT for Everyone
Families have been learning basic ICT skills together at Burnley Road School. Dave Scales, Calder High School’s ICT Systems Manager is delivering six classes which are attended by parents and children. Topics covered include basic trouble-shooting, simple word processing, internet safety, using email and the use of learning platforms. It has also been an opportunity for parents to find out about what their children learn in ICT at school. For a number of the adult learners, this has been the first time they have used a computer. Some learners are hoping to go on to study the ECDL course which is run on a Wednesday evening at Calder High School.

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Beaver Scouts ICT badge


On 20 May, 13 Beaver Scouts completed stages 1 and 2 of their ICT badge using the ICT facilities at Calder V1. The Beavers had to demonstrate that they were able to turn on the computer and log in. They had to show that they knew what the different parts of the computer are. They then made Fathers' Day cards using Publisher, which incorporated digital photographs of themselves. All the boys were successful in completing the first parts of their badge, the very last part will be to find this piece and the photographs of themselves on the school website!

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Spring Clean with Year 8
Rubbish collected during one lesson time

Each Year 8 form spent one of their PSHCE lessons working on cleaning up the environment in the Mytholmroyd area.

This is an annual event which aims to help raise awareness about environmental issues and personal responsibility.

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Bright Young Sparks

Congratulations to Jack Hutchinson-Walsh and Matthew Dawson (pictured here), the two year 10 students who run the school tuck shop - Under the Stairs. They entered a regional competition and won! They are winners of the Bright Young Sparks of 2008, each winning a cash prize of £300.

The competition was run by the Caleb Group which supports human resources functions and the development of organisations and individuals through training and consultation. Recently they invited people in the Calderdale and Wakefield area to enter an enterprise competition. They were looking for people who have a business or project idea, those who have already launched a business or project in the past year, or “a bright young thing with an enterprising idea”.

Well done to Jack and Matthew!

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Get in Shape at Calder High

Step and Tone classes have now started on Monday evenings: 6:15 to 7:15 in the Girls' Gym. This is an ideal session for beginners and costs only £3.00 per session (or £15 for 6 sessions). For mor information, contact Sian on 07806 630671.

Keep Fit sessions have also started on Tuesday evenings: 6:45 to 8:00 in the Girls' Gym. Only £2.00 per session. For more details phone Sue Price on 07976 958282.

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Cooking for Fun
The Cooking for Fun session lived up to its name and the participants tried out some tasty Easter recipes: Easter Fudge, Chocolate Nests, Easter Fruit Bread and Easter Daisy biscuits. The session was well attended by staff, high school and primary students, parents, and members of the local community. Many thanks to Mrs Roebuck for her support and assistance.

Caribbean Cooking
This event is being held on Monday 19 May at Calder High. It's for adult participants only and will be held from 6:30 to 8:30. Cost is £6. Book now as places are limited.

Regular Cooking classes are now taking place on Tuesdays after school. Contact Mr Bellanfante to book.

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Year 6 Reading Challenge


Year 5 and 6 students from nine of our Primary feeder schools took part in Calder High's Reading Challenge. The students each read 3 books then wrote reviews and created drawings. A presentation, with lunch, was held in the LRC at Calder High on Friday 29 February with prizes for the best two reviews for each book and for the two best drawings. The judging was done by two Year 13 students, Abbie Simister and Wesley Downs. The participating schools were: Burnley Road, Colden, Cragg Vale, Luddendenfoot , Midgley, Old Town, Riverside, Scout Road and Wainstalls.

This year the students also used a wiki to communicate with each other during the three month project. This gave them the chance to discuss the books they were reading with each other as there were so many different schools taking part. Results of the winning reviews and drawings and the vote for the favourite book are available on the wiki.

Abbie and Wes lead the Q&A session before the presentation ceremony

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Pace Egg Performances on Good Friday

Singing song: Sam Harris, Johnny McQuade, Isaac Rose and Wesley Downs	The Black Prince (Sam Harris) vs St George (Wesley Downs)
Singing song: Isaac Rose with the accordion	St George (Wesley Downs) carries Bold Slasher (Johnny McQuade) in a dance routine as well as a fight
Photographs taken by Mike Barrett

Thank you from the Pace Egg Cast to:
Mr Bellanfante and Ms Armitage - minibus drivers; Mark Collett - T-shirt donation; Clara Collett and Jess Woodhead - Catering; music and dance choreography; Mike Barrett - Photography; Wesley Downs - Organiser and Director; Mr Unwin - Props; Travis Downs - Prop Management and Crowd Control; Mrs. Leicester; Mr. Ball. And thanks to all of our guest doctors who did a superb job when their expertise was called upon: Jason Bellanfante (Banksfield Estate), Reverend Allison (Mytholmroyd), Lucy Barker (Todmorden), Mr. Ball (Midgley), Ms. Rusty (Hebden Bridge Marina) - You were all great!

And finally, a big thank you to everyone who came to watch us and show their support. We hope you enjoyed it. Those of you who didn't see a performance...you really did miss out!

(Report on the performances to follow)

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"Egg us on" (Performance times and locations on Good Friday, 21 March)

As Easter draws ever closer to us once again, the Calder Valley tradition of the Pace Egg lives on as the students of Calder High School will once again dust off their Pace Egging Hats to perform throughout the Calder Valley.

The Midgley Pace Egg play is a tradition within Calder High School, and has been performed by the school for over 50 years now. The Pace Egg is based on the oldest play in the world, The Mummers Play.

The play is based around Saint George's triumphs, and the whole play boasts his great champion status. Throughout the play three challengers try to defeat Saint George (Bold Slasher, Black Prince of Paradine and Hector), who is a very cocky and mighty character. The play consists of 8 characters, which this year were made available to all ages, due to the schools wide range of performing talent. It is an all boys cast, due to the traditions of this play.

The auditions took place in front of a panel of experienced Pace Eggers, who had the necessary knowledge to spot the right sort of raw talent for the Pace Egg. For the auditionee to get the nod from the audition panel they had to read the part of the Doctor as well as an unscripted performance of their own choosing. The auditionee also had to show their passion and interest in the Pace Egg itself and explain why they would like to be part of it. The lucky 6 successful auditionees will experience performing the oldest play in the world, performing to wide variety of people throughout the Calder Valley and will get to make the performance their own by working outside of the box.

This year's cast is: Billy Painter, The Fool; Johnny McQuade, Bold Slasher; Joachim Goddard, The Doctor; Sam Harris, King of Egypt; Dario Coates, Black Prince of Paradine; Isaac Rose, Hector; Thomas Deadman, Tosspot and finally Wesley Downs takes the lead role of Saint George.

For those of you reading this article, having not seen the Pace Egg before, I really do urge you to get to your local area this Easter, and support the Calder High Students, the oldest play in the world and the Calder Valley itself. The play promises to be a fantastic and memorable occasion once again, so do not hesitate come and celebrate Easter in style and experience a real slice of Calder Valley life.

Report by Billy Painter

Pace Egg Performances: running order for Good Friday, 21 March

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Leap Year Day Concert (Report by Mr S Cann, Assistant Head of English Faculty)

The idea came from the principal performer, Roberto Garcia Lopez, who wanted to promote the exceptional talent in the school and support the purchase of a new Kawai grand piano, supplied by GSG Pianos, who also sponsored the programme.

Roberto taught English at the school, sadly, for only a term last year. He quickly revealed his ‘other talent’, as a professional opera singer, who came to England from his native Argentina to continue training at The Royal Northern College of Music, where he met his future wife, Joanna Porter, who accompanied him at the piano.

The evening began with a selection from Roberto’s European repertoire: Bononcini’s ‘Per la Gloria d’adorarvi; Beethoven’s ‘Adelaide’; and two songs, ‘Allerseelen’, and ‘Cacilie’, by Strauss. As Roberto’s fine Dramatic Tenor voice filled the theatre, the faces of the audience revealed that few had expected music of this quality in the Calder Valley. Roberto’s range and depth of expression fully tested the accoustics of this new community venue, which must  surely become ‘the place‘  for a host of performances in the future.

Joanna established an Argentinian connection as she demonstrated her capabilities as solo pianist,  as well as accompanist – few pianists manage both to this level! We were treated to a dazzling display of technical brilliance as she performed Ginastera’s ‘Danzas Argentinas’. The last movement is particularly dramatic and technically difficult, especially with one finger, damaged in her last performance of this work, still covered by elastoplast! Fortunately, on this occasion, the white keys remained white, and the new piano survived the onslaught, demonstrating its capabilities as a serious performance instrument.

While Roberto and Joanna took a break, it was the turn of two Calder High piano students. I think we all felt for them, and admired their courage in following professionals. Anna Muncey played ‘Puck’ from Grieg’s Lyric Pieces, and ‘The Girl with the Flaxen Hair’ by Debussy, and was followed by Annie Jones playing Beethoven’s ‘Allegretto in C Minor’. Alice Harrison, whose CD is now available, sang two of her own compositions, accompanying herself on the guitar.

After an interval to replenish glasses, three more Calder students began the second half of the evening. David Burnip sang ‘Anthem’ from Chess, followed by Ruth and Brigit Holtom, singing one of Ruth’s own compositions.

While working at Calder, Roberto often commented on ‘the amazing range of performing talent in Calder High School’, that he had ‘never encountered in any other school’. We sampled that talent during the evening, and look forward to hearing much more in the future.

Roberto then returned to give us a taste of Argentina with songs by Guastavino and Ginastera, before concluding with three all-time favourites: ‘La donna e mobile’ from Verdi’s Rigoletto, and wonderfully moving renditions of Puccini’s ‘E lucevan le stelle’ from Tosca, and ‘Nessun Dorma’ from Turandot.

A superb evening of professional and amateur music, and a delightful atmosphere in the new Ted Hughes theatre, fostered by Roberto and Joanna’s warmth and enthusiasm, not to mention, very appropriately, Roberto’s additional skills as an English teacher: his introductions to the music were entertainment themselves!

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Trafford Centre Christmas Performance

The week before the Christmas holidays, Ms Peers organised for the Swing Band, Choir and Dance Company to perform on the huge stage in the Trafford Centre food court. "We have never performed in a venue like this," said Ms Peers, "It's been a real experience for everyone!". (Pictured above: the choir with opera singer, Mr Roberto Garcia Lopez)

During the performances, students collected money from generous passing shoppers.  All contributions went into the Music Department fund for promoting music within the community.


Whilst the performers were on stage, rather disconcertingly, the in-house camera man projected live images of the students onto a 20 ft high screen above them along with the school name and logo.

"It was a rather surreal moment," said Mrs Leicester, "But fantastic advertising for the school."



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Youth Club Wall Hanging
Thirteen young people between the ages of 11 and 18 took part in a felt making project at Mytholmroyd Youth Club in November. Each made a piece of felt (or two) which Lucy Cockburn (Community Development Officer at Calder High School) used to create a wall hanging. The piece of art will be hung on the wall of the newly decorated youth club.

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Cubs create posters

Twenty four Cub Scouts undertook their ICT badge at Calder High School. They were accompanied by Scout leaders and two parent helpers. Cubs had to create a poster about Scouting and demonstrate other ICT skills. All will be presented with a badge and certificate.

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Christmas Hampers for the Elderly

Students and staff donated items for Christmas hampers to be delivered to elderly people in the Mytholmroyd area.

The scheme has been run for several years by assistant head teacher Graham Cockings who said; “This is a wonderful tradition and the students enjoy helping at this time of the year.”




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Christmas Concert: 17 December, 6:00 to 7:00pm
Students from the school's Swing Band, Choir, and String Group performed a variety of festive pieces at St Michael's Church, Mytholmroyd. This year there was also a special appearance from Mr Garcia Lopez, a professional opera singer, who was teaching English at the school this term.

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Return of Royd FM: the Voice of Calder High Students

Another successful run for Royd FM came to an end on Thursday 20 December. Billy Painter and Jack Knight started off each of the four days with the breakfast and drive time show from 8 til 10. Josie Murphy and Dieter Rutowski had the morning slot from 10 til 12. The afternoon sessions started with Bridget Murphy and Levi Rickman from 12 til 2. Ella Mottram and Lisa Wehden carried on after the school day from 3 til 4. Bobbi Horsfall and Ryan Cahill then had the evening drive time show from 4 til 6. The students carried out a number of live interviews over the four days and the on air presenters were ably assisted by an admin team who took in the email and text requests and produced weather and traffic reports.

(Royd FM interview schedule)

Royd FM was sponsored by local company, Sweet and Maxwell.

	Ryan Toulson came into Calder High School to have an interview recorded for Royd FM. Billy Painter from year 10, a lifelong Halifax Town supporter, conducted the interview. Two other Halifax Town supporters were also there to greet Ryan. After the interview Ryan signed autographs.
Pictured above: Matty Wright, Fionn Midgley, Ryan Toulson and Billy Painter

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Sweet & Maxwell Christmas Fair

Four Calder High School students helped with the Christmas fair at Mytholmroyd publishing company Sweet and Maxwell on Friday 23 November. Food technology students had baked cakes, mince pies and mini Christmas puddings which were sold to members of staff.
The four students, pictured from left to right in above photos, Chris Wrathall, Martha Arratoonian, Rebecca Wedge-Roberts, and Rose Wagner-Revitt took on the roles of meeters and greeters, helped on stalls, and sold raffle tickets.
“It was an opportunity for students to meet a key local employer, and develop sales and interpersonal skills,” said headteacher Mr Stephen Ball.
Funds raised will go to Plan UK which is supporting the building of a school in Ghana.

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Fundraising for Children in Need

Winner of the Staff Fancy Dress Competition: Emu with a heavily disguised Mrs Clay.


Photos below from the 'Guess the teacher competition' organised by Miss Brown: winners to be announced next week.

Food Technology and Design and Technology worked together to create edible treats to sell for Children in Need. Design students cut Pudsey templates out of plastic which were used by Food Technology students as cutters to make Pudsey biscuits. They also baked cakes and buns, all of which were sold around school to raise money for Children in Need on Friday 16 November. Pictured here: Pudsey Bear cake baked by Year 8 Food Technology students and the Year 8 class with a selection of their products. There were a wide range of fundraising events held in school which included face painting, karaoke, fancy dress competitions, beat the goalie, Taekwondo kicking, guess the teacher (from old photos) plus a number of bake sales and raffles.

Many thanks to everyone who took part on the day and all those who contributed to the fundraising efforts either by organising events, dressing up, or donating money.

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Home to School Transport Policy
Calderdale Council, Children and Young People’s Services are presently consulting with students, parents and schools so they can consider people’s views before finalising the policy.

The information is available on www.calderdale.gov.uk/council/consultations/engage/latestconsultations.jsp

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Summer School 2007 (Wiki diaries created by the students)
Calder High School held a very successful Summer School for 60 gifted & talented and less-able pupils from schools in the Halifax area. Each morning throughout Summer School there was a ‘wake up and shake up’ session, which benefited students, teachers and sixth form mentors!

After a team building session, the activities of the first week included drama, healthy eating, creating a wiki, learning Greek, and being time detectives. They also kept fit with Taekwondo and cycling, and visited the Hebden Bridge Alternative Energy Centre.

In the second week the students made a celebration buffet, visited the Mixenden Outdoor Centre, made mechanical dogs, and used the school climbing wall.

“Comments from parents and children were very positive; one child commented that they had learnt to ride a bike - something they would not have had an opportunity to do at home,” said co-ordinator Mr C Unwin.

One parent said: “My child came home with a more confident attitude to going to secondary school. Knowing some of the teachers and other students helped greatly.”

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Calder Eye team makes news at the Yorkshire Post
A dedicated group of students have produced a community newsletter called 'Calder Eye'. They wanted to produce something that would have articles of interest to young people in Calderdale. Printed copies of 'Calder Eye' are currently available in businesses in the area and from school. The students have also been using a wiki to collect their articles and communicate with each other. The wiki can be viewed at: www.caldernews.wikispaces.com. Please email the team if you would like to send in articles or events for consideration to be included in future issues of the newsletter.

Lucy Cockburn, the school's Community Development Officer, and Diane Kershaw, Administration Manager, have worked closely with the students on the project and arranged a trip to the Yorkshire Post in Leeds so that they could take part in a 'Front Page Day' workshop and have a tour of the printing presses. It was a thoroughly enjoyable day, for staff and students alike.

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Simon Armitage reads at Calder High

Calder High School was delighted to welcome Simon Armitage to the LRC on Sunday, June 24th as the final event of the Ted Hughes Festival organised by the Elmet Trust. The popular and celebrated poet gave an inspirational talk, firstly about Ted Hughes, whose poetry had motivated him to begin writing at about fourteen. He made the point that although Ted Hughes left Mytholmroyd at the age of eight, the valley and the surrounding countryside continued to inspire him for the rest of his life, and the audience was taken on a metaphorical poetic ramble through the valley and up into the hills above Heptonstall.We heard spine-tingling recordings of the last Poet Laureate reading his work, and as the gruff, still-recognisably Yorkshire voice echoed around the LRC, it seemed as if Ted had returned, after fourteen years, to the site he opened for the school in 1993.



The second half of the afternoon's event consisted of a lively rendition of Simon Armitage's work, some of which is based on local and well-known places and landmarks, including one entitled "To the Women of the Merrie England", a celebration of the mock-tudor coffee shoppe chain so familiar to Huddersfield and Halifax. Two as -yet unpublished poems were also included, one of which was written after a daring boast by the poet that he could create poetry out of any subject one of his friends could suggest. This friend then produced the title "Cheeses of Nazareth" and the resulting poem is far more witty and thought-provoking than might be expected from such a dire pun! Finally the house was well and truly brought down by "Luddenden Foot", which had been created as a joke for more friends who were about to move to the area, and also inspired partly by a comment by Ted Hughes about Hebden Bridge being the hippy capital of the western world in the 1960s. The poem will be revealed to a waiting audience in a publication due for release shortly, but Simon Armitage has promised Calder High a signed copy for the LRC, which will take its place next to the work of Ted Hughes which is already proudly on display — a fitting souvenir of a fantastic occasion.

Report by Mrs A Todd

For information on the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival: 30 June to 15 July — see the Arts page.

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Students help launch Ted Hughes Festival
Five poetry competition finalists from Calder High were invited to attend the inaugural event for the Ted Hughes Festival at the Dusty Miller, Mytholmroyd on 22 June. The students — Hannah Hope Collins and Heather Scott from Year 7, Gemma Allan from Year 9, Tessa Atkinson and Kris Gilyeat from Year 10) — had their poems chosed by Mr Byrne, Head of English out of 100 entries. They had their prizes presented to them by Ian McMillan at the launch event.

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Family Learning Fun Day



On Saturday 9 May, children, young people and their carers attended a Family Learning Fun Day at Calder High School. Saturday marked the beginning of Adult Learners' Week and the event was also used as a consultation exercise to establish which Adult Education and Family Learning courses local people would like to see running.

Tutors from Calderdale Adult Learning and 2 of Calder High School's ICT Technicians ran workshops on: Creating cards, calendars, posters and invitations on a PC, Magic Carpet computer maths quiz, International Food Quiz, Art for all ages, Ebay for beginners and Basic bandaging for bleeders. There was a 25.00 voucher for a meal at Sabroso for the winner of the International food quiz, which was won by River Wild from Hebden Bridge.

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Spring Planting

On two lunchtimes last week a group of year 7 students volunteered to assist Jason Boom (Environmental Community Warden) based at Hebden Royd Town Council to clear out and plant up the planters outside the main entrance to the school. The activity soon drew quite a crowd and before long, students from years 7 to 11 were all engaged in digging out old roots and weeds, digging in horse manure and putting in new plants. All the plants were donated by Hebden Royd Town Council and should be in flower within a few weeks.



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Flag Record broken at the Piece Hall
by Kathryn Pogue and Alex Kostyakov

Calder High students were involved with a group called Life Roots who had a goal of putting up a mile of bunting. That’s over 6000 flags, which were wrapped over four and a half times round the Piece Hall in Halifax to beat the current record of 1079metres Every flag had to have a 2 inch gap. Some 30 schools decorated 4000 flags; children, young people and adults then added to these in the two day event at the Piece Hall on 21 and 22 April.

Each participant paid 20p per flag, and all the proceeds went to the Mayor’s charity, the Special Care Baby Unit. This was a council-wide event sponsored by the National Children’s Bureau as part of the Life Roots project which aims to find creative ways of teaching life skills to young people. 

Robert Glover, Senior Practitioner Social Worker with Calderdale Council said that “the life skills learnt from this project are diverse and include planning and organising an event, dealing with the press and publicity, team working, organisational skills, making a contribution for others and seeing something through." After the event, the plan is to keep the bunting as a community resource to hire out for local events.

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Advanced Cycle Training: 17 May



This one day event was well attended by Year 7, 8 and 9 students. The morning sessions included health, road safety, and route planning. During the afternoon, cycling sessions took place, first on the front field and then on the road! (Programme for the day) The training was provided by Calderdale Road Safety and Leisure Services. For more information, contact Mr G Mulholland.

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Student Voices on Metro!



On Wednesday 18 April, six Calder High students met with representative from METRO transport discussing ideas for developing a successful website which would be used by young people giving out information about travel.

The students were Otti Gauvain,Year 7; Tom Stamp, Year 8; Megan Hyde, Year 9 and three Year 10s: Sam Harlow, Sam Oldfield & Kirsty Hallam.

Metro is hoping that the website will be up and running before the summer holiday and will provide information including details on bus and train timetables linking specifically with route planning to and from school. On the site there will also be information, games and competitions.

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Comic Relief (Red Nose Round up)



It was "Let's Make News Day" at Calder High with students covering a wide range of fundraising activities. And they made the news as well with a visit from Look North:

Some of the Red Nose team (above) and some very colourful staff and students (below):

The Year 7 talent show took place during Assembly time:


And the winners were...7YC: Congatulations to Beth, Joe and Ross



Their form won a party during one of their lessons and were treated to another performance of the song again for the class:




Face and handpainting took place in Calder VI. Asia Aslam and Nazish Tufail were doing the handpainting while Jodie Neville was in charge of facepainting.

Cartoon workshop over lunchtime:

There was a whole host of fundraising activities: from sponsored head and leg shaves (not on the same person) to car washes, sponsored silence, football penalty shoot-out, a disco at lunchtime, bad hair competition, cake sale, book and video sale. More photos and reports from students to come.

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SAFEMark Award

	Chaim Narang presents the SAFEMark Plaque to Mr Ball. The plaque will now be displayed in the school's main reception area.

Our school achieved Metro’s SAFEMark award on 15 December 2006. Four students travelled to Metro in Leeds to receive the award on behalf of Calder High, accompanied by Mr G Cockings, Assistant Headteacher. Pictured below, our students in the front, from left to right: Emma Alderson, James England, Megan Hyde and Chaim Narang.



This award proves our commitment to improving the quality of the journey for those that travel by public transport. The award requires schools to adopt high standards with regard to school transport as summarised below:

• We have practices in place, which ensure effective management of school transport.We have measures in place to improve and regulate pupil behaviour on the journey to and from school by public transport.We take a leading role in a productive partnership between the school and all concerned with school transport: staff, parents, operators, Metro, and the Local Education Authority. We have effective systems for communicating information relating to school transport with all concerned in place.
• The wider issues of transport are addressed in the school curriculum: Impact of transport on the environment, awareness of local transport provision, and responsible behaviour on public transport.

By improving the quality of school journeys on public transport, the SAFEMark scheme aims to reduce car dependence and encourage bus use into adult life.

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Community Champions Award recognises Partnership
On Monday 6 November, Colette Rybicki and Lisa Thwaites, Project Managers of Sweet & Maxwell Yorkshire’s partnership with Calder High School, were presented with a Thomson Community Champions Award from Jeanette Culleton, Site Director.



Pictured here: Mr Stephen Ball, Headteacher; Project Managers Lisa Thwaites and Colette Rysicki, and Site Director, Jeanette Culleton.

Sweet & Maxwell is part of the global Thomson Corporation, and these awards are given annually across Thomson to recognise outstanding community service projects.Attending the presentation were employees from Sweet & Maxwell and, from the school, Headteacher Stephen Ball, Post 16 Director Mark Moorhouse and Sandra Bell. The crystal award was accepted by Lisa and Colette on behalf of the many volunteers from SMY who have given their time to be involved in mentoring 6th form students at the school and helping with foreign language conversation.As part of the award, a cheque for $500 was handed over to Stephen Ball for use in further partnership projects. He congratulated Lisa and Colette and thanked all the volunteers for their commitment to Calder High. Lisa and Colette said what a pleasure it was to work with the school and looked forward to the continuing success of the partnership.

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