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Workplace Wednesday

Thu, 8 Oct 2026 14:17:04 GMT

This week, our Year 8 students had the fantastic opportunity to visit Safran as part of workplace Wednesday. They explored the company, gained an insight into the world of engineering and learned more about the different departments involved in aerospace engineering.

It was wonderful to see our students engaging with the experience, showing curiosity and asking some fantastic questions. Miss Barker and Mr Horne were incredibly proud of every Year 8 student for their enthusiasm and excellent behaviour. Thank you to the staff at Safran who helped to make the visit rememberable, we do appreciate all of the efforts made each time we visit for workplace Wednesday!

Y7 Boys English Football Cup

Thu, 8 Oct 2026 14:16:16 GMT

A fantastic away performance from our Year 7 boys, securing an impressive 5–3 victory against Ribblesdale in the English Cup!

The boys produced a fantastic display of teamwork, technical ability and pure team cohesion from start to finish. They constantly showed great work rate, supported one another and demonstrated a real desire to keep pushing forward and find the next goal.

Xander was outstanding, scoring a fantastic hat-trick, while both Ollie and Chayse also got themselves on the scoresheet.

The boys should be extremely proud of their performance, with every player contributing to a brilliant team display. The determination, togetherness and positive attitude shown throughout the game were fantastic to see.

Faculty in Action: Science

Thu, 8 Oct 2026 14:15:34 GMT

Year 11 having been experimenting with Titration and look the part in their lab coats! Well done all!

Park High U13's Girls Football

Thu, 8 Oct 2026 14:14:34 GMT

The girls have had a busy week, competing in both the English Cup and Lancashire Cup. With both fixtures taking place away from home, the girls showed a positive attitude and a fantastic willingness to test themselves against two strong sides.

In the first game in Ilkley, Miah demonstrated a fantastic never-give-up attitude, boosting the team's confidence by scoring two cracking goals. Orla was voted Player of the Match for her excellent work rate and consistent determination to win the ball back.

In the second game in Blackburn, Lucy stepped up as captain and encouraged the team to never give up. Lucy not only showed incredible enthusiasm and work ethic but also scored an unbelievable free kick from 25 yards, finding the top corner!

There were plenty of positives to take from both fixtures, and the girls should be extremely proud of how they stepped up, worked hard and represented Colne Park High School.

Y7 Attendance Success

Thu, 8 Oct 2026 14:13:53 GMT

Last week, the Attendance Team hosted a pop-up shop to celebrate the attendance successes of our Year 7 students. Students shared their achievements and were rewarded with certificates and treats.

Well done to everyone who took part and shared their success. Keep up the great work, Year 7!

Y7 Muffins

Wed, 7 Oct 2026 16:33:02 GMT

Year 7 have been putting their weighing skills to the test by making muffins. They used different fruits to creat a coloured sponge. Frozen blueberries created these lovely bright purple muffins with white chocolate inside.

Y10 Chicken Pesto Pasta

Wed, 7 Oct 2026 16:33:43 GMT

Using the last of their butchered chicken year 10 pan fried a chicken breast to get a crispy skin before roasting it. They then cooked pasta and made fresh pesto sauce from toasted pine nuts, Parmesan, basil, garlic and olive oil. Pupils could add extra salad items and cheese like mozzarella to improve their presentation skills.

Y10 Hoisin Chicken & Rice

Wed, 7 Oct 2026 16:34:02 GMT

Year 10 have roasted their chicken thighs and coated them in a honey and Hoisin sauce. They served it with roasted broccoli, onion and boiled rice.

Week 6 Students of the Week!

Mon, 5 Oct 2026 07:35:01 GMT

Each week, students earn credits in every subject for actively engaging in lessons and producing outstanding work. At the end of the week, the Student of the Week award is presented to the top students in each house who have received the highest number of credits.

A huge congratulations to this week’s Student of the Week winners!

Week 6 Park Points Award

Mon, 5 Oct 2026 07:33:22 GMT

At Park High School, we are proud to recognise students who consistently demonstrate our core learning habits and values. Park Points are awarded to those who go above and beyond, both in lessons and across the wider school community. Each week, the students who earn the highest number of Park Points are honoured with the Park Point Award.

Well done to our Week 6 award winners!

Year 8 Art

Mon, 5 Oct 2026 17:23:29 GMT

8P3 have created some beautiful mixed-media title pages for the insect project.

Y11 Success Fayre

Thu, 1 Oct 2026 12:01:17 GMT

🎓 YEAR 11 SUCCESS FAYRE

Supporting your child on the journey to GCSE success

📅 Wednesday 14th October 2026
🕔 5.00pm – 6.30pm
📍 Park High School

With the GCSE examinations now just over 7 months away, this is an important opportunity for Year 11 students and their parents/carers to find out exactly what is needed to achieve their full potential.

📚 Subject Success
Meet our Curriculum Leaders and discover:

What each subject requires for GCSE success
How students can reach their full potential
Key revision strategies and resources
Subject-specific guidance to support your child

🎓 Post-16 Opportunities
Speak to our Careers Team and representatives from local colleges about options after Year 11.

💚 Well-being Support
Find out how you can support your child’s well-being during the GCSE period.

📖 Revision Guides
Recommended revision guides will be available to order through your MCAS account.

Your support matters.

Come along, speak to our staff, access valuable resources and find out how we can work together to help your child achieve their full potential.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Workplace Wednesdays

Thu, 1 Oct 2026 07:53:39 GMT

This week’s Workplace Wednesday visit took place at Favordale care home and what a fantastic experience it was! Miss Barker was blown away by the Year 8 students who attended this week. They were a real credit to the Park High School and thoroughly enjoyed meeting the residents and learning more about life and work within the care home. A huge thank you to Sarah for showing us around and to all the wonderful staff for making us feel so welcome. Our students loved chatting with the residents and learning about the different roles and careers available within the home. We can’t wait to visit again!

SEND Coffee Club

Thu, 1 Oct 2026 07:51:20 GMT

Our next SEND Coffee Club is Monday 5th October

This is the first session of the year and we are looking forward to seeing everyone!

Y8 Design & Technology

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:01:24 GMT

In year 8, pupils design and make a board game using laser printers to make the board, 3D printing for game pieces, polymorph for the dice and wood for the dice tower. Students have started measuring and cutting their towers this week.

Week 5 Students of the Week!

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:43:37 GMT

A huge congratulations to this week’s Student of the Week winners!

Week 5 Park Points Award

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:42:18 GMT

Well done to our Week 5 award winners!

Year 9 Art

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:16:29 GMT

Year 9 have been studying the work of Vincent Scarpace and creating these beautifully detailed fish drawings.

Art Photography Competition

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:57:30 GMT

Workplace Wednesday

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:39:24 GMT

This Wednesday, Miss Barker took some of our Year 8 students to St Peters Centre, Burnley for Workplace Wednesday! Students had the opportunity to explore the building and learn about the wide range of roles and careers available within the centre. They asked some fantastic questions and showed great enthusiasm throughout the visit.

A big thank you to the staff at St Peters Centre for hosting this week’s workplace Wednesday visit. We really appreciate your time and support, and we look forward to returning!

Faculty in Action: Maths

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:38:42 GMT

Students have made a brilliant start in Maths so far!

Year 7 have been focusing on Sequences, Year 10 have been looking at triangles including trigonometry and Year 11 have hit the ground running working well on Graphs

Year 8 Pizza

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:32:16 GMT

In year 7, students make pizza toasties. So, in year 8, they will build on that knowledge by making the pizza dough and learning about the function yeast and gluten play in bread production. They can then improve on their toasties by adding new ingredients and learning how to shape the dough.

Year 7 Pizza Toastie

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:32:39 GMT

Following on from their success at the couscous salad, year 7 have been putting their knife skills to use and making pizza toasties. Leaning how to grate food and use the grill safely, pupils could pick what bread and toppings they wanted to experiment with to make a tasty lunch time meal.

BBQ Chicken

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:32:59 GMT

Year 10 took their chicken legs and wings this week and marinaded them in a BBQ sauce before roasting. They then charred some sweetcorn before adding spices and mixing with boiled rice.

Christmas talent show

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:16:46 GMT

Congratulations to all of the pupils who took part in auditions for the Christmas show.

Week 4 Students of the Week!

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:49:37 GMT

A huge congratulations to this week’s Student of the Week winners!

Week 4 Park Point Award

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:49:01 GMT

Well done to our Week 4 award winners!

Open Evening 2026

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:11:00 GMT

Thank you to all parents, prospective students and members of the community for attending our annual Open Evening on Thursday. The hunt for the stickers was in full-swing and each faculty showcased what makes us proud to be Park!

College Visits

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:20:09 GMT

This week, we welcomed three different colleges into school for our lunchtime drop-in sessions: Burnley College, Myerscough College and Nelson & Colne College. Students from every year group had the opportunity to come along, chat with the colleges and find out more about their options for life after school. It was fantastic to see so much enthusiasm, curiosity and some brilliant questions from our students. A huge thank you to Ella, Azz and Paul for taking the time to speak with our students and help them to explore what their next steps could look like if they were to join their college. A big thank you to all of the colleges who have supported us this week. It’s been great to see our students engaging with different opportunities.

#CollegeDropIn #Post16 #FutureChoices #StudentOpportunities #CareersEducation

Chicken Parmigiana Burger

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:51:12 GMT

This week, year 10 took one chicken breast, breaded it (panné), and then shallow fried. They then topped it with passata sauce and melted cheese. To finish their burger, they blended a fresh pesto sauce.

Work Experience Information Evening

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:57:11 GMT

Year 10 Art

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:45:22 GMT

Year 10 have made an excellent start to the new academic year with these outstanding observational drawings. Ms. Hooper and Miss Fellows are very impressed! Keep up the good work year 10.

PD Day 1: 29th September

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:11:55 GMT

Personal Development (PD) Day 1 is upcoming on Tuesday 29th September!
For our new Year 7 cohort, this means that lessons are collapsed for the day and students will cover an area of the PD curriculum. There are 5 PD Days across the academic year and themes for each day will rotate, here are the themes for our first PD Day:

Year 7 - Harvest Festival

Year 8 - Relationships

Year 9 - Bronze Duke of Edinburgh

Year 10 - Mental Health

Year 11 - Careers and Post-16 Options

A more detailed overview about the day on next week's issue of Parents@Park!

Music and SMSC

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:17:07 GMT

Year 8 have begun studying Blues Music, and the Cultural background to the modern musical style which we have today.

Week 3 Park Point Award

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:38:15 GMT

Well done to our Week 3 award winners!

Week 3 Students of the Week

Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:36:37 GMT

A huge congratulations to this week’s Student of the Week winners!

Workplace Wednesdays

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:45:18 GMT

Workplace Wednesdays is back!

This week marked our first Year 8 Workplace Wednesday visit of the year!

Our students were fantastic throughout the visit. They arrived well prepared with thoughtful questions ready to ask and were engaged and enthusiastic about learning more about how Colne Open Door helps our community in so many ways. A huge thank you to the amazing staff at the Colne Open Door Centre for once again welcoming us, showing us around and giving our students such a valuable and inspiring workplace experience.

It has been an amazing start to the year for Workplace Wednesdays and we’re excited for all of the opportunities still to come. We can’t wait to return!

Faculty in Action: Science

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:44:22 GMT

This week Year 7 have impressed Mrs. Carson with their lab skills and bunsen burner practice!

Well done!

Open Day Tours

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:43:26 GMT

Come and see us in action!

Are you a parent of a child in Year 5 & 6?

In addition to our annual Open Evening, we are delighted to offer Open Days for prospective parents and students.

Come and see us during the school day by booking on the QR code below. Alternatively, you can click on the link to book your place on EventBrite: https://flyn.im/8CFnRAp

Year 10 Butchery

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:17:12 GMT

Year 10s GCSE journey starts with chicken butchery. Pupils have broken a chicken down into legs, thigh and breast. Over the coming weeks, they will defrost the parts and make four meals from a single bird.

Year 7 Couscous Salad

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:17:38 GMT

Year 7 students have started their food lessons by learning about knife safety and making a couscous salad.

Art competition

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:37:13 GMT

Create a Halloween piece of Art work. Park points for all entries, and the top three pieces of Art work will receive a prize.

Music instrumental lessons.

Wed, 9 Sep 2026 17:55:14 GMT

This week we welcomed back Mrs Parker (our Woodwind teacher) and Mrs Easton (Singing teacher) after the Summer holiday.

Week 2 Students of the Week!

Mon, 7 Sep 2026 07:42:43 GMT

Each week, students earn credits in every subject for actively engaging in lessons and producing outstanding work. At the end of the week, the Student of the Week award is presented to the top student(s) in each house who have received the highest number of credits.
A huge congratulations to this week’s Student of the Week winners! 👏👏

Week 2 Park Points Award

Mon, 7 Sep 2026 07:41:44 GMT

Be a Creative Ambassador.

Fri, 4 Sep 2026 12:13:43 GMT

Anyone who is interested in being a Creative Ambassador, please ask your Art, Music or DT teacher for an application form.

Outstanding GCSE Success in Pendle

Thu, 3 Sep 2026 11:18:09 GMT

ncredibly proud of our GCSE Results - almost 3 quarters of our students achieving a Grade 4+ in Maths, and English

We are proud to celebrate outstanding success in Pendle and the surrounding areas.

#classof2026 #hardworkpaysoff

Welcome New Year 7

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:44:21 GMT

To our future Class of 2031, what a start you have made! From nervous faces this morning to smiley faces this afternoon, we are so proud to welcome you to the #parkhighfamily

Welcome Back!

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:43:25 GMT

First Day Back!

It has been brilliant to see all students return today looking super smart and Prepared for Learning

Our form tutors have enjoyed spending time with their form groups getting back into our learning habits

#Day1 #PreparedforLearning #activelyengaged

France: Day 3

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:15:19 GMT

After a busy day at a theme park, Year 8 have managed to save enough energy to cheer on England in the Semi-Finals. We haven't mentioned the French result!