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"Pupils benefit immensely from the vast extent and high quality of the extra-curricular experiences that leaders provide for them. There is something for everyone to join in and enjoy. The impressive selection of activities includes an international film club, and chess club as well as a spectacular range of sporting and music opportunities."
Ofsted, 2022
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Friday 23 May 2025 Broughton are winners of the MFL Languagenut Competition! All of our Year 8, Year 9 and Year 10 pupils have taken part in the Languagenut competition over the last few weeks. Languagenut is an online language learning platform we use, so that our pupils can learn even more vocabulary and improve their German and French language skills.
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Friday 23 May 2025 Golfing Success - Daisy Lee (10C) is the English Schools U16 Champion! Well done to Daisy Lee who took part in the finals of the English Schools Golf Tournament held at Wilmslow Golf Club this week. Daisy won the competition and is the English Schools U16 Champion. Daisy has now been selected to play for England Schools Golf versus Wales in the summer holidays - we wish her the very best of luck!
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Tuesday 20 May 2025 Football News - Rotary Club 7-a-side Tournament at UCLan Well done to the U12 Girls’ Football team who represented Broughton at the annual Rotary 7-a-side Football Tournament held at UCLan. The team played some fantastic football throughout the morning, making it through to the quarter finals in the afternoon and qualifying at the top of the table with 13 points!
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Friday 16 May 2025 Lancashire Athletic Association Track and Field Championships 2025 The championships were held at Stanley Park in Blackpool on 10th and 11th May, with a number of pupils from Broughton High School competing. Many congratulations to everyone who participated.
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Friday 16 May 2025 Lancashire U16s Football On Saturday, 10th May, Kara Lee (10H) went to Stoke stadium with the rest of the U16s Lancashire squad to play the National final v Devon. Kara started and played 62 mins out of 80. The team won 3-1 making Lancashire now National Champions. Well done to Kara and the U16s Lancashire Squad.
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Friday 16 May 2025 U13 Cricket - Preston Schools' Tournament On Wednesday, 14th May, the girls’ U13 cricket team competed in the Preston Schools’ tournament at Fulwood and Broughton Cricket Club. Broughton played a strong Our Lady's team first, but despite Our Lady’s having a fantastic club player, Broughton beat them 73-51. Broughton then played Archbishop Temple, and beat them 79-46, taking them through to the Lancashire finals on Monday 23rd June. Well done to all the girls involved. Team: Isla Tuson, Niamh Brown, Ava MacRae, Nishi Thakkar, Alice Moore, Daisy Wilson, Megan Pye, Mia McLennan, Lilah Clutton Mrs Rukin
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Friday 16 May 2025 Lancashire Cup Final - Myerscough U12 Reds Myerscough U12 Reds football team got to the Lancashire Cup Final which was played on Sunday 11th May at The County Ground, Leyland, with the Myerscough team winning 1-0 vs Morecambe! Four Broughton High School pupils from Year 7 were included in the squad: Jessica Cox, Evie O’Neill, Darcey Skelton and Ambreen Valli. Huge congratulations to the whole team for their superb performance.
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Friday 16 May 2025 Chess Competition 2025 This year, 18 pupils from different year groups took part in the Broughton chess competition. To keep all pupils in the competition longer, we decided that there would be a second plate competition for all those knocked out in the first round. In the main competition, there were some close early rounds and four pupils made it to the semi-finals in which Sam Newell 10N beat Zac Tymon 7R and Muxuan Chen 7C saw off the challenge from Noah Mayers-Smith 8S. The final between Sam and Muxuan was a closely fought contest, before Muxuan finally managed to take control of the board and was able to check mate Sam, to win the competition. In the semi-finals of the plate competition, Uzair Akhtar 8C beat Isaac O’Reilly 8H and Jamie Steele 10C conquered Luke Morris 10S. The final of the plate competition firstly saw a drawn game and had to be replayed. In the rematch, Jamie gained victory in a very even and closely fought contest, with Uzair losing by the na
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Friday 9 May 2025 80th Anniversary of VE Day On Thursday, 8th May 2025, we marked the historic 80th Anniversary of VE Day. At 12 noon, a two minutes’ silence was held in school, with staff and pupils showing their respects. Mr Church, accompanied by Summer Duggan, Liam Hedingham, Henry Mason and Seth Wilcock, walked to the war memorial on Garstang Road to join Pat Hastings (Chair of Parish Council), Linda Oldcorn (Parish Councillor) and Steve Rostron (Lengthsman of Broughton), where the last post was played and the two minutes silence was observed. It was a moment to reflect and remember the bravery, sacrifice and service of all those who lived through and served during the Second World war.
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Friday 9 May 2025 Hockey News … U14 Boys’ State School Festival A massive well done to the boys’ hockey team who played in a hockey tournament at Lytham High School on Friday 2nd May. The team only narrowly missing out on bronze medal position due to goal difference, but had an amazing experience playing against some tough competition. Goal Scorers - Harry Burnham and Henry Smart. Team: Oliver Barker, Henry Smart, Jake Helders, Oliver Ogden, Shay Panchal, Dylan Parker, Harry Burnham, William Davenport, Theo Haythornthwaite, Elliott Kinley. Miss Lupton
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Friday 9 May 2025 Henry Mason completes the Chorley 10k On Sunday, 4th May, Henry Mason (10B) took part in the Chorley 10k race. The 10k route is a challenging, undulating, two lap course which starts in Chorley town centre and goes through Astley Park. On a very warm day, Henry finished the run in a time of 55.31, and came in 604th place out of a field of over 1,400. A superb achievement. Very well done to Henry.
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Tuesday 6 May 2025 The Dick Clegg Preston Schools' Football Cup Finals Five of our school football teams competed in the Cup Finals held at Deepdale on Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th April 2025. All games were played with a real intensity and were extremely close with us winning three and losing one, with one game ending in a draw. Our pupils conducted themselves superbly both on and off the pitch, not only in their hard work, skill, effort, determination and resilience but also in their etiquette, respect for their opponents and manners with the officials and other staff at the game. Many thanks to all our parents, families and friends, who attended across the five games for their excellent support. Thank you also to the members of the PE department who were at all the finals over the two evenings. Congratulations to all the pupils who competed.
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Tuesday 6 May 2025 Dance Competition - KS3 Pupils On Wednesday 30th April, 16 pupils in Key Stage 3 took part in a Dance competition. The purpose of the competition was to allow pupils to have the opportunity to create a piece of choreography in a style of their choice with the top three performances being selected to perform in the Dance Performance on the 11th and 12th June. The standard was fantastic and the support that pupils gave to one another created a really positive experience for all pupils involved. Well done to all pupils who had the courage to perform in front of their peers and who invested time in their choreography. The judges for the competition included four Year 10 pupils, Annabel Cooke, Heidi Andrews, Rachael Eaton and Sophie Carlin, as well as Mrs Hough. The final placings were very close with only 5 points separating 1st, 2nd and 3rd place!
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Friday 2 May 2025 Lancashire Schools Golf Congratulations to Lucas Charnley in Year 8 who represented the school at the Lancashire Schools Team Competition held at Leyland Golf Club on Monday 28th April. Lucas played superbly and finished 10th out of 60 (Stableford). He shot the 6th best gross score out of everyone, gross 78, net 68; being one of the youngest in the competition, this is a fantastic achievement. Huge congratulations to Lucas on his continued golfing success.
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Friday 2 May 2025 Basketball Success Congratulations to three of our Year 9 basketball players on their success playing for Myerscough Under 14s in the North West Championship.
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Monday 28 April 2025 U16 Girls Football - Preston Cup Semi-Final On Wednesday, we faced Archbishop Temple in the semi-final of the Preston Cup. After a slow start, the team finally settled and began to pressure the opposition. Soon after, May Ackley found the back of the net to take us into half time with a 1-0 lead. The second half saw us push harder and create more scoring opportunities with several shots narrowly missing the goal. It wasn't long after that Olivia Newman-Kirk scored to give us a 2-0 lead.
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Monday 28 April 2025 Gothic Horror Story Well done to Safaa Khan (7S) who has written with such flair and creativity, drawing inspiration from classic gothic horror such as Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. She has blown me away with her imagery, skilful construction of sentences and exceptional vocabulary. Well done!
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Monday 28 April 2025 Football Success We were delighted to hear that Archie Winkley (10S) and Charlie Longshaw (10B) won the Lancashire Cup last weekend. They have also won the Central Lancashire Junior Football League, Under 15s, with Fulwood Amateurs Blue team. Very well done to Archie and Charlie!
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Friday 25 April 2025 Flag designed by Emily Towers arrives in Antarctica! Back in October, Year 7 Geographers designed flags to represent Antarctica as part of the UK Polar Network Antarctica Flag Project. The flag designed by Emily Towers (7S) was chosen to represent Broughton and it began its long journey to Antarctica. Just before we broke up for Easter, I received an email to say the flag had travelled to the Signy Research Station Antarctica with Derren Fox who is a Zoological Field Assistant. The coordinates for the exact location are 60°43’S and 45°46’W for anyone who wishes to investigate further.
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Wednesday 2 April 2025 U14 Girls’ Football On Wednesday, 2nd April, the girls' U14 football team played away at Corpus in the first round of the Preston Cup. Broughton got off to a fantastic start taking an early lead through Ellie O'Neill. Broughton scored soon again, after some lovely work from Megan Pye to set up Ellie O'Neill who slotted it past the keeper. Despite there being no goals in the second half, it was an entertaining game with opportunities being created by both teams, and both goalkeepers were tested several times.