Coleridge

5 March 2020

World Book Day 2020

We are celebrating World Book Day 2020 this year by publicising the books staff are reading. It’s a great talking point around the school.

Our students are so talented. Well done Year 7 for your entries into the #WorldBookDay British Bake Off! Some real showstopper pieces. We will be selling them at lunch – although some look too good to eat! It will be difficult to choose a winner.

26 February 2020

BBC Newsround Interviewing & Final Video

A group of students are being interviewed today by journalists from BBC Newsround. Such a great opportunity and we look forward to sharing the finished piece with you in the future. Thank you Mrs Russell and Ms Gibson for setting this experience up.

“Why are girls still so embarrassed about their period?” We are so proud that our students were able to speak about this and that BBC Newsround have featured our voices. Well done everyone!

Head over to the BBC Newsround website to view the final video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/51632892

25 February 2020

Launchpad Project Winners

So excited for our winners of the Year 7 Launchpad Project who today get to take part in a project day at the Institute of Astronomy themed around space and telescopes. Congratulations and enjoy your day!

28 January 2020

Partnership Blue Awards

Congratulations to all the young people who received their Half/Full Partnership Blue this morning. You have been a credit to the sporting community at Coleridge and across the Partnership. Thank you, also, to all the families who came to support and recognise their achievements.

16 January 2020

Holocaust Memorial Day Events

Over 350 Year 7 students from across our schools have worked with Historyworks, a company bringing history to life, former Children’s Laureate Poet Michael Rosen and local Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD).

Students have attended a poetry workshop with celebrated author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen, in which they heard his own family story of the Holocaust and how he discovered over 40 years what happened to his Great Aunt and Uncle. He read poems he has written on the topic and students wrote their own original pieces of poetry in response to the project.

We also welcomed local Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke, who spoke movingly to students about her experience and the devastating impact it had on Jewish people across Europe, so that the horrors will never be forgotten.

Students will also take part in the HMD Civic Ceremony in Cambridge on Sunday 26th January at the Corn Exchange. They will read their poems alongside Michael Rosen, perform dance and drama pieces inspired by his poetry and the CAP choir will sing a specially commissioned song Michael has written as well as students’ artwork being displayed.

Cambridge Academic Partnership has been working with these partners for the last three years meaning over 1500 students have experienced the project and its lasting effects.

Craig Morrison, Executive Headteacher, said: “Holocaust Memorial Day serves a multitude of purposes in schools like ours. It is not only an opportunity to remember and mourn the horrors of the greatest terror and tragedy of the twenty-first century, but it is also an opportunity for pupils of all ages to consider issues of difference, freedom and identity in our society today. We are very grateful to Michael Rosen and Eva Clarke for their work with our students, which I know has been hugely valuable.”

13 January 2020

Coleridge students help homeless woman keep warm at Christmas

We were very proud to hear of a wonderful act of kindness from some of our Year 8 students supporting the homeless in the community this winter.

Have a read of the article in the Cambridge News here.

18 December 2019

Winterfest 2019

Winterfest is our formal Winter Concert and is a celebration of the work of CAP Create students. Winterfest 2019 took place on Tuesday 17th December and involved over 200 students from across CAP. They performed a variety of fantastic club and class workpieces. 

Coleridge also hosted the Senior Citizens Christmas Concert on Friday 13th December. We invited senior citizens from the local community to come and share in a Christmas celebration with us. CAP Create students provided some festive entertainment for our guests.

7 December 2019

Mill Road Winter Fair

Congratulations to our Create Team and Carnival Crew performers who led the Mill Road Winter Fair on Saturday 7th December for the second year! Fantastic work from everyone involved!

18 October 2019

Little Shop of Horrors

CAP Create students worked incredibly hard and put on a fantastic performance of Little Shop of Horrors. They performed a matinee on Tuesday 15th October and three evening performances from Wednesday 16th to Friday 18th October. We are very proud of all our students and Create staff involved in creating such an amazing show!

We had some raving reviews from parents who came to see the show. One parent posted on social media “Loved #LittleShopOfHorrors by @CAPCreate at @Coleridge_Edu yesterday. Fabulous singing, dancing, acting, music AND staging – amazing work!”

Mr Craig Morrison, Executive Headteacher, said “I am in awe of how amazing our students and staff are after last night’s finale of Little Shop of Horrors”

22 August 2019

Coleridge GCSE Results 2019

Coleridge has enjoyed another good year for Year 11 results. Overall progress is up on last year with 34% of students achieving a strong pass in English and maths and 56% achieving a standard pass in both subjects.

Mark Patterson, Headteacher, said: “This is now the fourth year in a row where our examination results demonstrate that we are a good school, a point that Ofsted made very clear when they inspected us recently, in May 2019!

“Our students’ performance in the EBacc (English Baccalaureate) subjects is particularly strong, and improved again this year – it is well above the national average, as is our almost 90% entry for all EBacc subjects, which is among the highest in the country.

“We are particularly pleased for our lovely, hard-working students, who can now take the next step in their own learning journey! Our very best wishes to all of our students”

22 August 2019

Coleridge GCSE Results 2019

Coleridge has enjoyed another good year for Year 11 results. Overall progress is up on last year with 34% of students achieving a strong pass in English and maths and 56% achieving a standard pass in both subjects.

Mark Patterson, Headteacher, said: “This is now the fourth year in a row where our examination results demonstrate that we are a good school, a point that Ofsted made very clear when they inspected us recently, in May 2019!

“Our students’ performance in the EBacc (English Baccalaureate) subjects is particularly strong, and improved again this year – it is well above the national average, as is our almost 90% entry for all EBacc subjects, which is among the highest in the country.

“We are particularly pleased for our lovely, hard-working students, who can now take the next step in their own learning journey! Our very best wishes to all of our students”

• Percentage of students achieving five GCSEs at 4-9 = 53%
• Percentage of students achieving a pass in maths (4 or above) = 62%
• Percentage of students achieving a pass in English (4 or above) = 73%

19 July 2019

Coleridge scoops Secondary School of the Year Award

We are delighted to announce that at the Cambridge Community and Education Awards ceremony, held at Wolfson College last night, we won ‘Secondary School of the Year’.

This is the result of all of the hard work of our great students and staff.

What a great way to end the year!

16 July 2019

United Learning Parents Meeting

Please find the presentation from the United Learning parents meeting here.

26 June 2019

Jubilee Cup District Athletics 2019

22 May 2019

Ofsted Good – a historic occasion for Coleridge

For the first time in the history of the school, the students and staff at Coleridge Community College are celebrating a strong Ofsted Report that has judged the school to be ‘Good’ in all inspection areas. It is less than four years since Head Teacher Mark Patterson was appointed to his position, so this rapid improvement for a school that had never previously been judged better than ‘Requires Improvement’ is a wonderful achievement.

“Strong leadership at all levels over time has continued to improve the school so that it now offers its pupils a good quality of education” (Ofsted, 2019)

The inspection team, who visited the school in early May, were quick to praise the leadership of the school at all levels. In its previous inspection, the school was found to have ‘Good’ leadership, but the more recent report highlights that this has been strengthened further since then. In particular, the school’s implementation of a standardised approach to teaching and learning – the Coleridge Teaching Approach – was seen as a significant strength of the school, with inspectors commenting that this approach had led to greater consistency and that it was reaping rewards for the students at the school.

“Consistently good-quality teaching, learning and assessment ensure that pupils make good progress” (Ofsted, 2019)

Having observed 34 lessons, the inspectors were quick to praise teacher planning and the subject knowledge that they held. Furthermore, the inspection team made positive comments about a number of aspects of teaching in the school, including the positive relationships between teachers and students, the regular use of quizzing, paired and group work, homework and the effective use of Teaching Assistants. The positive impact of ‘live marking’, where teachers mark students books in lessons, was seen as a real strength for improving the progress students make in each lesson.

“Pupils behave well in lessons and when moving around the school. The small size of the school enables pupils to be known as individuals. Pupils feel safe and are well looked after when in school” (Ofsted, 2019)

As well as finding safeguarding students to be effective, the inspection team identified the schools work to promote students’ personal development and welfare to be ‘Good’. Both students and families – who get the opportunity to feed their views to the inspectors via a questionnaire – commented that behaviour was good and that incidents of bullying are rare. Where incidents of bullying were identified, the school was praised for dealing with them quickly and effectively. Through Ofsted Parent View, one parent commented that ‘My children love going there, learn to work hard and I always feel the staff are listening.’ The inspection team also commented that this was a typical response that was received from parents’ views.

Commenting on the Ofsted Report, Mark Patterson, Head Teacher, said “This is a testament to the hard work of our great students and staff and the support of our families. It’s a historic moment for our school, and we are very proud”

The full inspection report can be found here.

26 March 2019

Visit from Eric Murangwa

What a privilege it was to hear Eric Murangwa speak at Coleridge Community College to Year 9 about how his team mates protected him during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Afterwards he put some of our CAP goalkeepers through their paces in a goalkeeping masterclass.

22 March 2019

The Salters’ Institute Festival of Chemistry

Students from Coleridge and Trumpington took part in The Salters’ Institute Festival of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge yesterday. They had an enjoyable and very interesting day. They were working really hard to complete two different challenges one set by the Salters Institute and the other one by the University.

Then, they had a lecture about the Periodic Table given by Dr Peter Wothers, the talk was full of bangs and amazing reactions. We finished the day with the prizes and the Coleridge team won second prize for the University challenge between 18 schools!

14 March 2019

Coleridge triumphs in the Rotary Club’s Young Writer Competition 2018/19!

12 March 2019

Roy Burrell Awards 2019

We attended the Roy Burrell sports awards yesterday evening. It is an evening that recognises sporting achievements at the highest level in our local district.

We had 13 students from Coleridge and Parkside representing the Partnership that were awarded a medal for their efforts, as they are county standard or above in their sport (Korfball, football, Rugby, Athletics, Basketball and Leadership). We are all very proud of them!

6 March 2019

Summary of Decision Process about CAP joining United Learning

Please see the summary document here.

6 March 2019

Letter from Janet Swadling, Chair of CAP about proposal to join United Learning

Please see the letter from Janet Swadling here.

6 March 2019

FAQs about proposal to join United Learning

Please see the FAQ’s document here.

15 February 2019

Under 16 Basketball Finals

The CAP Under 16 boys basketball team secured a memorable Valentine’s Day and a third district title in four seasons by beating Netherhall and Chesterton in the finals held at Long Road.

The team, comprising of boys from Parkside, Coleridge and Trumpington had an unbeaten run to secure their place in the finals. The semi-final against Netherhall went the same way as all of the early season games with a fast start with Luca Vicini providing the leadership and pressure allowing Josh Simon to score the early baskets.  With a 26-6 lead at half-time Coach Foulkes was able to make sure all players contributed on court. Matas Cockcroft made an immediate impact with strong drives to the basket and three quick baskets to his name. The game ended with a highlight of the day, perhaps, with Karl Holmes calmly scoring a 3-pointer as the buzzer went to close out the game. 40-16 full-time score.

The final pitted us against Chesterton, rivals through the age groups for this group of CAP players. We had lost out in Year 9 but were victorious last year albeit with players who are now at Sixth Form college. Chesterton had won their semi-final convincingly and the third-fourth playoff was close between Netherhall and Cottenham. Again we had our trademark strong start and lead 6-0 after less than two minutes. At 8-2 in front our attacks stuttered a little and Chesterton took their opportunities putting further pressure on CAP. We took a slender lead into half-time 12-10. The second half started with the first basket to us after which Chesterton got back into the game further, even taking the lead at one point. Both teams were in foul trouble in the second half with every further foul resulting in free-throws to the opposition. We were able to get our noses back in front through Luca Vicini and with Chesterton chasing possession and giving away further control we were able to get a little control back. Into the dying seconds of the game Alfie Bruce Doig was able to extend our lead to 3 with one successful free throw. With 1.8 seconds remaining Chesterton took a time out. All that was left was for us to get the ball into play safely. The buzzer sounded signalling a 25-22 win for CAP. Cambridge and District Secondary Schools Sport Association Champions Under 16 Boys 2019.

30 January 2019

Holocaust Memorial Day Civic Ceremony

It has been such a privilege for our choir to perform a specially commissioned song written by Michael Rosen at this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day service in Cambridge. It has also been amazing for over 450 of our students from across our family of schools to work in partnership with History Works and Eva Clarke over this past month.

28 January 2019

Announcement from Janet Swadling, Chair of MAT Board

Please find attached letters regarding an announcement from Janet Swadling, Chair of MAT Board:-

Letter 1 – from Janet Swadling, Chair of MAT Board
Letter 2 – from Jon Coles, CEO United Learning

For families who were unable to attend the meeting held on Wednesday 6th February, please take a look at the presentation used here.

17 January 2019

Visit to Corpus Christi

As part of the ongoing HP Club initiative, 30 students visited our partner college Corpus Christi on the morning of Thursday 17th. The students were given a valuable insight into University life, the college system, how to apply to University as well as a tour of the college itself. Meeting with current undergraduates gave our students the opportunity to ask questions and investigating the huge variety of degree courses on offer will hopefully have sowed some seeds of inspiration for the future.

In the future, our contact at Corpus Christi has also offered to come to Coleridge to offer other students an opportunity to access this valuable insight and this is definitely an offer we intend to take up.

7 January 2019

‘Mind Your Head’ Mental Health Programme

20 December 2018

Christmas Card Competition

Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s Christmas Card Competition organised by the Art Department at Coleridge. Aren’t they amazing?!

1 December 2018

Mill Road Winter Fair

Well done, Coleridge Carnival Crew – drummers, dancers and horns. You were all great! We had a fab time leading the Mill Road Winter Fair parade on Saturday. So lovely to be a part of something where the whole community comes together.

30 November 2018

Launchpad Competition

Ms Anna Aldred, Launchpad organiser, commented the following on the trip to Amazon on Tuesday 27 November 2018 ‘’It was lovely to welcome Coleridge students to our ‘’Launchpad’’ Science event!’’.  Dr Jiggins, Coleridge Science Teacher said ‘’Events like this really help to bring Science to life!’’. It was a fabulous day and we would like to congratulate Darcey Sutcliffe and Hannah Wustenberg who were from the winning team, as well as Nicole Njoku who was randomly selected to win the Amazon Echo!

26 September 2018

Cambridge Independent Article

On Wednesday 26th September, the Cambridge Independent published a three page article on Cambridge Academic Partnership. The article included comments from our Chief Executive, Andrew Hutchinson, and our new Chair for the Trust, Janet Swadling. There is a piece on each of our schools and our Adult Learn and Train department as well.

Click here to view a copy of the article.

23 August 2018

Coleridge Celebrating GCSE Results

Coleridge Community College is celebrating another year of improved GCSE results.

The school improved on all of its key measures compared with 2017, and the school see this as a significant achievement in a year where the new more challenging GCSEs have come fully into effect.

63 per cent of Year 11s achieved a grade 4 or higher in both English and maths – which is a record for the school.

Headteacher Mark Patterson said: “I would like to congratulate our wonderful Year 11 students, whose hard work has led to their pleasing outcomes, and our dedicated teachers, whose commitment to our students has been extraordinary. Well done to all.”

10 July 2018

Arts Fest 2018

On Monday the 9th July we held our annual Cambridge Academic Partnership (PFA) Arts Fest at Coleridge. The event is designed to bring together a large number of students from across the PFA schools, in a celebration of the Arts – music, drama, dance, art, singing, and all manner of mixtures of these disciplines!

Mr Mark Patterson, Headteacher of Coleridge, said “I was privileged to be here on Monday evening and what I saw reminded me (if ever I needed reminding) of the power of schooling to enrich the lives of young people. The feat of organisation alone that is required to pull off such an ambitious event on one school site is extraordinary – dozens of individual performances, over 500 students taking part, over a thousand families with us on the evening, the multiple venues and performances happening simultaneously… I do not believe that in any other school or multi-academy trust in the UK would you find such an event! It was extraordinary. And it didn’t just remind me of the transformative power of Arts education, it made me feel very proud.”

Mr Adrian Kidd, Headteacher of Trumpington, said “Trumpington Community College students, along with all others, smashing it at the Arts Fest ‘18. Amazing performances: hugely inspiring to see all our young people performing with such professionalism. 110%.”

We would like to thank all of the families that came along to support the event and, of course, every student that took part – you were all amazing!

2 July 2018

Success at Jubilee Cup District Athletics

29 June 2018

Sports Day 2018

Cambridge Academic Partnership held a fantastic Sports Day on Friday 29th June. It was an outstanding day of competition and sporting events with all students giving 100%. Congratulations to everyone who took part!

25 June 2018

Enrichment Day

This week CAST welcomed around 100 Year 10 students from both Parkside and Coleridge for a morning of activities focussing on the application of the GCSE Science they had been learning about in the real world.

Up in main Challenge, on the second floor, students had a go at designing and building a parachute system that would enable an egg to land without breaking.

Students also took part in a drug trial, looking at caffeine and how it affected response time. 

In addition to this, they also got some careers advice from Assistant Head Alistair, where they looked at different roles requiring science qualifications.

Joe Crane, Assistant Headteacher, KS4, Parkside Community College, said: “The enrichment day is a fantastic opportunity for students to build on the work they have done in lessons and to find out about further opportunities in STEM.”

18 June 2018

Carnegie Celebration with St Bede’s School

15 Coleridge students from years 7 to 9 were invited to join St Bede’s reading club today to celebrate the awarding of the Carnegie Prize for Literature 2018. Results were announced at 1.15pm via a live link-up to the ceremony in London.

The winning book is Geraldine McCaughrean’s novel Where the World Ends. The announcement was greeted with groans from all of the students at the event -they had been hoping for The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas or After the Fire by Will Hill. The students spent the morning arguing about the quality of the novels and competing to answer quiz questions.

Ms Varney attended the event and she said the following: “I was very proud of our students for reading so many of the novels on the shortlist (there were 8) and for holding their own in negotiations with students from other schools over what should win. We ended the event by sharing in a large quantity of celebration cake.”

Have a look at our blog about the books here: http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/grouphomepages/index.php?GroupID=12494

15 June 2018

Coleridge Year 5 Quiz

This year Coleridge held its second annual fun quiz for the Year 5s from local primary schools – Abbey Meadows, Morley Memorial, Queen Emma and Queen Edith. Each school sent 2 teams of 4 pupils to the event which was extremely lively and exciting! Mr Patterson, Headteacher said ‘I am delighted that the pupils had so much fun today. And the Quiz winners were the ACE Team from Queen Edith Primary! Well done to them! But well done to all of the pupils that took part! The event was about having fun, and we all had fun!’

23 May 2018

Life Water – Cucina Projects

Cucina sell water bottles from Life Water at Coleridge, Parkside and Trumpington as one of their ‘Cucina Projects’. Through their sales, Cucina have funded 3 clean water projects and have helped to give nearly 3.500 people clean drinking water.

10 May 2018

Coleridge Create Carnival Showcase

Coleridge Year 8 students took part in a Create Carnival Showcase yesterday, including making masks, learning the Samba and performing an end of unit showcase. Fantastic work from all students involved! Head over to the Create Twitter page to watch a video of the performance: https://twitter.com/PFACreate

27 April 2018

Spotlight 2018 – Performances from GCSE Musicians

Fantastic show to top off a fab week of Spotlight performances. Huge congratulations to our fabulous Y11 GCSE Musicians who have ‘smashed it’ with coursework this week.

5 April 2018

Ski Trip 2018

70 Parkside Federation Year 9 students are having a great time on the ski trip in Les Contamines, France! The trip was a huge success with ALL the students skiing down the mountain by the end of the week. Emma Ede was awarded the ‘Mike Craddock Award’ for showing an outstanding achievement in Skiing, attitude and effort all week.

4 April 2018

Pompeii Trip 2018

Parkside Federation students have had a wonderful time in Pompeii and saw some incredible sights.

26 March 2018

Coleridge HP Club Visit Cambridge University

Coleridge HP Club are visiting Cambridge University Department for Engineering today. They have been learning about how wings work and were given a fantastic tour of the department.

21 March 2018

Sport Relief

Over 500 students participated in a sponsored mile run within their PE lessons during Sport Relief week. An extra 100 students performed an optional run which was in fancy dress.

On 23rd March students were challenged to ‘Beat the Teacher’ at Table Tennis and Penalty Shoot Out! Plus there were cake sales all week. There was lots of fun throughout the week, everyone active, all raising money for Sport Relief and making a difference. The amount raised was approximately £900.

13 March 2018

Trip to see ‘Wicked’

50 GCSE Music students from Year 10 and 11 visited the Victoria Theatre in London to see Wicked. The students study the song ‘Defying Gravity’ as part of their written exam. We hope that many of them will go on to fulfill careers in Musical Theatre.

7 March 2018

Roy Burrell Sports Awards

On 6^th March 2018 the annual Cambridge and District School Sports Awards, also known as The Roy Burrell Sports Awards, was held at Netherhall School. This was the 40^th year the awards have been running and it honours all students from the 20 schools within the district who have shown great commitment to their sport throughout the year.

We were delighted to hear that there were nine Parkside Federation students nominated, and they all were awarded for their outstanding achievements in their individual sport. They include :

Jackson Wood – Cricket
Christian Carter – Football
JoJo Sunderland – Leadership
Kira Moghadas – Leadership
Grace Watts – Leadership
Aaron Rooker – Rugby
Ollie Salmon – Table Tennis
Herbie Ross – Table Tennis
Jack Leader – Table Tennis

20 February 2018

Bread Making at Coleridge

19 February 2018

Rock Road Library Competition Winners

The Friends of Rock Road Library were delighted with the response from local schools to their 2017 writing competition on the theme of Home.

The FRRL Writer in Residence, Kay Blayney and the judges Julian Sedgwick and Inbali Inserles very much enjoyed reading the large number of imaginative entries. The competition winners from Coleridge Eleanor Freestone, Ciaran Wright, and Sollie Gibbard-Fatti are being invited to attend the awards ceremony at Rock Road Library on Friday 23 February at 6.00 p.m.  All are welcome – family, friends and teachers.  Well done to our three Coleridge Year 8 winners!

5 February 2018

Luther Burrell, England Rugby Player, Visits Coleridge

On Monday 5 February, Coleridge Community College held a rugby promotion day in which over 300 students took part. Coaches from local rugby clubs, Cambridge, Cantabs and Northampton Saints, came into run stations for all the students.  In the afternoon the day was concluded with the visit of Rugby England International Luther Burrell, who held a question and answer session with the U16 Parkside Federation Team.  The aims of the day were to promote healthy, active lifestyle through team sports and link with the local Community, so students have a clear pathway to join a local club.

9 January 2018

Eva Clarke, Holocaust Survivor, Visits Coleridge

Coleridge Year 7 and 8 students welcomed Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke today, to hear her incredible story.

13 December 2017

Coleridge Sports Awards

7 December 2017

Students at Twickenham for Cambridge VS Oxford Rugby

Federation students had a great day out at Twickenham on Thursday 7th December watching the Cambridge vs Oxford rugby, some of the girls managed to meet some of the Cam University players!

2 December 2017

Coleridge Carnival Crew Perform at Mill Road Winter Fair

The fantastic Coleridge Carnival Crew performed at the Mill Road Winter Fair on Saturday 2nd December. The students did themselves proud once again.

16 November 2017

Coleridge Carnival Crew at The Royal Albert Hall

Coleridge Carnival Crew (Coleridge Community College) at Music for Youth Proms at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday 15th November – scroll down to see some pictures and a short video!

The Coleridge Carnival Crew consists of 39 student drummers and dancers from Y9 and Y10.  These students, like all students at the Federation, studied a cross-curricular Dance and Music module called Carnival in Y8.  They enjoyed this module so much that they requested an extra-curricular Carnival Club.

In November 2016 we entered a Coleridge Carnival Crew video audition into the Music for Youth Festival series and were automatically carried through the local and regional rounds of performance before being invited to perform in the national round in Birmingham in July.  Here, students performed amazingly and wowed the audience with their energy and vibrancy. The judges were overwhelmed by our piece and in August, we received a phone call inviting us to perform at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall as part of the Music for Youth Proms. We were informed that we were one of 43 groups selected from over 40,000 performers who had applied.

After lots of additional rehearsal and some tweaks to our 10 minute Carnival piece, we were as ready as we were ever going to be. We left school via coach at 7.30am on Wednesday 15th November and arrived to VIP backstage wristbands and our own dressing room at the Royal Albert Hall.

In the morning we had a singing rehearsal with composer Pete Letanka who had been commissioned to write a finale piece for choir, orchestra and jazz band (1000 performers) – ‘Shine the Light Bright’.  Pete complimented us on our singing and energy and assumed we were a choir rather than a Samba group.

We then undertook a full dress and tech Carnival rehearsal with the producer and technical team from the Royal Albert Hall and MFY. This included reworking our entrance and exits, setting lighting and blocking positions. All technicians and MFY staff were very impressed with our performance.

On the night we performed in front of 5,000 audience members which included staff, parents, carers and friends, some of whom had travelled from Coleridge on a supporter’s coach.

Student Reflections:

“Our experience at the Royal Albert hall was AMAZING, and definitely unforgettable. Being able to say that the Coleridge Carnival Crew have performed on the same stage as musical legends is incredible.  

The performance itself felt like the first time we’d ever performed, even after all the months of rehearsals. Walking out onto the stage and seeing the faces of thousands in the crowd, including many loved ones fuelled the performance’s celebratory spirit and vibes. The hall itself made us feel so small but the atmosphere of the arena during our performance made us feel huge.

As soon as the first rhythm began, the nerves disappeared and we threw everything we had at the performance.  Overall, it was a great experience that wouldn’t have taken place without our fabulous teachers, Miss Lewis and Miss Merryweather, who made it all possible and got the best out of us all!“

Ruby Elbourne, Ruby Cutmore, Ellie Lund – Y9

“We were all stood just below the stage, waiting for another orchestra to finish their piece. Finally, they stopped and the lights dimmed – our cue to go onto stage. As we walked onto the stage, our legs were shaking, hearts racing; praying that everything went smoothly – it did. Once the presenter stopped speaking, the lights went up and all eyes on were us, from all angles. The whistle sounded and our performance began. We got the impression that the crowd were shocked, they’d been listening to soft music all evening and then we came on, radiating energy. Mid way through our performance, the crowd began to clap in time with the beat, the other performers below us watched intently. When the dancers came in, the excitement grew and people began to stand up from their seats. Miss Lewis did the cue for the finish, and we all finished with our hand up in the air. The crowd clapped and cheered as we bowed. We struggled to contain our excitement and pride, so we came together, screaming and smiling. Walking off we had our heads held high, proud of ourselves and one another for what we’d accomplished. Performing at the Royal Albert Hall is something we’ll never forget, the adrenaline and the echo of cheering was still in our heads as we went to sleep. We say thank you to Miss Lewis and Miss Merryweather for dedicating their time to the Coleridge Carnival Crew and believing in every single one of us. Without them, none of this could’ve happened.“

Jodi-May Weaver, Ariana Ebanks-Blake, Lydia Sweasey – Y10

Quote from the Head:

‘What an amazing performance!  Our performance at the Music for Youth event in the Royal Albert Hall ranks as one of our greatest achievements as a school – unforgettable for our students and their parents, and our staff, too!  I am so proud!’

Mark Patterson

15 November 2017

England V Brazil Football Match

Parkside Federation students went on an incredible trip to Wembley yesterday to see the England V Brazil football game!

9 November 2017

Poet Michael Rosen Visits Coleridge Community College

On 3rd November over 265 of Coleridge feeder primary school students joined Coleridge Year 7 for what was a magical time, working with renowned poet Michael Rosen and History Works. During the morning students learnt songs and wrote a poem with Michael, all based around the local history Cambridgeshire. Students were also treated to an animated recital of their favourite poems ‘Chocolate Cake’ and ‘No Breathing’ by Michael.

In the afternoon Year 7 and 8 heard the very moving account from Eva Clarke, a Holocaust survivor, who was born in a concentration camp and liberated at the age of one. Michael read some poems he had written about his great Uncles who had been imprisoned in Auschwitz. Students finished the day writing a poem with Michael who encouraged them to see a blank page as a friend and to write about whatever really mattered to them.

This was truly an inspirational day and one which will live long in the memories of both students and staff alike.

9 October 2017

Year 10 and Year 11 District Rugby Champions

24 August 2017

Exam success at Coleridge

17 July 2017

Coleridge Year Group Awards Ceremonies

29 June 2017

Artsfest – A Night to Remember

With over 400 students taking part in108 acts over 8 stages, this year’s Artfest was a huge extravaganza which celebrated the talented students we have across the Federation.

From the excellent Year 11 GCSE Art exhibition, to a feast of monologues, duologues and devised pieces in drama. The Radegund Hall was rocking with the sound of African and samba drumming as well as a STOMP inspired performance. Dance incorporated wheelbarrows, wellies and shopping trolleys into their performances!  And Trumpington students donned the blue suits for a dance to a mash up of hits. While Year 7’s performed numbers from the hit musical Matilda in the auditorium. Over on the chill out stage, back lawn and quad there was an array of bands and solo artists performing covers as well as their own original compositions.

The night culminated in the Radegund  Hall with a funk fest from the Federation’s very own funk band which had staff, parents and students up on the dance floor. It certainly was a night to remember.

15 June 2017

Coleridge Student’s Athletics Success

Coleridge Student Stephanie Browne (Year 9) recently competed in a County Athletics competition and has been placed 10th in the Country, in Discus and Hammer!  Stephanie has also qualified to represent the County and Federation at  the English Schools Competition for hammer in July.

Stephanie’s results were:

Hammer: 37.30m – Gold position

Discus: 25.06m – Gold position

Shot: 9.28m – Silver position

Stephanie’s personal bests this season have been :

Hammer: 40.07m

Discus: 25.7m

Shot: 9.50m

All of these PB’s give Stephanie the England Athletics AAA standards Grade Two in all three throws.  The Grade Two standard is equivalent to the top 15% for her age group.

We wish Stephanie good luck in her next competitions!

8 June 2017

Woodwork Project at Coleridge

Coleridge Community College extended an invite to Morley Memorial pupils for some Design Technology experience.

Coleridge and Morley Memorial decided to give Morley Year 5’s a really fun four weeks doing a project in a Design Technology class using Coleridge’s superb Design Technology facilities.  Mr Spinale, the Design Technology teacher prepared the lessons for the four weeks, and by the end of the fourth week pupils had all made a wooden toy!  This was a fun class for the Year 5’s, which gave them an introduction to a secondary school class, and they got to keep their wooden toy!

29 March 2017

Paralympian Athlete Visits Coleridge

Georgie Bullen, who represented Team GB in the London 2012 Olympics in the Goalball team visited Coleridge Community College to introduce students to her game.

Georgie explained the principles of goalball, which was created for visually impaired athletes.  Students then had the opportunity to try their hand at a game of goalball, using eye masks and goalballs with bells inside to alert players where the ball is on the court.

Further photos can be found in this Cambridge News article

8 March 2017

Roy Burrell Awards 2017

The Roy Burrell Awards took part on 7th March 2017, and this was the 40th year that the Awards have been running.  There were 8 students and one member of staff representing the Federation this year, all have achieved county standard or above in sport.

Siobhan Skinner (member of staff) won a major award (Team of the Year) for leading the District Cross Country Team to first place in the region.

Louis Rolfe, Paralympian Gold Medalist and ex-Coleridge student, was a special guest at the Awards.

24 January 2017

Year 9 Students attend ‘Eyes on the Prize’ at ARU

Year 9 students recently attended an event hosted by Anglia Ruskin University.  ‘Eyes on the Prize’ is an event focused on supporting students with their future academic choices.  The event included input from local Level 3 providers, schools and universities and aimed to provide students with a positive and aspirational programme.

Tours were given by ARU Student Ambassadors, who gave the pupils an insight into what being a university student is like.  The exhibition highlighted the range of courses and facilities at Anglia Ruskin and also featured stands from other Higher Education institutions, as well as training providers and employers.

25 November 2016

Paralympian Gold Medallist Louis Rolfe Visits Coleridge

Ex- Coleridge student and current Paralympian Gold medallist Louis Rolfe, was invited back to Coleridge Community College to present Sporting awards to Coleridge students whom have earned recognition for their sporting achievements.

Louis Rolfe gave out individual certificates and medals to 18 students across year 11 and year 9 who have shown commitment to sport over their time at Coleridge School.

The students were clearly inspired by Louis Rolfe’s presence; Andrew Neziri (Year 11),

“This morning has been an opportunity to reflect upon our achievements and appreciate the rewards of hard work, which Louis Rolfe epitomises”

Anna O Grady (Year 9), “It was really exciting to meet Louis Rolfe and to see his medals. I would love to be in the Olympics one day”

The school have decided to name a trophy after the student after his recent achievements, the trophy will now be called the ‘Louis Rolfe Sports Award’. This will be presented to one male and one female student at the end of the year covering the whole school.  Mr Dixon, Head of PE at Coleridge, believes this will create a legacy for generations to come and winning the Louis Rolfe Sports Awards will become the highest sporting achievements in the school as his name attached to the trophy embodies his values of determination, Inspiration, Excellence, Courage and Equality.

Finally Louis Rolfe said “It is amazing to have a trophy named after me. The thought of students winning the ‘Louis Rolfe’ sports awards in the future makes me feel very proud”

5 October 2016

Open Evening October 4th 2016

The school was pleased to welcome a large number of families to the college’s Open Evening  yesterday evening.

The slides from the Headteacher’s presentation can be found below.

open-evening-presentation

13 September 2016

Coleridge Year 11 examination results 2016

Coleridge Year 11 students performed well on all 4 of the Government’s new key measures of school performance. The table below shows the significant improvement compared with 2015. Whilst still some way to go, the school is clearly on the right track.

National results for 2016 are not yet available

*Progress 8 score measures how much progress each Year 11 student made in their best 8 qualifying subjects from the start of Year 7 to the end of Year 11, and calculates an average for the school. If on average all students have made the amount of progress they would have been expected to make, the school’s score would be 0 (zero). Schools will naturally aspire to achieve the highest possible positive score. The 2016 result shown is a provisional one, given to us by a national company called Go4Schools, based on their own very large database of schools.

**Attainment 8 score calculates the students’ average grade across their best 8 qualifying subjects, using the numeric grade scale 1-9, where 9 is the best score that could be attained.

***Ebacc is the percentage of Year 11 students that achieved a grade A*-C in all of English, Maths, Science, History or Geography and a modern language (at Coleridge, usually French).