Our Lady Queen of Peace

Our Lady’s is delighted with the outstanding achievements of our hardworking students. Once again Year 11 rose to the increased challenges of the changed examination system. These changes led to an increase in the number of formal examinations set against a much more challenging curriculum content and escalated rigour in an ever changing educational climate. A significant number of our Year 11 students achieved over 10 higher grade passes with some exceptional performances at A/A* equivalent grades.

Alison Knight, Headteacher, is highly delighted with the school’s results. She congratulates both students and staff on their hard work and excellent achievements and wishes the students of 2017 every success as they continue their educational journey post-16. Kath Gresty, Chair of Governors, endorsed the Headteacher’s comments and expressed her thanks on behalf of the governing body as ‘once again all members of Our Lady’s community worked together to achieve the best possible outcomes for all our students’.

As a school we strive to develop individual potential across all ability ranges and this year is no exception. It is with great pleasure that as a school we acknowledge some of our most outstanding performances. Taylor Jones achieved the equivalent of 12 higher grade passes with 11 being at A*/A grades, an incredible performance. Head Girl Lydia Moore and Head Boy Joey Anderson added to the school’s impressive results with 12 or above higher grade passes and 6 A*/A grades in addition to their demanding leadership duties. Other notable results were: Ellen Adkins, Cerys Beamer, Aaron Blain, Michael Lawton, Alisha Fry, Bryony Rushton, Erin Sanderson, Abigail Schofield, Anne-Marie Spencer and Chloe Yates who all achieved at least 12 equivalent higher grade passes and 6 or more A*/A grades.

As an Engineering specialist college it is pleasing to report successes in our STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths), including: 100% in Engineering, 81% in Technology, 82% in Biology and we have maintained high outcomes in the new Maths and English exams, despite curriculum change; such results are a testimony to the students’ relentless hard work, dedication and high aspirations.

We are pleased to announce that the Head Girl and Boy for 2017/18 will be Caitlin Forster and Jamie Wright.

Thanks to everyone who took part in the process.

The music concerts seem to be getting bigger and better. This year the show is over two nights, with different performers and songs. Quality as always is second to none.

Photographs can be found below.

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Students and teachers from Mauritius, Bangladesh and Spain made up the participants for this years International Summer School. During their stay activities included visits to Manchester, Liverpool and the Lake District in addition to learning activities in school.

This is one of their first projects, a photographic lesson based on the work of Hendrik Kirstens.

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Photos from this fast paced and visually stunning production. A huge ammount of effort was put into the choriography and the practicing and it was well worth it.

One of the best yet.

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Our Year 8 football team competed in the West Lancashire Football 7 Aside Tournament at Ormskirk School. The team were amazing and won the whole thing without even conceding a goal!!!

Their behaviour and good manners were exceptional and they did our school proud.

Here they are with their manager Mr Smith, captain James Hailwood and top goal scorer Jack Blakey.

Music GCSE students had to make their own music as part of their coursework. The results were outstanding.

Having spent so much time creating these compositions we thought that they should be shared with our wider community.

Music from last year can also be found on the Music page of this website.

Download the music or preview it by clicking on the magnifying glass.

Well done to our Year 10 photogrphers who won first prize in the Liverpool Archdiocese photography competition. Ellie Kerr and Carley Dutton received the prize whilst visiting the exhibition in St George's Hall in Liverpool. The final photo was a portrait of everyone in the class combined into one image which we hoped represented the diversity that makes us who we are.

The Year 7 entry also won third place for its image based on the work of Caravaggio. The theme of this photo was to explore the light of god in us all. Anya Peet Draycott and Leila Ujlab received the prize.

Article in the Liverpool Echo

Congratulations to Molly Jones, Lily Hall, Hannah Roscoe, Kori Hallam, Rhianna DeVares, Diana Weiderman, Scarlett McMahon were successful at a West Lancs Athletics event last night.

They easily won the 4 x 100m relay and Molly Jones wiped the floor with everyone in the individual 100m.  Molly Jones is certainly one to watch! This year she has now won the district 100m sprint and the district 25m front crawl in swimming.

Congratulations to Aaron Tierney, Aaron Hillin, Owen Hunt, Ben Nolan, Harrison Cox, Rocco McKenzie, Josh Wilson and Alex Ralph who won a district Super 8 event at Edge Hill and will now go on to represent West Lancs at the School Games.

One hundred and thirty four learners from Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Engineering College were recently chosen to have their poetry showcased in the ‘Young Writers’ anthology ‘Busta Rhyme – Future Voices’.

The publication gave students from across the country the opportunity to write a poem based on something they feel passionate about. Mrs Armstrong-Ball, English teacher at the school, explained how “lyrical poets have always used verse to express emotion and voice an opinion on all sorts of subjects from current affairs and identity to love and loss, the Busta Rhyme anthology gave our young people the motivation and inspiration to do just this! Our learners, from across all key stages, fully engaged with the project and were overjoyed at having their work celebrated in a national publication, as a school community we are all very proud of them”

The best poet chosen from the anthology will receive £1000 for themselves and the best school will gain the Young Writers’ Award of Excellence.

A really intimate evening was performed by students. What was particularly wonderful was that many of the pieces of music were written by the performers themselves.

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