Macclesfield High School & BAE Systems Team Up
Engineering came alive recently for over 50 girls aged between 6 and 16 in the form of bridges, aerodynamic helmets and Typhoon combat aircraft.

May 2009

Gifted and Talented Challenge Weekend
Six of our Year 9 students attended the above event during the Easter holiday and participated in a number of activities including teambuilding tasks, a technology competition, workshops and field trips focusing on mountains, rocks, rivers, sand dunes and seashores.
April 2009

Award-Winning Author Visits Macclesfield High School
World Book Day was celebrated in swashbuckling fashion at Macclesfield High School last Wednesday when Justin Somper, author of the Vampirates series of books, came in to talk to Year 7.

March 2009

Macclesfield High School Has Top Student In The World!
World Maths Day is to be held on 4th March.  Due to all the different time zones, it runs for 48 hours from 11 am on 3rd March to 11 am on 5th March.  Total registrations for this day are now above the million mark, currently at 1,031,083.  This includes 28,501 schools from a total of 231 countries.
March 2009

Macclesfield High School Holds Little Champions Festival
Macclesfield High School was delighted to hold another Little Champions Festival in their new Sports Centre on 2nd February.  Year 2 pupils from Gawsworth, Hollinhey, Ash Grove and St Barnabas primary schools attended, as did three pupils from Park Lane Special School. 
February 2009

Macclesfield High School Hands Over £1026.45 To East Cheshire Hospice
Macclesfield High School was delighted to hand over cheques totalling £1026.45 to Jayne Bessant, Chief Executive of East Cheshire Hospice on Wednesday 4th February.

February 2009

East Cheshire Hospice Benefits from Macclesfield High School’s Annual Music Concert
As usual, Macclesfield High School’s Annual Music Concert held in December was, simply, outstanding!  Tickets sold out so quickly that parents and students have asked for there to be two performances next year! 
December 2008

Competition Celebrates Equality & Diversity
Finalists in a competition organised by Macclesfield College to promote equality and diversity recently attended a presentation to receive their prizes.

December 2008

Girls take part in Hovercraft Challenge
It was certainly no ordinary school day for 79 local 14-15 year old girls recently as they built and raced Hovercrafts at Macclesfield College.

November 2008

Primary Schools’ Athletics Festival
Macclesfield High School hosted an Athletics Festival on 13th November for local primary schools.  Pupils from Broken Cross, Gawsworth, Hollinhey, Ivy Bank, St. Barnabas and St John’s took part.

November 2008

Sally is a Winner
Sally Ranger, one of our catering staff, together with her horse Trojan, were overall points winners for Macclesfield Riding Club 2008

November 2008

Macclesfield High School Holds Year 11 Enterprise Day
On Wednesday, 8th October, Year 11 students at Macclesfield High School enjoyed an Enterprise Day presented by Mike Watson of Business Dynamics, part of the Enterprise Education Trust. 

October 2008

The Scary Guy Visit
The Scary Guy visited Macclesfield High School on Monday 6th October.  He spent the day talking to 400 pupils from local primary schools and about 900 secondary students from across the whole of the Macclesfield and Bollington area.

October 2008

The Scary Guy Visits Macclesfield!
The Scary Guy will be visiting Macclesfield High School on Monday 6th October.  He will be spending the day talking to students from primary and secondary schools across the whole of the Macclesfield and Bollington area about the dangers of prejudice and hatred. 

September 2008

Macclesfield Learning Zone Students Enjoy Results Day Success
There were celebrations at the Macclesfield Learning Zone on ‘A’ Level results day as the first cohort of students from the impressive, new campus collected their results.

August 2008

Sports Day - 13th July 2008

Royal Visit
On Friday 20th June, we were privileged to welcome the Earl of Wessex, Prince Edward, to our school.  He spent ten minutes walking round the school with Mr Ward, Headteacher, and met some of our students and staff.  Before he left, he declared the Macclesfield Learning Zone officially open.

June 2008

Willi Wonka Production - 7th July 2008
Our annual whole school productions have been huge successes for many years now, but this year, to commemorate our new school and our 50th Anniversary, we collaborated with local primary schools to produce our own adaptation of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.  The performances in July were simply the best yet!   It was fantastic to put on a production which included primary school pupils in the cast, and all the dedication shown by staff and students over a six month period paid off!  The three evening performances, and a matinee for pupils from our partner primary schools, were outstanding!   Thanks and congratulations go to all involved, including our staff and students who worked so hard over many months to put on a professional show, and the primary school pupils who were very enthusiastic Oompa Loompas!  Thank you all.

Art Exhibition - July 2008
Our amazing A Level and GCSE Summer Art Exhibition was held in school at the end of the Summer term. The quality of the work was outstanding.  Visitors commented that it was like being in a proper art gallery exhibition.  Well done to our very talented art students and thank you to Mr Shields and Miss Forster, and to our caretakers for helping them mount the display.

Students also exhibited examples of their artwork at the 2008 Culture Exhibition held at Macclesfield Town Hall in July 2008.

50th Anniversary Celebrations June 2008

Healthy Schools Initiative
Macclesfield High School participates in the National Healthy Schools Initiative and held a Healthy Living Week in June 2008.  The aim of the week was to raise awareness of what makes us healthy and to give the students opportunities to get involved and try many different activities.  The events were aimed at Year 7 students in particular and included: 

• looking at Health and Wellness in lessons;
• the opportunity to try many different activities after school and at lunchtime;
• our Walk to School week.

As part of Walk to School week, we held a “Walk the World” competition.  Pedometers were available for students to wear for the week.  Every mile a student walked counted as 100 miles on our “Around the World” chart.  Each student was also given a “Walk to School” passport, so whether they were part of the “pedometer team” or not, they still got involved.  Students travelling to school by bus, were encouraged to get off a couple of stops early, and parents were asked to sign the “Walk to School” passport.  Each walk to school signature counted as 100 miles to the target.  The form which walked the furthest around the world got a trip out to Macclesfield Forest during school time for a Form Ramble.

Activities undertaken by Year 7 students during our Healthy Schools Week included a bike ride and a trip to a climbing wall.