Crosspool News – crosspool.info
The Crosspool community website run by Crosspool Forum
Ranmoor Badminton Club is keen to help people get back into shape after Christmas indulgence.
If you’ve played badminton before and are over 16 years old then you’re invited to join them to play mixed doubles at Tapton School on Friday nights.
The club runs from 7-10pm each Friday, and starts again for the new year tomorrow night (Friday 6 January).
If you’re interested then please get in touch with them by calling 0114 230 2961 or on email using lesleykelly@yahoo.co.uk.
If you happen to be in the Crosspool precinct over the next two or three weeks, have a look in the right-hand window of GT News.
You’ll find a display of pictures painted by year six children at Lydgate Infant School.
Although they are all commendable, your choice will be decisive in determining the winner of a competition to find the best. You can record your favourite with the GT News sales staff.
The child with the most votes by the 4 January 2012 will be presented with a £20 voucher.
A Tapton student, James Gray of Crosspool, has been awarded a special award from the Sheffield Federation of School Sports for his outstanding contribution to schools cross country running over the last seven years.
Eighteen year old James, who represented Yorkshire and South Yorkshire, and has been Sheffield and South Yorkshire champion for most of those seven years, was presented with the award at a ceremony attended by Councillor Dr Sylvia Dunkley, Lord Mayor of Sheffield, at the Sheffield United FC Bramall Lane on 24 November 2011.
He is also due to receive another honour in January from the South Yorkshire Schools Federation.
The annual Autumn Fayre at Tapton School, run by the PTA, is taking place on Satrday 19 November.
It runs from 11.30am-2.30pm and includes stalls, games, books, CDs, refreshments, gifts, craft stalls and raffle prizes.
Ranmoor Badminton Club is looking for new recruits.
They are after existing players over 16 years old who are keen to play friendly and competitive doubles games from 7-10pm on Friday nights at Tapton School in Crosspool. This is usually followed by a couple of drinks in a local pub.
If you’re interested then please get in touch with them by calling 0114 230 2961 or on email using lesleykelly@yahoo.co.uk.
Controversial plans to change the status of Tapton secondary school in Crosspool to an academy have been put on hold due to legal issues raised by the school’s owner.
Private finance initiative company Interserve and its funders Lloyds Banking Group have concerns over how PFI schemes work with academy status, particularly over the way the council would make PFI payments on behalf of Tapton after it has become an academy.
The school is still committed to the conversion and barristers are working through the issue, although no new completion date has been announced.
The proposed move is unpopular with parents and teachers.
As Crosspool sixth formers celebrated their A Level results this week, one Tapton school student found out that he’d scooped seven A* grades.
George Lee achieved the top grade in French, Spanish, general studies, maths, further maths, critical thinking and physics. He is now heading to Imperial College in London to study maths.
He was one of 31 students at Tapton who achieved straight As and A* grades. However, school’s overall pass rate at the three top grades – A*, A and B – fell from 63% to 56%.
The Star: A-level genius is heading straight to top university
Sheffield Telegraph: Big race for places starts early on A-level results day
Tapton secondary school in Crosspool will break away from the council to become an academy on 1 August.
In the final vote, sixteen governors voted in for the move, one abstained and two more were unable to attend.
Tapton will have new status in time for 2011/12 school year (The Star)
Tonight (Friday) and tomorrow (Saturday morning) are your last chances to enjoy the free art exhibition in St Columba’s church on Manchester Road.
The show is open tonight until 7pm and has its final viewing slot 10am-1pm tomorrow. Works on display include those by local artists who live in the Crosspool area or are involved in the Crosspool community.
Entry is free and the organisers are collecting donations to the Soup Run. Many of the paintings are original works and are available to buy. 15% of sales is donated to the Soup Run.
You can also view entries to the Crosspool Festival programme competition. The prize winning cover designs are by Constanza Valdovinos, Lydgate Junior School (front) and Sahar-Lavendar Ali Ahmed, Lydgate Infant School (back).
Make sure you pop in before tomorrow lunchtime to see the full show!
A funding deal to transform the status of a Crosspool school into an academy could be signed as early as Monday.
Today’s Sheffield Telegraph covers the story on its front page.
A meeting for parents only took place on Tuesday at the school. Concerns have been raised by parents, councillors and education officers over the consultation process.
Teachers at Tapton are against the move, fearing that becoming an academy will not raise educational standards.
Governors feel such a move would be in the school’s best interest, allowing them to balance the books by negotiating better value services.
