Information about Our Lady of Mount Carmel Primary School, Ashton under Lyne

The school has around 200 pupils with around 40 part-time nursery pupils. It serves St. Ann's Roman Catholic parish in Ashton under Lyne, including the former parish of St. Mary's.

The school was established in September 1997 following the amalgamation of St. Mary's and St. Ann's Schools. The building was formerly that of St. Mary's School.

Contact details
The school's address is: Our Lady of Mount Carmel RC Primary & Nursery School, Holden Street, Ashton under Lyne, Tameside. OL6 9JJ. Telephone: 0161 330 9521. Our Local Education Authority is Tameside M.B.C. You can send email to the school at: mail@ourladyofmountcarmel.tameside.sch.uk

Our Results
Our Key Stage 2 exam results in 2007 were extremely good. In particular, our children gained high percentages of the higher (level 5) grades and the test results together showed that our pupils had made progress in all subjects that was significantly above national figures.

Our Successes

We have enjoyed a particularly successful 2007 on many fronts.

We were awarded the Eco Schools Green Flag. Having first began our development as an Eco School in 2002, many years work culminated in achieving this prestigious international award.

We continue to excel at competitive sports and in ensuring that our pupils enjoy plenty of physical activity – we were given the Government's 'Activemark' award again in 2007 for the amount of PE in our curriculum.

Our teams won Tameside competitions in Cross Country, Swimming and Tag Rugby. Indeed, our Tag Rugby side went undefeated all season, winning all four competitions that they entered including the Greater Manchester Mini Games. For our outstanding performance in competitive sports we were awarded the top prize of best primary school in the 2007 Tameside Sports Awards.

We maintained our run of impressed concerts throughout the school including two sell out performances of 'Broadway Hits' at St. Ann's Social Centre in July.

Included in our impressive range of school trips was the successful Year 6 residential trip to an outdoor activity centre in Buxton.

To continue our progress towards the 'Healthy Schools Standard' we held a memorable Health week in July, during which children took part in sessions about nutrition, bread making, dance, cycling and a fun run. Many were taken by visiting experts.

Pupils were joined by staff and parents for before-school aerobic workouts and after-school Tai Chi and Reiki. In December we learned that we have been awarded the National Healthy Schools Standard.

Our P.T.A. have held many successful social events that raised £3500.

I am sure you will share my immense pride at how well everyone's individual contribution comes together to enables our school to continue to achieve and improve.

We are the only school to have won the Tameside Best Website Award twice!

We are a small, friendly school with a strong 'family feel'. Our growing reputation in the locality means that many classes are now full.

Our Governors
Rev. F Wadsworth - Foundation Governor Mr. K P Marks - Foundation Governor Mrs. M Ludlam - Foundation Governor Mr. B L Brierley - Foundation Governor Mr. J P Schofield - Foundation Governor Mrs. S Cunnane - Foundation Governor Mr. A J Van Weerdenburg - Foundation Governor Mr. A Beeley - L.E.A. representative Mrs. E. Aspin - Parent Mr. A. Lawlor - Parent Mrs. P. Rowley - Staff Mr. A. Brown - Staff

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