All Year 11 students need to attend their rehearsal at 1.15 at the Playhouse and will be required to be there until 2pm. There is a performers schedule which Miss Hawley and Miss Barker have for the planned rehearsals for performers. All students need to arrive at the Playhouse by 5.30 on the evening and guests are reminded that they must all be seated by 6 pm.

The Dance and Music Showcase will be held on Thursday 16th June at 7pm. Tickets are available on the door on a first come basis. The Box Office will be open from 6.30. Parents of performers are particularly welcome.

We are pleased to announce that Summer GCSE and GCE Examination results will be available for collection on Thursday 25th August from 10.00am until 1.00pm at Manning School’s Theatre Box Office. It is essential that Year 11 students collect these as they will be required by colleges and sixth forms until your certificates are available. If certificates are being collected by a family member or a friend, a letter of consent from the student must be brought with the person collecting the results. Results cannot be collected on someone else’s behalf without this.

Congratulations to everyone at Manning who managed to raise over £500 for Comic Relief. Activities included: wear something red, cake sale, inter-house rowing race and a car-wash.

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The Nottingham Academy are coming in to run an evening for those students in Year 9 to discuss their curriculum for next year. The evening will be held on Tuesday 8 March 2011 and it is planned to hold two sessions in order for parents to fit in with childcare and working arrangements. Both sessions will be held in the School Theatre. The first session will be held at 4:30 pm and the second at 5:30 pm. Mr Day, Chief Executive of the Greenwood Dale Foundation Trust, will be present to explain the curriculum for next year and any choices which may be available to students. The letter is available to download in the Letters to Parents section

The Government has announced that there will be an additional puplic holiday on the 29th of April to coincide with the Royal Wedding. The L.A. have made the decision that schools will be taking Friday the 22nd of July 2011 as an additional day of holiday in lieu of the 29th of April. The last day of the school summer term will therefore be Thursday the 21st of July.

Manning School for Girls has continued to flourish during its final year as it won exceptional comments from the Ofsted inspection carried out at the end of December. The school, which will be transformed into an academy in September, has exceeded expectations according to the most recent Ofsted report. The inspection, carried out as part of a monitoring process, deemed the school to be making:

“outstanding progress in making improvements throughout the school, and in demonstrating a better capacity for sustained improvement, with the two head teachers and the senior leadership team providing outstanding leadership in driving the school forward”

• Ofsted Report
• Press Release

The staff and students are celebrating our best ever GCSE results. 65% passed 5 or more GCSEs or equivalent at C or above, with 38% achieving 5 or more including English and Maths.
Well done to the students who all worked so hard and deserve their success.

Unofficial GCSE exam results are available to collect, from the theatre box office, on TUESDAY 24th August between 10:00am and 12:00pm.

The official slips, which your college will require for enrolment, will be available to collect, from the theatre box office, on THURSDAY 26th August between 10:00am and 12:00pm.

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All students in year 7 get the chance to learn an instrument as part of their music curriculum.  The girls have recently been preparing and performing their own film compositions. Year 7 are also beginning the musical cycles unit where they get to learn about African drumming and try it out for themselves. Year 8 are putting together their own girl bands and have been working hard to put a performance together. They have covered every style from pop to rock to hip hop and are enjoying the whole experience.

On April 19th the new Student Leaders had a day at Castle College with Ms Squires and Mrs Cooper. Mrs Lyon was there at the beginning. The girls took part in several activities about leadership, their roles, how to deal with difficult situations and they voted in two Head Girls. Hazel Campbell and Vicky Kabiru.

Years 9 and 10 worked together on a Peace Day as part of their Citizenship work in school on the last day before the Easter holidays. I was really impressed with the way that they worked on the day. The behaviour of the students was excellent and they produced some amazing work which they should all be proud of. Students took part in a range of workshops; from creating a graffiti wall, to producing art work inspired by famous quotations about peace, to producing a piece of drama which illustrates how countries make peace following a conflict. Well done to all the students involved who demonstrated that peace starts with the individual in their own community

Manning School held a panel debate entitled Your Questions and invited various members of the community to attend and discuss important issues. The evening included a theatre performance developed with Fifth World Theatre Group. The event was attended by two MPs, an MEP, an asylum seeker and the Chair of Refugee Action. There was also a presentation by the Aegis Trust. The event was a great success and was well supported by students and staff from Manning. Thank you to everyone involved.