Press Release from Ingleton Middle School.

Today (8th October) Ingleton Middle School will receive the prestigious "International School Award". It will be presented in London by George Alagiah, the well-known broadcaster and journalist.
Ingleton Middle School has received this award for its outstanding work in bringing the wider world into the classroom through its range of International projects including the recent "International Art Exhibition", links with Sri Lanka and Japan and its Comenius work.
On hearing that the school had won the award, Head-teacher, Mrs Mary Parker said, "We are very proud to receive this important award. It proves that all the hard work done in our school has been recognized."
 
In order to receive the award, the school has to have

•     an international ethos throughout the whole school
•     a majority of pupils involved in International projects
•     curriculum work across a range of subjects
•     year round international activity
•     involvement of the wider community
•     links with partner schools

The award was started in 1999 to recognise the schools leading the way in installing a global dimension into the learning experience of all children. It is funded by The British Council.

Martin Davidson, Chief Executive of the British Council said, "We congratulate and thank the school for their commitment to the International School Award. International links bring a vitally important dimension to the education of our young people ensuring that they build the skills and understanding to become global citizens ready and able to take their place in the world."

For more information please contact KATE BUTCHER, Co-ordinator for the International Dimension, tel. 015242 41301

From The Craven Herald, 3rd October 2008.
School's Global Art Showcase 
A fine gallery of paintings has been on show for the past two weeks as Ingleton Middle School hosted it's third International Children's Art Exhibition.
 
Traditional Life and Hopes for the Future were this year's themes and entries flooded in from 13 different countries, including New Zealand , India, America and China.
 
Exhibits also came in from across Europe and England, providing a display of talent and culture.
Visitors to the exhibition were able to vote for their favourite picture in each age group.
The winners will be decided on one the final day of the event.

From The Craven Herald. 11/7/08
FRENCH EXAM'S TRES BON FOR TEN YEAR-OLD-WITH A TALENT.
C'est magnifique for Esmee O'Keeffe as she waits for her French GCSE result- because she is only ten years old.
Ingleton Middle School pupil Esmee is expected to have achieved an A* even though she is so young.
Esmee has a talent for languages and is not only proficient in French but is also taking advantage of having Japanese exchange teachers in school by learning their language. She has also been learning Latin for 18 months.
She took the four parts of the GCSE French paper in June and has been told to expect top marks when the results are out next month.
Her mother Kay said, "Esme enjoys languages and has a natural talent".
But she said that her daughter's success was also due to the school's flexibility in accommodating her needs.
We are extremely grateful to the school and also to the French teacher Jan Harrison who gave Esme extra tuition during the lunch hour, she said.
Esme who lives in Bentham previously attended Giggleswick Primary School. Her father is artist John O' Keeffe who spent many years around the Mediterranean, so Esme lived in Corsica for a year and attended school there.
The youngster also has a compassionate nature. Last year while at Primary School, she collected 500 pairs of shoes for Blue Peter's Shoe Biz Appeal to raise money for disadvantaged children in Malawi.

from The Craven Herald 29/ 8/08
A* for Esme, 11.
Ingleton Middle School pupil Esme O' Keeffe has been awarded an A* in her French GCSE at the tender age of 11. Esme, who has a talent for languages, spent her early years in the Mediterranean and attended school there. We are delighted with her GCSE result, said her mother, Kay. In addition to French, Esme, who lives in Bentham, is studying Latin and Japanese.

From The Craven Herald 13th June 2008.
WILDLIFE GARDEN SCOOPS AWARD.
Pupils at Ingleton Middle School have won an award for their wildlife garden. The group of thirteen has just learned it has been chosen to receive the John Muir Award.
The pupils had to locate, explore and conserve a wild area within the school grounds and then share their experiences with the rest of the school.
The John Muir Award aims to encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to discover, enjoy and conserve the planet's wild places.
Chris Leeming, Deputy Head-teacher at the school, said the youngsters had worked as a team, marking off an area of school grounds to create a wild area. They have worked on the area since last September in a bid to encourage insects, birds and animals to live there.

From The Westmorland Gazette, 18th April 2008.
Cash for Rainbow
Sixty budding entrepreneurs from a Craven School have helped raise £1300 for autistic children
The youngsters from Ingleton Middle School took up the £2 challenge and borrowed the cash from teachers so they could use it to raise money for the Rainbow School in London.
Assistant head teacher Judith Shackleton said, The idea for the fundraiser came after a former pupil visited the school to talk about her work with autistic children at the Rainbow School.
She asked if we could help raise some money for computer programs and afterwards we came up with the idea that children could borrow £2 and use it to raise money.
They came up with some really fantastic, creative ideas- from collecting kindling and selling it, to cleaning for people, walking dogs and even leading a 'hug a tree walk'. It has been absolutely fantastic.
They have all paid back the original £2 and we have been able to give the Rainbow School £1300.

From The Craven Herald, 18th April 2008.
Budding entrepreneurs raise £1300 for school.
 Youngsters from Ingleton Middle School astounded teachers with their entrepreneurial skills and business acumen over the Easter holidays. Prior to the break, the school was visited by former pupil Jannicke Ive who gave an assembly about her work with the Rainbow School for autistic children in London.
The Ingleton pupils decided to raise money for the school and sixty of them took up a £2 challenge. They each borrowed £2 from teachers-refundable after the holidays-with the idea of using it to make as much money as they could.
Chris Leeming, Deputy Head, said, We expected them to do fairly well and bring about £60 back to school, so we were absolutely astounded and delighted when the pupils raised a profit of around £1300.
The students bought raw ingredients with their £2 and set about turning these into a profit.
Fundraisers included home baking, a guess the number of sweets competition, key-ring sales, quizzes, magic tricks and dog-walking. A few of the children bought cleaning products and charged a fee to clean cars and offices.

from The Lancaster Guardian 2/5/08
KIDS FIND 1215 WAYS TO HELP
Youngsters from Ingleton Middle School have raised more than £1200 for children with autism through an enterprising scheme.
The pupils took part in a £2 challenge, each borrowing £2 from the school to use their own initiative to raise funds, before paying the £2 back. Ideas thought up by the pupils to raise money included car washing, cleaning, a raffle, baking, plant selling, gardening, dog walking and quizzes.  The £1215 raised will go towards the Rainbow School in London which works with autistic children, where an ex-pupil from Ingleton now works.

from the Craven Herald 21/3/08
Serious message behind Drama Group Production
Ingleton Middle School's Drama Group has been talking the subject of bullying with its latest production, "Does Anybody Listen?".
The drama has been penned by deputy Headteacher, Chris Leeming, and tells the story of a small group of pupils who were all being bullied by the same person.
As ever, the young students put on a skilled and moving performance to highlight the sensitive subject of bullying.

from the Craven Herald, Feb 1st 2008.
Success For Budding Poets
Six youngsters from Ingleton Middle School are to have their work included in an anthology of poems to be published soon. The pupils are Ruskin Fox, Rachel Fulford, Rosie Louth, Charlotte Taylor, Emily Shrimpton and Sarah Atkinson. Children at the school were asked to write a poem on any theme and in any style they preferred. Some of the poems were entered for 'The Talking About my Generation Competition', and the six lucky youngsters were awarded prizes and certificates. The school will receive a free copy of the anthology for the library.