Here are our news articles. We hope that you enjoy reading them.

We are always happy to publish articles about our current and former students.

Please contact Mrs Coles (a.coles@balshaws.org.uk) if you would be interested in having an article on our website. 

Thank you.

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9 October 2024

Bedrock Achievements - September 2024

Congratulations to Miss Dudley and Mr Duckworth’s English group 8ST who are this month’s Bedrock Achievement Champions!

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8 October 2024

Amazing Athletics

A big well done to our U16 athletes who travelled to UCLAN sports arena to compete in the South Ribble Schools competition.

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8 October 2024

First Fixture for New Year 7 Football Squad

We had almost 80 Year 7 students turn up to our trials for our Year 7 football team, which was amazing, but also very difficult to select an initial squad from! After three weeks of successive trials a squad of 13 was selected for our first fixture against Leyland St Marys in the South Ribble Schools League. 

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29 September 2024

MFL Languages Week

During the week 23rd to 27th September 2024, our MFL Department held their annual Languages Week, that also celebrated the European Day of Languages.

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25 September 2024

Sam Shines on the International Golf Stage

We are very proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of Sam W, a Year 11, who has recently made a significant mark in the world of golf.

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6 September 2024

Blood Brothers Trip

Straight to business at the start of term students from Years 9-11 visited Blackpool Winter Gardens on Thursday 5th September to watch Blood Brothers.

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6 September 2024

Superstar Phoebe

We are delighted to share the news that Phoebe L, in Year 8, has been a real superstar in the fabulous world of cheerleading.

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4 September 2024

GCSE Exam Results 2024

We were delighted with the results that were achieved by our Year 11 leavers. 

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19 July 2024

Brilliant BMX Year for Finley!

We are immensely proud of Finley, in Year 9, who we know has been competing in BMX competitions since he was 5 years old!

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19 July 2024

Cricket Friendly Success!

Our Year 7 & 8 Cricket team played in their first hardball fixture on 8th July. They played against a mixed Hutton team with both A and B team players fielding for the opposition.

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18 July 2024

Sam's Golfing Success

We were delighted to hear that Sam, in Year 10, has achieved great success with his golf recently by coming first in the National Championships at Lincoln Golf Club.

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17 July 2024

We Will Rock You – School Edition!

In July 2024, the Performing Arts department, along with a team of our wonderful students and amazing staff staged We Will Rock You – School Edition!