Open Evening
Our Open Evening for prospective Year 7 students was held on Wednesday 9th September and we were delighted that so many young people were interested in joining the CRGS community.

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Arkwright Scholarship
Matthew Akerman is the proud recipient of and Arkwright Scholarship. Here he describes the process of application and his achievement....

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Extended Schools Award
Ribble Valley Schools were Celebrating Success recently, with 100% of schools in the Ribble Valley having achieved Full Extended School Status, this means that they have achieved targets set by Government across the Core Offer which has been set under the Every Child Matters Agenda.  |
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National Art Competition Winner
The RS department entered Nyima Murry of 8S into a national art competition and she has been selected as one of the winners.

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International School Award 2009-2012
We were delighted to receive news at the end of August that Clitheroe Royal Grammar School has been awarded the International Schools award, which will be presented at a ceremony in London in October 2009.

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Prefect Training 2009
The prefects at CRGS have always provided staff with invaluable support in the smooth running of the school. This year 95 students applied to be prefects.

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Talking Languges Together Committee
On Wednesday, 25th March members of the Talking Languages Together Committee visited 7 local primary schools in the Ribble Valley.

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Scuba Dive Training
30 students from Years 11, 12 and 13 are participating in the Clitheroe Royal Grammar School Operation Wallacea expedition to South Africa and Mozambique this summer.

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Year 10 Charity Committee
The Year 10 Charity Committee was formed several years ago and it has evolved into a thriving group which meets on a weekly basis to discuss fund-raising events.

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School Council Take Action
Representatives of the School Council have contacted local councillors, expressing their concerns about road safety on Chatburn Road and asking for consideration to be given to the provision of a pedestrian crossing on the road.

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Talented CRGS Linguists visit Lancaster University
On Wednesday 28th January 2009 and coinciding with celebrations in school of the Chinese New Year, ten talented linguists from Years 7 – 9 spent the day at Lancaster University.

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Chinese New Year 09
On Monday 26th January 2009, we celebrated Chinese New Year. Our photographs show pupils at our Chatburn Road site enjoying a Chinese meal including fortune cookies. The pupils also took part in a Chinese Culture Quiz.

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Rotary Young Writer of the Year 2008
Lucy Woods was the local winner and district finalist in the Rotary Young Writer of the Year 2008 competition and is to spend a day shadowing Vivien Meath, Editor of the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, in the summer holidays. Entrants were invited to write a story with the title “A Holiday Mystery”.

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Creative Writing Project
From January to March this year, a class of year 9 and a class of year 12 students had the opportunity to work with two writers to develop their creative writing skills. Alison White and John Siddique ran a series of creative writing workshops on Tuesday morning which allowed the students to explore.......

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Student Transition Conference
On Monday 28 January we welcomed a group of Year 10 students from Skipton Girls’ High School (SGHS) and a group of Year 11 students from Brigshaw High School, Leeds to CRGS to take part in a conference’ Raising achievement through transition mentoring’. The conference.......

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Indonesia Expedition 2007
After 18 months of fund raising events, such as parties, cake stalls and supermarket packing, and training to get camp fit in events in the Yorkshire 3 peaks challenge, the group of 28 sixth formers and three staff finally departed on the C.R.G.S Indonesia Expedition in July this year........

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Specialist Language College Status
We are delighted to announce that our school was designated a Specialist Language College in September 2006. We are confident that Specialist School Status will enhance the opportunities for students, staff, parents and the wider community........

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